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Edn rights for disabled children urged

2014-12-08 00:00:00

GAIBANDHA, Dec 7 (BSS): Speakers at a function here yesterday stressed the need for ensuring the rights of education and other existing facilities of the state for the children with disability to enable them to live a decent life. "Right...

Magura-Free Day observed

Our Correspondent | 2014-12-08 00:00:00

MAGURA, Dec 7: Magura-Free Day was observed on Sunday. Muktijodha Shangshad Magura district unit took different programmes to observe the day. A rally was brought in the town in morning. Katerthey arranged a discussion meeting at Ashaduzzaman auditorium. Bangladesh Red...

Teenage girl commits suicide in Sylhet

2014-12-08 00:00:00

SYLHET, Dec 7 (UNB): A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with the ceiling of her room at Alir village in Goainghat upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Arina Begum,16, daughter of Junab Ali, a resident...

12 arrested while crossing Putkhali border into India

2014-12-08 00:00:00

BENAPOLE, Dec 7 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 12 people while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Saturday night. Samsur Rahman, camp in-charge of Putkhali BGB Battalion-23, said being tipped off that...

Poor families get help in C\\\'nawabganj

2014-12-08 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Dec 7 (BSS): More than 50 poor and distressed households, who were affected by flood and river erosion, received goat, sheep and wheat seeds for improving their living and livelihood condition in Char Narayanpur area under Sadar Upazila of...

News in brief

2014-12-08 00:00:00

2 youths jailed in Jessore drugs case A mobile court in Jessore on Saturday night sentenced two young men to six months' imprisonment each for taking and peddling drugs. The convicts were identified as Raju,20, son of Bablur Rahman, and...

Photo: JHALAKATHI: Villagers catching small fishes

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Photo: MUNSHIGANJ: A farmhand spraying water on a field

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Photo: ASHULIA: Playful boys having a good time

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Bangladesh to buy 60,000 tonnes of gasoil from Turkey in 2015

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Turkish Petroleum International Company is to supply Bangladesh with 60,000 tonnes of gasoil in 2015 for the first time to meet growing demand for fuel, the chairman of the state Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC) said Sunday, reports Reuters. Last month,...

Olive oil apocalypse as fly drives up price of extra virgin

2014-12-08 00:00:00

FIESOLE, Italy, Dec 7 (AFP): New research from Harvard University suggests it could put years on your life. But a Mediterranean diet rich in pungent olive oil does not come cheap, and it is just about to get a lot...

Gold slides after US payrolls data beats forecasts

2014-12-08 00:00:00

NEW YORK/LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters): Gold fell more than 1 per cent on last week, after US November non-farm payrolls data beat forecasts, fueling expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates sooner rather than later and lifting the...

Photo: Labour and Employment Ministry Secretary Mikail Shipar addressing

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Photo: Winne Electro Company Limited

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Typhoon sweeps across Philippines

2014-12-08 00:00:00

LEGASPI, Dec 7 (agencies): Typhoon Hagupit is sweeping across the eastern Philippines, toppling trees and power lines and threatening coastal areas with a powerful sea-surge. More than half a million people have fled coastal villages in the area, which was...

US protests turn violent

2014-12-08 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Dec 7 (AFP): Police clashed with protesters in California on the fourth night of demonstrations across the United States against recent killings of African American suspects by white police in the United States. Protesters in Berkeley, California, threw...

US bid to rescue hostages in Yemen : Toll rises to 13

2014-12-08 00:00:00

SANA, Dec 7 (Reuters):  A woman, a 10-year-old boy and a local al Qaeda leader were among at least 11 people killed alongside two Western hostages when U.S.-led forces battled militants in a failed rescue mission in Yemen, residents said...

Pakistan aiming for jet boost to defence exports

2014-12-08 00:00:00

KARACHI, Dec 7 (AFP): A revamped version of Pakistan's JF-17 jet fighter took centre stage at a defence exhibition in Karachi this week as the restive nuclear-armed state looks to boost its role as a military exporter on the world...

New massacre leaves 14 dead in DR Congo

2014-12-08 00:00:00

GOMA, Dec 7 (AP): Suspected Ugandan rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have killed 14 people with machetes and axes, authorities said Sunday, despite efforts by the army and UN peacekeepers to stop such massacres. The overnight attack in...

news digest

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Maldives leader cuts short tour to tackle water crisis MALE, Dec 7: Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen cut short his trip to Malaysia to deal with a drinking water crisis in the honeymoon islands' capital that triggered unrest on the streets,...

Photo: CHINA : Demonstrators speak to a police officer

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Photo: FRANCE : Charlotte Casiraghi, niece of Prince Albert II of Monaco

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Bangladesh emerge unbeaten champs

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Hosts Bangladesh clinched the Islami Bank Men's Junior AHF Cup Hockey crown with all-win record beating Oman 4-0 goals in the final match at Maulana Bhashani National Stadium in the city Sunday, reports UNB. With the day's result, Bangladesh earned...

Abahani retain second slot

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Abahani Ltd retained the second slot beating Brothers Union by 69 runs in the Walton Dhaka Metropolis Premier Division Cricket League at Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium in Fatullah Sunday, reports UNB. After the 9th round matches, Prime Bank Cricket...

Cricketer Zaheer dies

2014-12-08 00:00:00

Former cricketer Ahsan Zaheer has died at the age of 60, reports Cricinfo. Zaheer's hundred for Barisal against Comilla in the National Cricket Championship final in 1975 made him the first batsman to score a century in a competitive match...

bKash agent robbed of Tk 9 million in Dhaka

2014-12-07 00:00:00

Muggers have snatched Tk 9 million from a bKash agent at gunpoint in Dhaka's Mirpur, police say. Rupnagar Police Station Sub-Inspector Motlubur Rahman said several youths attacked a car carrying a bKash agent and a mobile phone company staff in...

Preventive measures may remove unethical practices in exams

Md Bayazid Khan | 2014-12-07 00:00:00

Bangladesh has been providing huge facilities for education of the students. Some good efforts of the government towards building educated nation are initiatives like supplying free books to primary and secondary level students, ensuring free education for girls, implementing free...

Inclusive education: Where are we?

Masum Billah | 2014-12-07 00:00:00

When a school welcomes all students irrespective of their caste, creed, colour, religion, ethnicity and country and they are allowed to participate in all aspects of school life we can call that the school offers inclusive education to the students....

Correction

2014-12-07 00:00:00

In last week’s Education page, the first paragraph of the article ‘Let us listen to respected teacher economist  Nurul Islam’ by Muhammad Quamrul Islam contained  a sentence: I remember how he taught us circular flow of economy in 1st year...

\\\'Conservation agriculture\\\' thru IDE instruments highlighted

Our Correspondent | 2014-12-07 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Dec 6: A field day workshop and exchange of opinion on 'Conservation Agriculture' was held at Kashipur Government School playground at Alipur under Durgapur upazila on Friday morning. Speakers in the workshop emphasised on the way of increasing over-all...