US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal arrives in Dhaka on Thursday on a 3-day visit. During the visit, she will have meetings with high-level officials of the government and leaders of labour,...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday told his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina that his government is vigourously working to sign Teesta water-sharing deal and implement the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA). Modi informed Prime Minister Hasina of the efforts to...
Firefighters tamed the fire which broke out at a bicycle factory in Tejgaon Induatrial Area in the city on Wednesday afternoon. However, no casualty was reported in the devastating fire that gutted bicycles, cycle parts and cycle-making materials worth millions...
Zimbabwe struggled to 148 after losing 7 wickets as they were chasing a target of 298 in the 3rd match of the 5-match ODI series in Mirpur on Wednesday. Earlier, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza struck twice to trigger collapse in Zimbabwe...
The 18th Saarc Summit has been adjourned till Thursday without any deals being signed. There was a slot for singing agreements at 12:35pm, but the chair of the summit Nepal Prime Minister Sushil Koirala adjourned the 2-day meet until Thursday....
About one month has elapsed since the grid failure that plunged the entire Bangladesh into an unprecedented blackout, the reason behind the massive outage could not be known yet. However, the government says the causes of the worst blackout will...
Bangladesh clinched the five-match Bashundhara Cement ODI series beating Zimbabwe by 124 runs in the third match at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur Wednesday. Chasing a target of mammoth 298 runs, the visiting side were bundled out for 173...
Those wishing to perform Hajj next year have to now complete all formalities seven months before their departure. The compliance including the payment of of the money has to be wrapped up by January as the Saudi government has brought...
FERGUSON: Protest marches sprang up across the United States on Tuesday, and police battled to stifle another night of unrest in Ferguson, ground zero of America’s latest racially-charged riots. Violence erupted in the St Louis, Missouri suburb for a second...
Hostilities between rivals India and Pakistan Wednesday threatened to scupper efforts by South Asian leaders to boost trade among almost a quarter of the world's people, throwing into doubt any prospect of a regional customs union. India and Pakistan have...
A court in Dhaka on Wednesday ordered the exhumation of the body of Nayar Sultana, a popular child actress in the 1980s as Tuni, for a fresh postmortem. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha passed the order following a petition...
The train communications of Chittagong with the rest of the country resumed on Wednesday night, four hours after a suspension following the derailment of a freight train in Sadar upazila of Comilla, according to a news agency.
HONG KONG:Hong Kong police cleared activists from one of the largest protest sites in the city on Wednesday and arrested Joshua Wong and Lester Shum, two of the student leaders at the heart of the pro-democracy movement that has shaken...
The government in the first four months (Jul-Oct) of the current financial year (FY15) has borrowed less money from banking system and paid back more to make the banks capable more in strengthening private sector credit growth. The government during...
BEIRUT: Lebanese singer and actress Sabah, an icon of Arab music, died Wednesday after a career that spanned over six-decades, Lebanese media said. She was 87. The diva was famous across the Arab world for her powerful voice, musical talent...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 25 (BSS): Farmers in the Hard Barind area comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainwabgonj districts need time-fitting training and motivation on how to cultivate more less-irrigated crops to lessen the existing pressure on groundwater, speakers at a training session...
Divisional and district branches of all state-run and private banks will remain open this Saturday (Nov 29) to allow people to submit their income tax returns. Bangladesh Bank in a circular asked the chief executives to keep the banks open...
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MAGURA, Nov 25: Muktokantho, a cultural organisation, in Magura staged four shows of street drama 'Alo Adharer Galpo' on Sunday and Monday at different places in Magura. Save The Children in association with advertising firm Mattra staged the drama shows...
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NILPHAMARI, Nov 25: Filarial hospital of Syedpur in Nilphamari district established by Institute of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Bangladesh (IACIB) is suffering from acute financial crisis. The lone hospital in the world stands in the northern end of Syedpur municipality....
GOPALGANJ, Nov 25 (UNB): A suspected robber was killed and three others injured in a mob attack at Shuktail village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rahim Sarder, 40, a resident of Puronu Bazar area of...
United Nations human rights investigators called on President Barack Obama to live up to principles preached by the United States around the world and release a long completed report on CIA interrogation methods. In an open letter issued in Geneva,...
RANGPUR, Nov 25 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong training course have stressed for ensuring proper utilisation of the water bodies, involving the real fishermen, to increase fish production for meeting nutritional demand and cutting poverty rate. They were addressing concluding...
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GOPALGANJ, Nov 25: The farmers in all five upazilas of Gopalganj district are busy preparing their seedbeds to grow healthy seedlings for Boro paddy cultivation during the current Boro season. According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Gopalganj about...
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TANGAIL, Nov 25: People of the villages and towns are rushing to warm clothes markets everyday in different areas as the temperature is falling gradually in the district. Normally winter comes to the area in middle of November or early...
CHUADANGA, Nov 25 (BSS): Speakers at a wheel chair distribution ceremony have stressed to ensure social dignity, rights and honour of the disabled people through flourishing their talents. They were addressing a wheel chair distribution ceremony arranged by a local...
5 shops gutted by fire in Magura A devastating fire gutted 5 shops in Puratan bazar area of Magura town Monday night. Magura fire service station officer Moniruzzaman said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a Pial...
Chief Justice (CJ) Mozammel Hossain on Wednesday asked the judges and lawyers to put their best efforts for quick disposal of all old pending cases for welfare of the litigants. Exchanging views with lawyers at a function in Barisal after...
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