Pakistani officials on Sunday accused Indian troops of killing a civilian and wounding four others in ‘unprovoked firing’ across the border in its eastern province of Punjab. India and Pakistan often accuse each other of violating a 2003 ceasefire agreement....
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Miscreants have shot an engineer on a motorbike near the Adabor Police Station to snatch away Tk 250,000 from him. Within a few hours of this incident, a businessman carrying Tk 50,000 was shot by muggers in Kamalapur. Transactions are...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for London on Monday morning to attend Girl Summit 2014 to be held in the UK capital on Tuesday where she is set to highlight her government’s firm pledges to eliminate child marriage for...
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A US court has ordered the country's second largest cigarette company to pay $23.6 billion (£13.8bn) to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer. RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was hit with the punitive fine in addition to...
Israel's Government Press Office on Saturday warned foreign journalists it was not responsible for their safety in the Gaza Strip, where the Jewish state has launched an offensive against Palestinian militants. Israel sent ground forces into Hamas-dominated Gaza on Thursday...
Foreign Minister (FM) AH Mahmood Ali hosted an Iftar party for journalists at the state guesthouse Jamuna. State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam, Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and senior Foreign Ministry officials were present. Journalists, including the...
Slain city panel mayor Nazrul Islam’s wife and younger brother Sunday submitted nomination papers for contesting the by-election to the city’s ward-2 for the post of councilor that fell vacant following his death, according to a news agency. Two others...
Masum Billah | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) is the parent of junior secondary, secondary, madrasa and college level education of Bangladesh. The administration of these institutions across the country is run and controlled from DSHE exhibiting the typical form of...
RANGAMATI, July 19 (BSS): Lack of storage, marketing and infrastructure development facilities are the major obstacles to ensuring fair prices of seasonal fruits in the Chittagong Hill Tracts [CHT]. Farmers of the hill districts of Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban have...
A Correspondent | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, July 19: A child abducted from Narayanganj on Thursday was rescued from Debinagar under Chapainawabganj sadar upazila on Friday afternoon. The rescued child was identified as Emon, 6, son of Abdul Matin of Fatulla village under Fatulla upazila of...
Punitive action was taken against some 15 policemen of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Police Station over Friday’s firing on the ruling party men. Of them, 11 policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, were suspended while four others, including three sub-inspectors, closed...
BAGERHAT, July 19 (UNB): Different criminal gangs making use of the names of the operatives of the outlawed parties have started widespread extortion in the district with Eid-ul-Fitr approaching. These extortionists mainly make high bank officials their target this time...
MYMENSINGH, July 19 (BSS): Two people were killed and two others were injured in a road accident in Padurbari area under Muktagacha upazila of the district last night. The victims were Abdul Gafur Munshi, 65, Imam of Dhitua Jame Mosque...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, July 19: Record number of passenger coaches are being repaired in Syedpur railway workshop targeting Eid-Ul-Fitr. The workshop was undertaken a target to repair 83 railway passenger coaches before the the Eid-Ul-Fitr for the convenience of the passengers. Out...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
CHUADANGA, July 19: Rivals poisoned a huge quantity of fish in a pond in village Chhotoshaluya under Chuadanga sadar Upazila of the district Friday night. A victim fish cultivator Bashudeb Halder said he had taken lease of 15 bigha waterbody...
RANGPUR, July 19 (BSS): Production of micronutrient-enriched small fishes has been increasing satisfactorily in recent years in rural Bangladesh to effectively meet nourishment of the malnourished pregnant women, lactating mothers and babies. Following increased production and consumption of small fishes,...
BOGRA, July 19 (UNB): Police recovered chopped body of a young man from the bank of the Korotoa river at Sujabad village in Shahjahanpur upazila on Friday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police sources said locals...
RAJSHAHI, July 19 (UNB): A young housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her house in Shantahar area under Adamdighi of the city Friday. The deceased was identified as Shampa,20, wife of Nantu Miah, a...
NAOGAON, July 19 (BSS): Two villages, Abadpur and Dospaika, under Sadar upazila of the district, have been brought under rural electrification network by Naogaon Palli Biddyut Samity (NPBS) on Thursday. Mohammad Abdul Malek, local lawmaker, formally inaugurated the electrification programme...
RANGAMATI, July 19 (BSS): Imam Hussein, 40, an imam of mosque in Langadu upazila, was shot dead by armed assailants on Friday. Police said the incident took place at Rangipara mosque at 4:30pm. Police arrested one Al Amin, 13, in...
BENAPOLE, July 19 (UNB): A young man died after drinking rectified spirit at Gaherpur in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Motaleb Hossain,35, son of Tabibar Rahman, a resident of the village. Police...
29 held along Benapole border Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained 29 Bangladeshis while they were going to India illegally with the help of middlemen early Saturday. The BGB personnel made the arrests in separate drives, said Shafiqul Islam, officer...
The government’s move to empower Parliament to impeach senior judges by amending Article 96 of the Constitution of Bangladesh has been challenged in the Supreme Court. The apex court’s lawyer Md Yunus Ali Akand filed a writ petition on Sunday....
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