India faces a “severe” drought but the country’s ample food grain stock will ensure no one goes hungry, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said yesterday. [Read more]

Syful Islam
Least developed countries (LDCs), the worst victims of global warming, are far from raising effective voice thus failing to reap expected success from the ongoing negotiations of climate change due to fragile diplomacy, experts opined.The UN climate conference in Copenhagen in December, to be attended by heads of the nations, is still unclear [...]

বাংলাদেশে প্রলয়ঙ্করী ঘূর্ণিঝড় সিডরে ক্ষতিগ্রস্ত শরণখোলার মানুষ বলছেন ঝড়ের ১০০দিন পরেও পুর্নবাসন ও বাড়িঘর তৈরীর কাছে উল্লেখযেগ্য অগ্রগতি হয়নি৻ [Read more]

Two leading English medium schools in Dhaka, Scholastica and Sunbeams, closed for an indefinite period as a precaution against swine flu. [Read more]

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck northwest China on Friday, sending tremors through a remote mining area along the nation’s Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, officials said. [Read more]

Staff Reporter
Two persons of whom one is a businessman were killed by unidentified assailants in the city’s Tejgaon area yesterday .In another incident a suspected gangster was shot by police in Modhyo Monipur in the city yesterday, police said. The victims were identified as Monir, a poultry businessman and another remains unidentified. [...]

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A trawler with 42 members of a bridal party on board capsized in the Arial Kha river in in Shibchar, Bangladesh. [Read more]

Against the backdrop of division within the judiciary and pressure from outside, the Indian Supreme Court (SC) judges decided to make their assets’ information public after overcoming initial reluctance. [Read more]

UNB, Dhaka
The total number of Swine Flu cases on Wednesday rose to 139 in the country following the detection of 22 new cases of the viral disease which is apparently spreading fast.“The total number of Swine Flu patients now stands at 139,” Dr ASM Alamgir, virologist of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research [...]