The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh on Wednesday signed an agreement for a $100-million loan to help improve the capacity, efficiency and safety of railway systems in Bangladesh. Secretary of the Economic Relations Division (ERD) Mohammad...
Dhaka Wasa (Dwasa) on Wednesday signed a deal with four NGOs to provide water connections to Sattola Slum dwellers in the city’s Mohakhali area. Engr Taqsem A Khan, managing director of Dhaka Wasa, and representatives from Dustha Shasthya Kendra (DSK),...
Tuba Group workers have threatened to strike down all readymade garment factories across Bangladesh Saturday if their five-point charter of demand is not met by Thursday. Tuba Group Sramik Sangram (workers' action) Committee Convenor Moshrefa Mishu declared their plans Wednesday...
Grameenphone has launched an exciting offer for its valued customers, which will allow all GP customers to enjoy all day internet only at Tk 1 without any hidden cost. Through this very affordable micro pack, interested GP customers, vast majority...
Two more Bangladesh nationals were killed having been caught in clashes at Serraj in Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday. Another Bangladeshi was also injured in the incident, said a Foreign Ministry release Wednesday, according to a news agency. The deceased were...
As directed by the party chairperson, the top leaders of BNP’s Dhaka city unit had a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, aiming to work out its plan for making the unit stronger and get it ready for a vigorous movement in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the relations among Saarc member countries could be strengthened further through generation of hydroelectricity in Nepal and its marketing. Hasina made the remarks when Nepal’s Minister for Energy Radha Kumar Gyawall paid a...
Bangladesh and South Africa Wednesday agreed to strengthen ties on all fronts apart from exporting pharmaceuticals, readymade garments, furniture and plastic products by Bangladesh to the South African market, according to a news agency. Both countries also agreed to hold...
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JHENIDAH, Aug 5: Cultivation of Apel Kul (plum) on limited span of land of isles of fish enclosures has opened new doors of prospect for small and marginal fish farmers of Gududia union under Dumuria Upazila in Khulna. Fish farmers...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned or curbed agricultural imports from countries imposing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine. In a decree published on the Kremlin website (in Russian), he ordered the measures to be introduced for one...
RANGPUR, Aug 5 (BSS): Adolescent Mokmaine Akhter Mahi, 14, got a new life as her settled marriage was stopped here in the city on Monday by timely intervention of the administration. It became possible after formation of a mobile court...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 5 (BSS): The massive and unabated erosion in the river Padma has been posing a serious threat to the city protection embankment, officials and others concerned said here. In the wake of both rising and receding floodwater in...
NETRAKONA, Aug 5 (UNB): A court here on Tuesday convicted three people, including a woman, and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for hurling acid on a housewife in 2007. The convicts were Barek, Siddik and Rezia, residents of Bausi...
PANCHAGARH, Aug 5 (BSS): Commercial cultivation of creeper arum (Loti Kochu) is increasing in Panchagarh district. It is extensively cultivated mainly in the Debiganj upazila of the district. However, now it is being cultivated in Debiduba and Sonaher union parishads...
JESSORE, Aug 5 (BSS): A man was killed in a train accident at Jessore Railway Junction last night. The deceased was identified as Hafizur Rahman, 45, son of Chan Mia of Birampur village in Sadar upazila of the district. Police...
Italy's economy has fallen back into recession, latest official figures show, after contracting for two quarters in a row. GDP, the value of all the country's goods and services, shrank 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of the year....
BENAPOLE, Aug 5 (BSS): Two persons were killed and five others injured in seperate road accidents in Sharsha upazila here on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Abder Ali and Abdul Hakim. Police said the first accident occurred when a...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 5 (BSS): The construction work of a three-storied building of Sadar Upazila Server Station under Bangladesh Election Commission has ended at Circuit House area of the town here recently. Public Works Department (PWD) implemented the work at a...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 5 (UNB): A man was shot dead by some miscreants at Vilagerchhara village in Banshkhali upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Mojaher Ahmad, 58, a resident of the village. Qamrul Hasan, officer-in-charge of Banshkhali Police Station,...
33,071 tonnes of rice procured in Jamalpur Food Department procured 33,071 tonnes of rice in Jamalpur this year. An official source said, against the target of 33,241 tonnes of rice, the Food Department could procure 33,071 tonnes from the mill...
JERUSALEM, Aug 5, (agencies): Gaza fell silent on Tuesday after a month of intense combat, as a 72-hour truce accepted by Israel and Hamas came into effect and the last Israeli troops left the battered enclave. Just minutes before the...
SYDNEY, Aug 5 (AFP): Australia will toughen laws to target home-grown terrorists and those who fight overseas over fears violent jihadist citizens in Syria and Iraq will return home, officials said Tuesday. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the terror threat...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (AFP): Former Pakistani cricket hero turned opposition leader Imran Khan Tuesday announced he would hold a major protest in the capital Islamabad next week to force the government into holding fresh elections. Khan, who leads the third...
JAKARTA, Aug 5 (agencies): Jailed Indonesian militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has pledged allegiance to jihadists who have overrun swathes of Iraq and claimed leadership of the world's Muslims, a radical group said Tuesday. The news came as authorities in...
KIEV, Aug 5, (AP): Pro-Kremlin rebels in eastern Ukraine are hampering the treatment of a growing number of civilian casualties by threatening doctors, hijacking ambulances and looting medical equipment, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. "Pro-Russian insurgents' attacks on medical units...
TOKYO, Aug 5, (AFP): Japan warned Tuesday that China's "dangerous acts" over territorial claims in the East China Sea could lead to "unintended consequences" in the region, as fears grow of a potential military clash. The comments appeared in an...
Van plunge kills 16 in Pakistani Kashmir MUZAFFARABAD, Aug 5: At least 16 people were killed when a passenger van plunged into a deep ravine in Pakistan's Kashmir region on Tuesday, officials said.The accident happened in the area of Chattha...
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