February2018

The body that administers the Grammys vowed Thursday to do more to tackle gender bias after female artists voiced outrage over the lack of awards for women and controversial comments from the organization’s chief. The Recording...

Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter. Nothing disturbs these eastern Santa Cruz tortoises (scientific name Chelondis donfaustoi), which were determined...

Passport Service Week-2018 is set to begin tomorrow aiming to supplement the efforts of the government for ensuring hassle-free services for the people. Home Minister Md Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will inaugurate the Passport Service Week-2018 at...

At least 90 people were feared dead on Friday in the latest migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said. A boat carrying the migrants capsized off the...

Polar bears are struggling to find enough seals to eat, and the problem will get worse as the planet warms because their metabolisms are much faster than previously thought, researchers said Thursday. The report in the...

President of Bangladesh M Abdul Hamid today appointed Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, a judge of the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division, as the 22nd chief justice of Bangladesh, reports BSS. “The oath-taking ceremony of the new chief...

The wonderful participation of the esteemed guests at the 4th-anniversary celebration of Turongomi has accomplished the event in capital’s Gulshan on January 31. The celebration ceremony was participated by US ambassador Mercia Bernicat and Vietnamese ambassador Tran Van Khoa The...

Ms. Priya Naree Cooper, a nine-time gold medalist disabled swimmer and recipient of the Order of Australia Medal, visited the capital’s Karail slum area at January 29 to engage with the youths of BRAC’s Adolescent Development...

Twenty-eight Russian athletes have had their Olympic doping bans overturned and their results from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi reinstated after their appeals were upheld by sport’s highest tribunal on Thursday. The Court of Arbitration...

Japanese video games maker Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it would team with U.S. film studio Illumination Entertainment to produce an animation film using its Super Mario Bros characters. The film would be distributed by...