MIRSARAI, July 17 (UNB): Lack of repair and maintenance of a large number of decrepit roads across Mirsarai upazila has led to immense sufferings to local people. Talking to locals and officials while visiting different areas, the UNB correspondent found...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-18 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, July 17: One person was killed and five others injured, three of them critically in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Dumdia under Gopalganj Sadar Upazila of the district Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Yousuf Ali (24),...
BAGERHAT, July 17 (UNB): A court here on Thursday sentenced three people to death and six others to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Fakirhat upazila of the district in 2003. The condemned convicts are Tapan Mandal, son...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-18 00:00:00
JESSORE, July 17: Jessore based journalist Saifur Rahman Saif achieved great success in freelancing. One of his stories on outsourcing was published in a prestigious book- Freelance Success Stories, edited by Nick Passig and published by Rio World Class, Denver,...
KHULNA, July 17 (BSS): The district has witnessed a luxuriant growth of jute in this season due to favourable weather, and so, a bumper production of the cash crop is firmly expected. In two upazilas of the district, the production...
GAZIPUR, July 17 (UNB): Police recovered hanging body of a worker from a poultry farm at Aktarpara in Sreepur upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Shimul Miah, 28, son of Abdul Matin, a resident of Rasulpur village...
CHANDPUR, July 17 (UNB): At least 24 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at a market in Faridganj upazila early Wednesday. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a cloth shop...
BRAHMANBARIA, July 17 (UNB): A security guard on duty at night was hacked to death by some miscreants at Amtoli Bazar in a suburb of the district early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Joynal Miah, 55, son of Lail...
SAVAR, July 17 (UNB): A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at Gangutia village in Savar upazila of Dhaka district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mousumi Akhter, wife of Habibur Rahman, an army personnel and a resident...
Tk 10m Indian clothes seized in Satkhira Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized huge Indian smuggled clothes worth Tk 10 million at Lashkarpara in Satkhira Wednesday night. Major Hasan, operation officer of Satkhira BGB Battalion-38, said on secret information,...
Welcoming criticisms from journalists over her government’s various programmes, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged Friday the media people to be careful so that their criticisms do not hamper the country’s development, according to a news agency. “You can criticise, but...
Mark Hosenball, Missy Ryan and Warren Strobel of Reuters from Washington | 2014-07-18 00:00:00
Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels for more than a year, is reluctant to host an expanded rebel instruction program, US officials said. Jordan's reticence, confirmed by four US officials, is a potentially...
KABUL, July 17 (Reuters): Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked Kabul International Airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday in one of the most audacious assaults on the facility, used by both civilians and the military, in a year. The...
GAZA, July 17 (BBC): Israel's foreign minister and Hamas have denied earlier reports of a truce deal to end fighting in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian militants. Avigdor Lieberman said the reports were "as of now incorrect", and Hamas, which...
WASHINGTON, July 17 (AFP): The United States and Europe strengthened sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine Wednesday, with President Barack Obama taking his first direct swipes in the finance, military and energy sectors of the Russian economy. The American package of...
Speakers on Thursday urged all to boycott the products of the US, Israel and the European countries in protest against the Israeli aggression against Gaza. The call was made from a meeting organised by Bangladesh Shanti Parishad in front of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for undertaking a master plan in each upazila (UZ) to ensure planned urbanisation and thus render better services to people. “My directives are already there to render much better services to...
Airbus says it secured $75.3 billion in orders and commitments for 496 aircraft at the Farnborough Airshow — a record for the company at the premier aviation event in terms of dollar value and in aircraft. The orders included the...
RAJSHAHI, July 16 (BSS): The Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) has realised around Taka 1.78 billion as irrigation charge in the last 2013-14 fiscal, up by Taka 17.89 crore over the previous 2012-13 fiscal. According to the sources concerned, over...
GAIBANDHA, July 16 (BSS): Some 75 poor people of Urya union of Fulchhari upazila get sanitary materials ring-slab worth Taka 60,000 from Local Government Support Project (LGSP)-2 on Tuesday. The objective of the materials distribution was to inspire the poor...
RANGPUR, July 16 (BSS): Speakers at the inaugural ceremony a three-day fruit tree fair yesterday called for enhancing fruit production to meet nutritional demand side by side attaining self-reliance through alleviate poverty. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Chilmari...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, July 16: As the Eid-ul-Fitr, one of the greatest religious festivals of the Muslims is approaching nearer, a mad shopping spree among adolescent boys and girls is visible at different markets in Gopalganj city. Elderly men and women are...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-17 00:00:00
JESSORE, July 16: Late journalist Shamsur Rahman was remembetred through several programmes on Wednesday marking his 14th death anniversary. The programmes included placing of floral wreaths at his grave, wearing black badges, discussions and Doa and Iftar mahfil. On July...
CHUADANGA, July 16 (BSS): The construction works of two-storey academic buildings in five colleges is progressing satisfactorily at a cost of Taka 8 crore and 66 lakhs. The Education Engineering Department of the Ministry of Education is implementing the schemes,...
PANCHAGARH, July 16 (BSS): Plantation of Aman seedlings has been getting momentum and the farmers have engaged their full efforts to make the farming programme successful in the district. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said a total of...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, July 16 (UNB): A rider of a bicycle was killed as a truck crashed into his vehicle in Noyagola area of Sadar upazila early Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Manzur Ali, 50, a resident of Hajipara village...
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