Nilratan Halder | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
There were colours all over the city. Thank God, it was Friday and Saturday -two weekly holidays. For sometime now people opt for these two days to get out of homes and arrange for any celebration -family or otherwise. This...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
Kejriwal Arvind, a former Customs official and a neophyte in politics, has stopped almost unassailable election winning-spree of Narendra Modi. The Bharatya Janata Party (BJP), now embalmed with the Modi image, earned convincing victory in the states like Maharashtra and...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
Poverty is still the main hindrance to the economic development of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and developing countries in the world and alleviation of poverty is the big challenge to these countries for economic emancipation. Although about 940 million people...
Iftu Ahmed | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
On March 24, 1940, Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq (1873-1962), the then Prime Minister of Bengal (1937-1943), created history by declaring the Lahore Resolution. He declared: "No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless geographically contiguous...
Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
On 21 February 1952 I was a little boy of slightly more than nine years old and a student of class three at Nawabpur High School, Dhaka. Yet I remember an interesting incident that occurred in my childhood at that...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
By way of the rugged course of history spanning more than sixty years, the month of February eventually became a month of books and readers to the people of this country. Some prefer to call it a month of celebration...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
The Bengali Language Movement which witnesses the police firing on peaceful procession of students on the Dhaka University campus on 21st February in 1952, was a socio-politico-cultural eruption of the people in the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Later recognised...
Few nations on this planet have the rare opportunity of commemorating as glorious a day as the Ekushey and draw inspiration from it. This day, in 1952, had initiated the shaping of a cultural construct, an enthused sense of self-identity...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
February is the month of books in Bangladesh. The month-long Bangla Academy book fair, Amar Ekushey Grontho Mela, is the annual event for which all book lovers wait throughout the year. Thus, Ekushey book fair becomes the centre of the...
Frank Peters | 2015-02-21 00:00:00
The Pope's silence on corporal punishment to children continues to fuel the inferno he ignited globally. While sycophants, apologists and spokespersons have rallied around him in his defence to brush aside the seriousness of his remarks, only he has the...
It took only seven balls for Samiullah Shenwari's delight at Afghanistan's first appearance in a World Cup to descend into personal disaster as the focus turned once again onto the umpiring confusion that has scarred the first week of the...
Defending champions and also league leader Dhaka Division played a draw against lowly Sylhet Division in the 4th round of the four-day-match Walton 16th National Cricket League (NCL) which concluded at the Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah Thursday,...
Celebrated Bangladeshi golfer Siddikur Rahman made the expected start in his favourite Hero Indian Open Golf to share the top slot with four other players after the first round matches at the Delhi Golf Club Thursday, reports UNB. Siddikur, the...
Chittagong Abahani Limited reached the quarterfinal of the Federation Cup Football Tournament from Group C beating all-losers Farashganj SC 1-0 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium Thursday, reports UNB. Farashganj SC have been eliminated from the meet after suffering two successive...
GM Ziaur Rahman and FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman Emon of Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited took joint lead in the points table with 6.5 points after the 7th round games of the Shaheed Sheikh Moni Memorial International Rating Chess Tournament...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-20 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Feb 19: Poultry growers of Rangpur district are in serious problem as they are incurring huge financial losses owing to price hike of poultry feed and medicine in recent times. The situation has further aggravated due to prolonged blockade...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 19 (UNB): An indigenous community man was allegedly hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Bautia Marafela in Godagari upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ganesh Tudu, 40, a resident of the area. Officer-in-charge SM Abu...
SYLHET, Feb 19 (UNB): Two people were killed and some others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a covered van on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Shat Mile in South Surma upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified...
BENAPOLE, Feb 19 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a young man from Putkhali border area here early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Shariful Islam, 35, son of Halim Islam, a resident of Pirulia village in Kalia upazila of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-20 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Feb 19: A chaotic and disorderly situation has been prevailing in transport sector in Rajshahi since the starting of non-stop blockade and hartal programmes by 20-party alliance. Due to absence of work, thousands of transport workers in the district...
PIROJPUR, Feb 19 (UNB): A young domestic help, who was beaten allegedly by his master over the theft of a mobile phone set in Bhandaria upazila on Tuesday, died at hospital on Thursday. Tuhin Hawlader, 22, son of Jahangir Hawlader...
RANGPUR, Feb 19 (BSS): Leaders of Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal (BSD) today strongly protested unilateral water withdrawal of the 54 common international rivers, including Teesta, by India and demanded due share of waters. The BSD leaders were addressing a rally on...
FARIDPUR, Feb 19 (BSS): The International Mothers Language Day and Language Martyrs Day will be observed in Faridpur in a befitting manner on February 21. A three-day programme was chalked out earlier in a meeting held at the conference room...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 19 (BSS): The industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi metropolis has started making profit with investment by some of the country's big companies. Abul Khair Group, Pran Agro Limited and Nitol Group...
RANGPUR, Feb 19 (BSS): A mobile court and police in separate raids seized huge quantity of contraband Yaba tablets and ganja and arrested five drug traders from different places Rangpur Wednesday evening, police sources said. A mobile court led by...
4,800 kg jatka seized from Dhaleshwari Bangladesh Coast Guard and Fisheries Department in a drive seized 4,800 kilograms of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 centimetres in length) from four launches in the Dhaleshwari River in Munshiganj here on Wednesday...
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