Minor boy drowns in pond in Rajshahi A minor boy drowned in a pond at Ayra village in Tanor upazila of Rajshahi Saturday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mahmud,5, son of Khabir Uddin, a teacher of Mundumala Dakhil Madrasah....
NEW DELHI, Nov 9 (agencies): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday expanded his council of ministers inducting 21 new faces, keeping in view of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s political calculations in the states and balancing the regional aspirations. Although...
DONETSK, Nov 9 (Reuters): Heavy shelling around the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk increased strains on a two-month-old ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists on Sunday. Reuters reporters in rebel-held Donetsk said shelling by heavy artillery continued throughout...
MUSCAT, Nov 9 (Reuters): Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif began talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union envoy Catherine Ashton in Oman on Sunday to try to advance efforts to end a standoff over Tehran's...
CATALONIA, Nov 9 (Reuters): The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain are voting in an informal poll on independence. The Spanish judiciary has ruled the vote unconstitutional but Catalan leader Artur Mar warned against any attempt to disrupt it. Spain's...
BERLIN, Nov 9 (agencies): The fall of the Berlin Wall has shown the world that dreams can come true and "nothing has to stay as it is", German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. Speaking 25 years after the event, Mrs...
India army says sorry over teenager deaths in Kashmir NEW DELHI Nov 9: The Indian army has issued an unusual apology for shooting dead two teenage boys in Indian-administered Kashmir. The army says it made a mistake in firing at...
A 53-member contingent will represent Bangladesh in the 4th Asian Beach Games to be held in the Thai tourist town of Phuket on November 14-23, reports UNB. The first batch of the Bangladesh contingent with some 30 athletes and officials...
ABU DHABI, Nov 9 (AFP): Opener Ahmed Shehzad hit a brilliant hundred to steer Pakistan to 269-1 at close on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Shehzad was 126 not out...
BARCELONA, Nov 9 (AP/UNB): Luis Suarez set up two late goals to help Barcelona earn a 2-1 comeback victory at Almeria and break a two-game losing run in the Spanish league, while Cristiano Ronaldo scored again as Real Madrid stayed...
SYDNEY, Nov 9 (AFP/BSS): Australia won a thrilling final Twenty20 international against South Africa by two wickets with one ball to spare to take the series in Sydney on Sunday. Cameron White steered the Australians home with an unbeaten 41...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, Nov 9 (BSS/AFP): Manager Louis van Gaal believes Manchester United's chances of finishing in the Premier League top four remain in their own hands after they returned to winning ways against Crystal Palace. United recorded a victory...
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 9 (BSS/AFP): Lee Chong Wei's long reign over badminton's world rankings has made him one of Asia's biggest sports stars, despite his frustrating failure to win major titles. The 32-year-old Malay-sian's quiet and self-effacing manner have helped...
Rajshahi, Satkhira DSAs move to final round Rajshahi and Satkhira DSA advanced to the final round of the ATN Bangla Gold Cup National Hockey Tournament as group champions after eliminating their respective rivals in the day's matches at the Rajshahi...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-11-10 00:00:00
Farmers in eight districts of Rangpur division hope to reap considerable profit from early variety of potato driven by demand. The variety is set to hit the market in a week, farmers said. The price of stored granola variety of...
DUBAI, Nov. 9 (BSS/Xinhua): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be able to tackle the fall in oil prices as the Gulf Arab state moves forward to diversify its economy away from oil further, said the UAE minister of economy...
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters): Morrisons, Britain's No. 4 grocer, posted another big fall in quarterly underlying sales, as competition from discounters and a move to cut prices compounded the weak overall food market. The Bradford, northern England, based group, which...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-11-10 00:00:00
Recognition of Palestine as an independent State, the negotiating process associated with the two-State theory and holding Israel responsible for creating challenges within this dynamics have been in the focus of international interest for the last three weeks. There has...
Abu Afsarul Haider | 2014-11-10 00:00:00
Those who are reading this article, just for a moment imagine yourself of not having enough money to feed and clothe your family, not able to send your children to school for education or send them to hospital when they...
The government's decision to build 550 more cyclone shelters is a step in the right direction. According to experts, the country's coastal area needs 6,000 such shelters. Currently, there exist 3,751 of them. While meeting the high-level officials of the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-11-10 00:00:00
The government is a mammoth entity having a large array of organs, big and small. Each of these organs is primarily designed to serve certain purpose/s. Some of these organs prove to be useful and some others fail to perform...
Neil Ray | 2014-11-10 00:00:00
Songs and music have a universal appeal. Their different genres at different times of human history flourished in some select locations. If Vienna saw the rise of Western classical music at its pinnacle between 1780 -1827, courtesy of Hayden, Mozart...
Nadia Afrin has become the new title holder of the Lux channel I 2014 and I am sure we are witnessing another star in the making. It is one of the most prestigious awards a Bangladeshi girl aspiring to work...
According to a report published by a Washington-based organization, Bangladesh has fared better than many South Asian nations in the social progress index, which is a great piece of news for us. Bangladesh has done commendably well in reducing child...
Frequency of fluctuation is the root cause of cascading power failures, sometimes resulting in a blackout. The frequency for all alternating current (AC) supplies in most countries in Asia and elsewhere is 50 cycles per second. In Bangladesh, unfortunately this...
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