A man was killed in a road accident at Betuaghat on Ring Road under Charfashon Upazila of Bhopla on Sunday. The dead is Md Babul Mia, 32, son of Aslam Maji of Betuaghat. The accident occurred when a locally-made vehicle...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel seized 60 tolas of gold from Khanjia border point under Kaliganj Upazila at Satkhira on Monday. Lieutenant Colonel Shamsul Kabir of Satkhira BGB Battalion-34, Satkhira, said on a tipp-off about a consignment of gold being...
Miscreants have chopped to death a transport owners’ organisation leader at Mohotapur under Charmotua union at Noakhali on Sunday. The dead is Yusuf Ali Selim, alias Nishat Seldom, 49, the President of Noakhali Bus Owners’ Association. Police and locals said...
At least 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombardment on Tuesday, Gaza officials have said, hours after shells hit the enclave’s only power station. A thick column of black smoke was seen rising from the power station today, mingling with...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested an alleged drug trader and recovered 52 kg of hemp from him at Lalapara at Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila on Sunday evening. The arrestee was identified as Mili Begum, 35. RAB-5 sources said being tipped...
At least two people were killed and 10 others injured in separate road accident in Mymensingh town on Monday. Police and witnesses said two buses coming from opposite direction collided with each other on Maymensingh-Tangail highway near Rahmatpur on the...
A man was killed and 15 other people were injured in a collision between two passenger-packed launches in Padma River at Daulotdia under Goalondo Upazila of Rajbari district on night. The dead is Abdul Hamid, 35. Witnesses said heading towards...
A local activist of Awami League was by miscreants in Phultala Upazila in Khulna district on Sunday night. The dead is Tayeb Ali Akunji, 46, son of Shamsur Rahman Akunji, a resident of Piprail village under Zamira Union in Phultala...
An auto-rickshaw driver was found dead in Ataikula upazila in Pabna district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Saidul Islam, 32, an auto-rickshaw driver and son of Moslem Pramanik of Mahendrapur of Pabna Sadar Upazila. Informed by locals, police...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said her party's post-Eid movement for fresh polls under an interim government will be an orderly programme. She said this while talking to reporters after meeting diplomats and eminent citizens at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
Creating geo-economic groupings with a political slant has been on for some time. There are the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia. In Latin America, there is the...
Nazir Ahmed | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
On the day of writing this article, Israel has continued its brutal and barbaric offensive on the Gaza Strip for the 15th consecutive day. It has continued with the policy of collective punishment in total disregard for the international law...
Lucy O\'Carroll | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
The Bretton Woods conference aimed to reshape the international financial system and end the protectionism that, in the view of the US and UK, had contributed to the drift towards the Second World War. Seventy years on, does the recently...
One of the greatest religious festivals mankind has ever known and certainly the greatest for the Muslims, Eid-ul-Fitr makes a powerful statement for human civilisation. The festival is a culmination of a thorough test of man's earthly existence, to which...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
The stage is now set for celebration of one of the greatest religious festivals of the Muslims living in this part of the world tomorrow (Tuesday) or the day after. The observance of the holy yet festive occasion will depend...
Neil Ray | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
Dhaka City now wears a rather unfamiliar look. Unfamiliar in the sense that its roads and alleys are almost vacant. Only the shopping centres and malls are still buzzing with people so busy with break-neck last-minute purchases. How welcome it...
The passport delivery slip issued by the Regional Passport Office, Agargaon, Dhaka indicated the probable delivery date 12th June'14 but I appeared there two weeks later apprehending probable delay in issuing passport. I deposited the delivery slip at the counter...
We happily noticed comparatively hassle-free travel on the country's highways, waterways and rail this year even though a large number of people headed home for the Eid holidays. This is indeed relieving for us as every year we are used...
We are indeed happy to learn that the Jahangirnagar University authority has expelled three female students for abusing a fresher in the name of ragging. I believe it is an exemplary punishment and other public universities should follow suit. In...
Md Mashiur Rahman | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
Paper money is a currency issued by a government or its central bank. The currency is printed on paper that can be circulated as a substitute for specie. On the other hand, transaction is the function that has its effect...
S Iftikhar Murshed from Pakistan | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
Pakistan is at war but its all-powerful prime minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif, is nowhere around. Last Sunday (July 27) he flew off to Saudi Arabia where he and his family will spend the last days of Ramazan in prayer, contemplation...
Alexandra Hudson and Sabine Siebold of Reuters from Berlin | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
For lawmaker Jan van Aken, little symbolizes more potently all that he finds indefensible about Germany's arms exports than the German and French-made anti-tank missile that he was shown in northern Syria. From its serial number, he believes the 1970s...
Sruthi Gottipati of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
India's new Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing criticism for remaining silent about incidents deemed anti-Muslim in the past week, underscoring fears that his Hindu nationalist followers will upset religious relations in the multi-faith nation. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party swept...
Paul Mooney of Reuters from Yangon | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
A senior UN official last week warned of a growing polarisation between Buddhist and Muslim communities in Myanmar and said the living conditions in camps housing displaced Muslims were deplorable. Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, held...
Raheem Salman of Reuters from Baghdad | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
Gunmen in army uniforms have seized a senior local official and prominent member of a Sunni Islamist party from his Baghdad home, police and security sources said on Saturday. In a sign of the breakdown of security in and around...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
RANGPUR July 27: The cultivation of the hybrid variety BRRI dhan-48 paddy in the northern region has shown great potential in addressing food security and coping with the climate change effects. Farmers of the district are showing eagerness in cultivating...
CHANDPUR, July 27 (UNB): Angry relatives vandalised a hospital and assaulted two people, including a physician, in the district town in connection with the death of a patient for alleged negligence of treatment. The victim was identified as Shamsul Haque...
PANCHAGARH, July 27 (UNB): Topi (prayer cap) manufacturers at Mathaphata village in Tentulia upazila are passing a very busy time as the demand for the item has increased significantly ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. During a visit to the village, our Pnachagarh...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-28 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, July 27: Processing of jute is going on in full swing in Nilphamari district amidst acute labour shortage. Remuneration of a labour has gone up to Tk 400 per day as a result processing cost also gone up. A...
KHULNA, July 27 (UNB): Currency note forgers have become active in the south-western region, including Khulna, ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. Taking advantage of the rush of Eid shopping, the forger gangs are spreading fake notes of different denominations at markets through...
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