Billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil AMXL.MX said on Tuesday it is ready to divest assets in an unprecedented step to cut its market share in Mexican telecoms below 50 per cent and escape the burden of tougher regulations. The company,...
At least 11 people, including three women, sustained bullet injuries in a clash between two factions of local Awami League (AL) over establishing supremacy in Lohagarah upazila of Chittagong on Wednesday. Locals said Nurul Absar, deputy publicity secretary of district...
LGRD Minister and Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Wednesday said the ruling party is happy over the maritime boundary verdict settling a long-pending dispute with India. “We’re very happy over the verdict. Thanks to India for accepting...
LGRD Minister and Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said Wednesday the ruling party is happy over the maritime boundary verdict settling a long-pending dispute with India. “We’re very happy over the verdict. Thanks to India for accepting the...
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on Wednesday said the government has no plan to hold Zila Parishad (ZP) polls any time soon. “There’s a process to hold Zila Parishad polls…the process is underway. On completion of the process, I hope...
The High Court has summoned two police officials for failing to make any arrest after a garment worker was dragged and raped in a microbus in Mirpur. Justices Farah Mahbub and Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo gave the order after...
A Dhaka court has ordered five days police custody for the seven persons arrested over the attack on former student leader AKM Enamul Haque Shamim. Recording officer of the Court Police Mahitul Islam said that the court of Dhaka Metropolitan...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) launched Wednesday a probe into the graft allegation against the chief building inspector of Rajuk (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha). The Commission in its regular meeting decided to launch a probe against Rajuk chief building inspector M...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader asked Wednesday the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to stop haphazard parking of vehicles on roads for unimpeded vehicular movement ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, according to a news agency. The communication boss came up with the...
Rail communications of Dhaka with Chittagong and Sylhet remained snapped from Wednesday afternoon following the derailment of a freight train in Palash upazila of Narsingdi. Shahjahan, stationmaster of Narsigdi Railway Station, said two bogies of the Chittagong-bound container train from...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday urged the people of all strata to get united to save the country from the destruction being carried out by the Awami League-led alliance government. “The current repressive regime is destroying the country. It...
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JHENIDAH, July 8: Mujibnagar Integrated Agricultural Development Project (MIADP), a DAE component, is playing a major role in disseminating agri-technologies among the farmers of 19 upazilas under four districts - Jhenidah, Kushtia, Chuadanga and Meherpur- of S-W region of Bangladesh....
RAJSHAHI, July 8 (BSS): All the existing services being delivered towards the grassroots peoples need to be more coordinated and accelerated and that is very important for empowerment coupled with improving living and livelihood condition of the rural masses, speakers...
FENI, July 8 (UNB): Two people, including a bank employee, were killed in a head-on collision between a microbus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Feni-Noakhali Highway in Daganbhuiyan upazila on Monday night. The deceased were identified as Ruhul Amin, office...
The lower house of Mexico's congress has approved tough restrictions on dominant companies in the country's telephone and television sectors. The new rules must still be signed into law, but they have already forced the nation's leading telephone carrier to...
PANCHAGARH, July 8 (BSS): A boy and a woman were killed by a thunderbolt in Debiganj upazila of the district this morning. The victim Promoth Chandra Roy18, son of Khogendra Nath Roy was a resident of village Baniapara of the...
GAIBANDHA, July 8 (BSS): Agriculture experts urged the farmers to cultivate Pariza Paddy, an indigenous variety, on high and medium high land to get additional crop during the off-season. Experts said after the harvesting of early variety of Boro paddy...
RANGPUR, July 8 (BSS): Continuous improvement of all health indexes along with increasing mass public awareness has substantially reduced recurrence of waterborne diseases and related deaths in the rural areas. During the past five years, the rural people have achieved...
MYMENSINGH, July 8 (BSS): Fisheries experts at a seminar today described the fish sector as one of the profitable sectors through which the government earned taka over 4000 crore annually by exporting it. Besides, 84 millions tonnes of fishes are...
The European Commission (EC) for Trade on Tuesday said Bangladesh must do more to ensure the safety and health at work in addition to continued improvement in freedom of association and collective bargaining in the country. “The government of Bangladesh...
NETRAKONA, July 8 (BSS): A special farmers- friendly programme for free distribution of government- allocated Aman paddy seeds and fertilizers among the storm-affected farmers of three unions under Purbadhala upazila of the district started at Jaria union parishad office premises...
RANGPUR, July 8 (UNB): A local Jubo Dal activist was chopped to death by miscreants in Satghara Mistripara of the city Monday. The deceased was identified as Farhad,28, son of Kutu, a resident of Munsipara of the city.. Police and...
JHENIDAH, July 8 (UNB): A young man was found dead at Gabla village in Shailkupa upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Faruk Hossain,30, son of Makbul Hossain, a resident of Halpara village of the same upazila. Family...
750 kg stolen VGF rice recovered in Bhola Police recovered 750 kgs of VGF rice from a building at Char Manika Bazar of Charfassion Upazila of Bhola Sunday. The rice was allocated for rehabilitation of the fishermen under Char Manika...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Wednesday said constructive and in-depth reporting by the journalists who cover parliament proceedings would help make the 10th parliament more effective. “It’s our expectations we’ll make the 10th parliament more effective through joint efforts,”...
KABUL, July 8 (agencies): Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory on Tuesday in Afghanistan's disputed election, blaming fraud for putting him behind in preliminary results as fears rise of instability and ethnic unrest. Abdullah told a rally of thousands of...
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