The Khulna University (KU) authorities have taken up an initiative to set up a crop clinic at the varsity for the benefit of the farmers of the south-western coastal region. The clinic having a website will disseminate information on proper...
Another members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) gave confessional statement before a Narayanganj court over the sensational 7-murder. Former army personnel of the Naraynaganj-based Rab-11 Asaduzzaman gave the statement separately in two cases before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrates...
The Bangladesh Consulate General in New York has discussed the role of migrants. The theme of the discussion was on ‘safe migration’. Bangladesh has a particular interest in safe migration as millions of Bangladeshis work abroad and their remittances are...
A Dhaka court on Friday placed detained BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and three other leaders of the party on a three-day remand in a case filed for obstructing on duty police and assaulting Awami League MP Chhabi Biswas in...
The BNP has criticised a decision to ban its prescheduled public rally in Gazipur. ‘It’s part of a government ploy to thwart the 20-party alliance's public meeting there,’ BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday. Gazipur...
The BNP has called an emergency meeting of its policymakers on Friday evening to chalk out an action plan. The meeting will be held at BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s political office in Gulshan in the city on Friday evening, party’s...
Fire-fighters are trying to rescue a four-year old boy four hours after he fell into a several hundred feet deep hole at capital Dhaka's Khilgaon. The hole that is 14 inches in diameter is adjacent to a playground at the...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, now in Kathmandu, arrives in the city Saturday evening on a three-day visit which is considered a step towards further boosting the bilateral ties between the two countries. The Chinese Foreign Minister is coming at...
Women rights activists are angry over the pouring of human stool on a woman at a village arbitration led by Awami League MP Shawkat Hachanur Rahman Rimon at Patharghata in Barguna. They said that they would move the court against...
BANDA ACEH: 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 leaves an indelible...
The BNP has called a daylong shutdown for Saturday in Gazipur protesting against local administration's ban on gatherings at party chief Khaleda Zia's proposed rally venue. BNP's Gazipur unit chief AKM Fazlul Haq made the announcement Friday after a meeting...
The BNP investigations have faulted the government for the oil spill in Sundarbans, home to endangered Royal Bengal Tigers and rare Irrawaddy and Ganges dolphins. Its panel of experts has made several recommendations to tackle the spill's long-term effect. An...
Shivering cold coupled with dense fog paralysed life across the country as temperature sharply fell in most places Friday. Mild cold wave is sweeping over the regions of Pabna, Jessore and Kushtia and it may continue, a weather bulletin of...
Three BNP activists have been arretsed from Altab Ali Park in East London for their alleged involvement in an attack on a UK chapter Juba Mohila Awami League rally on Tuesday. However, the identities of the arrestees could not be...
Bangladesh Navy personnel have seized 90,000 Yaba tablets from a trawler (large boat) in the Outer Anchorage of Chittagong Port. The seizure took place during a regular patrol near the Sangu gas field in the sea around 1:00am on Thursday,...
A central leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has threatened to ‘beat up senior BNP leaders’. A status on the Facebook profile of BCL leader Siddiqui Nazmul Alam posted on Wednesday reads that the response to the attack on ruling...
Customs Intelligence officials seized a big amount foreign currencies from an apartment in the city’s Naya Paltan on Thursday. Tipped off, a team of Customs Intelligence Department, aided by Detective Branch (DB) of police personnel, raided a residence-cum shop in...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday alleged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is trying to turn Bangladesh into a ‘failed state’ like Pakistan. Tofail was addressing BTV’s Golden Jubilee programme at Bangla School Ground in the town, according to a news...
BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Thursday warned that they will hold rallies across the country on Saturday if their scheduled one in Gazipur on the day is blocked by ruling party activists, according to a news agency.
Police took control over Bhawal College ground on Thursday, amid growing tension over Bangladesh Chhatra League’s stance not to allow BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to attend a rally called by the 20-party alliance on the venue on Saturday. With only...
A Bangladeshi farmer was shot dead by the members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Medinipur frontier in Jibonnagar upazila of Chuadanga on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Moshiur Rahman Moshi, 35, son of Abdur Rashid, resident of...
Outlining her government’s plan to expand BTV through setting up stations at the division level, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the present government does not want to see the national television as its mouthpiece. Hasina was addressing the...
The Christian community of the country celebrated Christmas on Thursday with pledges to work for peace and humanity following the ideals of Jesus Christ, according to a news agency.
MOSCOW, Dec 24 (Reuters): Russia may fail to supply wheat to Egypt's state buyer GASC in January as its exports have been effectively suspended by informal government curbs, Arkady Zlochevsky, the head of Russia's Grain Union, said on Wednesday. Russia's...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures rose to their highest in nearly a month on Wednesday as monsoon rains pounded the second-largest grower, leading to severe flooding in parts of the country which traders say has affected...
SINGAPORE, Dec 24 (Reuters): Gold was trading close to a three-week low on Wednesday as strong US economic growth boosted equities and the dollar, weakening safe-haven bids for bullion. Data on Tuesday showed the US economy grew at a 5.0...
SINGAPORE, Dec 24 (AFP): Oil prices edged lower in thin pre-holiday trade Wednesday, but analysts said losses were curbed by upbeat sentiment over a strong US economic growth report. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for February delivery fell 46 cents...
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