Our Correspondent | 2014-10-20 00:00:00
MAGURA, Oct 19: Different programmes were observed marking the National Sanitation Month in Magura town. District administration and Public Health Engineering Department in association with BRAC organised different programmes on Sunday. A rally was brought out in the town in...
Farmer dies from snakebite in Jessore A farmer died after receiving snakebite at Khopdai village in Keshabpur upazila in Jessore on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Abul Hossain,60, a resident of the village. Family members said a venomous snake...
Bangladesh received the highest amount of remittance from Saudi Arabia among the countries in Europe, America and Asia in the last three months from July to September in the current fiscal. Bangladesh Bank (BB) statistics show that non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs)...
Eleven new government medical colleges across Bangladesh will start operations on Jan 10 next year marking the homecoming of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the health minister has said, according to a news agency. Each of these medical colleges will start...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert Gibson met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night. The hour-long meeting that began around 8pm was held at the BNP chief's Gulshan residence, according to a news agency.
Aditi Shah of Reuters in New Delh | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
It was, by his own account, a chance encounter with a scion of the Gandhi political dynasty that turned former soldier Kushal Pal Singh into the man who built a city from nothing and made billions in the process. Singh...
Kentaro Hamada of Reuters in Satsumasendai (Japan) | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
As Japan pitches an unpopular nuclear restart to residents near Kyushu Electric Power Co's Sendai plant, local politicians say approval is unlikely until December, delaying an already fraught process to revive the country's idled reactors. More than three years after...
Norihiko Shirouzu of Reuters from Shanghai | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
China said it would punish carmakers by restricting their production and publicly naming them if they fail to meet fuel consumption requirements on passenger vehicles set for 2015. Punitive measures outlined for offenders of the already-announced fuel economy rules reflect...
Yantoultra Ngui of Reuters from Kuala Lumpur | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
With the cost of hiring workers soaring in Malaysia as minimum wages kick in, the government is offering tax benefits to labour-intensive sectors going the automation route, a tactic that analysts say may help lift profits by up to 20...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Oct 18: Eco-friendly 'light-trap' method as an alternative to pesticides is getting popular among the farmers at different villages under Badarganj upazila in Rangpur district as they are attaining significant success in pest management on transplanted Aman paddy by...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
KHULNA, Oct 18: A day long workshop on "Public Procurement Act-2006 and Rule" was held at the conference room of academic building of KUET today. The workshop was formally inaugurated by the Vice-Chancellor of KUET Professor Dr. Mohammad Almagir as...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-19 00:00:00
PABNA, Oct 18: A college girl was killed in a road mishap at village Kumilli in Pabna Sadar Upazila Saturday noon when a passenger loaded Kariman collided with a trolley. The deceased Shapla Khatun, 18, daughter of Nabir Uddin of...
He inspired many and pleased even more around him with his amicable personality. Thousands who turned up to pay last respects to National Professor Salahuddin Ahmed Sunday agreed his demise was a great loss for Bangladesh. The 90-year old historian...
Our Correspondent NILPHAMARI, Oct 18: Construction of Youth Training Complex (YTC) in Nilphamari is to be completed within three months. While contacted DD Department of Youth Development office Nilphamari, Dilgir Alam said 90 per cent works of the project has...
Our Correspondent MAGURA, Oct 18: Recent rainfall comes as a boon for the Aman farmers in Magura. About 2 weeks ago. Aman growers in the district were in anxiety over achieving production target of the crops as drought like situation...
MANIKGANJ,Oct 18 (UNB): A college student went missing during a fishing trip in the Dhaleshwari River in Saturia upazila of Manikganj on Friday. The victim was identified as Lavlu Hossain, 18, son of Harun Sheikh, a resident of the adjacent...
COMILLA, Oct 18 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a schoolboy with the throat slashed from a paddy field at Korpai Shantamura in Burichong upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Nazmul Hasan, a class VIII student of...
Our Correspondent KHULNA, Oct 18: The jute goods produced in state-run jute mills of Khulna are not being sold as the demand for it has been fallen in the world market including Middle East. Jute goods worth Tk 40 million...
NARSINGDI, Oct 18 (BSS): Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive plan to cultivate different Robi crops in six upazilas of the district during the current season. DAE office sources said, a total of 73,536 hectares of...
GAIBANDHA, Oct 18 (BSS): Harvesting of zinc enriched rice BRRI Dhan-62 produced on the demonstration plots has been progressing fast in the district for few days amid much enthusiasm to the farmers. Agri-experts sources said as the rice played vital...
Stressing the need for reducing interest of microcredit for the benefit of small businesses, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said steps will have to be taken to reduce the microcredit interest considering its enormous role in the country's socio-economic...
Our Correspondent GOPALGANJ, Oct 18: Farmers here have been facing difficulties in decomposing jute plants due to lack of water in water bodies which is essential to separate fibers from stalks. Farmers have stacked jute plants under open sky in...
Our Correspondent TANGAIL, Oct 18: Potato prices have almost doubled in Tangail. Few weeks ago, white potato was being sold at Tk 15 per kg and red potato at Tk 20 to Tk 25 per kg in the local market....
Woman dies from snakebite in Rajshahi A woman died after receiving a snakebite in Tanore upazila headquarters in Rajshahi on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Shamsun Nahar,24, wife of Rezaul Islam of the area. Family members said a...
Stressing the need for reducing interest of microcredit for the benefit of small businesses, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said steps will have to be taken to reduce the microcredit interest considering its enormous role in the country's socio-economic...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 18 (agencies): Pakistan's powerful army chief vowed Saturday to thwart any "aggression" against the country, in a thinly-veiled warning to arch rival India after a spate of deadly cross-border firing incidents in the disputed Kashmir region. At least...
Voicing satisfaction at the outcome of Bangladesh’s participation in the 10th ASEM Summit, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Sunday said Bangladesh’s voice has become ‘louder’ as the Prime Minister upheld an image of modern Bangladesh at the global stage....
DR Congo, Oct 18 (AFP): Twenty-two people, most of them women and children, have been hacked and clubbed to death by Ugandan rebels in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo just days after a similar massacre. The...
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