Singapore star warned over night out SINGAPORE, Oct 30: Singapore's rising swim star Joseph Schooling has been given a warning after a late night out during the Asian Games in South Korea. The 19-year-old butterfly gold-medallist and his team-mates Teo...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Forest Ministry on Thursday recommended effective steps be taken to stop production, marketing and use of polythene. It suggested the ministry to conduct a drive against polythene with the help of Rab and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday termed her just-concluded UAE tour very successful in all considerations saying that the visit has created the prospect of opening up the labour market afresh for Bangladeshis in the oil rich country. “I’ve had...
RANGPUR, Oct 29 (BSS): Experts at a farmers' field day have stressed for expanded cultivation of short duration BINA dhan7 to increasing rice output for ensuring food security amid adverse impacts of climate change and enhancing crop intensity. Because of...
GAIBANDHA, Oct 29 (BSS): Sale of quality seeds of different Boro varieties has increased during the past couple of weeks due to its fair prices. Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) sources said the BADC sales centres have witnessed a sharp...
LALMONIRHAT, Oct 28 (UNB): A tribunal here on Tuesday sentenced two men to life term imprisonment for sexually harassing a minor girl. The convicts were identified as Shyamol Chandra,30, son of Jitendranath Roy, and his uncle Debendra Chandra Roy, 46,...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 29 (BSS): Women from different professions demanded full implementation of the amended Tobacco Control Act, 2013 to protect many people, especially women and children from passive-smoking. They viewed women and children are very much vulnerable to indirect smoking...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Oct 29: A day long seminar on tax justice issue for grassroot campaigners was held in Nilphamari on Tuesday. Held in the conferrence room of NGO Supath, the semimar was organised by Supro, a national NGO and was participated...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 29 (BSS): Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) will construct a rubber dam on the Mohananda River, which will be dredged in Chapainawabganj, BWDB sources said. A proposal has already been sent to the Executive Committee of the National...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Oct 29: A minor boy was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Chandradighalia bus stand under Gopalganj Sadar of the district yesterday (Tuesday). The deceased was identified as Munna (8), son of Monu Molla of village...
FARIDPUR, Oct 29 (BSS): National Sanitation month -2014, a part of the national programme to create awareness about sanitation and hygiene factors among people, was observed here yesterday in a befitting manner. District administration and Department of Public Health Engineering...
One gets life in prison for patricide A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his father in Chhatak upazila in Sunamganj 18 years back. The convict is Abdul Mumin, a resident of Chhanua village...
BNP on Thursday alleged that the government has undermined the country’s independence by adopting a knee-jerk foreign policy and signing secret deals. “The current regime that usurped power through a voter-less election has weakened democracy, voting right, parliament and the...
LONDON, Oct 29 (agencies): Zambian Vice-President Guy Scott has been named acting leader following the death of President Michael Sata. Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, Defence Minister Edgar Lungu said. Mr Scott...
COLOMBO, Oct 29 (AP): A mudslide triggered by monsoon rains buried scores of workers' houses at a tea estate in central Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and leaving more than 250 missing, officials said. The mudslide...
An unmanned supply rocket bound for the International Space Station has exploded shortly after its launch from the US state of Virginia, reports BBC. Antares, built by Orbital Sciences Corp, combusted seconds after leaving the seaside launch pad at Wallops...
HONG KONG, Oct 29 (Reuters): A member of China's central bank's advisory body warned on Wednesday that Beijing will punish Hong Kong if pro-democracy protests that have paralyzed parts of the Chinese-controlled financial center for a month are allowed to...
BAGHDAD, Oct 29 (Reuters): Iraqi peshmerga fighters arrived in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday en route for the Syrian town of Kobani to try to help fellow Kurds break an Islamic State siege which has defied U.S.-led air strikes. Kobani, nestled...
Amnesty International (AI) has urged the government of Bangladesh to overturn the death sentence against Motiur Rahman Nizami and all others saying that his death sentence for war crimes will not bring justice to the millions of victims of the...
LONDON, Oct 29 (AFP): World oil prices rallied on Wednesday, while OPEC secretary-general Abdullah El-Badri insisted that recent sharp falls for crude futures were not justified in terms of demand and supply. Addressing the Oil & Money Conference-a key annual...
The bodies of three Bangladesh nationals killed by Indian civilians in Tripura were handed over to Bangladesh border guards in Habiganj on Thursday evening. Second-in-command of Teliamora camp of Indian Border Security Force Birendra Vajpayee handed the bodies over to...
TOKYO, Oct 29 (AFP): Japan's September factory production posted its biggest rise in eight months, official data showed Wednesday, but the news failed to dispel doubts about the strength of the wider economy following a recent string of weak figures....
Abu Ahmed | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh is, perhaps, the only country in the world which does not have any Free Trade Agreement with important trading countries. Countries around the world have dozens of free trade agreements among themselves just to do more trade and receive...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-10-30 00:00:00
The latest: the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its 2014 global growth forecast to 3.3 per cent from 3.4 per cent, the third reduction this year as the prospects for a sustainable recovery from the 2007-2009 global financial crisis...
Since when have highway robberies stopped making news? No, such crimes committed at dead of night on highways do not go altogether unreported. If the bandits use lethal weapons or firearms to leave a few passengers dead or wounded, the...
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