A senior adviser to Sierra Leone's president says a third doctor has died from Ebola, marking a setback in the country's fight against the virulent disease. Presidential adviser Ibrahim Ben Kargbo said Wednesday that Dr. Sahr Rogers had been working...
Ryanair has launched a business service in the airline's latest move to revamp its image and catch up with travellers' demands for better treatment. The airline said its ‘business plus’ fares would give customers flexible tickets, more check-in baggage, priority...
US medical device maker Medtronic is building stronger ties to Europe, a couple months after announcing a $42.9 billion acquisition that involves moving its main executive offices across the Atlantic, where it can get a better tax deal. The Minneapolis...
An Iranian general is saying that a purported Israeli drone shot down near a nuclear facility flew in from a northern country that one was part of the Soviet Union. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, the...
Some 29 people have been infected with anthrax in Ullapara and Shahjadpur upazilas of Sirajganj district. Of them, 20 have been diagnosed with the disease at Char Nandigati village in Ullapara while the rest at Koijuri village in Shahjadpur, said...
Robi Axiata Ltd (Robi) has invested Tk 9.9 billion in the first half of the current year and got 1.7 million new subscribers to reach 24.0 million, representing 20.6 per cent mobile subscriber market share of the country. This was...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government on Wednesday signed a loan agreement of $125 million to improve services and governance in the country's pourashavas (municipalities), according to a news agency.
The government's supervision of admissions to medical and dental colleges has been challenged in the High Court. A petition by lawyer Younus Ali Akhand filed on Wednesday challenges the government move. It said, according to the Medical and Dental Council...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) earned a net profit of Tk 33.52 billion in the 2013-14 financial year (FY14) with Tk 15.63 billion transferable profit to the national exchequer, according to the Bangladesh Bank's Account for 2013-2014. The BB's board of directors...
The government has approved construction of an international standard Tourism Complex and Exclusive Tourist Zone (ETZ) projects in Cox's Bazar keeping provision of public-private partnership (PPP). The approval came from Wednesday's meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)...
Starting from 2016, six more papers in HSC will have creative question papers. The Alim examinations will get creative questions in four papers. The education ministry announced Wednesday that it would also introduce creative questions to the Dakhil paper Civics...
Neurologists at BSMMU have treated a type of deadly haemorrhagic stroke for the first time in Bangladesh with a new technique that requires no brain surgery. Brain haemorrhage due to aneurysm is usually being treated by opening bone in the...
Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP) 2100 Formulation Project aiming to deal with issues like climate change, water resources management, sustainable economic growth and proper management of natural resources launched on Wednesday, according to a news agency.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Khaleda Zia was involved in the BDR mutiny. Speaking at an event at her office Wednesday, she said the BNP chairperson left her cantonment residence some two hours before the 2009 mutiny started. Hasina also...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday ruled out the suspicion of a section of people that the newly announced national broadcasting policy would curtail the freedom of press saying her government firmly believes in complete freedom of media. "We would not...
The High Court has ordered the government not to distribute Vitamin A capsules among children without clinical tests. A bench of justices Sheikh Hassan Arif and Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman Wednesday delivered the rule on its own volition taking...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance Wednesday alleged that the government has got desperate to have a judge impeachment law in place through an ‘unrepresentative’ parliament in its last-ditch effort to cripple the judiciary. “Why is the government hurriedly trying to amend...
Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller of Reuters in Gaza/Jerusalem | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
Israeli air strikes killed at least nine Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and militants kept up cross-border rocket fire on Monday as Israel moved to cushion its economy against the effects of a war now in its seventh week. Egypt...
Stephanie Nebehay and Ahmed Rasheed of Reuters in Geneva/Baghdad | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
The United Nations condemned on Monday "appalling, widespread" crimes by Islamic State forces in Iraq, including mass executions of prisoners that could amount to war crimes. U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay condemned "grave, horrific human rights violations" being committed...
Fredrik Dahl and Michelle Moghtader of Reuters in Vienna/ Dubai | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
Iran is "in the process" of completing measures on transparency in its nuclear research that were agreed with the U.N. atomic agency, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying, suggesting Tehran had at least partly met a Monday deadline...
Anshuman Daga of Reuters in Singapore | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
BOC Aviation, the leasing arm of Bank of China (601988.SS), has placed the biggest order in its 20-year history for 80 Boeing (BA.N) medium-haul passenger planes, weeks after lessor SMBC Aviation ordered 115 Airbus jets. The shopping spree by leasing...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Aug 26: Erosion by the mighty river Padma has taken a serious turn at some villages under Koya and Shelaidaha unions in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia recently, threatening the very existence of Kobiguru's Kuthibari, hospital and Kacharibari at Shilaidah...
BRAHMANBARIA, Aug 26 (UNB): Extraction of sand from the Titas river in Sadar upazila goes on unabated intensifying threat of erosion in the nearby villages. People of the villages are now passing their days amid fear that their homesteads might...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
KHULNA, Aug 26: The present government has taken up a master plan for Mongla Port to reach the Vision 2021. The port authority has taken initiative to reconstruct the Jetty No 3&4 lying incomplete for four decades. A joint venture...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
MAGURA, Aug 26: Aus growers in Magura are apprehending a loss of Tk 500 million due to waterlogging. Cultivation of Aus paddy in the district is very close to completion. But due to heavy rainfall Aus lands in the district...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-27 00:00:00
PABNA, Aug 26: A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband for dowry of village Darinaricha in Iswardi Upazila of the district early Tuesday. Police arrested the accused husband in connection with the incident. The victim Farhana Akhter Eva, 22,...
Another message from Our Correspondent adds: An engineer was crushed under the wheels of a train at Boral bridge station area of Bhangura Upazila of Pabna Tuesday morning. The victim jumped into the train line to commit suicide, police and...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 26 (BSS): Substantial and sustainable promotion of biogas plant has become indispensable for more production and use of bioslurry, main effluent of biogas plant, to improve soil fertility and increase crop productions, agricultural extension officials and scientists said....
FARIDPUR, Aug 26 (BSS): A vast low lying areas situated on the banks of Padma and Arial khan rivers of Sadar, Charbhadrsan and Sadarpur upazillas have been inundated when the water level in river Padma marked a sudden rise with...
BOGRA, Aug 26 (UNB): A college student was chopped to death by unknown miscreants in Harigari area of the district town on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, student of a private paramedical institute and son of...
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