Day: June 5, 2024

A Chapainawabganj court on Tuesday afternoon sentenced two persons to life-term imprisonment and fined each of them Tk 5,000, in default, they will have to suffer one month more in jail. The convicted persons were Abdus Salam, 35, son of late Felu M...

Kathmandu: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has requested all three levels of government to bring those involved in environmental pollution before justice. Issuing a press release today on the occasion of World Environment Day NHRC spokesp...

The week-long flood that engulfed much of Sylhet causing huge sufferings of people as flood water is receding slowly from low-lying areas causing suffering of thousands of people. "Improvement pace of Sylhet flood is very slow as north-eastern distr...

Kathmandu: Hearing on the writ petition filed against the formation of the Koshi province government is scheduled to take place before a full bench of the Supreme Court. A joint bench of Justices Til Prasad Shrestha and Bal Krishna Dhakal today issue...

Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today lauded UNICEF's support to Bangladesh towards achieving the child and maternal health related SDG targets. He made the remark while the outgoing UNICEF Country Representative Sheldon Yett called on him at forei...

Kathmandu: The Nepal Army has collected 11 metric tons of garbage, four dead bodies and one human skeleton from different mountains. The cleaning up of the major mountains in the country is being carried out by the NA since 2019, under the title 'Clea...

A motorcycle rider was killed in a road accident in the city's Matuail area Last night. The identity of the deceased could not be known. Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police outpost in-charge Md Bacchu Mia said the accident took place in t...

Kathmandu: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged all three tiers of government to book the environment polluters in line with legal provisions. NHRC Spokesperson Dr Tikaram Pokhrel issued a press note on the occasion of the World Envi...

Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury today gave the nomination at the outset of the third and 2024-25 fiscal's budget session of the 12th Jatiya Sangsad session. The panel members are- Captain (Retrd) A B Tajul Islam, Moham...

Kathmandu: The 4th Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival (NIIFF) has started at the City Hall in Bhrikutimandap in the capital today. The festival started with a tableau performance and special cultural shows. Organized by the NIIFF, the film ...

Shimul Bhuiyan, an accused in the case lodged over the murder of Awami League lawmaker from Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India, gave a confessional statement before a court here today. He is the third accused who have given confessional ...

Kathmandu: A new state-of-the-art artificial intelligence system that can analyse the significant amount of data needed to identify when landslide is about to take place is being installed in the landslide-prone regions of the country. Scientists fro...