Japan has again expressed its gratitude to Bangladesh for withdrawing from the election to a non-permanent seat of the UN Security Council in favour of Tokyo. Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso extended his thanks to Bangladesh at a reception at...
Copper, on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, is trading lower today after prices hit a three-week high yesterday. Copper is trading 0.78% lower at USD 3.066/pound, down from a high of USD 3.085/pound hit earlier today....
Senior journalist Fouzul Karim, popularly known as Tara Bhai, passed away at a city hospital on Wednesday. He was 84. Hospital and family sources said, Fouzul Karim breathed his last around 12noon at Central Hospital in Green Road. He left...
A local Libyan commander says deadly clashes are underway between Islamist militias and forces loyal to a renegade general who has vowed to take control of the eastern city of Benghazi. The militia commander says at least three people have...
Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers drove protesters from an underpass in the dead of night in the worst violence since the street demonstrations for greater democracy began more than two weeks ago. Officers, many with riot shields and wielding...
American-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the jihadists' advance began to destabilize Turkey. The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the militants near...
The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 4,447, with the large majority of victims in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward also said there could be up to 10,000...
India, in a move which can be dubbed as an attempt to counter neighbour China, will take up an ambitious road project along the McMahon Line in Arunachal Pradesh. The proposed Indo-China frontier highway that will be monitored by the...
A suicide bomber killed seven people in Pakistan on Wednesday in an attack on a government-backed militia near the Afghan border, security officials and residents said. More than a dozen men were wounded in the bombing in the remote Tirah...
Singapore is keen to provide financial and technical supports to Bangladesh to build Purbachal housing project area as a modern satellite town that would ensure all civic amenities. The proposal came when a Singaporean delegation, led by Senior State Minister...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu has said that initiation of automatic intellectual property (IP) registration system with the help of WIPO ensures providing immediate patent, design and trademark registration to the industry entrepreneurs and inventors. The minister made the remarks...
The government has approved in principle to purchase 300 double-decker and 100 articulated buses to stop the nagging traffic snarl-up in the capital city. Planning Ministry gave the nod in principle to purchase the buses under the dollar credit line...
The newly-formed committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the associate student body of BNP, on Wednesday vowed to make the supreme sacrifice to ‘restore people’s voting rights and democracy’ in the country. “We’re ready to make the supreme sacrifice to...
The European Commission’s ban on fishery products on Sri Lanka could affect imports worth around €74 million a year. The European Union imported 7,400 metric tons of fishery products from Sri Lanka last year, worth €74m, a commission spokesperson said....
The ruling Awami League (AL) on Wednesday called upon the members of the minority communities not to be misled by the falsehood resorted to by BNP. Publicity and Publication affairs secretary of Awami League Dr Hasan Mahmud made this call...
Nearly 170 people were trekking along the Annapurna route when a snowstorm hit; Nepal authorities: 60 people rescued, unknown number still missing; Israel's MFA is looking into the reports. Twelve more bodies were recovered in Nepal's central mountains Wednesday, taking...
The board of Trade of Thailand and the Thai Chamber of Commerce Wednesday agreed with the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) to draw up a joint master plan to develop special economic zones in...
A 40-member military delegation, headed by Vice-Adjutant General of the Myanmar Army, Major General Than Soe, arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday. The team comprises a six-member medical team, a 23-member football team, a 17-member volleyball team and two other officials,...
A US team has visited the Dhaka international airport to check Bangladesh’s preparations to prevent the fatal Ebola virus from entering the country. Airport officials told bdnews24.com that the team comprised US embassy officials and experts of the US Centre...
State-owned Power Development Board (PDB) has submitted a proposal to the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) seeking a hike in the bulk tariff of electricity. According to official sources, the PDB has appealed to the regulator to raise the bulk...
Criticising the government for what he said its growing repressive acts, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Wednesday alleged that the regime has given the ruling party men ‘licences’ to kill opposition activists, according to a news agency. “The...
A man was killed and 10 others injured when a wall of a concrete water tank collapsed from a four-storey mosque’s roof and fell on a laundry beside it in Dhaka’s Fakirapool Wednesday. The deceased, Abdus Salam, 45, was a...
CargoConnect, the web-based loyalty programme of Etihad Cargo, has celebrated a major milestone with the enrollment of its 3,000th member since the programme was launched in July 2013. To mark the milestone, Etihad Cargo will present the lucky customer with...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached Milan Wednesday afternoon on a four-day official visit to Italy to attend the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit-2014. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage, landed at Milan...
COMILLA: A Tk 100 million defamation case was filed with a local court Wednesday against Independent TV chairman Salman F Rahman and three others for broadcasting a ‘defamatory’ report. AKM Bahauddin Bahar, Awami League MP from Comilla-6 constituency, filed the...
Amid demonstrations by a group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal rejecting the newly formed committee of the student body, three crude bombs exploded in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office Wednesday. However, no one was injured in the blast. Police cordoned...
The World Food Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe on Thursday, according to a news agency.
Bangladesh's capital market regulator, the SEC, has fined two listed companies for financial irregularities. Argon Denims has been slapped a Tk 3-million fine for irregularities in using the capital raised through the initial public offering (IPO). Salvo Chemicals, on the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-15 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Oct 14: Parble (Potol) growers of Taraganj upazila in Rangpur district have become disappointed as the cultivation of the vegetable is severely been affected due to root rotting disease during the current season. The disease is wreaking havoc to...
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