Our Correspondent | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Aug 19: A good number of farmers at different villages under Mithapukur Upazila in the district are producing vegetables using eco-friendly pheromone trap instead of harmful pesticides and they are getting financially benefited by using the trap at lesser...
Professor Muzaffer Ahmad and Dr Swadesh Ranjan Bose were given Bangladesh Bank Award 2013 posthumously on Wednesday for their lifetime and distinct contribution to the economy and the development of the country. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith handed a...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 19 (BSS): More than 4,800 urban slum families are getting housing facilities in Rajshahi city in phases for elevating their living and livelihood condition. The underprivileged households, who have lands but not capacity to construct house, are getting...
CHANDPUR, Aug 19 (UNB): A newly-wed woman allegedly committed suicide at her father's residence at Nayergaon village in Matlab (South) upazila on Monday. The victim was identified as Jyotee Begum, 19, wife of Ziaur Rahman of Nandikhola village in the...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 19 (BSS): Water level in all the major rivers except the Teesta flowing through the district rose sharply in last 24 four hours till this morning due to on rush of hilly waters from the upstream and incessant...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 19 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a housewife from her residence at Arefin Nagar under Bayezid police station in the city on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Lipi Begum,23, wife of Murad Mia. Swapan Saha,officer-in-charge...
JESSORE, Aug 19 (BSS): One bank employee was killed and five others were injured in a road accident in Hatbila area on Jessore-Khulna Highway under Sadar upazila here today. The deceased was identified as Abdul Gaffar, 50, of Shakharigati in...
SATKHIRA, Aug 19 (UNB): With a large number of people being engaged in rearing ducks, a silent revolution has been created in poultry industry of the south-western district of Satkhira. Many people are now opting for duck rearing as it...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Aug 19 (UNB): A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her neighbours over a land-related dispute at Chowdala village in Gomostapur upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Firoza Begum,65, wife of Ishaq Miah, a resident...
FARIDPUR, Aug 19 (BSS): A five day long free advanced training workshop titled 'Training of Trainers'(TOT) on online for the outsourcing aspirants and free lancers organized by the Information and Communication Technology(ICT) Division of the government in collaboration with district...
Journo hurt by miscreants in Barisal A local journalist sustained stab injuries in an attack by miscreants at Kalibari in Barisal Monday midnight. The injured was identified as Pulok Chaterjee, bureau chief of the daily Samakal in Barisal and general...
Daniel Thomas in London and Tim Bradshaw in San Francisco | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Russia may tighten retaliatory sanctions against Western nations to include a ban on car imports, if the United States and the European Union impose additional sanctions on Moscow, daily newspaper Vedomosti reported this week. The impact of the measure on...
Ben Blanchard and David Stanway of Reuters | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
China expects to sign agreements to give landlocked and resource-rich Mongolia easier access to Chinese territory for its exports when President Xi Jinping visits the country this week, a senior diplomat said on Monday. Mongolia, nervous about over-dependence on its...
Rajesh Kumar Singh of Reuters in New Delhi | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
India called off on Monday peace talks with Pakistan, giving a jolt to renewed diplomatic efforts between the two nuclear-armed neighbours and adding to the troubles of Pakistan's beleaguered government. The move came nearly three months after Pakistani Prime Minister...
Ahmed Rasheed and Michael Georgy of Reuters | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Iraqi Kurdish forces said they recaptured Iraq's biggest dam from Islamist militants on Monday, as the United States launched air strikes to secure what has become a vital strategic objective in fighting that threatens to break up the country. An...
JERUSALEM, Aug 19, (agencies): Israeli air strike hits open ground in north Gaza. Israel Tuesday ordered the military to respond after three rockets from Gaza struck the south as the two sides were observing a 24-hour truce, an Israeli official...
COLOMBO, Aug 19, (AFP): Sri Lanka will not grant visas to UN investigators probing war crimes allegedly committed during the island's decades-long separatist conflict, President Mahinda Rajapakse said Tuesday. Sri Lanka has refused to accept the authority of the UN...
KABUL, Aug 19, (AP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed Tuesday for the two men vying to succeed him to end their dispute over election results and save the country from further violence and economic decline. Afghanistan has been paralysed for...
NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (AFP):- An Indian court Tuesday ordered the release of a woman who has staged a 14-year-long hunger strike to protest human rights abuses in the country's remote northeast, her lawyer said. Irom Sharmila, known as the...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 19, (agencies): Islamabad braced for possible clashes after opposition politician Imran Khan pledged to lead his supporters in a march on the Pakistani capital's heavily guarded government district, in a high-stakes bid to depose the prime minister. Khan,...
NEW DELHI, Aug 19, (AP): Indian police have arrested two men accused of raping a nurse at one of New Delhi's top luxury hotels, a senior officer said Tuesday, days after the prime minister used a high-profile speech to condemn...
FERGUSON, Aug 19 (AFP): Protesters in Ferguson shot at police and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails in a new spasm of violence late Monday in the St Louis suburb that left six wounded and led to 31 arrests, police said....
David Meale has joined the US Embassy in Dhaka as its new deputy chief of mission. Meale was previously the counselor for Economic Affairs at the US Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. With over 20 years in the US Foreign Service,...
Indonesia hunts Spaniards missing in tourist boat sinking BIMA, Aug 19: Indonesian rescuers Tuesday expanded their search for two Spanish men still missing after a tourist boat sank at the weekend, forcing survivors to swim hours to dry land and...
Sonia H Moni | 2014-08-20 00:00:00
Prices of shrimp in global market increased by average 50 to 60 cent per pound in the last one month due to supply shortage of vennamei shrimp following production fall in different countries, industry people said. "The price of 16-20...
FE Report Small and cottage industry groupings of Bangladesh and India have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote and encourage increasing trade and investment and technical cooperation between the two associations. President of National Association of Small and...
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