Passengers have disembarked safely from a launch that ran aground into a paddy field on the river bank on the Dhaka-Barisal route. The passenger-packed rivercraft, carrying 2,000 people, had apparently ‘losing its way’. Some passengers of Dhaka-bound launch ‘Dipraj’ got...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) backed by its partners has called a nationwide hartal (shutdown) for Monday protesting against denial of permission for its Gazipur rally and demanding the release of its leaders including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy. Party’s acting Secretary...
Local people pulled out a 4-year-old boy from an abandoned deep tubewell minutes after rescuers called off their 23-hour long unyielding search. Rescue operations by Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence personnel started on Friday afternoon after ‘Jihad’ had fallen...
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has arrived in Dhaka in his maiden visit to Bangladesh to give further boost to bilateral ties. Sino-Bangla bonhomie has touched a new height this year following Beijing’s unusual backing to the much-talked-about Jan 5...
The residents of Phulbari on Saturday staged demonstration in protest against the renewed activities of Asia Energy, now renamed as Global Coal Management (GCM). They also demanded the shutting of Asia Energy’s office in Phulbari and also withdrawal of the...
The country recorded this season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday as mercury dropped to 7.2 degrees Celsius.An official at the Dhaka Met Office said Ishwardi recorded the country’s lowest temperature of 7.2 degree Celsius this season on...
The country recorded this season’s coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday as mercury dropped to 7.2 degrees Celsius. An official at the Dhaka Met Office said Ishwardi recorded the country’s lowest temperature of 7.2 degree Celsius this season...
Issuing a stern warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said those who are making disparaging remarks about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will not be spared. The Prime Minister said this while holding separate meetings with...
China's trade will grow 3.5 per cent in 2014, implying the country will fall short of a current 7.5 per cent official growth target, according to a report on the Ministry of Commerce's website that was subsequently revised to remove...
Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night. The meeting will be held at Khaleda’s Gulshan residence around 8pm, her media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB on Saturday.
The rate of growth in gross domestic product (GDP) may fall short of the target due mainly to the economic factors - sluggish investment, infrastructural underdevelopments, unsatisfactory collection of revenue vis-à-vis target, low-performance in external sector, and non-economic factors -...
The people of Rangamati's Naniyachar are living in fear a week after their homes were set on fire. On Dec 16, a some 200 slum-dwelling Bengali settlers set ablaze the homes of the tribal hills people living in Chhuridasparha, Nabin...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday said the government would upgrade diploma medical doctor service into second class. "I will discuss with the Prime Minister about your service status for improving diploma medical service into second class,"...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday said the government would upgrade diploma medical doctor service into second class. "I will discuss with the Prime Minister about your service status for improving diploma medical service into second class,"...
The country received $822.78 million in remittance during the last three weeks of the current month of December. Of the total amount of remittance, non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) living in various countries sent $203.07 million in the first week, $352.77 million...
Md Abbas Uddin Molla | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
For many years I had been waiting for a visit to Thailand. I heard about its all-round development, especially in the agricultural sector, and thus wanted to see the land. In November, my dream came true and as part of...
Montu Ghosh and Kazi Ruhul Amin have been reelected president and general secretary of Garment Workers’ Trade Union Centre (TUC). The Garment Workers TUC held its sixth council at BCIC Auditorium in the capital on Saturday and elected its 35-member...
Sadia Arman in the third of a four-part article | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
In addition Dali described the conditions in Spain before the Civil War when society was ridden with and torn by a hundred conflicting isms and ideologies and his description of the politically troubled pre-war Spain of those times appears to...
Montu Ghosh and Kazi Ruhul Amin have been reelected president and general secretary of Garment Workers’ Trade Union Centre (TUC). The Garment Workers TUC held its sixth council at BCIC Auditorium in the capital on Saturday and elected its 35-member...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh is one of the beautiful countries in the world endowed with the bounty of nature. It has six seasons providing varied and enchanting scenic beauty and no other country in the world has the seasonal variety like that in...
Rabeya Ferdous | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
Stroke is one of the most significant causes of disability. According to the latest WHO data published in April 2011, stroke deaths in Bangladesh reached 82,039 or 8.57% of total deaths. Post-stroke complications are common, occurring in 40-95 per cent...
Md Nayem Alimul Hyder | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
The Constitution of Bangladesh itself ensures the basis of the legal aid mechanism through its different articles though there is no explicit and unambiguous expression in any article on the subject matter concerned. Firstly article 27 says that all the...
SEOUL, Dec 26 (agencies): The United States, Japan and South Korea have agreed a rare trilateral military arrangement on intelligence sharing about North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes, officials said Friday. The deal, which is to be signed on Monday...
KINSHASA, Dec 26 (AFP): At least 30 people died when an overcrowded boat hit a rock and sank on the Congo river, sparking riots in which angry youths on the rampage set fire to public buildings, officials said Friday. "There...
DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (Reuters): At least 45 civilians were killed and some 175 wounded when aircraft bombed a northern Syrian city controlled by Islamic State, as Bashar al-Assad's government stepped up air raids, residents and a monitoring group said on...
BANDA ACEH, Dec 26 (agencies): Survivors of Asia's 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 victims cried and prayed as they gathered along Indian Ocean shorelines on Friday for memorials to mark the 10th anniversary of a disaster that still...
DAMASCUS, Dec 26 (Reuters): At least 45 civilians were killed and some 175 wounded when aircraft bombed a northern Syrian city controlled by Islamic State, as Bashar al-Assad's government stepped up air raids, residents and a monitoring group said on...
GUWAHATI, Dec 26 (AFP): India's army chief pledged Friday to intensify a military offensive in Assam as it tries to track down separatist rebels who killed 69 villagers in the restive northeastern state this week. India has already deployed 6,000...
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