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...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
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...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
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...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
After a stability of one and a half months, price of soybean oil, the most consumed kitchen item in the country after palm oil, increased significantly in last few days when the global price is almost on a static trend....
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures rose on Tuesday, pulling away from a near one-month low as jitters about a projected increase in crude palm oil production in November faded in the second half of the session....
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-11-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh has so far failed to tap the opportunity to increase its exports to Malaysia to minimise the existing massive trade gap for various reasons. The reasons include poor diplomatic efforts, absence of promotion of Bangladeshi products in Malaysia through...
The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager. Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on 9 August, sparking...
Observing that the biggest mistake of the previous BNP-Jamaat regime was to allow the large-scale use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in motor vehicles, State Minister for Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu on Tuesday said the present government wants to give...
The estranged wife of Indian PM Narendra Modi has raised concerns about her safety and asked for information about arrangements for her security. Jashodaben, a retired school teacher, filed a Right to Information (RTI) application to the state government in...
Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) have invented ‘lifesaving drone’ that can facilitate prompt rescue during marine vessel capsizes or fire incidents. The ‘lifesaving drones’ are specially designed to carry lifesaving equipment to the location of a...
Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Heather Cruden on Tuesday said the relationship between Bangladesh and Canada will continue to grow through collaboration on mutual interests such as advancing the rights of women. The High Commission of Canada, together with the...
A re-autopsy has been ordered on the body of Dr Shamarukh Mahjabin Shyama, the daughter-in-law of former Awami League MP Tipu Sultan. The court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha instructed the deputy commissioner of Dhaka district to carry...
The premier business chamber of the country Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) Tuesday elected its new executive committee with Syed Nasim Manzur as its new president. The managing director of Apex Footwear Ltd, Manzur has also investments in...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday told the House that the country's women entrepreneurs are getting maximum Tk 5.0 million as loan at 10 per cent interest from different banks and financial institutions as part of the women economic empowerment....
The SAARC foreign ministers have stretched their meeting beyond schedule Tuesday to get at least one deal signed during the summit beginning Wednesday. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told Bangladesh journalists at about 6.30pm that they would meet again...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with pro-BNP professionals, including teachers, doctors, engineers, journalists and lawyers, Tuesday night to discuss the country’s latest political situation. The closed-door meeting began around 8:30 pm at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office,...
‘Koishorer Agrodut’, an adolescent radio listeners’ club, was launched in Dhaka on Tuesday. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was present at the launching programme as the chief guest. Inu also inaugurated the website of the club on the occasion, according...
Bangladesh Tuesday strongly protested the recent adoption of a resolution by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Provincial Assembly of Pakistan concerning the conviction of perpetrators of the crimes against humanity and genocide during the country's War of Liberation in 1971. The...
The government does not have the exact amount of money laundered abroad, says the finance minister. During a question and answer session at Parliament on Tuesday, AMA Muhith said Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit was constantly working to stop money being...
RANGPUR, Nov 24 (BSS): The landless char people, small, marginal and riverside farmers have been cultivating various Rabi crops now on vast tacts of the dried-up riverbeds and char lands in the riverine areas of the northern districts. Sowing of...
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