Bangladeshi Muslim devotees intending to perform hajj next year will have to register their names online from December 15 to January 30, according to a government decision. The decision came from an inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Religious Affairs Minister Principal...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-05 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Dec 4: The cultivators of early variety of potato in Rangpur division are optimistic of attaining a good yield during the current season as a congenial weather condition has been prevailing in the region. With the hope to earn...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 4 (BSS): Speakers at a post-rally discussion here yesterday underscored the need for ensuring congenial atmosphere to make an end to repression and discrimination against the persons with disabilities to enable them leading a decent life. Terming the...
FENI, Dec 4 (UNB): A constable of traffic police was killed as a truck crashed into him on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in the district town on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Mainul Hossain, 50. Sources at the highway...
NETRAKONA, Dec 4 (BSS): A unique glorious episode was added to the history of war by seven valiant freedom fighters on July 26, 1971 accelerating the pace of freeing the country from the Pakistani occupation forces. Nazirpur Bazaar, a riverine...
RU Correspondent | 2014-12-05 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Dec 4: After the Rajshahi University, the "Clean Campus, Save Campus" campaign began at the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology. The campaign started at 11:20 am yesterday in front of the RUET Shaheed Minar by university unit...
NAOGAON, Dec 4 (BSS): The cultivation of mustard is increasing in the district every year as farmers are earning good profit from the crops, said farmers and Department of Agricultural Extensions (DAE) in Naogaon. DAE sources said a total of...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 4 (BSS): Speakers at a training programme on Wednesday emphasized the need for cultivation of Boro paddy under Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) method which can save 30 to 35 percent irrigation water. Chapainawabganj district office of Barind...
JAMALPUR, Dec 4 (BSS): Seeds marketing, a wing of Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), has sold 4,813 tonnes of various kinds of seeds among the farmers in Jamalpur and Sherpur this current season. According to Seeds Marketing office, in the...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 4 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion on Wednesday emphasized the need for concerted efforts to root out social curses for building a peaceful society. They also underlined the importance of launching a social movement against curses such as...
Three muggers held with pistol in Magura Police arrested three alleged muggers in possession of one pistol, five rounds of bullet, cash Tk 16,000 and a motorcycle while fleeing after snatching valuables from a businessman at Sripur Bazar in Sripur...
LIMA, Dec 4 (AFP): This year may end as the hottest on record, the UN's weather agency said Wednesday as it recounted a tale of rising seas, crippling droughts and floods since January. "The year 2014 is on track to...
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 (AFP): India's new Hindu nationalist premier Narendra Modi on Thursday rejected angry calls to dismiss a government minister whose derogatory comment about religious minorities has caused uproar in parliament. India's upper house has been paralysed by...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4 (AFP): Ten Pakistani children have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood transfusions, officials said Thursday, in a "shocking" case highlighting the abysmal state of blood screening in the country. The children, aged five to sixteen,...
TOKYO, Dec 4 (AFP): Japan on Wednesday successfully launched a probe destined for a distant asteroid on a six-year mission, just weeks after a European spacecraft's historic landing on a comet. The explorer, Hayabusa 2, blasted off aboard Japan's main...
BANGKOK, Dec 4 (AP): Thai prosecutors say they have indicted two Myanmar migrant workers for the murder of two British tourists on a resort island. The bodies of David Miller, 24, and Hannah Witheridge, 23, were found Sept. 15 on...
BASEL, Switzerland, Dec 4 (AFP): Washington does not want to see Russia isolate itself "through its own actions," US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, calling on Moscow to help halt the raging Ukraine crisis. "The United States and...
US President Barack Obama nominated longtime Defence Department understudy Ashton Carter as his fourth defense secretary on Friday to replace Chuck Hagel, the lone Republican in Obama’s Cabinet, who resigned last week after disagreements with the White House. In Carter,...
One dead, eight injured in Pak blast QUETTA, Pakistan, Dec 4: A bomb in restive southwest Pakistan on Thursday killed at least one person and wounded eight others, including two schoolchildren, officials said. The blast on the outskirts of Quetta,...
FE Report | 2014-12-05 00:00:00
Prices of imported garlic increased on the spike in costs of import from China in the last two weeks, traders said. "The price of imported garlic increased by around $ 50 to $ 60 per tonne in the last two...
SINGAPORE, Dec 4 (AFP): Oil prices rose in Asia on Thursday after a dip in US crude stockpiles raised optimism about energy demand in the world's top crude consumer during the winter season, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate...
LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters): Iraq's plan for higher oil exports in 2015, emerging in detail just days after OPEC shunned any output cut, will add to global over supply and is likely to entrench the reluctance of other OPEC members...
SINGAPORE, Dec 4 (Reuters): Gold edged lower on Thursday as the metal's appeal as a hedge declined with the dollar trading at a 5-1/2-year high against basket of major currencies. Spot gold fell 0.2 per cent to $1,207.40 an ounce...
Noting that Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) is run by foreign financing, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday lamented the TIB has not yet spoken anything in favour of the country. He said this while talking to reporters after a meeting...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief the media on Friday on Bangladesh's achievements in the recently concluded SAARC summit and her visit to Malaysia. It will be held at her Ganabhaban residence at 4pm, said AKM Shamim Chowdhury, her press...
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