SHERPUR, Jan 14 (BSS): Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury said Wednesday that BNP would have to wait for five years for the next national elections. "BNP will have to wait for five years ... there will be no positive results of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-15 00:00:00
PABNA, Jan 14: At least five youths received bullet injuries when unidentified assailants fired shots at Bangladesh Eidgah point of Shalgaria area in the district headquarters on Tuesday night where some youths were playing badminton in the field, sources said....
CHITTAGONG, Jan 14 (BSS): Chittagong district police, in separate overnight drives, arrested 32 activists of BNP-Jamaat from eight upazilas of the district. Acting on secret information, Sitakunda, Lohagara and Patiya police in the drives ranging from 8.00 pm to 6.00...
BANGKOK, Jan 13 (Reuters): Thailand's government plans to sell around 17 million tonnes of rice over the next two years from stockpiles built up under the previous administration's failed buying programme, the commerce ministry said on Tuesday, announcing a new...
SINGAPORE, Jan 13 (Reuters): Gold extended gains on Tuesday to climb to its highest since October, boosted by safe-haven demand triggered by a continued slump in oil prices and weakness in some equities markets. Asian stocks were mostly on the...
ABU DHABI, Jan 13 (AFP): The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that OPEC will no longer move to shore up crude prices, arguing that rising North American shale oil output needs to be curbed. World prices have been falling...
ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (AFP): The US and Pakistan vowed Tuesday to intensify a crackdown on militants hiding in lawless border areas, as top diplomat John Kerry urged renewed peace talks with India to strengthen regional stability. Last month's shocking school...
PARIS, Jan 13 (agencies): Funeral ceremonies are being held for seven of those shot dead in last week's attacks in Paris. Four men killed at a kosher supermarket are being buried in Jerusalem. At a ceremony in central Paris, President...
KATHMANDU, Jan 13 (AFP): Nepalese police arrested dozens of protesters Tuesday for attacking vehicles during a Maoist-led strike called before next week's deadline to draft a constitution. Protesters belonging to a 30-party alliance headed by the former Maoist rebels vandalised...
COLOMBO, Jan 13 (AFP): Pope Francis urged respect for human rights as he began a two-nation Asia tour in a windswept Sri Lanka Tuesday, bearing a message of peace and reconciliation after a decades-long civil war. His visit, days after...
14 dead, dozens ill from alcohol poisoning in India LUCKNOW, Jan 12: At least 14 people died and dozens of others were seriously ill after consuming toxic liquor in northern India Monday, officials said, in the latest incident of alcohol...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Jan 13: The price of tomato has decreased drastically in Rajshahi as tonnes of ripened tomato are waiting to be transported to Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and other places of the country. Due to continuous road blockade programmes of the...
TANGAIL, Jan 13 (UNB): Two people were killed as a taxicab and an oil tanker collided head-on on the Bangabandhu Bridge approach road at Sholla in Kalihati upazila while a young man was killed as a truck ran over him...
RU Correspondent | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Jan 13: The authorities of Rajshahi University (RU) have completed all preparations to hold the 9th convocation on January 18, says a press release singed by administrator of university public relations office. The press release also said the...
THAKURGAON, Jan 13 (BSS): Two people were killed and six others injured in a road accident on Thakurgaon-Ranisankail road at Kumarganj in a head-on collision between two motor cycles this morning. The victims were identified as Shamim Hossain of Futanibazar...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Jan 13: A three-day long Digital Innovation Fair-2015 began at Shilpaka Academy premises in Gopalganj town Today (Tuesday). As many as 23 stalls were set up in the fair organised by the district administration, Gopalganj. Health, education, agriculture fisheries...
GAIBANDHA, Jan 13 (BSS): Agri experts in a function here Monday urged the farmers to farm zinc enriched rice BRRI Dhan 64 on large scale to meet the necessary requirement of micronutrient for a human body and increase disease resistant...
RANGPUR, Jan 13 (BSS): Speakers at a rally have stressed for launching vigorous movement against social erosion, unhealthy culture, pornography, drug abuse, gambling, rape, human trafficking and repression and violence against women. District unit of Bangladesh Narimukti Kendra (BNK) organised...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
MAGURA, Jan 13: Free treatment camp for livestocks was arranged in Magura on Tuesday. Magura District livestock office and Jessore Military farm jointly arranged the camp at Moheshpur Secondary school under Sreepur Upazila of Magura. Lieutenant Colonel Md Belayet Hossein...
BNCC training camp begins in Rajshahi A 14-day annual training course of Mohasthan Regiment of Bangladesh National Cadet Corps (BNCC) began at the playground of Bangladesh Postal Academy in Rajshahi city Monday. A total of 386 cadets including 64 females...
David Alexander and Jim Finkle of Reuters in Beirut | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
The Twitter and YouTube accounts for the U.S. military command that oversees operations in the Middle East were hacked on January 12 by people claiming to be sympathetic toward the Islamic State militant group being targeted in American bombing raids....
Megha Rajagopalan of Reuters in Beijing | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
China has been quietly toughening travel restrictions on students and businessmen traveling from Ebola-hit West Africa even as it increases support to fight the deadly disease on the ground in the region, diplomats say. Beijing-based ambassadors from Liberia and Sierra...
Saleh Akram | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
The real estate sector of the country is stuck in a quagmire. The sector, which was booming until 2009, suddenly nosedived in 2010. The current situation is an episode of a journey from bad to worse. Real estate sector made...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2015-01-14 00:00:00
India will hopefully develop enough solar power to run at least one light bulb every home by 2019. The goal is part of a larger push to boost renewable in India, where energy demand is projected to double over the...
With the slump in global oil prices, it is quite unbecoming on the part of the government not to adjust its 'administered' domestic prices of petroleum products. But there is no sign in sight, as yet, to indicate any move...
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