Our Correspondent | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Oct 27: World Sight Day-2014 was observed in a befitting manner in Gopalganj today (Monday). Health Department, Gopalganj organised the programme with Md. Khalilur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (DC), Gopalganj as the chief guest. Dr. Sirajul Islam, Civil Surgeon (CS),...
RANGPUR, Oct 27 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong corruption prevention planning meeting have stressed for formulating time-befitting contents to provide training to the students in inspiring them against corruption for preventing the social curse. They put emphasis on educating the...
JHENIDAH, Oct 27 (BSS): At least two persons were killed and 40 others injured when a passenger bus and a banana loaded truck collided head-on at Ishwarba area on Kaliganj-Courtchandpur road under Kaliganj upazila here this noon. Police said Shirina...
Norwegian Ambassador in Dhaka Merete Lundemo met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. The nearly 50-minute meeting that began around 8:40pm was held at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office, according to a news agency.
SIRAJGANJ, Oct 27 (UNB): At least 25 people were injured, including four with bullets, in a clash between two rival groups of two villages in Shahjadpur upazila on Sunday morning. Quoting locals, police said people of Gopalpur and Charkoijury villages...
FARIDPUR, Oct 27 (BSS): Farmers of this district are expecting a good harvest of Aman paddy this season after it was cultivated on 39,022 hectors exceeding the target set by Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). According to a source of...
GAIBANDHA, Oct 27 (BSS): A total of 1,590 flood affected farmers of five upazilas of the district got seeds and fertilizers from the government last two days till Sunday free of cost to recover their losses caused by recent flood....
Outlaw suspect arrested in Bogra Police arrested an activist of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) from Ranirhat Bewarapara village in Sherpur upazila in Bogra on Sunday afternoon. The arrested was identified as Sayed Ali alias Kosai Sayed, 35, son...
Laura Noonan and Eva Taylor of Reuters in Frankfurt | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
Roughly one in five of the euro zone's top lenders failed landmark health checks at the end of last year but most have since repaired their finances, the European Central Bank said on Sunday. Painting a brighter picture than had...
Samuel Shen and Kazunori Takada of Reuters in Shanghai | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
Growth in China's auto market, the world's biggest, will halve to 7.0 per cent this year weighed down by a slowing economy, the head of an industry body said cost week. "Personally, I think growth this year can reach 7.0...
Suleiman Al-Khalidi of Reuters | 2014-10-28 00:00:00
Jordanian lender Arab Bank Group said its had begun legal steps to appeal a U.S. jury ruling which found it liable for financing Islamic militant group Hamas. The U.S. civil lawsuit brought against the Jordan-based bank has been described by...
A local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) man was chopped to death by unknown miscreants at Magura Govt College ground in Magura on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Rajon Khan, 25, a BCL activist of the college unit, according...
SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (agencies): Despite opposition from nearly half of Brazil's voters, leftist President Dilma Rousseff won re-election on Sunday and will have another four years to try to revive growth in a once-booming economy gone stagnant. The 66-year-old...
NEW DELHI, Oct 27 (AP): Authorities in India have alerted fishermen going out into the sea as a powerful cyclone is heading for the western coast. Cyclone Nilofar, categorised as "severe" by weather forecasters, is expected to hit the western...
JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (AP): Clashes erupted Sunday between Palestinian youths and Israeli forces at the West Bank funeral of a teenage boy killed by Israeli troops, as an Ecuadorean tourist died of wounds suffered in an attack last week by...
CANBERRA, Oct 27 (AP): Three men who attempted to enter Australia's Parliament House on Monday wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood, a niqab and a motorcycle helmet said they were unfairly treated under new regulations targeting Muslim face veils. The...
UKRAINE, Oct 27 (Reuters): Pro-Europe parties secured a big win in an election in Ukraine, a partial vote count showed on Monday, with President Petro Poroshenko hailing people's support for his plan to end a separatist war and pursue democratic...
The BNP-led 20-party has rescheduled its Thursday’s rally in Natore district for Saturday. “The 20-party’s rally in Natore will be held on Saturday instead of Thursday,” BNP chairperson’s press wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB on Tuesday night.
Feds raise concerns over states' Ebola quarantines WASHINGTON, Oct 27: The Obama administration said Sunday it has conveyed its concerns to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo about those states' mandatory Ebola quarantines. A senior...
Bangladesh raised the price the government will pay to farmers for the upcoming season's rice to 32 taka ($0.40) a kilogram, up from 30 taka a year ago, the food minister said on Monday, reports Reuters. The government will buy...
SINGAPORE, Oct 27 (Reuters): Gold steadied on Monday but failed to make any recovery from three straight days of losses as stronger global economic data and higher equities curbed the metal's safe-haven appeal. Asian equities rose on Monday, taking heart...
SINGAPORE, Oct 27 (AFP/BSS): Oil was mixed in Asian trade Monday but remained subdued with no signs the world's key crude producers will cut output in the face of a supply glut, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for...
Customs officials seized 45 gold bars weighing around 5 kg and arrested a passenger at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Tuesday. The arrestee was identified as Badiul Alam, 30, a resident of Rauzan upazila in the district, according...
A local Awami League (AL) leader was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants at Dublia Bazar in Sadar upazila of Pabna on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Iqbal Hossain, 45, president of ward-4 unit of Awami League under...
Food Minister Quamrul Islam told reporters Monday that Sri Lanka will buy rice from Bangladesh at $450 per tonne. Bangladesh had exported some aromatic rice before, but such a large quantity of non-aromatic variety would be sold for the first...
A Supreme Court lawyer was on Monday fined Tk 10,000 for disseminating wrong information to the media about a High Court interim order upon a writ petition relating to Ebola virus screening. An HC division bench comprising Justice Naima Haider...
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