A Sylhet court on Thursday placed two accused of Rajon murder case- Nur Miah and Dulal Hossain on a seven-day. Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Anwarul Haque passed the order after police produced them before his court seeking a 10-day remand, Sylhet...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will exchange greetings with people from all walks of life, including judges and foreign diplomats, at her official Ganobhaban residence on the occasion of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. Sheikh Hasina, also the President Awami League chief, will first...
Bangladesh has welcomed the deal between Iran and world powers, aiming to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief against it. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was concluded by E3/EU+3 (China, France, Germany, the...
The National Moon Sighting Committee will sit in a meeting on Friday to decide the date of Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims. Religious Affairs Minister and chairman of the committee Principal Matior Rahaman will preside over the...
Three members of a family were killed as a bus rammed their motorcycle on the link road of Bangabandhu Bridge west side in Sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. Two of the deceased were identified as Babul Hossain, 40, and his...
Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif Thursday said time has come for Begum Khaleda Zia to quit BNP as her politics has failed. "BNP is like a sinking boat now, when a ship sinks people on board it try...
BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was released from jail on bail on Thursday. He walked out of the part-1 of Kashimpur Central Jail in the evening after the bail order reached the jail authorities, jailer Mohammad Nasir told...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who has been undergoing treatment at a city hospital since his release on bail on Tuesday evening, returned his Uttara home on Thursday. Mirza Fakhrul reached his house around 3pm from United...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday seized 1.1kg gold from three passengers in separate incidents. Assistant Commissioner (customs) Al Amin said they held Alal Uddin, 30, and Abdur Rahim, 35, with 700g gold when they landed at...
Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, will be observed tomorrow across the country amidst tight security measures. Hundreds of Muslims are expected to throng into different mosques especially Baitul Mokarram National Mosque to offer Jumma...
Four terror suspects detained by French intelligence agents were plotting to behead a senior military staffer at a military site in southern France, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday, according to CNN. The alleged plot centered on...
Two female garment workers were killed as they were run over by a bus at Gargaria Masterbari on Dhaka-Mymensigh highway in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Hurena Khatun, 28, of Konabari village...
The holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated in the country on Saturday if the moon of Shawwal month is sighted in Bangladesh sky on Friday. The decision will be taken at a meeting of...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
Minutes after Iran and the major world powers announced reaching an agreement to curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions in exchange for an easing of economic sanctions against the country, a text message began making the rounds on Iranian mobile phones. It...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
A decade-long negotiations between Iran and P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany - eventually produced a comprehensive nuclear deal on Tuesday (July 14) in Vienna. The deal was struck on the basis of a draft agreement...
The recent disciplinary actions like debarring an audit firm from auditing listed companies and imposing heavy pecuniary penalties as well as reprimanding two of its member chartered accountants (CAs) are what most people expect from a professional entity like the...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh enjoyed two decades of relative success in reducing rural poverty from 62 per cent in 1988 to 44 per cent in 2004. During this time, two developments paved the way for poverty reduction: a monotonic fall in food prices...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
The prime minister's announcement of the government's plan to excavate two canals near the Kuril flyover in the capital to deal with any possible flood has to be welcomed by environmentalists. She announced the decision on Sunday at a function...
The whole country was shocked and dismayed by the tragic killing of the innocent boy Rajon in Sylhet. He was mercilessly beaten to death by a Saudi expatriate Bangladeshi when he came to Bangladesh for a visit. The Bangladeshi community...
A renowned international voluntary organization with regional set-ups in most countries of the world and doing an admirable job for the needy in areas of health, drinking water and sanitation, is to have a conference in Dhaka for students between...
The recent murder of a teenage boy named Rajon was inconceivably brutal and tragic. For ordinary people like us, it is difficult to comprehend how can someone kill an innocent boy of only 13 years through physical torture. The killer...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
Markets for clothes, footwear, cosmetics, jewelry and electronic gadgets witness bumper sales hovering hundreds of billion of taka ahead of Eid. Commercial banks witness a heavy rush for money transaction as a huge number of clients withdraw from and deposit...
Nabil Azam Dewan | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
Contamination and adulteration of food products has become a major threat for public health in Bangladesh. This also poses serious danger to the physical and mental growth of the children -- even when a child is in the womb of...
B K Mukhopadhyay | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
A piece of good news indeed -- 2014 was a record year for renewables. The growth of renewable energy outpaced that of fossil fuels in the electricity sector last year, a study shows. 51GW wind power addition was the biggest...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
SYLHET, July 15: Construction of the 402-metre bridge over Surma river in Sunamganj district town is nearing completion and is expected to be opened for vehicular traffic by August this year. The works are already complete and we are now...
GAIBANDHA, July 15 (BSS): Record development works involving Tk 90 million (Tk 9 crore) have been accomplished at different institutions of Shaghata Upazila in the district form 2009 to June 2015. The development works included infrastructure building, earth filling on...
A Correspondent | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, July 15: Over one hundred daily wage-based workers of ten silk farms of Rajshahi under Bangladesh Sericulture Development Board (BSDB) have not been paid since May this year. Although the Eid-ul- Fitr is knocking at the door, the board...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
BOGRA, July 15: The farmers are expecting a satisfactory production of okra as the climatic conditions and agri- imputs are favourable in Bogra district including 12 upazilas this season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said that around 2500 hectares...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-16 00:00:00
PABNA, July 15: Pabna Chamber of Commerce and Industry here distributed essential items for Eid among the poor and distressed women on Wednesday. President of Pabna Chamber Alhaj Abdul Latif Biswas chaired the distribution ceremony while Administrator of Pabna Zila...
RANGPUR, July 15 (BSS): Speakers at two separate ceremonies have said Bangladesh has achieved an epoch-making progress in increasing power generation capacity. President of Panchagarh district Awami League (AL) Advocate Nurul Islam Shujan, MP, inaugurated the power supply lines to...
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