Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad on Thursday said Bangladesh urgently needs to take steps for expanding its labour market abroad to help address the ‘appalling’ unemployment problem in the country. The JP chief, also a special envoy to the...
Nine more Bangladesh nationals, detained in Thailand, will be brought back home on Friday. Over the last few months, 260 Bangladesh nationals have been brought back home from Thailand, said a foreign ministry media release on Thursday, according to a...
Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Sramik League allegedly attacked the house of former BNP MP Hafiz Ibrahim in Borhanuddin upazila of Bhola on Wednesday night. However, the BNP leader had been in the capital during the attack while...
A court in Dhaka on Thursday extended time by three months more for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to further investigate the much-talked-about Maj Gen Manzur murder case. Dhaka First Additional District and Sessions Judge (acting) Badrul Alam Bhuiyan passed...
Mike Peacock of Reuters in Washington | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
World policymakers gather in Washington later this week to ponder how to sustain economic recovery at a time when the United States is about to turn off its money taps. Given the same G20 finance ministers and central bankers met...
Ali Abdelaty of Reuters in Beirut | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
Islamic State, a Sunni Muslim militant group, has seized a third of Syria and large areas of Iraq and this year proclaimed a caliphate across the two countries in the heart of the Middle East. The group, which U.S-led forces...
Michelle Moghtader of Reuters in Tehran | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
President Hassan Rouhani called last week for Iran's universities to admit more foreign students and lecturers, dismissing conservatives' fears that more interaction with the outside world would encourage espionage. His remarks at Tehran University appeared to be a fresh riposte...
John Ruwitch and Clare Baldwin of Reuters in Hong Kong | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
Pro-democracy protesters faced off against supporters of Chinese rule in Hong Kong's teeming Mong Kok district early last week, in a tense confrontation that has undermined hopes for talks aimed at ending a week of turmoil. Scuffles broke out late...
Syed Raza Hassan of Reuters in Peshawar | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
Every time someone walks into his pharmacy in the volatile Pakistani city of Peshawar, Amarjeet Singh prepares for the worst. "I don't know if it's a customer or an assailant who will reach out for his gun," Amarjeet, a member...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday urged people to resist the conspiracies by local and foreign evil forces imbued with the spirit of Shaheed Jehad to protect the country’s independence and sovereignty and uphold democracy. Naziruddin Jehad, an activist of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Oct 8: Identifications of disease and treatment of animals and birds within south western (S-W) region of the country are facing intensive setback as the only Field Disease Investigation Laboratory (FDIL) of Khulna division situated in Jessore is yet...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 8 (BSS): In the wake of adverse impact of climate change, farmers have started switching to cereals from paddy with new technology and seed in the vast Barind tract. According to the agriculture officials and scientists, the farmers...
Rajshahi, Oct 8 (UNB): Two people have died and two others fell ill after gulping excessive liquor in Paba upazila of the district. The deceased were identified as Jaan Mohammad alias Janu, 52, and Jasim Uddin, 47, of Kuthipara area...
RANGPUR, Oct 8 (BSS): Experts at a farmers' field day yesterday called for enhanced cultivation and consumption of zinc-enriched rice to prevent deficiency of zinc, iron and vitamin-A of the children to ensure normal growth and increase disease resistant capacity....
Chittagong, Oct 8 (UNB): A tribunal here on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for killing a housewife after rape in 1999. The convict was identified as Abdur Rahim, son of Golam Sobhan of West Sadhanpur village in Banshkhali upazila....
BAGERHAT, Oct 8 (UNB): Two forest robbers were killed in a gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Mrigomari of the East Sundarbans under Mongla upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Zakir and Raju. They...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has been elected chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the first time by any Bangladeshi. She was elected for the prestigious post at the 60th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-09 00:00:00
KHULNA, Oct 8: The holy Eid-ul-Azha was celebrated here in Khulna and its adjoining area as elsewhere in the country with due solemnity and religious fervour. Eid-ul-Azha namaj was held at various places in the city. The main Eid congregation...
JOYPURHAT, Oct 8 (BSS): Chilli farmers of the district are happy as they are getting fair price from the sale of their products in local markets. Due to favourable weather and timely supply of necessary agro-inputs, the farmers have achieved...
Dhaka, Oct 8 (UNB): Five people, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents in Bhola, Mymensingh, Kushita, Natore and Gazipur districts on Tuesday night and Wednesday. In Mymensingh, a young man was killed in an attack allegedly by his...
HONG KONG, Oct 8 (AFP): Hong Kong (HK) pro-democracy protest leaders pledged to stay on the streets Wednesday in a bid to keep pressure on the government ahead of already fraught talks on political reform. Numbers at demonstration sites around...
MURSITPINAR, Oct 8 (Agencies): Intensified air strikes helped Kurdish militia push back Islamic State jihadists fighting for Kobane as pressure mounted Wednesday for more international action to save the key Syrian border town. Across the frontier in Turkey, the government's...
TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated on Wednesday his country's "red lines" in negotiations with world powers over its controversial nuclear programmeme due to resume next week in Vienna. Iran and the P5+1 group of...
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (CNN): Twitter is suing the US government in an effort to loosen restrictions on what the social media giant can say publicly about the national security-related requests it receives for user data. The company filed a lawsuit...
KABUL, Oct 8 (AFP): Five Afghan men were hanged on Wednesday for the gang rape of four women despite the United Nations and human rights groups criticising the trial and calling for new president Ashraf Ghani to stay the executions....
BEIJING, Oct 8 (AFP): Thousands of rescuers were deployed in southwest China Wednesday after a strong earthquake left one person dead and more than 300 injured, with over 100,000 displaced, state-run media reported. The shallow 6.0 magnitude tremor hit late...
Two polio vaccinators killed in Pakistan bomb PESHAWAR, Oct 8: A roadside bomb exploded in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killing two off-duty polio vaccinators and their relative, officials said. The blast occurred in Ali Nagar village in the Mohammad tribal...
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