CHANDPUR: Diarrhoea situation has taken a serious turn in the district in the last several days. Over 1,000 patients, mostly children up to five years of age, were admitted to icddr,b Hospital in Matlab over the last 11 days till...
KUSHTIA: A man was killed and his son sustained injuries in an attack by rivals at Poradah village in Mirpur upazila Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Nurul Islam, 50, of the village. Police and locals said there had...
Two ministers have said the government will not allow the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to take to the streets and proceed with their proposed movement. They stated this Friday, a day after BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia had said she would announce...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 18 (BSS): Proper and sustainable management has become an urgent task to save mango flower and fruit from premature dropping as the gardeners and businessmen suffer a lot due to the problem, scientists and researchers at a training...
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MAGURA, Dec 18: International Migrants Day was observed in Magura on Thursday. District administration in association with BRAC arranged different programme in observance of the day. They brought out a rally in the town in morning. Magura deputy commissioner Md...
RANGPUR, Dec 18 (BSS): The farmers have been taking preparations with huge enthusiasm to start transplantation of Boro seedlings from January next in the northern region, officials in the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said. Meanwhile, they have already started...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 18 (BSS): A motorcyclist was killed and his ally was injured in a road accident in Seed Store area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway under Bhaluka upazila of the district last night. The dead was identified as Sultan Mahmud Jhoni,...
THAKURGAON, Dec 18 (BSS): The bumper production of T-Aman (Transplanted Aman) paddy brought the smiling face of the farmers here during the current season. The harvesting of T-Aman is almost over, only some late varieties are left in the field....
GAIBANDHA, Dec 18 (BSS): The special 40-day employment generation programme of the government for the hardcore and the seasonal unemployed people has been launched in the district very recently. The aim of the programme is to assist the poor particularly...
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NILPHAMARI, Dec 18: Bangladesh Railway (BR) is to procure 150 Railway passenger coaches from Indonesia. Sources said to complete the procurement process a delegation from Indonesia comprising three members reached Syedpur Tuesday last. Syedpur railway workshop sources said to mitigate...
FARIDPUR, Dec 18 (BSS): Two minor boys were killed this morning in village Kodalia of Nagarkanda upazilla when a wall of an abandoned building collapsed on them. The dead were identified as Ramjan,8, son of Shawkat Matubbar of Kodalia and...
KHULNA, Dec 18 (BSS): District administration organized a reception ceremony to 400 Freedom Fighters (FF) on the occasion of 44th victory day at the Deputy Commissioner's conference room here recently. State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda attended...
PANCHGAGARH, Dec 18 (BSS): Farmers of Panchagarh district have cultivated mustard on 16,039 hectares of land in the district this year with the production target of 18,055 tons. District Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said five varieties of mustard seeds like...
Pakistan's military says it has killed 59 militants in ground assaults and air strikes on Taliban units in areas near the border with Afghanistan. The operations come days after the Taliban killed 141 people at a school in Peshawar, mostly...
2 arrested with arms, ammo in C'nawabganj Police and members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 in separate drives arrested two persons and recovered two pistols, 10 round bullets and three magazines from Shibganj upazila Chapainawabganj Thursday morning. The arrested were...
Zachary Fagenson and David Adams of Reuters in Miami | 2014-12-19 00:00:00
Some Cuban exiles responded with outrage. Others with ecstasy. News on December 17 that the United States will restore diplomatic relations with Cuba for the first time in more than a half century divided America's 1.5-million-strong Cuban exile community and...
Francesco Canepa and Alistair Smou of Reuters in Athens | 2014-12-19 00:00:00
Greece's future in the euro zone may hang in the balance once more, but investors believe the market fallout from any current political turbulence can be insulated, unlike during the region's sovereign debt crisis of 2012. Investors are betting that...
Irene Klotz of Reuters in Washington | 2014-12-19 00:00:00
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found carbon-containing compounds in samples drilled out of an ancient rock, the first definitive detection of organics on the surface of Earth's neighbour planet, scientists said on December 16. The rover also found spurts of...
Sami Aboudi of Reuters in Muscat | 2014-12-19 00:00:00
Looking frail, Oman's Sultan Qaboos appeared on television last month to reassure his people about his health. But after a long absence abroad for medical treatment, many Omanis are worried that their childless leader has no publicly designated heir. In...
Andrea Shalal and Joyce Lee of Reuters in Tokyo | 2014-12-19 00:00:00
South Korea said on December 18 it will not send its F-35 fleet to Japan for heavy airframe maintenance, one of the two Asian hubs chosen by the United States to service the Lockheed Martin Corp stealth fighter. Instead, it...
Eric Kelsey, Lisa Richwine and Piya Sinha-Roy of Reuters in Tokyo | 2014-12-19 00:00:00
U.S. investigators have determined North Korea was behind a cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, a U.S. government source said, an unprecedented act that has forced the studio to cancel releasing a comedy about the fictional assassination of North Korea's leader. Hackers,...
SINGAPORE, Dec 18 (Reuters): Gold climbed 1 per cent to trade above $1,200 an ounce on Thursday after the US Federal Reserve said it would take a "patient" approach in deciding when to raise interest rates even as the U.S....
SINGAPORE, Dec 18 (AFP): Oil prices were little changed in Asia Thursday after data showed US stockpiles dipping, while the Federal Reserve indicated interest rates would not be hiked until the middle of next year. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate...
MUMBAI, Dec 18 (Reuters): India's natural rubber imports in November jumped 19 per cent to 33,156 tonnes from a year earlier, the state-run Rubber Board said, as a drop in local output and lower prices in the world market prompted...
RIYADH, Dec 18 (AFP): Saudi Arabia, the largest producer in the OPEC oil cartel, cannot reduce its output, the kingdom's oil minister said on Thursday despite plunging prices. Ali al-Nuaimi added that commodity price fluctuations are to be expected, and...
PARIS, Dec 18 (AFP): France's competition authority on Thursday slapped 13 top manufacturers of cosmetics and cleaning products with US $1.1 billion in fines for price collusion between 2003 and 2006. A first fine of 345.2 million euros for collusion...
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