RANGPUR, Nov 17 (BSS): Speakers at a day-long nutrition fair today stressed for ensuring child nutrition for their proper physical, mental and psycho-social growth through using locally available food ingredient instead of procuring from market. Fulbari Area Development Programme (ADP)...
FARIDPUR, Nov 17 (BSS): An extensive Rabi crop cultivation programme has been taken up in the district by the Department of Agricultural Extension(DAE) in the ensuing Rabi season to meet the requirements of district particularly the winter vegetable which has...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 17 (BSS): Conservation of natural resources has become an urgent task for addressing the adverse impacts of climate change that has been acknowledged as a major threat to the region in the present context, scientists and researchers say....
JAMALPUR, Nov 17 (BSS): Jamalpur Railway Police recovered a body of an unidentified man aged about 40, from beside the railway track in Jamalpur sadar upazila of the district today. According to Railway Police sources, local people found the body...
Robbers loot two houses in Satkhira Robbers looted cash, motorbike, gold ornaments and other valuables from two houses at Dhandia village in Patkelghata in Satkhira on Sunday. Local people said a gang of 10-12 armed robbers broke into the house...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the jail authorities to impart prisoners with proper training for their correction and make them worthy citizens of the country. In a message marking Prison Week-2014, the premier said, "Do not consider jails...
SYDNEY, Nov 17 (AFP): Chinese President Xi Jinping Monday vowed never to use force to achieve Beijing's goals, including in maritime disputes, just days after US President Barack Obama warned of the dangers of outright conflict in Asia. In an...
MOSCOW, Nov 17 (AFP): Russia expelled several Polish diplomats for spying on Monday, deepening the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War as the EU eyed fresh sanctions against Moscow over the violence in Ukraine. Fresh bloodshed in Ukraine between...
SYDNEY, Nov 17 (AFP): Thousands of rapturous supporters Monday flocked to hear a public address by Narendra Modi on the first visit by an Indian prime minister to Australia in 28 years, many declaring their love for him. Modi, who...
KATHMANDU, Nov 17 (AFP): Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rejected the use of a bulletproof car provided by rival India for next week's summit of South Asian leaders in Kathmandu, a Nepalese official said Monday. Sharif "will be bringing...
The National Garment Workers Federation has demanded the reopening of the closed Hamim Sportswear and permission to form a trade union.The federation and workers raised the demand at a press conference Tuesday at its Topkhana central office. The Federation has...
KABUL, Nov 17 (AP): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has missed his own deadline for naming a Cabinet as he undertakes a major overhaul of his country's government, which officials and analysts say has long suffered from a focus on patronage...
BEIRUT, Nov 17 (agencies): The killing of US aid worker Peter Kassig has sparked global horror, with President Barack Obama condemning his beheading by the Islamic State jihadist group as "an act of pure evil". Kassig's family said it was...
Baghdad car bombs kill at least 12 BAGHDAD, Nov 17: Two car bombs exploded in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 12 people and wounding at least 29, security and medical officials said. One exploded on a main...
Three of the suspected militants included in the search list of Indian National Intelligence Agency (NIA) in connection with Burdwan bomb blast are also being hunted by Bangladeshi agencies in connection with the police killing in Trishal, Mymensingh. Joint commissioner...
Police have detained a female student of Rajshahi University (RU) from the house of the slain teacher Professor AKM Shafiul Islam. The woman was found inside the sociology department teacher's locked house in Chouddapai area, adjacent to the university campus,...
John O\'Donnell of Reuters in Frankfurt | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
As large parts of Europe's economy grind almost to a halt, attention will focus this week on the latest assessments of business confidence in the euro zone and Germany, which has just narrowly avoided a recession. While the United States...
The visiting India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigators handed over a list of 11 trans-boundary militant to Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Tuesday evening. "The NIA handed over a list of 11 absconding trans-boundary militants to us while we gave them...
Frank Jack Daniel and Rupam Jain Nair of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
Anil Swarup is just the kind of man Prime Minister Narendra Modi is relying on to fix India - a high-flying civil servant with a taste for complex policy and swift decisions. Modi has drawn trusted bureaucrats into a tight...
A local activist of Awami League (AL) was found dead on Link Road in Cox’s Bazar district town on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Solaiman Dhalu, 45, son of late Anwar of Jhilangja Dakhin Mouhiripara in the town, according...
Gerry Shih of Reuters in Beijing | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
China should support its e-commerce industry with preferential policies, given the role it plays in stimulating domestic consumption and economic growth, China's State Council said in a paper released this week. The State Council's explicit support for the e-commerce industry...
Veteran sports commentator of Radio and Television Monjur Hasan Mintu passed away at the age of 78 away at Joypur in India on Tuesday evening, said a release by Bangladesh Sports Commentators’ Forum. Mintu along with his wife was staying...
Mehreen Zahra-Malik of Reuters in Naudero, Pakistan | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
He was a 19-year-old Oxford undergraduate when his family named him chairman of Pakistan's oldest dynastic party. In the years that followed, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, now 26, has been groomed to take over the dynasty and bring his family's political...
FE Report | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks Monday ended in red despite some mid-cap and large-cap companies registered favourable earnings in the latest quarter. Experts, however, said the market remains in a 'sustainable' level and there is nothing to be worried. "Market sometimes faces correction...
FE Report | 2014-11-18 00:00:00
Xpress Money, a global money transfer company, has taken a set of initiatives, including expansion of its network and establishment of migrant training center in 2015, in order to foster the remittance inflow through legal channels in Bangladesh. Under its...
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