A fire broke out in a six-storey apartment building at Segunbagicha in the city Thursday morning. Duty officer of the fire service control room Ataur Rahman said the fire originated from an electric short circuit on the first floor of...
Army chief General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan has met President Md Abdul Hamid with an invite to attend a university convocation. He went to the Bangabhaban Thursday afternoon with Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) Vice-Chancellor Maj Gen Sheikh Mamun Khaled. The...
Google Street View has opened the streets and sites of Capital Dhaka & Port City Chittagong to roam virtually on its website. Google Street View, a free map-based service from Google that provides panoramic views from streets and sites, is...
Sonia H Moni | 2015-01-23 00:00:00
The ongoing nonstop blockade pulled down the volume of sales in the country's jewellery market. Sale of gold ornaments dropped by around 50 per cent as claimed by jewelers as the customers were averting shopping amid the nationwide blockade enforced...
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 22 (AFP): OPEC member Kuwait plans to spend about $100 billion in the next five years on oil projects to modernise the vital sector, the emirate's oil minister said yesterday. "We already have started the implementation of...
SINGAPORE, Jan 22 (AFP): Oil prices edged lower in Asia Thursday as dealers await a much-anticipated European Central Bank (ECB) policy meeting and the release of the latest US supply report, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery...
ISLAMABAD, Jan 22 (AFP): The Pakistani prime minister has cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos to deal with a severe petrol shortage at home, officials and state media said Thursday. State media said Nawaz Sharif cancelled...
SINGAPORE, Jan 22 (Reuters): Gold fell further below a five-month high on Thursday, hurt by profit-taking ahead of the European Central Bank's decision on stimulus measures, and strength in Asian equities that dented the metal's safe-haven appeal. Market expectations are...
Parisa Hafezi of Reuters in Ankara | 2015-01-23 00:00:00
As prices of food, water and electricity rise further beyond reach, struggling Iranians are losing belief in their pragmatic president and his promise of a brighter future. The country has been hit by the double hammer blows of persisting Western...
Rina Saeed Khan of Thomson Reuters Foundation in Islamabad | 2015-01-23 00:00:00
Pakistan has reinstated its ministry for climate change, suggesting the government plans to pay more attention to the issue as countries prepare a new international deal to curb global warming. In 2013, when the same government came to power, it...
Rajesh Kumar Singh of Reuters in New Delhi | 2015-01-23 00:00:00
India invited bids from bankers on January 21 to manage the sale of a 10 per cent stake in iron ore miner NMDC, trying to revive a $10 billion asset sale programme and narrow the country's fiscal deficit to a...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 22 (BSS): Substantial and sustainable farming promotion of fodder could further develop the livestock sector to contribute immensely in fulfilling the protein deficiency in the country, experts and researchers here said. Terming the green fodder as the best...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-23 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Jan 22: Farmers of the river banks of 17 dried up rivers of Nilphamari district are planting Boro seedlings in the riverbeds which are dried up and turned into almost farmland. Sources said the farmers are in a hurry...
RANGPUR, Jan 22 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting have stressed for innovation and adoption of community-based techniques and early preparedness with efficient emergency response management systems to reduce risk of natural disasters. World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) under Fulbari Area Development...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Jan 22 (BSS): There is no fertiliser crisis in Chapainawabganj district for Boro cultivation in the current season, despite indefinite blockade enforced by the BNP led 20- party alliance across the country. Md. Saiful Islam, deputy director, Department of...
MANIKGANJ, Jan 22 (BSS): Farmers and officials of DAE of the district are expecting a bumper production of mustard in the current season. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office sources said good yield of the winter crop and its fair...
MADARIPUR, Jan 22 (UNB): Robbers shot to death a villager and injured three others during a robbery incident at Bhadrasan village in Shibchar upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Jahangir Hossain Bepari, 30, son of Aziz Bepari, a...
NARAYANGANJ, Jan 22 (UNB): A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was slaughtered by miscreants in Bhuigar Madani Nagar area of Fatullah upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain,28, son of Ali Akbar, a resident of Delpara area of...
BENAPOLE, Jan 22 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 17 people while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Wednesday. Tipped off, a team of the border force launched a drive in the frontier...
SUNAMGANJ, Jan 22 (UNB): A man was killed and two others were injured in a clash over a trifling matter at Sorailtupa village in Dirai upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Jalal Uddin, 35, son of...
Over 4m textbooks distributed in Mymensingh The distribution of textbooks in primary level at free of cost, is nearing completion in 13 upazilas of Mymensingh as the government committed to distribute the books from the beginning of the new year....
NEW DELHI, Jan 22 (AFP/Reuters): Barack Obama arrives in India this weekend for an unprecedented second visit by a serving US president, the honoured guest of his new friend Narendra Modi who was a Washington outcast only a year ago....
SANAA, Jan 22 (AP): Heavily armed Shiite rebels remain stationed outside the Yemeni president's house and the palace in Sanaa, despite a deal calling for their immediate withdrawal to end a violent standoff. Just before midday on Thursday, and more...
KARACHI, Jan 22 (AFP/BSS): Thousands of people marched through Pakistan's southern megacity on Thursday in the largest protest yet against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The march through the streets of Karachi is...
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