Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Monday said the government is worried at the call of international militant groups for extending their networks in Bangladesh instead of BNP’s movement threat. “The government cares little about BNP’s call for...
Country’s first passive infrastructure service provider company, edotco Bangladesh, has signed a tripartite agreement with Robi and BDCOM in the city on Monday. The agreement will enable BDCOM to work smoothly in critical areas and thus accelerate the growth of...
The High Court has ordered the formation of an expert panel to make a policy to prevent the fattening of livestock with harmful chemicals. A vacation bench of Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif and Justice Mohammad Ullah issued the rule Monday...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Monday said the country’s export has now surpassed US$ 30 billion as the government is working to boost export in line with its 6th five-year plan. The minister said this when a visiting delegation of...
The inflow of remittance to the country showed rising trend ahead of the Eid-ul Azha, with the country receiving a total of $1.08 billion till September 26. The amount is slightly higher than the $1.02 billion, the expatriate Bangladeshis sent...
The disciplinary panel of Bangladesh Cricket Board has commuted the eight-year ban slapped on former skipper of Bangladesh National Cricket Team Mohammad Ashraful to five years. The BCB disciplinary panel, headed by Justice M Abdur Rashid, reduced the punishment following...
Mohammad Ashraful’s eight-year penalty for match fixing in BPL has been cut short to five years. The head of the ICC disciplinary panel Abdur Rashid announced the decision on Monday following an appeal by Ashraful for reducing the ban, according...
Rafael Nam of Reuters in Mumbai | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
India regained its "stable" rating from Standard and Poor's on Friday, more than two years after an embarrassing downgrade, in a validation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious agenda of economic and fiscal reforms. S&P had cut India's "BBB-minus" rating...
Rafael Nam of Reuters in Mumbai | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
India regained its "stable" rating from Standard and Poor's on Friday, more than two years after an embarrassing downgrade, in a validation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious agenda of economic and fiscal reforms. S&P had cut India's "BBB-minus" rating...
Jared Ferrie and Thin Lei Win of Reuters | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
Myanmar's national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained. Most of Myanmar's 1.1 million...
Mariam Karouny and Jonny Hogg of Reuters | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
New U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters failed to stop them from pressing their assault on a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border on Saturday, hitting it with shell fire for the first time. The U.S. Central Command...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Sept 28: The sales and bargaining of sacrificial animals in the cattle-hats of Rajshahi is yet to be geared up despite only a week is left for the approaching Holy Eid-ul-Azha. Though there is sufficient supply of sacrificial animals...
SATKHIRA, Sept 28 (UNB): A schoolgirl and her elder brother were killed as a water tanker knocked down the motorcycle they were riding near the Upazila Parishad office on the Satkhira-Assasuni road in Sadar upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
KHULNA, Sept 28: Different organisations of port users demanded withdrawal of the ban on entry of ships measuring more than 200 metres in length at Mongla port. The port users said that measuring less than 200 metres in length ships...
BARISAL, Sept 28 (UNB): Unidentified miscreants vandalised three Hindu idols, including that of goddess Durga, at a temple in Kawnia of the city on Saturday. Bikash Haldar, secretary of Aparajita Kunja Durga Puja Mandir committee, said unknown miscreant vandalised three...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-29 00:00:00
PABNA, Sept 28: A total of 48,910 hectares of land have been brought under transplanted Aman cultivation in Pabna district this year due to favourable whether conditions in the region. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office set a target to...
Police said the suspected terrorist Samiul Rahman aka Ibn Hamdan came to Bangladesh to recruit militants. British citizen Hamdan was nabbed from the capital's Kamalapur Monday morning. He was taken to court which gave police three days for interrogation, according...
JHENIDAH, Sept 28 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a housewife in Maheshpur upazila of the district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Ayesha Khatun alias Bipa Debanath, 25, daughter of Nilkamal Debnath, hailing from Chamuria village in...
NARSINGDI, Sept 28 (BSS): A day-long view-exchange meeting on the Right to Information Act for ensuring education for all was held at the conference room of LGED office here on Saturday. Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) and Mother's Development Society...
KHULNA, Sept 28 (UNB): Huge amount of garlic imported from China is being smuggled out to India daily through different border points of the south-western region as the cooking ingredient has seen its increasing demand in the markets of the...
RANGPUR, Sept 28 (BSS): Members of the country's biggest voluntary organisation Ansar-VDP have been playing vital role in accelerating the pace of national uplift along with establishing peace in the society through curbing crimes, speakers at a training course here...
GAIBANDHA, Sept 28 (BSS): A total of 300 flood affected families of Ballamjhar union of Sadar upazila in the district got 5 tonnes of rice and cash Taka 25,000 from the government on Saturday to mitigate their sufferings. Whip of...
Hanging body of a youth recovered in M'singh Police recovered hanging body of an unidentified young man from Deokhal Dasbari in Fulbaria upazila of Mymensingh Sunday morning. Fulbaria Police Station officer-in-charge Mosharraf Hossain said locals spotted the body of the...
HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka, Sept 28 (AFP) : Ten years after the Asian tsunami devastated Sarath Kumara's cinnamon plantation in Sri Lanka, forcing him to start over with nothing, the farmer faces a new threat from further afield. Sri Lanka is...
CHICAGO, Sept 28 (Xinhua) : Chicago agricultural commodities closed mixed Friday with wheat rising slightly, corn and soybeans falling. The most active corn contract for December delivery fell 3 cents, or 0.92 per cent, to 3.23 US dollars per bushel....
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) : Three US senators including, Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren, on Friday urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to "thoroughly examine" the aluminum markets, which they said showed "ongoing irregularities". Brown, who has been fiercely...
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