At least four people were killed in a road accident at Ashuganj Upazila in Brahmanbarhia district on Sunday. Police say three other people were injured when a truck collided with a private car. They say Sunday afternoon’s accident occurred on...
A tank lorry (oil tanker) caught fire in Tejgaon Industrial Area in the city on Sunday causing a series of explosions. Several fire fighting units are working to douse the blaze at Tibet Intersection in the evening. Police said the...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Sunday gave awards to a total of 24 top remittance senders among non-residence bangladeshis (NRBs) at a function at Hotel Purbani in the city. Among the top remittance senders, 20 were given ‘Bangladesh Bank Remittance Award...
Haldor Topsoe, a Danish catalysis company and partner of Karnafuli Fertiliser Company (Kafco), on Sunday offered to set up more gas-efficient fertiliser factories in Bangladesh. Haldor Topsoe Chief Executive Officer Bjerne S Clausen and its Executive Vice President Ulrik Federspiel...
For the first time, Bangladesh blind cricket team will participate in one-day World Cup Cricket to be held in the South African city of Cape Town from November 26 to December 9, according to a news agency.
Bangladesh took 2-0 lead in the five-match Bashundhara Cement ODI series beating Zimbabwe by 68 runs in the second successive match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong Sunday. With this win, the Tigers keep alive the hope for raising...
A suicide bomber has killed at least 40 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that the attacker had detonated the bomb amid a crowd of...
Khulna City Corporation (KCC) will be turned into a smart and digitised city corporation by next year. KCC sources said the corporation will be brought under full computer network as part of digitalisation of Smart KCC project under A2I programme...
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Dr. Mizanur Rahman Sunday urged the government to implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord as early as possible, else the country will have to suffer. “My earnest request to the government, please implement...
Nurses under the banner of ‘Bangladesh Nurses Oikya Parishad’ staged demonstrations at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Sunday to press home their eight-point demand. They also submitted a memorandum containing their demands to the Prime Minister, according...
Parliament on Sunday unanimously passed three separate bills for the three Zila Parishads (UZs) of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) aiming to increase the number of members in the Zila Parishads for bringing dynamism to serve people of the small ethnic...
Abdul Latif Siddiqui, who was removed from the Cabinet and the ruling Awami League for commenting against Hajj, has returned to Bangladesh. The former telecoms minister flew in on an Air India flight to Dhaka airport around 9pm Sunday, according...
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Sunday blamed the country’s volatile political situation for current quality crisis in the education sector. They made the observation at the roundtable discussion titled, ‘Quality crisis in the country’s education sector’, organised by...
Jatiya Party MPs staged a walkout from Parliament on Sunday demanding the removal of Biman Bangladesh Airlines chairman Jamal Uddin Ahmed for his alleged involvement in gold smuggling, according to a news agency.
The Jatiya Party has walked out of Parliament to press its demand for the removal of Biman Bangladesh Airlines chairman for involvement of the national flag carrier officials in gold smuggling. During the unscheduled discussions Sunday, Opposition MPs held Biman...
Masum Billah | 2014-11-23 00:00:00
Two very distinct and opposing instructional approaches are used to assess the learners as well as teachers. They are inductive and deductive approaches. Both approaches can offer certain advantages, but the biggest difference is the role of the teacher. In...
A suicide bomber has killed at least 45 people at a volleyball tournament in eastern Afghanistan, officials say. A spokesman for the governor of Paktika province told the BBC that the attacker had detonated the bomb amid a crowd of...
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. — David Ogden Stiers A happy family is but an earlier heaven. — George Bernard Shaw One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way:...
Iran, the United States and other world powers are all but certain to miss Monday's deadline for negotiations to resolve a 12-year stand-off over Tehran's atomic ambitions, forcing them to seek an extension, sources say. The talks in Vienna could...
The 4th Asian Beach Games will conclude through a half hour long closing ceremony at Sapan Hin Park in Phuket Sunday evening with Bangladesh completed their mission with empty hand. Thai Minister for Tourism and Sports Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul will preside...
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday there were still serious gaps in talks over Iran's nuclear program despite signs of some progress two days before a deadline to reach a deal between Tehran and major powers. "We're working...
Speakers at a workshop in Kathmandu stressed on necessary action against river-linking projects taken up by the Indian government, diverting huge amounts of water from the Brahmaputra and Ganga rivers to central and southern India. They also urged an integrated...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with top leaders of her party-led 20-party alliance Saturday night to work out their next course of action and finalise their decisive movement strategy. The meeting began around 9:15pm at the BNP...
Bangladeshi cyclist Parul Akhter clinched the bronze medal in the Track Asia Cup 2014 as she finished 3rd in 500 meter individual time trail held in New Delhi, the capital of India Saturday. Bangladesh national cyclist team also qualified to...
Activists of Juba League (JL) have fought among themselves at the very event where Awami League leaders dubbed the party's youth wing as 'best political organisation' for youths. The leaders had also criticised the media for what they termed propaganda...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
Without enough money at disposal and leisure, fine art is but a hapless orphan. Even culture developed through centuries makes demand on spare times and to make the process complete some spare money too is badly needed. At a time...
Fahmida Hashem | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
Now intestinal obstruction is very common NCD (non-communicable disease) in Bangladesh. It have many alternative names like Paralytic ileus; Intestinal volvulus; Bowel obstruction; Ileus; Pseudo-obstruction - intestinal; Colonic ileus. Intestinal obstruction is a partial or complete blockage of the bowel....
Md Sazedul Islam | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
Poor working mothers need day care centres for their children during working hours so that they can do their work smoothly. Though populous Dhaka city has not adequate day care centres for poor mothers, some existing centres proved effective to...
Rana Hoque | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
As a concept, Community Based Tourism (CBT) is not new in the world. CBT has been used as a response to the negative impacts of the international mass tourism development model which is traced back in 1970s. Primarily, CBT programmes...
Zahid Rahman and Mandira Guha Niogi | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
It was a long-cherished demand of extreme poor Char people that there will be separate allocations in National Budget for the development of their living standard. In the declared National Budgets of last few years, there was no such thing...
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