A senior al-Qaeda militant, accused of planning to bomb trains in New York and London, has been killed in Pakistan, the country's military says. Adnan el Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in north-western Pakistan, near the Afghan border, the...
An initiative has been taken to make replicas of terracotta, a key element of ancient culture of Bengal, available across the country. Oitijhya Anweshan (OA), a non-government organisation working on ancient history and culture, has taken the exceptional initiative in...
An Awami League (AL) leader was shot and injured by some miscreants in Lakshmipur Sadar Upazila on Saturday. The victim is Omar Faruk, 35, vice-president of Chandraganj Union unit of AL. After the incident angry protestors blocked Dhaka-Lakhsmipur highway at...
A case has been filed against 14, including 10 Biman employees, over 124-kilogram (kg) gold haul in Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in 2013. Assistant Revenue Officer of Customs Intelligence Department Mustafa Kamal filed the case with Airport Police...
Trashing reports that there was a meeting between their party chief and government officials, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said it is Awami League, not BNP, which has the record of capturing power through plots....
US Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Ambassador William R Brownfield arrives in Dhaka this (Saturday) evening on a 3-day visit. Ambassador Brownfield will meet government officials to discuss US support for policing, border security,...
Sacked telecoms minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui, facing charges of hurting religious sentiments, has fallen ill in prison. He was taken to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Shahbagh from Dhaka Central Jail in the city’s old part around 5:00am...
A day-long butterfly fair has been held on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus in Savar amid great festivity. Securing the slogan ‘Urle Akashe Projapoti, Prokriti Pay Notun Goti’ JU Zoology Department in collaboration with ‘Prokriti O Jiban’ foundation organised the...
The disbursement process of Rana Plaza Trust Fund to compensate the victims of last year’s multi-storey building collapse in Savar will start by this (December, 2014) month. The 9-storey Rana Plaza which housed five readymade garment factories when it collapsed...
Dr Akbar Ali Khan, former caretaker government adviser and also an ex-Cabinet secretary, has alleged that the country’s police administration is now working under full political control. He also cautioned that the situation will deteriorate further if necessary steps are...
Bangladesh and Bhutan on Saturday signed two agreements, including one on trade that will allow the two neighbouring countries to enjoy duty-free export of 90 items to each other. Another agreement is on allocation of a land at Dhaka city’s...
ADEN: American journalist Luke Somers and a South African hostage were killed Saturday during a failed attempt by US special forces to free them from Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. President Barack Obama condemned the “barbaric murder” of Somers, saying he...
About half a million people have fled coastal villages and evacuated their homes in the Philippines as a powerful storm approaches the archipelago. Typhoon Hagupit, which weakened slightly Friday night, is due to make landfall on Saturday evening. It is...
KHAGRACHHARI, Dec 6: A school headmaster was gunned down and a local leader of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma faction) injured in a gun attack in Manikchhari upazila Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Chingsa Mong Chowdhury,...
Senior Awami League leader Syed Ashraful Islam’s remark describing US Assistant Secretary Nisha Desai Biswal as a ‘two-penny minister’ is ‘racist’, a BNP leader has said. What he said not only violated diplomatic norms but had clear racist undertones,” said...
All export and import operations have ground to a halt at the Benapole land port after a labourer was run over by a truck. Several hundred trucks, carrying raw materials among other goods, were stuck on either side of the...
A K Azad, chairman and MD of Ha-Meem Group of Companies, has been re-elected president of Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) for 2014-16 term. Mostafa Azad Chowdhury Babu and Shamsur Rahman have been re- elected as senior vice-president and vice-president,...
India is planning to introduce regular passenger bus services to Dhaka from Guwahati in Assam via Shillong in Meghalaya. To study and finalise the routes and start the Guwahati-Dhaka bus services, a joint technical trial run will be organised on...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Saturday announced a 30-member its preliminary squad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 will take place in Australia and New Zealand in February and March. Bangladesh placed in Pool A with Afghanistan, Australia, England, Sri Lanka,...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Of the few artists who breathed art, lived in art and dreamed of art soaked in the very sustaining fluid of the soil, Qayyum Chowdhury was definitely one. The country's simple beauty and vibrancy was so exquisitely delineated in his...
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Considered by many scholars to be the oldest healing science, Ayurveda is a holistic approach to health that is designed to help people live long, healthy, and well-balanced lives. The holistic practice is based on creating harmony between body, mind...
Zeenat Khan | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
At the beginning of this past summer, I finished Herman Melville's Moby Dick. I was supposed to read this American classic in 1978, for my early 19th century American literature course. I was then in Rhode Island, USA. As it...
Mohammad Anisur Rahaman | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is known as a complex developmental disability, a disorder of neural development characterised by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behaviour. A person with an ASD typically has...
Md Razid | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
The premier show of Meghmallar by Zahidur Rahim Anjon was held on November 18, 2014 at Star Cineplex. This film will be released commercially this month (December 2014). The film focuses on a middle class family who unlike others started...
SINGAPORE, Dec 5 (Reuters): Gold was heading for its biggest weekly gain in nine months on Friday as a modest bounce in oil prices boosted demand for the metal as an inflation-hedge, but investors were nervous ahead of a key...
JHENIDAH, Dec 5 (UNB): With Tk 520 million sugar still remaining unsold, Mobarakganj Sugar Mills has began its sugarcane crushing programme for 2014-15 season. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu inaugurated the sugarcane crushing programme on Friday morning. This season, the...
SINGAPORE, Dec 5 (AFP): Oil fell in Asian trade on Friday after major producer Saudi Arabia slashed the price of the crude it sells to Asia and the United States, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for January...
MUMBAI, Dec 5 (Reuters): Indian soymeal exports in November nearly quadrupled from a month earlier to 110,806 tonnes on higher local supplies and improved demand from Iran and France, a trade body said on Friday. A pick-up in soymeal supplies...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Friday, reversing most of the week's steep losses as cautious investors held back from another sell-off, and instead pinned hopes on output and stockpiles easing in December. Prices...
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