Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali has been moved to the Dhaka Central Jail in Old part of the city from Gazipur's Kashimpur central jail ahead of his war crimes case verdict. Quasem Ali, charged with crimes against humanity during the...
Approved application form for admission into MDS (evening) programme under department of Politics and Public Administration of Islamic University (IU) will be available from November 1. The process will be continued till November 20, a press release said. The applicant...
Sheikh Hasina might now prefer to advance her credentials as a wise, legitimate and moderate leader by leaving a tribunal to grind forward only very slowly. After all, she wants Bangladesh to bolster its international reputation, says the prestigious weekly...
Myanmar's president is holding rare roundtable talks with the opposition, military and ethnic groups, as the US called for "credible" polls next year. The meeting comes days after officials announced the next general election would be held in late 2015....
Railways Minister Mazibul Hoque has finally tied the knot at the age of 67. The marriage took place at bride Honufa Akter Rikta's village home in Comilla's Chandina Friday afternoon. Siddiqur Rahman conducted the wedding ceremony. Hoque had described his...
Five members of banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including its chief coordinator Abdun Noor, have been arrested in Sirajganj, RAB says. The elite police unit's spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Hasan told bdnews24.com the militants were detained from a railway...
Private Ntv has resumed its transmission five hours after it went off the air following a fire at multi-storey BSEC Bhaban at Karwan Bazar where it is housed. But the viewers are still getting 'no signal' from Rtv, the other...
Twenty one lecturers of a college in Jessore’s Keshabpur Upazila have lost their job over forgery of teachers registration certificates. Besides, two teachers, along with the lecturers of Keshabpur Degree College, have also been suspended over the allegations of embezzling...
SYLHET: Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Friday the European Union’s opposition to death sentence awarded to war criminals would not affect its development assistance to Bangladesh. He came up with the remark while talking to reporters after attending a programme...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expects same tough stance from India as Bangladesh’s to combat terrorism. In an interview with Kolkata-based Anandabazar Patrika Friday, she said: “India needs to take action to destroy Bangladeshi militants operating from India much in the...
US- led air strikes hit Islamic State positions around the Syrian border town of Kobani Friday in an apparent bid to pave the way for heavily-armed Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces to enter from neighboring Turkey. The predominantly Kurdish town, besieged...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-31 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Oct 30: Some 8,417 tonnes of sugar worth about Tk 336.68 million are lying unsold for long at Setabganj Sugar Mills under Bochaganj upazila in Dinajpur district, causing financial difficulties to the mills authority. Arrangement of fund for making...
MANIKGANJ, Oct 30 (BSS): The use of compost fertilisers are gaining popularity among farmers in the district as they are being benefited by using the fertiliser. When contacted a number of cultivators, who are using compost fertilisers in their lands,...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 30 (BSS): Speakers at a post-rally discussion in Rajshahi emphasized the need for a positive attitude towards disabled persons for their rehabilitation in the society. They also underscored the need for ensuring congenial atmosphere to make an end...
NETRAKONA, Oct 30 (BSS): The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken massive programme to cultivate winter vegetables in all ten upazila of the district during the current winter season. The DAE sources said under the programme, a total of...
NARAIL, Oct 30 (BSS): One person was killed and 20 others were injured in a clash that erupted between two rival groups at Bashgram village under Sadar upazila of the district this morning. The deceased was Mohsin Shikder, 35, son...
SYLHET, Oct 30 (UNB): An automobile mechanic was crushed to death under a truck after the vehicle fell on him while he was repairing it at Gobindaganj on the Sylhet-Chhatak road in Chhatak upazila Wednesday. The deceased was identified as...
MAGURA, Oct 30 (BSS): At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Charjhama village under Mohammadpur upazila of the district this noon. Police said two groups of villagers, led by Enayet Mir and Tabibar...
JAMALPUR, Oct 30 (BSS): The Department of Agricultural under its post-flood rehabilitation programme distributed seeds and fertiliser among 15,700 poor and marginal farmers in seven upazilas of the district till October 30. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) distributed the seed...
Body of youth recovered in Magura Police recovered the body of a youth, hanging from a mango tree, in Nijnanduali-Modyapara area of Magura Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Sumon Biswas, 22, of the area. Being informed, a team...
YANGON, Oct 30 (BSS/AFP): Myanmar's president has called an unprecedented summit of army top brass and political rivals including Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party, politicians said Thursday, a year ahead of crucial elections. The talks, scheduled for Friday in...
OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 30 (BBC): Protesters angry at plans to allow Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule have set fire to parliament. The BBC's Laeila Adjovi in the capital, Ouagadougou, say the city hall and ruling party headquarters...
KOSLANDA, Oct 30 (Reuters): All hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light on Thursday, though a government minister cut the estimated death toll to more...
TUNIS, Oct 30 (Reuters): Tunisia's main secular party Nidaa Tounes won 85 seats in the new 217-member parliament in Sunday's election, while the Islamist party Ennahda secured 69 seats, according to results released by electoral authorities Thursday. Tunisians voted in...
BEIJING, Oct 30 (AP): China's Defence Ministry cautioned New Delhi on Thursday over Indian plans to construct 54 new border posts along an eastern stretch of their disputed frontier. Spokesman Yang Yujun said China urged India to do more to...
GUJARAT, Oct 30 (BBC): Authorities in India have began evacuating tens of thousands of people as a powerful cyclone heads for the western coast. Cyclone Nilofar, categorised as "severe" by weather forecasters, is expected to hit Gujarat state on Saturday...
Nobel laureate Malala to donate $50,000 to Gaza JERUSALEM, Oct 30: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is to donate $50,000 (39,000 euros) to help rebuild United Nations schools in Gaza, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency said...
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