Bangladesh Coast Guard members rescued five fishermen from Laldia Char of the Sundarbans under Patharghata upazila in Barguna district, after three days into their abduction, according to a news agency. Pirates kidnapped 26 fishermen along with a fishing trawler from...
Speakers at a national seminar in Dhaka on Monday called for bringing the street children into mainstream of the society through proper rehabilitation. All should come forward to check the causes forcing children into street and preventive measures are needed...
The High Court (HC) on Monday asked the government to provide machine readable passport (MRP) to BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee within seven days. An HC bench comprising Justice Salma Masud Chowdhury and Justice Habibul Gani passed the order...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
RANGPUR, July 6: About 5,000 tonnes of urea fertiliser have been kept under the open sky due to lack of adequate space in the buffer stock godown in Rangpur district. As a result the quality of fertilisers is getting affected...
RU Correspondent | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, July 6: The University of Rajshahi (RU), one of the largest and most attractive higher education institutions in the country. From the historical background Rajshahi city, standing on the Padma and holding the tradition of kings and Sultans,...
The government has directed authorities to curtail working hours by two and a half hours a week during Ramadan for employees working in commercial organisations and industries, according to a news agency. The order was issued Monday, the eighth day...
KHULNA, July 6 (UNB): Jute goods export from state-owned jute mills of Khulna-Jessore industrial belt has registered a sharp fall of 38.65 percent in the just concluded fiscal compared to its preceding fiscal. Industry insiders put the blame on lack...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
JESSORE, July 6: The target of revenue earnings at Benapole customs house was not achieved in the fiscal year 2013-2014 with a shortfall of Tk 1.19 billion. Confirming the information, Golam Kibria, official of the customs house said that revenue...
RAJSHAHI, July 6 (BSS): Jamila Begum, 35, wife of a day-labourer, Mominul Islam, is now at the threshold of eradicating her long-lasting poverty through household-based chicken rearing through modern method. Jamila, mother of three daughters and a son and a...
NILPHAMARI, July 6 (BSS): Nine unions of Kisherganj upazila under Nilphamari district has been declared as beggar-free areas. Lawmakers of Nilphamri-3 and Nilphamari-4 made the declaration at a "Rally for Humanity" (Manobatar Somabesh), attended by 916 beggars who have been...
Fisheries and Livestock Minister M Sayedul Haque on Monday said the government will take all necessary steps, including providing easy loan for farmers, to boost the country’s fish production and export. Bangladesh is currently in the fifth position in fish...
BARGUNA, July 6 (BSS): Ferry services on different routes of Barguna and Patuakhali, two important coastal districts of the country, have been disrupting since long due to old and obsolete ferries in operation. In all, 10 ferries of 30-40 years...
Criticising the government for what she said its misrule and repressive acts, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Monday renewed her threat to wage a united resistance against the current regime after the upcoming Eid. “The rule of Awami League is...
KISHOREGANJ, July 6 (UNB): A policewoman was crushed to death under a train at Kishoreganj Railway Station on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Ajufa Khatun, 38, sub-inspector of Gazipur district court. She hailed from Gujadia village in Karimganj upazila....
Sylhet Division unit of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers’ Federation will enforce a dawn-to-dusk transport strike in four districts of the division on Tuesday to press home their three-point demand. The demands are immediate arrest of the killers of driver Jahangir,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, July 6: The Rajshahi University (RU) and Confucius Institute of North South University in China yesterday signed an agreement to set up a Chinese Language Teaching Centre in the university said a press release. Maa Yean, director of...
The government has appointed four new directors to the state-owned BASIC Bank Board of Directors for the next three years. The four new directors are Hasan Mahmud, FCA, Rayhana Anisa Yusuf Ali, former MD of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation,...
744 tonnes VGF rice allocated in Narail The government has allocated 744 tonnes of rice for the distressed and ultra poor people of Narail on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme. District relief and rehabilitation...
BAGHDAD, July 6 (agencies): The first appearance of self-proclaimed "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video shot in an Iraqi mosque illustrates the extent of his jihadist group's control and confidence. Baghdadi, whose Islamic State (IS) group holds territory in...
LEH, July 6 (AFP): The Dalai Lama Sunday reiterated his plea to Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to halt violence against Muslims, in a speech to tens of thousands of devotees to mark his 79th birthday. In front of...
KIEV, July 6 (AFP): Resurgent Ukrainian forces on Sunday pursued retreating pro-Russian rebels after seizing their symbolic bastion in a morale-boosting win that appeared to dim hopes for a ceasefire in the bloody separatist insurgency. Western-backed President Petro Poroshenko called...
KAMPALA, July 6 (AFP): Ugandan troops have killed 41 attackers in a major battle with tribal gunmen in a western district near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, an army spokesman said Sunday. It was not immediately clear...
HINDI, July 6 (AFP): At least 18 people have been killed in new attacks in Kenya's Lamu coastal region, the same area where some 60 people were massacred last month, the Kenyan Red Cross said Sunday. A spokesman for Somalia's...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim Monday urged the Singapore government to recruit doctors and nurses from Bangladesh. Alongside, the minister also called upon the specialist physicians of Singapore to impart training to doctors of Bangladesh on various subjects....
Court hands Palestinian-US teen 9 days house arrest JERUSALEM, July 6: A Jerusalem court ordered Sunday that a Palestinian American teenager, who was allegedly beaten in police custody, be released to house arrest for nine days pending an investigation into...
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