A powerful 8.6 magnitude earthquake and a series of strong aftershocks struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending people scurrying from buildings as far away as southern India, but there see... Read more
More than 200,000 Titanic-related records have gone online to mark the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. The records have been gathered by family history website Ancestry.co.uk... Read more
A Marine who posted on Facebook that he would not follow orders from President Barack Obama should be dismissed from the military with a less-than-honorable discharge, a Marine Corps review... Read more
A platform for renewable energy products businesses, Bangladesh Solar and Renewable Energy Association (BSREA), was launched in Dhaka recently. Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury, energy adviser to th... Read more
ConocoPhillips has sought exploration rights for six deepwater gas blocks in the Bay of Bengal, for which it was selected as the best bidder in 2008 but that were not awarded, as Bangladesh... Read more
The collapse of an ice sheet in Antarctica up to 14,650 years ago might have caused sea levels to rise between 14 and 18 meters (46-60 feet), a study showed on Wednesday, data which could he... Read more
A former researcher at Amgen Inc has found that many basic studies on cancer — a high proportion of them from university labs — are unreliable, with grim consequences for produci... Read more
After fuel, India is offering to export natural gas to Pakistan to help the neighbouring country tide over its gas crisis. State-owned GAIL’s just commissioned natural gas pipeline fro... Read more
Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Owners Association has strongly protested the government’s decision to keep the refilling stations closed for 6 hours every day instead of earli... Read more
Teachers abused on the internet
Teachers are facing death threats, abuse and allegations of serious crimes by pupils and parents through social networking sites, a poll suggests. Online abuse of teachers is widespread, wit... Read more