Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked Malaysia for its decision to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh. She also thanked the Malaysian government to give legalisation to the Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. The Prime Minister extended her thanks when visiting Malaysian...
The remains of at least 15 Malaysians killed when a jetliner was shot down over Ukraine will be returned to their home country this week, the first Malaysian victims of the disaster to be flown home, the country's defense minister...
China has since June arrested nearly 1,000 members of a Christian sect which Beijing refers to as a ‘cult’, state media said on Tuesday. Those arrested are members of ‘Almighty God’, a Christian group which has found followers in some...
A passenger train struck a crowded rickshaw, killing 21 people at a railway crossing in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, a railway official said Tuesday. All the passengers and the driver of the motorized rickshaw died in the accident...
A panel prosecutor has claimed that the charge of aiding, abetting and facilitating Pakistani occupation forces to carry out wartime offences brought against ATM Azharul Islam has been established beyond any reasonable doubt. Prosecutor Barrister Tapos K Baul came up...
Pope Francis on expressed his desire to travel to China, ‘even tomorrow’, but urged that the Catholic Church there be allowed to do its ‘job’. ‘You ask me if I want to go to China? Certainly, even tomorrow,’ he told...
Three relatives of Pope Francis, two great nephews and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina, police said Tuesday. The dead include a baby of eight months and a two-year-old toddler, police commissioner Carina Ferreyra said....
With conferring Bangladesh Bank Award 2013, the central bank at a programme on Wednesday is paying its highest tribute to two eminent economists for their lifetime and distinct contribution to the economy and the development of the country. The central...
Honduran authorities say they have seized 42 properties that belong to an alleged drug-trafficking family with links to Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel. Prosecutor spokesman Carlos Vallecillo says 200 police officers, soldiers and investigators simultaneously raided the properties in the provinces...
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 sex crimes. The alleged attack...
An erupting volcanic island that is expanding off Japan could trigger a tsunami if its freshly-formed lava slopes collapse into the sea, scientists said Tuesday. The small, but growing, island appeared last year and quickly engulfed the already-existing island of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has thanked Malaysia for its decision to recruit more manpower from Bangladesh. She also thanked the Malaysian government to give legalisation to the Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia. The Prime Minister extended her thanks when visiting Malaysian...
Japan is to restart exports of rice grown in Fukushima for the first time since foreign sales were halted due to fears of contamination by the nuclear disaster there, officials said Tuesday. The National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh),...
Chinese troops have advanced in recent days into disputed territory claimed by India, echoing a similar incursion last year that raised tensions between the two rival giants, official sources said on Tuesday. Chinese troops twice crossed over the border into...
Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh on Tuesday blasted Al-Qaeda and Islamic State jihadists as ‘enemy number one’ of Islam, in a statement issued in Riyadh. ‘The ideas of extremism, radicalism and terrorism... have nothing to do with Islam...
The United Nations expressed concern Tuesday over the disappearance of a Maldivian journalist and urged the government to ensure that reporters could operate without fear. Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla, a 28-year-old reporter with the Minivan News website, went missing on August...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved a compact township project, 'Palli Janapad', for rural people based on cooperatives involving over Tk 4.24 billion, aiming to protect arable lands and thus ensure food security and...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday underscored the need for working for the country being imbued with the ideology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “We have to go through the biography of Bangabandhu. We have to implement his ideology by...
The director general (DG) level formal border talks between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) will begin at the BSF headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday. A joint record of discussions is expected to be signed...
The third meeting of the Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) between Bangladesh and India is likely to be held in New Delhi in September, aiming to review the status of relations between the two neighbouring countries. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali...
Three Bangladeshi construction workers have died in Malaysia when a 490 tonne concrete span collapsed to bury them at a worksite of Mass Rapid Transit Corporation (MRT Corp) Monday night, according to a news agency. Malaysian state news agency Bernama...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Tuesday alleged that BNP is hatching a conspiracy to make the country a dysfunctional one. He made the allegation while addressing a discussion titled, ‘Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Life and...
Accusing the government of trying to cement its ‘illegal and unethical power’ by making various laws and policies, leaders of the BNP-led 20-party alliance on Tuesday said there is no alternative to unseating it through a fierce and united movement....
Our Correspondent RAJSHAHI, Aug 18: At least 50 cattleheads died on being attacked with 'Badla' (rainy season) disease in Paba, Bagha and Godagari upazilas of the district during last three days. Cattleheads which used to graze at the fields of...
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NILPHAMARI, Aug 18: To overcome acute manpower shortage Syedpur railway workshop appointed 80 labourers on temporary basis. They were appointed for only 6 months on an emolument of Tk 150 per day. They will work in 11 shops of the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
PABNA, Aug 18: A cultural programme and a street theatre festival was organised in the union parishad premises on Saturday morning funded by USAID, a foreign donor agency, aiming to generate awareness among the people about the important social issues...
JESSORE, Aug 18 (UNB): A young man was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Eidgah intersection in the suburb of the district town on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Sagar, 20, son of Mohon Hazra, a resident...
KHULNA, Aug 18 (UNB): Honey collected from the Sundarbans has started earning foreign currency with its export to India from the last fiscal year. According to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), honey worth about Tk 2 million was exported to...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 18 (UNB): Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man from a mango orchard at Harina village in Bagha upazila on Sunday morning. Aminur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bagha Police Station, said locals spotted the body of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-19 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Aug 18: A 5-day long tree fair, 2014 was began at Shilpakala Academy premises in Gapalganj city today (Monday). District administration, forest department and agriculture extension department, Gopalganj, jointly organised the fair which is to continue till August 22....
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