Unknown miscreants slaughtered a young man and dumped his body in a jute field at Satkhira Sadar upazila at some times between Saturday night and early Sunday. Family sources and local people said Alamgir Hossain had remained missing since Saturday...
The advance rail tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr will be available from July 9. Minister for Railways Md Mazibul Hoque has said the sale of advance train tickets for homebound Eid passengers will start on July 9. The Railways Minister made the...
Bangladesh expects to get BGB member Nayek Abdur Razzak back within a couple of days though Myanmar is yet to make any commitment with any specific timeframe for returning him. Myanmar Home Ministry says they will release the BGB member...
Bangladeshi teenage pace sensation Mustafizur Rahman emerged as the 2nd bowler in the world cricket to take five wickets each in his first two ODIs after Brian Vittori of Zimbabwe in 2011. Left arm pacer Mustafiz emerged as the second...
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will buy the oil that have spilled into the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong after two tank cars fell-off a rail bridge on Friday. Chittagong Deputy Commissioner Mejbah Uddin said on Sunday that the state-owned oil entity...
Customs authority on Sunday seized a huge cache of illegal medicine, worth about Tk6 million, from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The cache was seized from freight gate area of the airport around 3.30pm, Customs Assistant Commissioner Shahiduzzaman Sarker told BSS....
As part of the implementation of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA), interested people living in enclaves will have to go to their mainland either in Bangladesh or India after selling their immoveable assets by November 30 this year. Those want...
The Special Branch (SB) of Police on Sunday suspended an assistant sub-inspector, Mahfuzur Rahman, in connection with the recovery of 0.65 million Yaba tablets from his possession. Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized Yaba tablets from a car and...
Bangladesh new face Mustafizur Rahman’s six-for spurred the Tigers to restrict India to 200 runs in 45 overs in the rain interrupted curtailed 47-over match of the second ODI of their three-match Za'n Zee Ice Cream Cricket Series at Sher-e-Bangla...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Sunday asked all banks to provide loans to the marginal groups including low-income professionals and small businessmen and the people affected by various natural disasters. The central bank said it had issued the circular after observing...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia took iftar with leaders of different political parties on Sunday, the third day of Ramadan. Khaleda, also a former Prime Minister, hosted the Iftar in honour of politicians at Bashundhara International Convention Centre in the city....
The head of Greece's biggest bank has said it would be "insane" not to reach an agreement at emergency talks Monday on the country's debt crisis. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet the leaders of the 18 other eurozone...
Bangladesh took a historic series win over 2-time world champions India by six wickets, after rookie paceman Mustafizur Rahman’s second consecutive 5-wicket haul helped restrict Virat Kohli’s side to 200 all out in the 2nd ODI of the three-match Za...
Bruno Carrasco and Syed Ali-Mumtaz H. Shah | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh has had its share of stock market booms and busts. Following a bull run in 2010, the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crashed in December 2010 and by March 2011 the index had fallen by half from its all-time high,...
M. Serajul Islam | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
A white American sat an hour with 15 others, all blacks, in an African-American Church in Charleston, South Carolina and participated in a Bible study group. He then turned his gun and killed instantaneously eight of the participants including the...
That the illegal outflow of fund from the country has been increasing, instead of declining, is borne out by the latest data, showing a 41 per cent year-on-year increase in the deposits made by the Bangladeshis with the Swiss banks...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
An internet protocol (IP) camera was installed last week by the police at Gazipur-Chandra intersection for keeping surveillance on highways and ensuring security of people during their travels at the Eid holidays. Police have so far installed over 20 IP...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
Many people become awestruck upon having a view of Dhaka from the 7th floor rooms of Bangla Academy's new building. As they pan their eyes across the greater Ramna area, they turn nostalgic. The older residents of Dhaka might recall...
It was the first day of the holy month of Ramadan and I went to the kitchen market to buy my weekly requirements. The prices of everything were up suddenly. Cucumber was Tk.60 per kg instead of Tk.30 a few...
What a big victory by the Tigers against the visiting Indian team in the first one-day international! They beat India by 79 runs. Debutante pace bowler Mustafizur Rahman stole the show with his sterling performance of 5 for 50. It...
UNESCO Club, BRAC University, Dhaka undertook on June 18, 2015 a study tour to the Jatiyo Sangsad Bhavan, the national parliament house, Dhaka. The purpose of the visit was to develop an idea about law making process and other parliamentary...
Masato Abe and David Abonyi in the first of a two-part article | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
Global value chains (GVCs) are a principal means by which international business is presently conducted, and cannot be ignored by policymakers seeking to improve their countries' economic performance. This paper seeks to reveal the nature of GVCs in least developed...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, June 20: Installation of solar irrigation pumps has turned to be a boon for many farmers in Jhenidah district as the devices are helping boost production of crops and reduce irrigation cost considerably. Two pumps in Jhenidah Sadar upazila...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
SYLHET, June 20: Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) started monitoring the retail and wholesale market situation since Thursday afternoon and it would continue till the end of Ramadan, officials informed. A team headed by the SCC's Secretary Reza e Rafin Sarker...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
PABNA, June 20: Farmers in nine upazilas of Pabna have been passing their busy times transplanting seedlings of Aman paddy as it is high time for cultivation and it will continue till next two weeks of the current month. Department...
RAJSHAHI, June 20 (BSS): Speakers at a view-sharing meeting here on Saturday unequivocally called for more connectivity between Bangladesh with India, Nepal and Bhutan for substantial and sustainable development of the region. They also stressed the need for developing bilateral...
SAVAR, June 20 (UNB): At least 20 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over taking possession of a piece of land at Shyampur village in the upazila on Friday night. Quoting locals, police said there...
NARSINGDI, June 20 (BSS): Vermi compost is becoming popular among the farmers of the district as the substantial uses of this natural organic manure in the fields protect the soil nutrients and fertility and raise production of crops. Thanks to...
NOAKHALI, June 20 (UNB): Muggers looted Tk 1.8 million (18 lakh) from two agents of 'bKash', a mobile money transfer provider, from Rahmatnagar area of the district town on Saturday morning. Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sudharam Police Station, said a...
RU Correspondent | 2015-06-21 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, June 20: Rajshahi University Model United Nations Association (RUMUNA), a sub organisation of United Nations Youth and Students Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB) organised a day-long workshop on the activities of United Nations at the university campus Friday. The...
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