The government has decided to revoke the freedom fighter (FF) certificates of four secretaries and a joint secretary. Liberation War Affairs Ministry spokesperson Sufi Abdullahhil Maruf said the decision came at a meeting of the Freedom Fighters Command Council on...
Household debt in Canada increased in the second quarter, the first rise in three quarters as debts rose faster than incomes, according to a key gauge by Statistics Canada. The household credit market debt – including mortgages, consumer credit and...
West Indies made a strong start to the 2nd Test against Bangladesh with a century stand from openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Leon Johnson setting them on the way to a first day total of 246 for three wickets. A small...
Several residential neighborhoods in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have come under repeated shelling, imperiling a fragile cease-fire agreement imposed last week. The city council of Donetsk said Sunday that two neighborhoods in the north of the city had...
Australia says it is sending 600 troops to the Middle East ahead of possible combat operations against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the deployment, initially to the United Arab Emirates, was in response to...
Samsung Electronics Co. has accused senior executives of domestic rival LG Electronics Inc. of intentionally vandalizing its washing machines at retail stores in Germany and has asked for an official investigation. In a statement Sunday, Samsung said it had asked...
Rapidly strengthening Hurricane Odile further intensified Sunday morning and was swirling over the Pacific as a major storm expected to make a close brush with the southern portion of Mexico's Baja California peninsula by nightfall. The US National Hurricane Center...
A fast-moving typhoon slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, sparking warnings of possible landslides, flash floods and storm surges. Typhoon Kalmaegi, with sustained winds of 130 kilometers per hour (81 miles per hour) and gusts of 160 kph (99...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called upon the tiger range countries to continue their efforts for protecting the big cats. “I want to assure you all that my government will do everything and continue all sorts of cooperation for the conservation...
A Dhaka court Sunday took cognigance of the chargesheet against BNP’s standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed in a case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on charge of grabbing a government house in...
A parliamentary watchdog has suggested fencing off the railway tracks on either side to stop makeshift markets from being thrown up again even after they are evicted. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Railways made the recommendation Sunday, three...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry Sunday submitted its report on ‘The Constitution (Sixteenth Amendment) Bill, 2014’, deleting the preamble and inserting a change in the article 96 (3). Committee chairman Suranjit Sengupta placed the...
A garment factory caught fire in Tongi BSCIC area of Gazipur on Sunday afternoon. Locals said the fire originated from an unknown source at a godown of ‘Northern Corporation’ factory on the ground floor of a three-storey building at about...
Parliament on Sunday passed a bill, titled ‘Bangladesh Atomic Energy Control (Amendment) Bill, 2014, aiming to relax the qualifications to become chairman and members of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Control Authority. State Minister for Science and Information & Communication Technology...
Bangladesh exported some 24,51,093 workers in five years from 2009, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain told Parliament on Sunday. Some 4,75,278 workers were exported in 2009, while 3,90702 in 2010, 5,68,062 in 2011, 6,07,798 in 2012...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Sunday said the central bank has been given the AFI award as a role model for its role in financial inclusion. “Bangladesh Bank’s strategy was appreciated by other countries,” he said referring...
Ridwan Quaium | 2014-09-14 00:00:00
Our forefathers fought so that we could have our own country where we could freely speak in our mother tongue, Bangla. However, after more than forty years since our independence, I can see a very alarming and frightening trend in...
Iftu Ahmed | 2014-09-14 00:00:00
The ancient name of Bihar was Magadha and the ancient name of its capital Patna was Pataliputra. Both Magadha and Pataliputra played a significant role in the history of ancient India. Bihar was then known as the centre of power,...
Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Sunday underscored the need for cooperation among the nations in the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean regions to deal with common threats they face. He made the remarks while delivering his...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-14 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Sept 13: Funds, allotted every year for maintenance of roads under Jhenidah Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) are insufficient, official sources said. There are a total of 1714 roads of four categories -- Upazila road, Union road, Village...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-14 00:00:00
PABNA, Sept 13: At least four people were killed in different incidents in Ishwardi Upazila in Friday. Two of them were over-drunk drug addicts, one killed in road accident and another housewife killed by husband. A schoolteacher was also killed...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 13 (BSS): Substantial and sustainable uses of organic and compost fertilizer in the farming fields can help protecting the soil nutrients from further declining trend. Plant and animal waste based fertiliser has a vital role towards making the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-14 00:00:00
KHULNA, Sept 13: The investors of Khulna stock market are shying away from business due to frequent decline in share prices. About 25 thousand investors of Khulna area have retreated from the share market in 2013-2014 financial year after losing...
RANGPUR, Sept 13 (BSS): Speakers said at daylong workshop have stressed for creating adequate social awareness and comprehensive efforts of all to eradicate child marriage, dowry, polygamy and violence against women from the society. They were addressing the workshop on...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-14 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Sept 13: Ten Union Parishads (UP) of Dimla and Jaldhaka Upazila in Nilphamari district of Teesta river basin has been affected by recent flood. Sources said more than 500 hectares of land of Transplanted Aman were partially damaged. Purbo...
MAGURA, Sept 13 (UNB): A man was chopped to death allegedly by his neighbours over a land-related dispute at Narayanpur village in Mohammadpur upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Pangkaj Basu,55, a resident of the village. Police...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed Sunday told the parliament that Bangladesh deals trade with India under South Asian Preferential Trade Arrangement (SAPTA) and South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) due to no bilateral agreement between Bangladesh and India, according to a...
GAIBANDHA, Sept 13 (BSS): The people in the flood-hit areas of the district are being attacked with water borne diseases like diarrhoea, dysentery, respiratory track infection, skin and eye infection with the recession of flood waters in the major rivers....
RAJSHAHI, Sept 13 (UNB): Two schoolboys drowned in a pond while taking bath at Dakra village in Charghat upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Mostafa,10, son of Islam, and Khokon, 11, son of Shahadul of the village. Both...
SATKHIRA, Sept 13 (UNB): A woman made an abortive attempt to kill herself and her two children following a family feud at Kukhrali village in the town on Friday night. However, all of them were alive and admitted to Satkhira...
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