BENAPOLE, Nov 18 (UNB): Three Bangladeshi teenagers including a girl returned home through Putkhali border on Monday night after serving one year in an Indian jail. Border Security Force (BSF) handed them over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at night....
BARISAL, Nov 18 (BSS): Police recovered the body of a hotel manager from 'Hotel Greenbag' at Vatarkhal area in the city this morning. The victim was Mizanur Rahman, 55, of Patharhat area under Mehendiganj upazila. Being informed, police rushed to...
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JESSORE, Nov 18: Writer, researcher and environment activist Benzin Khan in a press conference urged the government to stop cultivation of genetically modified BT brinjal for the sake of a healthy nation. The government has already selected a total of...
MUNSHIGANJ, Nov 18 (BSS): A 15-day 'Plastic Surgery Camp' Was inaugurated here on Monday aimed at providing plastic surgery treatment to the patients. A group of 12 plastic surgery specialist doctors from the Netherlands, led by Dr Johana, will operate...
The lawyer for BNP chief Khaleda Zia has cited the quashing of a case against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as he urged for dismissal of a corruption case against her at the Supreme Court. An Appellate Division bench, led by...
One held with 1.5 kg hemp in Bogra Officials of Narcotics Control Department in a drive arrested a young man along with 1.5 kg hemp from Endonail Bridge area in Adamdighi upazila in Bogra on early Monday. The arrestee was...
The Bangladesh government does not have complete official accounts of the military revolts taking place between 1975 and 1981. There is also no record of the number of casualties in these incidents. The matter came to light on Wednesday when...
Begum Rokeya University Teachers’ Association on Wednesday declared their Vice Chancellor Dr AKM Nur-un-Nabi ‘persona non-grata’ on the campus for his alleged irregularities in promotion of teachers and autocratic behavoiur. Association leaders said this at a press conference at Rangpur...
Leading telecom operator Grameenphone (GP) Ltd is going to provide better services to their customers in Mymensingh. This was promised by the high officials of Grameenphone at a press conference held in Mymensingh Club ON Wednesday, according to a news...
JERUSALEM, Nov 18, (AFP): Two Palestinians armed with a gun and meat cleavers burst into a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday and killed four Israelis before being shot dead in the bloodiest attack in the city in years. It was a...
YANGON, Nov 18 (AFP): Myanmar's powerful army has told parliament it opposes changing a junta-drafted constitution that bars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming president, days after US President Barack Obama called for it to be amended. Military...
BANGKOK, Nov 18 (AFP): The Thai cabinet Tuesday endorsed a bill to regulate protests, including banning the occupation of state buildings, after years of political turmoil marked by repeated rounds of demonstrations. Colourful mass rallies, marches and occupations-including of Government...
NEW DELHI, Nov 18 (AFP): Hundreds of armed supporters of a controversial guru clashed Tuesday with baton-wielding police who tried to storm his fortified ashram and arrest him in northern India, officers said. Police fired tear gas and water cannon...
TUNIS, Nov 18, (AFP): Tunisia holds its first multi-candidate presidential election on Sunday in the final stage of a post-revolution transition that has set it apart from the turmoil of other Arab Spring states. Twenty-seven candidates are in the running,...
Blast kills senior Islamist politician in Yemen SANAA, Nov 18: A car bombing on Tuesday killed a leading member of Yemen's powerful Sunni Al-Islah party whose supporters have been battling Shiite militias, a security official said. Al-Islah assistant secretary general...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-11-19 00:00:00
Dhaka's residents can taste fresh vegetable as much as over 10 per cent of the demand through rooftop gardening. Experts and officials said more than 10,000 hectares of space can be brought under rooftop gardening. From such gardening, the city...
SINGAPORE, Nov 18 (AFP): Oil prices extended their losses in Asia Tuesday after Japan's economy slumped into recession, while prospects for an OPEC output cut dimmed, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for December delivery fell 37 cents to...
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters): Gold jumped 1.5 per cent to a 2-1/2 week high above $1,200 an ounce on Tuesday as the dollar softened against the euro, due partly to better-than-expected German economic data. Spot gold was up 1.4 per...
JAKARTA, Nov 18 (Reuters): Indonesia will increase imports of higher quality unsubsidised fuel by 600,000 barrels in December to help meet an expected quadrupling of demand after the government hiked prices for subsidised fuel, an energy official said on Tuesday....
Rupam Jain Nair, Praveen Menon and Marwa Rashad of Reuters in New Delhi/ Dubai/ Riyadh | 2014-11-19 00:00:00
India is pressing rich countries in the Gulf to raise the wages of millions of Indians working there, in a drive that could secure it billions of dollars in fresh income but risks pricing some of its citizens out of...
Raheem Salman of Reuters | 2014-11-19 00:00:00
Islamic State's systematic massacre of hundreds of Iraq's Albu Nimr tribe should have been an unmistakable wake up call for a country that may not be able to stabilise without long-term support from Sunni tribesmen. But nearly a month after...
Mohammedan Sporting Club (MSC) beat Brothers Union Club by 44 runs in a match of the Dhaka Premier League (DPL) at the BKSP ground-3 in Savar Tuesday, reports UNB. Batting first after winning the toss, Mohammedan SC scored 259 runs...
Bangladesh Navy Chess Team secured the top slot in the Walton Home Appliance Premier Division Chess League-2014 beating defending champions Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club Ltd in the 7th round matches at the Bangladesh Olympic Association media centre in the city...
TOKYO, Nov 18 (AFP): Japan striker Shinji Okazaki scored with a swashbuckling backheel as the Asian champions beat fierce rivals Australia 2-1 in a friendly Tuesday. Okazaki's right-foot flick in the 68th minute made it 2-0 to the home side...
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