SYLHET: A local Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants in the city’s Patatula area Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Zillul Haque Zilu, 25, son of Nur Miah of Palpur in Chhatak upazila...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to stop killing people and disgracing the country by weeping to others. “I’ll call upon the BNP chairperson to stop killing people and also to stop disgracing the country by weeping...
JHALAKATHI, Jun 26 (UNB): Production of lime (Kagozi Lebu) has fallen fifty percent short of the target in the district this season thanks to unfavourable weather and onslaught of an unknown disease in the fruit's orchards. Farmers and agriculture officials...
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NILPHAMARI, Jun 26: Commercial cultivation of creeper arum (Loti Kochu) increasing in Nilphamari district. It is extensively cultivated mainly in the Panchbibi upazila of Jaypurhat district and neighbouring upazilas of Dinajpur district. Now it is being cultivated in Bhogdabury, Ketkibari...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-27 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jun 26: Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Wednesday announced annual budget of Tk 5.0014 billion for the fiscal 2014-2015 without increasing the existing taxation rates for the city dwellers. Rangpur City Corporation (RCC), Mayor Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu announced the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-27 00:00:00
PABNA, Jun 26: Today (June 27) is the 35th death anniversary of Poet Bonde Ali Miah, one of the noted poets and lyricists of 19 century in Bangal literature who hailed from Pabna. Born in January 17 in 1906 at...
BRUSSELS: Jean-Claude Juncker was named as the next president of the European Commission Friday, dealing a bitter blow to Britain after David Cameron warned the EU could "live to regret" the move. European leaders now face having to repair the...
BAGERHAT, Jun 26 (UNB): A court here on Thursday sentenced six people, including two siblings, to death while two others to life term imprisonment for killing a shrimp enclosure owner in Morelganj upazila in 2003. The condemned convicts are Habib...
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CHUADANGA, Jun 26: The World Anti-Drug Day 2014 was observed under the banner of 'Madakasakti Protirodh and Niramay Jagga' in Chuadanga district with elaborate programmes Thursday. To mark the day, a colourful rally was brought out from Deputy Commissioner's office...
RAJSHAHI, Jun 26 (BSS): Shahinul Islam, 14, has been carrying loads on his head at Shaheb Bazar kitchen market in Rajshahi city for around six years to meet up the daily expenses of their poverty-stricken family needs. Shahin, youngest son...
SATKHIRA, Jun 26 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a housewife at Ramnagar in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Beauty, 28, wife of Nazmul Islam, a resident of Kalikapur village in the upazila. On information,...
SIRAJGANJ, Jun 26 (UNB): Two workers died after inhaling toxic gas inside a septic tank at Tamai village in Belkuchi upazila on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Babu, 32, son of Nizamuddin, and Shahidul, 30, son of Fazar Ali...
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JESSORE, Jun 26: Owner of an oil mill was killed at his rented residence by unidentified miscreants at Rajarhat on the outskirts of Jessore town early Thursday. The dead was identified as Shushanta Kundu, 65, owner of an oil mill...
CHITTAGONG, Jun 26 (UNB): A rickshaw-puller and a night guard were electrocuted at Ambagan in the city's Khulshi area early Thursday. The deceased were identified as rickshaw peddler Mohammad Hanif alias Bachchu, 27, and night guard Mohammad Mintu, 40. Nayek...
CHITTAGONG, Jun 26 (UNB): A rickshaw-puller and a night guard were electrocuted at Ambagan in the city's Khulshi area early Thursday. The deceased were identified as rickshaw peddler Mohammad Hanif alias Bachchu, 27, and night guard Mohammad Mintu, 40. Nayek...
Robbers loot valuables in Pabna A gang of robbers looted gold ornaments, cash and other valuables worth Tk 0.5 million from a house at Chandipur village in Santhia upazila in Pabna early Wednesday. Police said a gang of robbers stormed...
ABUJA, June 26 (AFP): Nigerian authorities have arrested one suspect, and killed another, after a bomb claimed 21 lives in a shopping centre in the capital Abuja, a city gripped by fear of attacks by Boko Haram Islamists. Wednesday's blast...
KALAK, June 26 (BBC): Hundreds of villagers fleeing advances by Sunni militants in Iraq crowded on Thursday under the morning sun at a checkpoint on the edge of the country's Kurdish-controlled territory, trying to join large numbers of displaced who...
ADEN, June 26 (AFP): Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen stormed an airport in Yemen's southeastern Hadramawt province on Thursday, triggering an army intervention to evacuate the passengers of a civilian airliner, military and security officials said. Three soldiers were killed in the...
BANNU, June 26 (AFP): Pakistan's military shelled a strategic town with tanks and artillery Thursday in the latest round of its offensive against Taliban militants in the country's restive northwest. The heavy bombardment of Miranshah, the main town of North...
MOSCOW, June 26 (AFP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday told German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the Kremlin said, noting the two leaders discussed the need to extend Kiev's week-long ceasefire. "Vladimir Putin drew...
'Vaccine to prevent brain cancer' Researchers have identified a gene mutation that results in glioma or brain cancer. A vaccine is now being developed to target this mutation. "This frequent and highly specific mutation immediately aroused our attention as immunologists....
FE Report | 2014-06-27 00:00:00
The prices of essential commodities during the upcoming month of Ramadan will remain stable as the country has sufficient stock for fulfilling the demand, a high trade official said Thursday. "We have sufficient stock of essential commodities to fulfil the...
SINGAPORE, June 26 (AFP): Oil prices were mixed in Asia Thursday ahead of the release of fresh US economic data, while investors are optimistic following a report that Washington is to lift a decades-old crude export ban. US benchmark West...
HONG KONG, June 26 (Xinhua): The gold price in Hong Kong went up 60 HK dollars to open at 12,220 HK dollars per tael on Thursday, according to the Chinese Gold and Silver Exchange Society. The price is equivalent to...
KUALA LUMPUR, June 26 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower on Thursday to snap a three-day winning streak as crude oil prices began to ease, although losses were capped by an uptick in exports and anticipation that hot weather...
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