KABUL, Nov 13 (BSS/AFP): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will make his first state visit to neighbouring Pakistan Friday, seeking to improve ties that are crucial to his hopes of reviving Taliban peace talks as US troops end their 13-year war....
JERUSALEM, Nov 13 (BSS/AFP): US Secretary of State John Kerry is set for talks Thursday with the Palestinian leader on easing regional tensions, after Israel approved new settler homes in east Jerusalem despite mounting unrest. The new settlement construction was...
NEW DELHI, Nov 13 AFP/BSS: An Indian military court has sentenced seven soldiers to life in prison for killing three Kashmiri youths in a rare ruling against the army, the tense region's top official said Thursday. Kashmir Chief Minister Omar...
RAIPUR, India, Nov 13 (BSS/AFP): An Indian doctor who conducted mass sterilisations that killed 13 women has been taken into custody, after saying he was being made a scapegoat for a controversial family planning scheme. R K Gupta was detained...
A mobile court unearthed a fake medicine factory and sentenced its owner and two managers to different jail terms in the city’s Matuail area on Thursday. They also seized 5,900 bottles of fake medicines from the factory. The factory was...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Thursday raised questions about the authenticity of TIB’s recent report on widespread graft in the country’s health sector, saying it was not prepared based on facts. Nasim was talking to reporters after a meeting at...
Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Thursday said the government is prioritising the development of renewable energy as part of a strategy to put in place an energy-mix system to create a balance in the total power generation. He...
A daylong hartal, enforced by Parbatya Jubo Front, a platform of Pahari Bangali youths demanding the release of three forest officials kidnapped from Langadu on November 6, passed off peacefully in Rangamati district on Thursday, according to a news agency.
Police on Thursday confirmed that they recovered the body of a missing crew of lighterage vessel ‘Karnaphuli-5’ from the Monpura upazila of Bhola district. The deceased was identified as Sheikh Enamul Haque Mukit, son of Mominul Sheikh of Attail village...
United States Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charlers Rivkin had a meeting with Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque at the Foreign Ministry on Thursday. During the hour-long meeting, they discussed different bilateral issues, said a ministry...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with her party’s standing committee members Thursday night to work out the next course of action and finalise their decisive movement strategy. The meeting began around 9:25pm at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan...
Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu on Thursday said there is no alternative to empowerment of women and building a non-communal society, free of inequitable elements. The minister was speaking at an international seminar on women's empowerment at Hotel Lake Shore...
Over 100 students continued their hunger strike at the Central Shaheed Minar for the second day on Thursday demanding the withdrawal of the Dhaka University (DU) authorities’ decision not to allow them to sit for its admission test twice. Eight...
Bangladesh has told the European Union (EU) to exercise “greater caution” in issuing statements on Bangladesh’s war crimes verdicts. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday said he was aware of the EU had a global position against the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-13 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Nov 12: Cultivation of Napier grass, an animal feed, is gaining popularity in different upazilas in Rangpur district as the farmers are getting financially benefited through its cultivation. A good number of growers have engaged in commercial cultivation of...
SATKHIRA, Nov 12 (UNB): Police arrested three Bangladeshi students receiving education in India from Laxmidari border point in Sadar upazila Tuesday while they were returning home from that country illegally. The arrestees were identified as Abdur Rahim,27, son of Abdul...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-13 00:00:00
MAGURA, Nov 12: A man was killed and 20 others were injured in a road accident in Magura on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Muktar Hossain (45), son of Younus Mia of Chandipur village in Jhenidah district. Sub-inspector...
NARAYANGANJ, Nov 12 (UNB): A Narayanganj court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing a schoolboy seven years back. The condemned convict was identified as Mohammad Ali Babu. Justice Miaji Shahidul Alam Chowdhury Narayanganj no 2 additional district...
MANIKGANJ, Nov 12 (BSS): The cultivation in the sandy fallow lands in the newly reclaimed char areas of the district is getting attractive to the farmers day by day. The cultivators of the area are getting additional crops from those...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-13 00:00:00
PABNA, Nov 12: Miscreants cut down around two bighas of papaya plants at an orchard over previous enmity in Protappur village under Himayeetpur union in Pabna Sadar Upazila of Pabna district Tuesday night. Orchard owners former union member Monzur Ali...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-13 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Nov 12: In observance of the 167th birth anniversary of poet Mir Mosharrof Hossain, a 3-day function has been organised at his birthplace at Lahinipara village home under Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia. The function will feature discussions on the...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 12 (BSS): Speakers at a function said rats damage around 1.5 million tonnes of food-grains every year affecting food production seriously and hampering the government's food security efforts. "A female rat can give birth 8-10 times a year...
FARIDPUR, Nov 12 (BSS): A view exchange meeting of the judiciary, lawyers and Bangladesh Legal Aid Services Trust (BLAST), Faridpur chapter to expedite legal aid services was held on Tuesday evening at a local restaurant. The meeting organized by BLAST...
PANCHAGARH, Nov 12 (BSS): The harvesting of transplanted Aman paddy began in five upazilas of the district. According to sources, harvesting of paddy began in the last week and till today 20 percent of paddy has already been harvested. Department...
Man commits suicide in Benapole A man allegedly committed suicide over a family feud at Gitapara village near Benapole port on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Sohrab Hossain, 45, son of Abdur Rehman, a resident of the same...
FE Report | 2014-11-13 00:00:00
Prices of riverine fish have reduced notably in the last 10 days, thanks to an increase in supply, traders said. Indigenous fish of river, haor and beels such as Hilsa, Boal, Pabda, Tengra, Golsha, Aair, Puti, Darikana, Batashi, Baila, shrimp,...
RANGPUR, Nov 12 (BSS): The government has fixed a record target of producing over 18.9 million (1.89 crore) tonnes of clean Boro rice from 0.47 million (4.78 lakh) hectares of land in the country during the current winter season, official...
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