The train communications of Chittagong with the rest of the country resumed on Wednesday night, four hours after a suspension following the derailment of a freight train in Sadar upazila of Comilla, according to a news agency.
HONG KONG:Hong Kong police cleared activists from one of the largest protest sites in the city on Wednesday and arrested Joshua Wong and Lester Shum, two of the student leaders at the heart of the pro-democracy movement that has shaken...
The government in the first four months (Jul-Oct) of the current financial year (FY15) has borrowed less money from banking system and paid back more to make the banks capable more in strengthening private sector credit growth. The government during...
BEIRUT: Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, an icon of Arab music, died Wednesday after a career that spanned over six-decades, Lebanese media said. She was 87. The diva was famous across the Arab world for her powerful voice, musical talent...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 25 (BSS): Farmers in the Hard Barind area comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainwabgonj districts need time-fitting training and motivation on how to cultivate more less-irrigated crops to lessen the existing pressure on groundwater, speakers at a training session...
Divisional and district branches of all state-run and private banks will remain open this Saturday (Nov 29) to allow people to submit their income tax returns. Bangladesh Bank in a circular asked the chief executives to keep the banks open...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
MAGURA, Nov 25: Muktokantho, a cultural organisation, in Magura staged four shows of street drama 'Alo Adharer Galpo' on Sunday and Monday at different places in Magura. Save The Children in association with advertising firm Mattra staged the drama shows...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Nov 25: Filarial hospital of Syedpur in Nilphamari district established by Institute of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Bangladesh (IACIB) is suffering from acute financial crisis. The lone hospital in the world stands in the northern end of Syedpur municipality....
GOPALGANJ, Nov 25 (UNB): A suspected robber was killed and three others injured in a mob attack at Shuktail village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rahim Sarder, 40, a resident of Puronu Bazar area of...
United Nations human rights investigators called on President Barack Obama to live up to principles preached by the United States around the world and release a long completed report on CIA interrogation methods. In an open letter issued in Geneva,...
RANGPUR, Nov 25 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong training course have stressed for ensuring proper utilisation of the water bodies, involving the real fishermen, to increase fish production for meeting nutritional demand and cutting poverty rate. They were addressing concluding...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Nov 25: The farmers in all five upazilas of Gopalganj district are busy preparing their seedbeds to grow healthy seedlings for Boro paddy cultivation during the current Boro season. According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Gopalganj about...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
TANGAIL, Nov 25: People of the villages and towns are rushing to warm clothes markets everyday in different areas as the temperature is falling gradually in the district. Normally winter comes to the area in middle of November or early...
CHUADANGA, Nov 25 (BSS): Speakers at a wheel chair distribution ceremony have stressed to ensure social dignity, rights and honour of the disabled people through flourishing their talents. They were addressing a wheel chair distribution ceremony arranged by a local...
5 shops gutted by fire in Magura A devastating fire gutted 5 shops in Puratan bazar area of Magura town Monday night. Magura fire service station officer Moniruzzaman said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a Pial...
Chief Justice (CJ) Mozammel Hossain on Wednesday asked the judges and lawyers to put their best efforts for quick disposal of all old pending cases for welfare of the litigants. Exchanging views with lawyers at a function in Barisal after...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
After a stability of one and a half months, price of soybean oil, the most consumed kitchen item in the country after palm oil, increased significantly in last few days when the global price is almost on a static trend....
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures rose on Tuesday, pulling away from a near one-month low as jitters about a projected increase in crude palm oil production in November faded in the second half of the session....
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh has so far failed to tap the opportunity to increase its exports to Malaysia to minimise the existing massive trade gap for various reasons. The reasons include poor diplomatic efforts, absence of promotion of Bangladeshi products in Malaysia through...
The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager. Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on 9 August, sparking...
Observing that the biggest mistake of the previous BNP-Jamaat regime was to allow the large-scale use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in motor vehicles, State Minister for Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu on Tuesday said the present government wants to give...
The estranged wife of Indian PM Narendra Modi has raised concerns about her safety and asked for information about arrangements for her security. Jashodaben, a retired school teacher, filed a Right to Information (RTI) application to the state government in...
Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have invented ‘lifesaving drone’ that can facilitate prompt rescue during marine vessel capsizes or fire incidents. The ‘lifesaving drones’ are specially designed to carry lifesaving equipment to the location of a...
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden on Tuesday said the relationship between Bangladesh and Canada will continue to grow through collaboration on mutual interests such as advancing the rights of women. The High Commission of Canada, together with the...
A re-autopsy has been ordered on the body of Dr Shamarukh Mahjabin Shyama, the daughter-in-law of former Awami League MP Tipu Sultan. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha instructed the deputy commissioner of Dhaka district to carry...
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