Bangladesh on Sunday sought investment from the states of the European Union (EU) to invest in the country’s environment-friendly shipbuilding and recycling industries. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu made the request when EU Ambassador to Bangladesh Pierre Mayaudon met him...
Some miscreants shot to death a businessman in Hazaribagh area in the city on Sunday. The dead is Afzal Hossain Sattar, 42, son of late Hazi Abdul Aziz, a resident of Moneswar Road under Hazaribagh Police Station. He was a...
A Chittagong court on Sunday sent owner of Tazreen Fashions Delwar Hossain to jail rejecting his bail prayer in a fraud case. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mashfiqul Islam passed the order when he surrendered before the court and sought bail....
Some miscreants stabbed a Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader at China Goli in the city’s Azimpur area on Saturday night. The victim was identified as Gazi Abdul Malek, 30, assistant secretary of Dhaka south unit of BCL, student wing of...
Terming BNP-Jamaat Pakistan’s collaborators, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged all to remain alert so that this quarter cannot return to power to play with people’s fate, she told a discussion meeting. Awami League organised the discussion meeting at...
TOKYO: Exit polls suggest that the party of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has secured a large majority in the country's parliamentary elections. Mr Abe had called a snap poll to boost support for his economic reforms. He was elected...
WASHINGTON: The US Congress passed a $1.1-trillion spending bill for fiscal year 2015 Saturday, capping a week of acrimonious wrangling while averting a government shutdown and sending the measure to President Barack Obama. The bill, which narrowly cleared the House...
State-owned Power Development Board (PDB) will sign a contract on Monday with a Spanish-South Korean joint venture firm to implement its 400 MW Bibiyana South combined cycle power plant project. The joint venture of Isolux Ingenieria of Spain and Samsung...
A total of 10 journalists working for print and electronic media have been awarded with Bandhu Media Fellowship 2014, according to a news agency.
WASHINGTON: The US Congress Saturday unanimously approved fresh economic sanctions against Russia and lethal weapons for Kiev, defying President Barack Obama and hardening American lawmakers’ response to a Kremlin-backed insurgency in Ukraine. Identical texts of the Ukraine Freedom Support Act...
Turkish police have made at least 23 arrests during raids on a newspaper and TV station with close ties to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. Those detained are accused of forming an illegal organisation and trying to seize control of...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal fear the proposed salary hike of government employees will raise inflation. He prefers raising the salaries of public servants in stages to control the market situation. Kamal's comment comes amid speculations that the salaries of...
The government has recommended permanently shutting down the Shela River route in the Sundarbans. Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) suggestion comes nearly a week after an oil-tanker sank there spilling 350,000 litres of furnace oil. Officials say the oil...
The Forest Department looks fighting a losing battle to manually clean up the spilt-oil from rivers in the Sundarbans as it has already dissolved in river waters. “Most of the oil has already dissolved or spread faraway,” Divisional Forest Officer...
World famous all-rounder and icon of Bangladesh cricket team Shakib Al Hasan will be attending a Victory Day programme this year with autistic children at the Society for the Welfare of Autistic Children, Pisciculture in Shyamoli on Monday morning. Former...
The High Court (HC) on Sunday summoned the heads of 26 schools in the city and their governing body chiefs to explain the additional examination fees charged from Secondary School Certificate (SSC) candidates from their respective institutions, according to a...
Road Transport and Bridges Minster Obaidul Quader on Sunday said it will take only four hours to travel from Chittagong to Dhaka after May-June next year. The minister came up with the remark while talking to reporters after inaugurating the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-14 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Dec 13: Shivering cold accompanied by thick fog for the last few days has disrupted life in 8 upazilas under Rangpur district. Due to foggy weather coupled with bone chilling cold normal activities came to a standstill. Daily bread...
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court sealed off Salema Hospital and Lab, an illegal hospital, at Rayerbagh under Kadamtali police station in the city on Sunday. Four people, including a fake doctor couple, were also punished in this connection,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-14 00:00:00
BRAHMANBARIA, Dec 13: Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP) under Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) arranged a function of progressive farmers' exchange visit and knowledge sharing at Chatipara village of Gokarna union at Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria Thursday....
CHUADANGA, Dec 13 (BSS): Chuadang District Agricultural Extension Department has fixed target to cultivate wheat on 4, 605 hectares of land in the current Rabi cultivation season in all the four upazilas of the district. The four upazilas of the...
KHULNA, Dec 13 (UNB): Aiming to elevate Khulna region to a modern one, the Khulna Development Authorities (KDA) has taken up 24 mega projects to carry out far-reaching development. Apart from remodeling Khulna city, the schemes are targeted to develop...
GOPALGANJ, Dec 13 (UNB): A schoolteacher was hacked to death allegedly by her drug addict stepson in Kashiani upazila headquarters on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Shipra Rani Das, 35, wife of Manoj Kumar Mandal. Manir Hossain, officer-in-charge...
RU Correspondent | 2014-12-14 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Dec 13: The 5-day long Victory Day 2nd inter-hall debate competition began at Rajshahi University (RU) Friday. RU Students Affairs Advisor Prof Sadequl Arefin Matin inaugurated the contest around 10:00am at the university Shaheed Suhrawardy Hall. A total...
LAXMIPUR, Dec 13 (BSS): A total of 160 landless and river erosion affected families were rehabilitated on Friday in remote Char Abdullah Union under Ramgati Upzila of the district. Local administration sources said 32 barracks were erected at a cost...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 13 (BSS): Ensuring proper education for the ethnic people living in plain land has become indispensable for their substantial and sustainable socio-economic development and empowerment, discussants said here today. They viewed that elevation of living and livelihood condition...
Three held with Yaba in Faridpur Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested three drug peddlers along with 610 pieces of contraband yaba tablets from two places of Faridpur Friday. The arrested were identified as Md Ashraf...
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