Dhaka is going to host an international workshop on ‘blue economy’ with experts and representatives from 20 countries. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open the two-day workshop on Monday. This will be the first such workshop Bangladesh will host, according...
British authorities have been accused of funding a four-year intelligence operation in Nepal that led to Maoist rebels being arrested, tortured and killed during the country’s civil war. Thomas Bell, the author of a new book on the conflict, says...
Accusing the government of formulating anti-people policies, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Sunday said democracy is gasping in the country following the January-5 farcical election. In a statement, she said, “The country’s independence and sovereignty are now at stake while democracy...
The committee, formed by the government to investigate the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder incident, Sunday quizzed deputy inspector general (Dhaka range) SM Mahfuzul Haque Nuruzzaman. Shahjahan Ali Mollah, the chief of the probe committee, formed by the Public Administration Ministry on...
Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) conducted a drive again at Satchhari jungles along the Indian border in Chunarughat upazila of Habjganj on Sunday to recover arms and ammunition. However, no arms and ammunition could be recovered during...
The upcoming Dhaka University (DU) admission test will have 301,138 candidates vying for 6,582 seats, creating a seat-contender ratio of 1:46. DU Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique gave the details at the central admission office Sunday after announcing the closure...
The Election Commission (EC) is set to start updating the voter list in the capital city, including the cantonment board, on Monday. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad said this at a press briefing at the EC Media Centre in...
The 3rd session of the 10th parliament will begin at 5 pm on Monday at the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Bhaban. President M Abdul Hamid summoned the session on 11 August as per Article 72 (1) of the constitution, according to...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Monday brought some changes to the repatriation of sale proceeds of non-resident owned equity in unlisted companies purchased by residents. "It has now been decided that in such cases Bangladesh Bank will accept fair value of...
Tahseen Rashid | 2014-08-31 00:00:00
In the old days, money would be saved within bamboo shoots and piggy banks, but now, they are just for show and used in banking advertisements. In this money-swindling world, the habit of saving, for what is important, is becoming...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2014-08-31 00:00:00
Considering the significance of ensuring primary education to all school going children in Bangladesh, government has taken many unprecedented as well as history making initiatives in the recent years. The most remarkable initiatives taken by the government for developing primary...
Assalamulaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh On behalf of the Government and the people of Malaysia, I would like to extend my warmest greetings and best wishes to the people and the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh on this auspicious occasion...
Malaysia's tourism industry continues to assume a key role in the country's Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) to propel it into a high-income nation by the year 2020. Last year, the tourism sector contributed RM51.5 billion to Malaysia's Gross National Income...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday urged all, including the student community, to remain alert against those committed the August 15 and August 21 killings, and now want to foil the achievements of independence and deter the country’s advancement. The Prime...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-31 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Aug 30: At least 300 families at different villages under Gangachara Upazila in the district were rendered homeless during last couple of weeks owing to serious erosion by the river Teesta. The most affected villages are char Nohali, Boirati,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-31 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Aug 30: The availability of different species of local freshwater fish is not as sufficient as expected in this rainy season. These varieties of fish were found in abundance at this time in the markets in the past. Sources...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-31 00:00:00
KHULNA, Aug 30: Boro procurement drive is facing a setback in Khulna district of this season because of higher price of paddy and rice in the local markets than the rate fixed by the government. It is expected that the...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 30 (BSS): Implementation work of the 'Upazila Freedom Fighters Complex Construction Project' is now going on throughout the country successfully as recognition to supreme sacrifice of the great sons of the soil to the nation. Local Government Engineering...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 30 (BSS): Overall flood situation in char areas and the Brahmaputra river basin under four upazilas in the district has started improving since Friday night with the recession of flood waters. The officials of Bangladesh Water Development Board...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 30 (UNB): An old man was killed after falling under a running train at Shairgacha in the city on Friday morning. The victim was identified as Gendu Mollah, 65, hailing from Yusufdia village in Salta upazila of Faridpur...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) celebrates its 36th founding anniversary across the country on Monday through various programmes. On September 1, 1978, late President Ziaur Rahman founded the party with a 19-point programme to build a self-reliant Bangladesh. BNP and its...
THAKURGAON, Aug 30 (UNB): Police recovered the bodies of two people from separate places in Sadar upazila on Saturday. Among the deceased one was identified as Asma, 35, wife of Mozammel Haque of Banshgara village in Sadar upazila while identity...
HABIGANJ, Aug 30 (BSS): A truck driver was electrocuted at Natun Bazar under Bahubal upazila of the district this morning. The victim was Azizur Rahman, 35, son of Sundar Ali of Biharipur village of the upazila. Police said Azizur was...
RANGAMATI, Aug 30 (BSS): Fifteen special teams of health department are working for eradicating malaria from the district. The teams are working under a programme titled "fight to eradicate malaria" in remote areas to build awareness among people about the...
5 women rescued while being trafficked Police rescued five women while being trafficked to India and arrested three suspected traffickers from a farm house in Bhomra port area in Sadar upazila in Satkhira on Saturday. The arrestees were identified as...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (AFP): Pakistan's Prime Minister Saturday dismissed a political crisis triggered by protests aimed at unseating his government as "a tiny storm" that would be ended soon. Thousands of supporters of opposition leader Imran Khan and populist cleric...
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