RANGPUR, July 26 (BSS): Distribution of 17,716 tonnes rice under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme to assist the poor in celebrating holy Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr festivity has been nearing completion in Rangpur division. According to official sources, distribution of the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
MAGURA, July 26: Two persons were killed and six others critically injured in a road accident in Magura Saturday morning. Magura police station, sub inspector Ekramyl Hoque said, a Magura bound pickup from Dhaka collided with a truck from opposite...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit the Palestine Embassy in Dhaka on Monday afternoon following the Israeli aggression against the innocent Palestinians. The BNP chief will go to the Palestine Embassy at 4pm to express her condolence at the loss...
FARIDPUR, July 26 (BSS): In greater Faridpur including Rajbari, Madaripur, Gopalganj and Shariatpur districts various kinds of indigenous fish varieties were nurtured and produced in 201 'fish asylums' under Fisheries Development Project(FDP) during the last five years. According to official...
NETRAKONA, July 26 (BSS): An extensive Aman cultivation programme has been taken up in all the ten upazilas of the district during the current season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has set a plan to bring a total of 1,39,731...
RAJSHAHI, July 26 (BSS): Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has formed a 29-member development and planning advisory council aims at implementing its uplift and other activities smoothly and successfully. City mayor Musaddique Hossain Bulbul initiated the body in a pre-iftar discussion...
NATORE, July 26 (BSS): A housewife was slaughtered by unidentified miscreants at Sidhuli village under Gurudashpur upazila of the district last midnight, police sources said. The deceased was identified as Monjuara Begum, 26, wife of Manik Mian, an expatriate living...
NATORE, July 26 (UNB): A mobile court here on Friday seized 135 sacks of fake Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertiliser from a shop at Walia Bazar in Lalpur upazila here on Friday. The court also fined the owner of the...
LAXMIPUR, July 26 (UNB): An activist of local Awami League unit was gunned down by unidentified miscreants at Nandigram in Sadar upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Ahsan Ullah, son of Sultan Ahmed of the village. Police said...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, July 26: Small garments units are flourishing is Syedpur. Nearly 500 such mini-garments industries are making shirts, half pants, zinc pants and so on. At the beginning of the month of Ramjan thay started making garments by collecting cut-piece...
The government has appointed Mohamed Mijarul Quayes, currently serving as Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to Brazil. A career diplomat, Mijarul Quayes is a member of the 1982 batch of BCS (Foreign...
Quazi Faruque Ahmed | 2014-07-27 00:00:00
To make teachers creatively effective in the learning process of the young learners-boys and girls has turned as a formidable challenge in recent years not only locally but also regionally, with impact on the national agenda of different countries and...
Bangladeshi shooter Sharmin Akter Ratna was placed 3rd in the qualifying round to reach the final round of the Women's 10-metre Air Rifles in the 20th Commonwealth Games Shooting at the Barry Buddon Shooting Range in Glasgow, Scotland Saturday, reports...
COLOMBO, July 26 (AFP): Captain Hashim Amla struck a gritty 139 not out but failed to stop Sri Lanka from taking the driver's seat in the second and final Test against South Africa Saturday. Amla, 31, batted for more than...
GLASGOW, July 26 (AFP): Australia continued to dominate the Commonwealth Games swimming competition with four more golds Friday while Wales were sent reeling by a second doping shock. Australia's men's 4x100m freestyle relay team retained their title ahead of South...
GLASGOW, July 26 (AFP): Canada's Patricia Bezzoubenko was crowned queen of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow Saturday, completing a five gold medal haul in rhythmic gymnastics while the undisputed king Usain Bolt was arriving for Jamaican relay duty. Bezzoubenko had...
GLASGOW, July 26 (AFP): African champion Chika Amalaha of Nigeria, at just 16 years of age, won gold in the women's 53kg weightlifting category at the Commonwealth Games Friday. Amalaha snatched a best of 85kg before managing 111kg in the...
NEW DELHI, July 26 (AFP): Indian tennis star Sania Mirza, a Muslim wed to a Pakistani cricketer, broke down in tears Friday after being described by a Hindu nationalist politician as "Pakistan's daughter-in-law" and unfit to be an Indian representative....
LAHORE, July 26 (AFP): Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq said Friday spin would be a key factor in his side's upcoming tour of Sri Lanka as he looked to Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman to beat the islanders. The last time...
SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom, July 26 (AFP): England won't just be looking to end a sequence of 10 Tests without a win when they face India in the third Test at Southampton Sunday, they will be aiming to restore their pride....
USOC meets officials of 4 potential ’24 bid cities COLORADO SPRINGS, July 26: US Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst said Friday after meeting with officials from four American cities that he was "more optimistic than ever" that a US bid...
GAZA CITY, July 26, (agencies): The bodies of at least 85 Palestinians were recovered from the rubble across the Gaza Strip in the first half of a 12-hour humanitarian truce Saturday, medics said. Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said the...
PARIS, July 26, (AFP): US Secretary of State John Kerry and top diplomats from Europe and the Middle East gathered in Paris Saturday called for an extension to a temporary ceasefire currently in force between Israel and Hamas. Both sides...
BEIRUT, July 26, (agencies): At least 85 Syrian army troops were killed as the jihadist Islamic State advanced on a regime position in the northern province of Raqa, a monitoring group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said...
KABUL, July 26, (AP): Afghanistan's election commission on Saturday re-suspended the auditing process of 8.1 million votes cast in the presidential run-off poll, after the two candidates failed to agree on the procedure for invalidating votes. "The Independent Election Commission...
BRUSSELS, July 26, (AFP): Stung into action by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, the EU put Russia's intelligence chiefs on its sanctions list Saturday as it readied much harsher measures against Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. The...
Foreign experts inspect Taiwan plane crash site TAIPEI, July 26: International experts were examining the site of the fatal TransAsia Airways crash in Taiwan on Saturday, as new evidence surfaced that the plane may have collided with nearby trees before...
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