It is indeed heartening to see many private banks and organisations distributing winter clothes to the poor and destitute people who are suffering in this harsh wintry weather. Rural areas are worse affected. Women, children and elderly people suffer most...
About two dozen television channels are in operation in the country. But as a moderately regular viewer of TV, I think, timing of some programmes needs to be changed. For example, prime news time should be between 5 pm and...
Health is the most important wealth of our life, but many of us neglect our health and face dire consequences later. When we are young, we do not give due importance to the necessity of possessing good health. But I...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-12-26 00:00:00
No matter which person or institution has introduced the notion of non-formal education, it is, undoubtedly, novel and highly innovative. In the education sector of the least developed countries, it is a window on a vast world hitherto unknown to...
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Dec 25: Farmers in different upazilas under Rangpur district are delighted as they are making handsome profit through cultivation of carrot on their land this season. A number of farmers in all the eight upazilas including Mithapukur,...
A BSS report says: Marriage registrars and Imams at an advocacy meeting held today at Jaldhaka upazila parishad auditorium in Nilphamari district vowed for freeing the upazila from the social curse of child marriage. The Jaldhaka upazila administration and Upazila...
NARSHINGDI, Dec 25 (UNB): Police recovered slaughtered body of an elderly man from a field at Uttar Chowar village in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Taher Ali,65, a resident of the same village. Abul Kashem,...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Dec 25: The holy X-mas Day was observed in Nilphamari Thursday by the Christian community with due solemnity. This day is the birthday of Jesus Christ. Danish Bangladesh Leprosy Mission (DBML), The Leprosy Mission International Bangladesh, Community...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left for Gopalganj's Tungipara this (Saturday) morning on a day-long visit. The helicopter carrying her left Dhaka Tungipara around 10:15am. On her arrival in Tungipara, her birthplace, Hasina will place wreaths at the grave of...
CHAPAINAWABGONJ, Dec 25 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a nurse from a diagnostic centre in Shibganj upazila on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Khairunnesa, daughter of Abdullah from Choudala Balutungi village of Gomostapur upazila. On information that...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 25 (BSS): Farmers have become happy after cultivating a high yielding mash-kalai (black gram) variety on the fallow lands in vast char (riverbed) areas in both Rajshahi and Chapinawabganj districts during the last couple of years. Acreage of...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 25 (UNB): A man was killed and 10 other people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over the ownership of a piece of land at Sadarpur village in Sadullahpur upazila on Wednesday. The deceased...
JAMALPUR, Dec 25 (BSS): Police recovered the body of a rickshaw-van puller from a crop field at Taratia village under Dewanganj upazila of the district today. The deceased was identified as Abdul Karim, 38, son of Asghar Ali of village...
NATORE, Dec 25 (UNB): A college student was hacked to death by miscreants at Chalanbil in Singra upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Atiqur Rahman,22, son of Abdur Rashid, a resident of Bargan area of the same...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 25 (BSS): An extensive Boro paddy cultivation programme has been taken in Chapainawabganj district for the upcoming season. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said, a total of 47,281 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation...
Our Correspondent JHENIDAH, Dec 25: Munshi Mohammad Meherullah, a noted poet, religious leader and social reformer was born at Ghopegram near Barobazar in his grandfather's home under Kaliganj upazila in Jhenidah on December 26, 1861. His parental home was in...
BARGUNA, Dec 25 (BSS): Fourteen persons, including executive engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) of Barguna district, have been sued for illegally felling 300 valuable trees in the name of repairing flood protection embankment in Amtali Upazila. MBL, a...
NARSINGDI, Dec 25 (BSS): A three-day Digital Innovation Fair began at Moslehuddin Bhuiyan stadium in Narsingdi with a view to encouraging people to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to build "Digital Bangladesh" as envisioned by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina....
Satkhira house robbed of valuables Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 0.8 million from a house at Sultanpur in Satkhira early Thursday. Abu Bakkar Siddique, owner of the house, said a gang of armed robbers, numbering 7/8, stormed his house in...
Tea prices in Bangladesh rose for the seventh straight week at the weekly auction on Tuesday amid strong demand in the winter season, reports Reuters. Bangladeshi tea fetched an average 192.96 taka ($2.4) per kg compared with 192.04 taka at...
BANGKOK, Dec 25 (Reuters): Thailand's military government approved the sale of 247,000 tonnes of rice in an open tender on Monday, part of its continued effort to offload rice from huge stockpiles accumulated under the previous regime. The sale was...
MOSCOW, Dec 25 (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...
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 25 (AFP): Kuwait has commissioned a new natural gas plant that will raise the energy-rich state's production capacity to more than 2 billion cubic feet a day, officials said on Wednesday. The new Liquefied Petroleum Gas plant...
RIYADH, Dec 25 (AFP): Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude exporter, on Thursday announced a 2015 budget with a huge $38.6 billion deficit due to the sharp decline in oil prices but still raised spending. A statement read on state-run...
GUWAHATI, India, Dec 25 (Reuters): India deployed military helicopters to hunt down tribal militants in the northeastern state of Assam on Thursday after rebels killed 75 people this week, the deadliest in the remote area in years. Assam has a...
DONETSK, Ukraine, Dec 25 (AFP): The latest push for peace in Ukraine appeared moribund on Thursday after initial talks failed to agree when the warring sides should meet again to try ending the eight-month pro-Russian revolt. Negotiations mediated by European...
HONG KONG, Dec 25 (AFP): Hong Kong police said Thursday they had arrested a dozen pro-democracy protesters after a night of clashes in the first sizeable rally since the last protest camp was cleared last week. Police used pepper spray...
SEOUL, Dec 25 (AFP): South Korea on Thursday ruled out the possibility that a recent string of cyber-attacks on its nuclear power operator could cause a malfunction at any of the country's 23 atomic reactors. The designs and manuals for...
LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 25 (AFP): The leader of a banned Pakistani sectarian militant group who was set to walk free from jail is being held for two more weeks in a murder case, officials said Thursday. Malik Ishaq, the head...
Obama, Malaysian PM hit the links in Hawaii WASHINGTON, Dec 25: US President Barack Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, tends to golf with buddies and aides, but on Wednesday mixed things up, hitting the links with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib...
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