Man found dead in Kushtia Police recovered floating body of a man from the Gorai river near Renwick dam area of Kushtia the town on Thursday morning. The deceased could not be identified immediately. Abdul Khalek, officer-in-charge of Kushtia Model...
NEW DELHI, Sept 18 (AFP): Indian and Chinese leaders pledged Thursday to resolve a long-running border dispute that led to a bloody 1962 war, as a stand-off between troops on the remote frontier overshadowed a rare summit in New Delhi....
KARACHI, Sept 18 (AFP): A professor of Islam known for his liberal religious views was shot dead in Pakistan's port city of Karachi Thursday, officials said. Mohammad Shakil Auj, the 54-year-old dean of Islamic Studies at the prestigious University of...
VIENNA, Sept 18 (AFP): Washington urged Iran Thursday to engage with a stalled UN nuclear probe, saying it was crucial to a major accord under discussion between Iran and world powers this week in New York. Laura Kennedy, the US...
SYDNEY, Sep 18 (BBC): Police have carried out anti-terror raids in Sydney sparked by intelligence reports that Islamic extremists were planning random killings in Australia. PM Tony Abbott said a senior Australian Islamic State militant had called for "demonstration killings",...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called for greater cooperation between Bangladesh and India in the areas of energy, power, infrastructure development and tourism. Reiterating India’s resolve to continue the full support to Bangladesh efforts for its socio-economic development,...
KIEV, Sept 18 (AFP): Kiev accused Moscow Thursday of massing its troops in annexed Crimea on the Ukraine border, rattling nerves just as President Petro Poroshenko prepared to meet US counterpart Barack Obama. The apparent push north by about 4,000...
FREETOWN, Sept 18 (AFP): Sierra Leone prepared Thursday for an unprecedented three-day nationwide lockdown to contain the deadly spread of the Ebola virus in a controversial move which experts claimed could worsen the epidemic. The population of six million will...
Death toll in Nigerian bld collapse rises to 80 LAGOS, Sept 18: The death toll from a collapsed guesthouse at a megachurch in Nigeria's financial capital Lagos has risen to 80 after more bodies were pulled from the rubble, rescuers...
Three factions of Ganajagaran Mancha held separate rallies at Shahbagh on Friday, protesting Supreme Court’s verdict commuting war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayeede’s death sentence to imprisonment till death. The two factions -- one led by Imran H Sarkar and another...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Outcome of the last Saturday's by-elections to several federal and state assembly elections in India has left a message - the "Modi Wave" is on the decline and no longer attracts the electorate in the manner it did hardly less...
M. Farid Ahmed concluding his two-part article titled \'What we have learned from stock market development: A focus on some policy issues\' | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) is the pioneer stock exchange in Bangladesh that was incorporated in 1954 but formal trading started in 1956 at Narayanganj. In 1958 it was shifted to Dhaka at the then Narayanganj Chamber Building at Motijheel and...
Underlining the need for refrigerated transportation and cold storage network to ensure safe and hygiene food, US Ambassador Dan W Mozena today said transportation and cold storage facilities help growers keep their produce fresh and safe eliminating use of formalin...
The recent decision of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Environment and Forests about taking stern action against non-compliant brick field owners is otherwise welcome. It has come in the wake of the failure of more than 60...
Nilratan Halder | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
By all accounts Dhaka is in its death throes. According to the 2013 Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Global Liveability Survey, the capital city of Bangladesh is the second least liveable one among 140 cities after war-torn Syrian city Damascus. The...
Shazzad Khan | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Today is the birth anniversary of Paulo Freire, the leading legend in the arena of revolutionary education. He was born on September 19, 1921. This year is his 93rd birth anniversary. He was a radical Brazilian educator known for his...
Maintaining their attack on the government for restoring parliament’s power to remove judges, BNP senior leader Rafiqul Islam Miah on Friday said it has jolted the judiciary like a tremor. Addressing a discussion, the BNP leader also claimed that dispensation...
The Khulna-Jessore road connecting Kolkata happened to be an import road during the British rule. This road also connected the Grand Trunk Road to Delhi. Despite disparities during Pakistani days, this road was in good shape. Similar condition continued during...
The Tigers have lost their second Test match against their much illustrated opponent the West Indies. Cricket-loving people of the country are surely disappointed with their meek surrender. In both innings the Bangladesh batsmen failed to cross even 200. Tamim...
Since the emergence of Bangladesh mentionable expansion in general education has been made. In technological and professional field expansion is commendable too. Considering the need of the country's economy, it is obvious that Bangladesh is confronting with huge shortage of...
Shamsul Alam concluding his four-part article on transformation of agriculture | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Research and extension services are critical for the creation of a modern, diversified and highly productive agricultural sector. The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) drafted a National Agricultural Extension Policy (NAEP) in 2012 for providing specific policy directions for agricultural productivity....
S. M. Rayhanul Islam reviewing a Unicef analysis | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international human rights treaties guarantee that children everywhere should live free from all forms of violence. Nevertheless, violence remains an all-too-real part of life for children around the world...
Nita Bhalla of Thomson Reuters Foundation in Karnal | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Erratic weather, rising temperatures, declining water resources and labour shortages are threatening India's bread basket state of Haryana, forcing farmers to abandon age-old practices and adopt technology to ensure food supplies for millions. Using machines which sow rice directly, devices...
The Home Ministers of Saarc countries on Friday pledged to work together to combat common challenges of terrorism, piracy, human trafficking, drugs smuggling, cyber crime and corruption through cooperation among law enforcement agencies of the member states. Nepalese Prime Minister...
Jessica Donati and Hamid Shalizi of Reuters in Kabul | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates may reach a deal on how to share power this week, according to Afghan and Western officials, potentially ending months of tension over the outcome of a run-off election held in June. The struggle to find...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-09-19 00:00:00
Local Aus rice varieties are being popularised in the northern and north-western districts thanks to short duration and stress-tolerant qualities of those species, farmers and officials said. The farmers, who almost lost their indigenous popular varieties, are now interested in...
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