Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury met the Speakers of the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the British Parliament. She met Speaker of the House of Commons Rt. Hon John Bercow, MP and Speaker of the House...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed her “deep shock and profound grief” over the crash of Malaysian passenger airliner MH 17 in Ukraine. In a message to her Malaysian counterpart Najib Abdul Razak, Hasina also conveyed her “deepest sympathies” to...
The US ambassador-designate to Bangladesh has said the Jan 5 parliamentary elections were “undeniably flawed” and that she would take forward Washington’s policy to the country if her nomination confirmed. Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat submitted her statement about Bangladesh for...
RANGPUR, July 17 (BSS): Local employment and income generation opportunities have been assisting 0.16 million extremely poor people, including distressed women, in becoming self-reliant through changing fortune in Rangpur region. They have been earning well through vegetable cultivation, milk production,...
MANIKGANJ, July 17 (BSS): The Jamuna riverbank erosion has taken serious turn as vast areas of Daulatpur and Shibalaya upazilas of the district have been eroded during the last one month. Around 3,000 families of the two upazilas are passing...
MIRSARAI, July 17 (UNB): Lack of repair and maintenance of a large number of decrepit roads across Mirsarai upazila has led to immense sufferings to local people. Talking to locals and officials while visiting different areas, the UNB correspondent found...
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GOPALGANJ, July 17: One person was killed and five others injured, three of them critically in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Dumdia under Gopalganj Sadar Upazila of the district Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Yousuf Ali (24),...
BAGERHAT, July 17 (UNB): A court here on Thursday sentenced three people to death and six others to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Fakirhat upazila of the district in 2003. The condemned convicts are Tapan Mandal, son...
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JESSORE, July 17: Jessore based journalist Saifur Rahman Saif achieved great success in freelancing. One of his stories on outsourcing was published in a prestigious book- Freelance Success Stories, edited by Nick Passig and published by Rio World Class, Denver,...
KHULNA, July 17 (BSS): The district has witnessed a luxuriant growth of jute in this season due to favourable weather, and so, a bumper production of the cash crop is firmly expected. In two upazilas of the district, the production...
GAZIPUR, July 17 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a worker from a poultry farm at Aktarpara in Sreepur upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Shimul Miah, 28, son of Abdul Matin, a resident of Rasulpur village...
CHANDPUR, July 17 (UNB): At least 24 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at a market in Faridganj upazila early Wednesday. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a cloth shop...
BRAHMANBARIA, July 17 (UNB): A security guard on duty at night was hacked to death by some miscreants at Amtoli Bazar in a suburb of the district early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Joynal Miah, 55, son of Lail...
SAVAR, July 17 (UNB): A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Gangutia village in Savar upazila of Dhaka district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mousumi Akhter, wife of Habibur Rahman, an army personnel and a resident...
Tk 10m Indian clothes seized in Satkhira Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge Indian smuggled clothes worth Tk 10 million at Lashkarpara in Satkhira Wednesday night. Major Hasan, operation officer of Satkhira BGB Battalion-38, said on secret information,...
Welcoming criticisms from journalists over her government’s various programmes, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged Friday the media people to be careful so that their criticisms do not hamper the country’s development, according to a news agency. “You can criticise, but...
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Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction program, US officials said. Jordan's reticence, confirmed by four US officials, is a potentially...
KABUL, July 17 (Reuters): Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday in one of the most audacious assaults on the facility, used by both civilians and the military, in a year. The...
GAZA, July 17 (BBC): Israel's foreign minister and Hamas have denied earlier reports of a truce deal to end fighting in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian militants. Avigdor Lieberman said the reports were "as of now incorrect", and Hamas, which...
WASHINGTON, July 17 (AFP): The United States and Europe strengthened sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine Wednesday, with President Barack Obama taking his first direct swipes in the finance, military and energy sectors of the Russian economy. The American package of...
Speakers on Thursday urged all to boycott the products of the US, Israel and the European countries in protest against the Israeli aggression against Gaza. The call was made from a meeting organised by Bangladesh Shanti Parishad in front of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for undertaking a master plan in each upazila (UZ) to ensure planned urbanisation and thus render better services to people. “My directives are already there to render much better services to...
Airbus says it secured $75.3 billion in orders and commitments for 496 aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow — a record for the company at the premier aviation event in terms of dollar value and in aircraft. The orders included the...
RAJSHAHI, July 16 (BSS): The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has realised around Taka 1.78 billion as irrigation charge in the last 2013-14 fiscal, up by Taka 17.89 crore over the previous 2012-13 fiscal. According to the sources concerned, over...
GAIBANDHA, July 16 (BSS): Some 75 poor people of Urya union of Fulchhari upazila get sanitary materials ring-slab worth Taka 60,000 from Local Government Support Project (LGSP)-2 on Tuesday. The objective of the materials distribution was to inspire the poor...
RANGPUR, July 16 (BSS): Speakers at the inaugural ceremony a three-day fruit tree fair yesterday called for enhancing fruit production to meet nutritional demand side by side attaining self-reliance through alleviate poverty. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Chilmari...
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