Bangladesh fails to find new overseas job markets for workers
Bangladesh could not yet find new markets for its unskilled workers though the job opportunities drastically shrank at traditional destinations in the Middle East and South-East Asia.
3 lynched on child lift suspicion
Three people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured in beating by angry mobs in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Pabna and Gazipur on Saturday after they were suspected to be child lifters.
Chief admits crisis of public trust in ACC
The Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Saturday admitted that the commission has a crisis of public trust as most of the steps, about 70 per cent, taken by the graft watchdog were against petty suspects.
Floods kill 10 more, maroon thousands afresh
At least nine villagers drowned in flood waters in Jamalpur, Netrokona and Sirajganj while one died of snake bike in the worst flood hit Gaibandha district in 24 hours ending Saturday morning, according to the Health Emergency Control Room.
50 years after US moon landing, China is catching up in the space race
Fifty years ago, when the Apollo 11 astronauts became the first human beings to land on the moon, the Chinese space program had yet to launch a single satellite.
Asia's meth trade is worth an estimated $61B as region becomes 'playground' for drug gangs
Deep in the jungle in Thailand's northern Chiang Mai province, a unit of armed border officers were on duty late last month when they stumbled on a cave stuffed with drugs.
Public health in jeopardy
Public health in Bangladesh has become highly vulnerable in the face of phenomenal rise in adulteration of foods, serious contamination of drinking water, substandard and date-expired medicines and air pollution.
BNP for national consensus on law and order
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday expressed deep concern about deteriorating law and order situation and said that the party was giving priority to create a national consensus on the issue.
Minni lands in jail after making statement
Aysha Siddika Minni, widow of Rifat Sharif who was hacked to death in front of her in Barguna district town on June 26, made a statement before Barguna senior judicial magistrate on Friday.
Flood worsens in central Bangladesh
Thousands of flood victims remained hungry and vulnerable to waterborne diseases like diarrhoea as relief supplies were far less than enough to meet their basic demand of food and drinking water.
