MAGURA, Aug 3 (UNB): A youth was killed as a bus rammed his bicycle at on Magura-Narail road in Shalikha upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Yunus Mollah, son of Meher Mollah of Deshmukhpara village of the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
JESSORE, Aug 3: The land port of Benapole has come alive after a 6-day closure and work abstention by the Customs following removal of its temporary tent by the Border Guard Bangladesh. Port users and officials and employees of different...
Strong winds and matching currents have stopped launches from travelling between Paturia and Daulatdia. Hundreds of people looking to cross the confluence of the mighty rivers Padma and Jamuna are now stranded on the banks after the operation was suspended...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
PABNA, Aug 3: A union-level Jubo League leader was shot dead at Ratanpur village of Ataikula police station in Pabna early Sunday. The deceased, Md Baki Billah, 45, son of Baher Mollah of village Ratanpur in Ataikula under Pabna district...
SHARIATPUR, Aug 3 (UNB): A man was killed and his nephew injured in an attack by miscreants in Mridhakandi area on Shariatpur-Chandpur road of Bhedarganj upazila Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sebat Ali Dewan, 55, while the injured his...
One electrocuted in Benapole A sexagenarian man died from electrocution in Murali Mor area in Sadar upazila in Benapole on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Minar Biswas, 60, son of late Meher Biswas of the area. Quoting family...
The draft of a regulation to set ceilings for fees taken by Bangladesh’s English-medium schools has been finalised, a court has heard. The Ministry of Education submitted the draft regulation to the court Monday following a writ petition, according to...
BAALBEK, Aug 3 (AP): Gunmen have killed ten Lebanese soldiers in clashes that erupted near the border with Syria after the army detained a suspected jihadist from the war-torn country, the military said Sunday. The clashes are some of the...
KABUL, Aug 3 (AFP): An audit of votes cast in Afghanistan's June presidential election resumed Sunday without the backing of Abdullah Abdullah, one of the two candidates, officials said, as the fraud-tainted poll descended into further uncertainty. The country's first...
SULAIMANIYAH, Aug 3 (AFP): Fighters from the Islamic State jihadist group on Sunday wrested control of the northwestern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border, from Kurdish forces, Kurdish officials said. "The (Kurdish) peshmerga have withdrawn from Sinjar, Daash...
LONDON: European stock markets rose on Monday, recouping some of last week's heavy losses after news of a Portuguese state rescue for Banco Espirito Santo. Banking shares got a particular boost from news of the nearly 5.0 billion euro ($6.7...
DONETSK, Aug 3 (agencies): Clashes between government troops and pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine's main rebel-held stronghold of Donetsk have killed six civilians over the past 24 hours, the city's deputy mayor said Sunday. Shooting killed six residents and left...
CAIRO, Aug 3 (AFP): A Hamas team arrived in Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian mediators on a possible truce in Gaza, an airport official and state news agency MENA said. The delegation is led by senior Hamas official...
JABALIYA, Aug 3 (agencies): Ask any child in Gaza to do a drawing and the resulting picture is likely to be a house being bombed by a fighter plane. In the strife-torn Palestinian enclave, thousands of children are suffering from...
Israel declares missing soldier dead as Gaza toll rises GAZA CITY, Aug 3: The Israeli army Sunday announced the death of Hadar Goldin, a soldier who had been missing in the Gaza Strip, as both sides of the conflict vowed...
Mark Leonard of Reuters | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
As the European Union and the United States ramp up their sanctions on Russia, President Vladimir Putin's plans for retaliation seem to include an attack on McDonald's. There could not be a more powerful symbol that geopolitics is increasingly undoing...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Nearly twenty-five years ago, Tim Berners-Lee outlined in a proposal the need for a 'world-wide web' and advocated the creation of a bill of rights to 'protect the neutral, open internet'. He did so out of the belief that there...
K. B. Ahmed | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Morality, justice and legality have been reinvented by Israel with the acquiescence of those who are powerful, supposedly advanced and claiming superior national identity. Border closing by both Israel and Egypt preventing the Gaza inhabitants from coming out may be...
Quamrul Islam Chowdhury | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The UN Open Working Group on Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (OWG SDGs) has finally picked up climate change as a stand-alone goal for the post-MDG (Millennium Development Goals) era. After long negotiations and heated debate, the OWG SDGs adopted this...
S Iftikhar Murshed from Pakistan | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
In the October 22, 1925 issue of his weekly publication, Young India, Mahatma Gandhi warned: "Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science without humanity, knowledge without character, business without ethics, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle" were the seven...
The European Union (EU), according to a report published in this paper Saturday last, has warned Bangladesh that it might impose a ban on vegetable and fruit imports from the country for non-compliance with the union's phytosanitary requirements. A high...
The 2014 Commonwealth Games has formally closed with a spectacular ceremony at Hampden Park in Glasgow. Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Deacon Blue and more than 2,000 performers brought the curtain down on what has been praised as the "best Games ever"....
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
Sugar is one of the very few essential commodities that have not been troubling their consumers for a reasonable period of time. Rather, unlike most other essentials, its price has gone down by more than 33 per cent over the...
Md. Mojammal Hoque | 2014-08-04 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has been pressurising the country's commercial banks to open school banking accounts in an increasing number. Already the banks have set targets for such bank accounts. This will affect bank rating. For this reason bank employees...
Plants are a mind-blowing creation of the Almighty and valuable resource of the earth. It is an emergency need of all the creatures. We need to take oxygen and fresh air from tree and it takes the carbon dioxide away...
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