Four people perished and 20 others were hurt when a flash flood swept through a festival in Italy on Saturday night. After a 10-minute burst of heavy rain before midnight, the Lierza river overflowed its banks, sweeping away residents, stands,...
Three suspected Shebab Islamic militants were executed by firing squad in Mogadishu on Sunday, Somali police said. All three had been condemned to death for murder, police chief Abdi Mohamed said, with one of the men allegedly taking part in...
Chinese state media early Sunday said that 37 civilians and 59 ‘terrorists’ had been killed in a terror attack in Xinjiang, home to China's mainly Muslim Uighur minority, earlier in the week. The official Xinhua news agency added that police...
At least 26 people were killed and dozens injured when a strong earthquake hit southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday, the official news agency Xinhua reported.’As of 7:10 pm (1110 GMT), 26 residents were killed, two were missing, and 79...
The Primary and Ebtedayee Terminal Examinations-2014 will begin in the country on November 23. The examinations are scheduled to end on November 30 while the result is likely to publish on December 28. The decisions were taken at a meeting...
A court in Feni on Sunday issued a warrant for the arrest of local BNP leader Mahtab Uddin Chowdhury Minar, the prime accused in Fulgazi Upazila Parishad chairman Ekramul Haque murder case. Acting Judge of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Alamgir...
At least four people, including a man and his grandson, were killed and two others injured in two road crashes in Bhaluka and Nandail Upazilas in Mymensingh district on Sunday. Two women – Saleha, 28, and Lota Begum, 45, of...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged Israel on Sunday to end military operations in Gaza and lift its blockade of the Palestinian enclave. Wang made his comments at a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukri, whose government is...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has summoned the editor of Daily Sangram and three other people for reporting and commenting on sub-judice matters. The ICT-1 on Sunday ordered Sangram Editor Abul Asad, the paper’s Rangpur correspondent, Rangpur’s former ‘freedom fighter...
Clashes between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine's main rebel-held stronghold of Donetsk have killed six civilians over the past 24 hours, the city's deputy mayor said. Shooting killed six residents and left 13 injured in the western...
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has announced that it will pay Tuba Group workers two months’ wages on Wednesday. After a meeting of the association’s top functionaries on Sunday afternoon, BGMEA acting President AM Mannan Kochi announced...
Ten Lebanese soldiers have been killed and 13 more are missing, possibly being held hostage, as troops battle gunmen near the Syrian border, Lebanon's army chief said on Sunday. General Jean Kahwaji announced the new toll and the missing troops...
Clashes between rival militias in Tripoli have killed at least 22 people and wounded 72, the Libyan government said on Sunday, warning of a ‘worsening humanitarian situation’ in the capital. The latest fighting, which broke out on Saturday, takes the...
The current round of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza began on July 8 and expanded with an Israeli ground assault on July 17. Here is a summary of the main numbers on day 27 of the operation:...
Brazil, the five times World Cup champions, on Sunday offered to train Bangladesh’s football coaches in the Latin American country to help improve the standard of Bangladesh football. ‘We’re very glad to offer training for your (BD) coaches in Brazil,’...
At least 10 people died in a fresh strike on a UN school in Gaza Sunday shortly after Israel confirmed it had begun withdrawing some troops from the war-torn enclave. The strike on the school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the...
Egypt has increased the amount of electricity it provides to Gaza and urged Israel to repair power lines damaged during Israeli bombardment that has left at least one million people without electricity, an Egyptian official said. The official told that...
A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mobile court in Dhaka on Sunday unearthed an illegal veterinary medicine factory and fined three people, including its managing director, a total of Tk 0.4 million. The mobile court also sealed off the factory at...
The US Ambassador-at-large for the Office of Global Criminal Justice, Stephen J Rapp, will arrive in Dhaka on Monday, his fifth visit since the beginning of the war crimes trials in Bangladesh. He will arrive in the morning on a...
At least 175 people were killed and 1,300 injured after a strong earthquake hit southwest China's mountainous Yunnan province Sunday, state media said. The quake in Zhaotong prefecture, in the province's northeast, toppled buildings and left residents frantically searching for...
At least 150 people have been killed and scores more injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck in south-west China, state media say. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck about 11km (7 miles) north-west of Wenping in Yunnan...
Police in South Africa have arrested a British fugitive drugs dealer and convicted fraudster who has been on the run for three years, police announced Sunday. Martin Evans, 52, from Swansea in Wales, was captured Saturday in Johannesburg. He will...
Civil Surgeon of Brahmanbaria Dr Narayan Chandra Dash has been made OSD under the Directorate General of Health Services on charges of graft. Dr Narayan has been made OSD at directive of Health and Family Planning Minister Mohammad Nasim for...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday said conspiracy is going on against Bangladesh from many big "powerhouses". She urged the party workers to remain ready for making sacrifice as they had made for punishment of the killers of Bangabandhu after 1975,...
Alleging that a deep-rooted conspiracy by influential quarters is still going on against Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she will work tirelessly for the country’s people as she is not afraid of bullets, bombs and minus-two formula....
The RMG workers of five Tuba Group factories on Sunday rejected the payment offer made by the authorities and threatened to continue their unto-death hunger strike if their three months’ salaries and bonus are not paid together. A tripartite meeting...
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had decided to stay at his personal residence at Dhanmandi (Road) 32 instead of the official Prime Minister's bungalow, "Ganobhaban", to keep in touch with the people, said his private secretary, Dr...
Punitive action has been taken against four policemen of Phulbari Police Station of Kurigram in connection with the fleeing of an accused from police custody. Three constables -– Abu Bakar Siddique, Anisur Rahman and Shahjahan Ali – were suspended while...
Mitra Guha Neogi | 2014-08-03 00:00:00
Recently, an enactment has been made that public examinations (HSC and SSC) should be conducted without any interval in the exam schedule with exception to public holidays with a view to reducing question paper leakage that occurs almost every year...
S A Mansoor | 2014-08-03 00:00:00
Education leads to expanding our area of perception about things and events around us. It should help us to develop a logical and rational thought process, encouraging an inquiring and broad minded attitude and judgement in all our social and...
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