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Bangladesh falls behind India, Pakistan in research The New Nation News Desk : Bangladeshi researchers published more than 8,000 scholarly articles in international journals with impact factor in 2020 - which is third in terms of the number among South Asian countries. An online magazine, Scientific Bangladesh, published the annual report on scientific documents of the country on January 2, analyzing the data of Scopus, a citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. The impact factor, also known as Journal Impac...

178 BNP leaders, activists get bail from HC The New Nation Staff Reporter : The High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to 178 BNP leaders and activists for one month in 16 cases filed with different police stations in Dhaka over the incidents of torching 11 buses at different places in the capital city on November 12 in 2020. The High Court bench of Justice Md Habibul Gani and Justice Md Riaz Uddin Khan passed the order after holding hearing on separate 36 petitions filed in this regard. Barrister Kayser Kamal and advocate Gazi Kamrul Islam Sajal appeared in the h...

Pakistan prospects brighten for US market on removal of competitors from GSP

At least 25 killed in east DR Congo, ADF militia blamed AFP 01/01/2021 At least 25 civilians have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, local officials said Friday, blaming the attack on the notorious ADF militia. The army was chasing ADF fighters on Thursday when they found the bodies of 25 civilians, who had been "taken by surprise in their fields on New Year's Eve," Donat Kibuana, the administrator of  Beni territory in North Kivu province, told AFP. © Getty Representational photo The massacre took place in the village of Tingwe, about eight kilometres (fiv...

Russia jails former energy executive for 15 years for spying for Moldova - RIA Reuters 29/12/2020 MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Russia sentenced a former board member of state energy holding company Inter RAO to 15 years in jail on Tuesday after finding her guilty of spying for Moldova at a trial held behind closed doors, the RIA news agency reported. © Getty Representational image Karina Tsurkan, who denied wrongdoing, was detained in June 2018. Some of the case details are not publicly known and are classified due to the nature of the espionage allegations. (Reporting by Maxim Rodionov; w...