Couple commits suicide in Natore A young couple reportedly committed suicide by hanging themselves with the same rope at Bandar village in Singra upazila in Natore on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Ashraful Islam, 26, son of Ahsan...
James Regan of Reuters from Maules Creek, Australia | 2014-06-30 00:00:00
A farmer's habit of rising before dawn finds Cliff Wallace alone most mornings while a rag-tag army of anti-coal activists camped in tents and tee-pees on his land catch a few more hours sleep. When the protest camp finally awakens,...
Muhammad Zamir | 2014-06-30 00:00:00
This year, since March, there has been a steady stream of reports both in the print and the electronic media of the use of toxic chemicals in food items, particularly fish and fruits. There have also been reports of drives...
The sudden rise of prices of a number of essentials including vegetables on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, a month of self-purification and complete abstinence, is quite disconcerting. This has been causing deep concerns among the people,...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-06-30 00:00:00
None other than the commerce minister himself reportedly stated that the price of onion would be double in the local market in the month of Ramadan. He did so after a meeting with the traders of the kitchen market held...
Neil Ray | 2014-06-30 00:00:00
Teachers are no longer the teachers they were decades ago in this part of the world. Nor are they expected to be in a country where values and ideals have become a great casualty of avarice and consumerism. Their aberration...
The writer has rightly pointed out that the public transport system in the capital is inadequate. In addition, the bus route does not cover all desired routes and the taxis are unaffordable for most people residing in the capital. The...
The much talked-about war against formalin seems to have been subsided within a short time after the authority waged this war a few days ago. Mangoes in the basket of vendors and on the show cases of the 'formalin free'...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that she has asked for a list of the people who have accounts in Swiss banks. It is understandable that persons having such accounts have laundered huge amounts of money through illegal means and...
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju | 2014-06-30 00:00:00
The 6th biennial Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) was held from June 22 - 26, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. It was organised by the Thai government in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA | 2014-06-30 00:00:00
Immersed in a whirlwind life that is always cluttered up by chaotic businesses when at times we are disconnected with our creator we need some moments, some mediums to plug us right back in. Ramadan is a month that provides...
BEIRUT, Jun 29 (agencies): Across a wide belt that stretches halfway around the globe, the world's estimated 1.6 billion Muslims will mark the beginning of Ramadan this weekend. The holy season is marred by unprecedented turmoil, violence and sectarian hatreds...
The parliamentary standing committee on Foreign Ministry on Monday suggested the formation of a Bangladesh-Myanmar parliamentary goodwill group for resolving bilateral problems. The body also recommended the ministry to remove the exiting barriers and take necessary measures to strengthen the...
KANDAHAR, June 29 (AFP): The Taliban have established a foothold in southern Afghanistan in a ten-day battle against Afghan forces, locals said Sunday, as the army and police struggle to prove they can defeat the insurgents without NATO help. A...
Bangladesh Bank has raised the limit of foreign currency that banks can hold. Commercial banks can now keep up to US$ 1.5 billion, up from the previous limit of 1.13 billion. The provision will be effective from July 1, the...
NEW DELHI, June 29 (agencies): Police in southern India detained two construction company directors Sunday as rescuers using gas cutters and shovels searched for dozens of workers believed buried in the rubble of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains....
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Monday formed a three-member probe committee to investigate the allegation brought in a research report of the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). Vice Chancellor of Begum Rokeya University Dr AKM Nurun Nabi was made convener...
BAGHDAD, June 29, (AFP): Iraqi forces pressed a counter-attack on Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit Sunday as Russia delivered Sukhoi warplanes to aid Baghdad in what diplomats warn is an existential battle against Sunni militants. Government planes pounded Tikrit with...
Japan's factory output rose a smaller-than-expected 0.5 per cent in May from a month earlier after a 2.8-per cent fall in April, data showed on Monday. The reading fell short of market expectations for a rise of 0.9 per cent....
SEOUL, June 29 (AFP): North Korea Sunday fired two ballistic missiles into the sea, Seoul's military said, in an apparent show of force ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the South. The North fired the missiles...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has taken a month-long programme to distribute Iftar items among some 60,000 fasting pedestrians in Dhaka city during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a news agency. IBBL Managing Director Mohammad Abdul Mannan inaugurated the...
WASHINGTON, June 29 (AFP): A powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the far south Atlantic ocean in the inhospitable South Sandwich Islands region, the US Geological Survey said Sunday. The USGS which monitors quakes worldwide initially said the quake was...
The European Union’s statistics office says the inflation rate for the 18-nation eurozone in June remained flat at a low 0.5 per cent. Eurostat said on Monday its initial June estimate shows the core inflation rate, which excludes volatile food...
Kerry Kennedy, President of the US-based Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Sunday visited Edward M Kennedy Center for Public Services and the Art in the city, according to a news agency. US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan...
A total of 140 members of Bangladesh Police left Dhaka for Darfur of Sudan early Saturday to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission there. Sources at the Police Headquarters said the Bangladesh Police contingent left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by...
Students of Jagannath University (JnU) have vandalised a car of Dhaka-7 MP Haji Selim’s protocol. The incident took place in presence of the independent lawmaker around 4:30pm Sunday at Naya Bazar intersection in Old Dhaka, police said. Selim confirmed bdnews24.com...
Md Bayazid Khan | 2014-06-29 00:00:00
Realising the significance of applying latest modern educational methods, our government has taken a good number of new initiatives in country's education system like developing text books, considering revised suitable curriculum, using multimedia projector in teaching, introducing domain wise assessment...
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