JESSORE, Feb 5 (UNB): A motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders were injured in a road accident at Shemolgachhi in Sharsha upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as M Rezau, 50, son of Nurul Haque of Rajnagar...
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NILPHAMARI, Feb 5: The government has undertaken an initiative to utilise the land now lying unutilised in the Darwani Textile Mill (DTM). Sources said DTM of BTMC has 108 acres of land in its ownership and possession in the mill...
RANGPUR, Feb 5 (BSS): The present government has been implementing massive programmes for enhanced participation of unemployed womenfolk in economic activities to make them self-reliant through their development and empowerment. Member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of...
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GOPALGANJ, Feb 5: The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has undertaken a massive Boro farming programme in five upazilas of Gopalganj district during the current season. According to DAE sources, a total of 74,525 hectares of land will be brought...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 5 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here today called for ensuring voting rights of the physically challenged people alongside their social and political rights. They viewed that all of us should feel about the legitimate rights of country's...
70,000 Yaba tablets recovered from Naf Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 70,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from the Naf River at Leda in Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar early Thursday. Lieutenant Colonel Abu Jar Al Zahid, commanding officer...
CHUADANGA, Feb 5 (BSS): A preparatory meeting to observe the great Shahid Day and International Mother Language Day on February 21 was held here today at the conference room of the deputy commissioner. Delwar Hossain, deputy commissioner of Chuadanga presided...
NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (BSS/AFP): India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces the first real test of his popularity Saturday when voters in Delhi elect a new state government, with a self-styled anarchist bidding to stall the premier's bandwagon. The results,...
NEW TAIPEI CITY, Feb 5 (Agencies): The death toll from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a Taipei river shortly after taking off has risen to 31, Taiwan officials said on Thursday, and could rise further, with 12 people...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5 (Agencies): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday joined calls for a temporary truce to allow civilians to be evacuated from the frontline town of Debaltseve in east Ukraine. Ban said he was particularly concerned by the...
FOTOKOL, Feb 5 (Reuters): Cameroon town of Fotokol, murdering residents inside their homes and a mosque, a local civic leader said Wednesday. Boko Haram fighters have killed more than 100 people in the north. The massacre comes amid a major...
AMMAN, Feb 5 (Reuters): Jordan's King Abdullah vowed a "relentless" war against Islamic State (IS) on their own territory on Wednesday in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned...
7 dead as commuter train hits car near NY city NEW YORK, Feb 5: Seven people were killed and a dozen injured when a crowded New York commuter train struck a car stalled on the tracks near suburban White Plains...
Adrian Croft of Reuters in Brussels | 2015-02-06 00:00:00
Concern is growing in NATO over Russia's nuclear strategy and indications that Russian military planners may be lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons in any conflict, alliance diplomats say. NATO officials have drawn up an analysis of Russian nuclear...
Samia Nakhoul and Isabel Coles of Reuters in Valley of the Crows, northern Iraq | 2015-02-06 00:00:00
The black banner of the Islamic State, fixed to a shack within sight of this frontline, is evidence of the existential threat menacing the Kurds from across the 1,000-km long frontier. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are digging trenches and building defence...
Sanjeev Miglani of Reuters in New Delhi | 2015-02-06 00:00:00
India wants to use state-of-the-art US technology to boost the range and potency of a planned aircraft carrier, defence sources said, in a move that would tie their arms programmes closer together and counter China's military influence in the region....
BANGKOK, Feb 5 (Reuters): Thailand will experience its worst drought in more than a decade this year, the irrigation department said on Thursday, damaging crops in one of the world's biggest rice-exporting nations. Thailand was currently battling drought in eight...
SINGAPORE, Feb 5 (AFP): Oil turned lower in Asia Thursday as an early rally fizzled out after the euro was hit by fresh concerns over Greece, further hurting demand in the face of an oversupply, analysts said. US benchmark West...
NEW DELHI, Feb 5 (Reuters): Indian soyoil, soybean and rapeseed futures rose on Thursday after the benchmark palm oil contract in Malaysia posted its biggest single-day gain since October 2010. Malaysian palm oil climbed more than 5 per cent on...
SINGAPORE, Feb 5 (Reuters): Gold rose for a second session on Thursday, supported by uncertainty in Greece that has cut investor interest in risky assets and China's efforts to spur its slowing economy. But bullion was largely trading in a...
MILAN, Italy, Feb. 5 (Xinhua): Italian fabrics have shown to be a driving force promoting general recovery, according to 2014 data on the sector presented here at the opening of the 20th edition of Milano Unica, the Italian Textiles Trade...
Hosts Bangladesh national team will face Thailand Under-23 team in the 2nd semifinal of the six-nation Bangabandhu Gold Cup International Football Tournament at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today (Friday) at 5:00 pm, reports UNB. This will be the 15th encounter...
After conceding a five-wicket defeat in the unofficial first practice match, Bangladesh again lost to Cricket Australia XI by six wickets in the second practice match held at Allan Border Field in Queensland, Australia Thursday, reports UNB. In the day's...
SYLHET, Feb 5 (UNB): Favourite Malaysian Under-23 team reached the final of the six-nation Bangabandhu Gold Cup International Football Tournament eliminating Singapore Under-23 side by a solitary goal in the first semifinal at the Sylhet District Stadium Thursday. Malaysia will...
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