Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Wednesday inaugurated the domestic flight of US-Bangla Airlines at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. The flights of the airlines on Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Jessore routes will, however, start operating on Thursday. Addressing the...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said all the highways and roads across the country will be made fit for vehicular movement within the next three days. He made the remarks while talking to reporters after visiting the Dhaka-Bypass road...
Bengali film legend Suchitra Sen’s ancestral home in Pabna has been finally freed from the clutches of the Imam Ghazali Institute after a more than three-decade tussle. District Administration officials led by Land Officer and Executive Magistrate Shamim Ara Rini...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim Wednesday advised BNP to organise it keeping cool head for the next general election. They should prepare themselves for the parliamentary elections to be held in 2019,” he said, according to a news agency. Nasim, also...
Clarifying India’s grant to Bangladesh in the new budget, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka Wednesday said the Indian government attaches the highest importance to its relations with Bangladesh. In response to a question about the provision for grant to...
A BNP leader alleges the government syndicate is manipulating prices during Ramadan. The BNP has alleged that the prices of essential commodities have gone up during Ramadan due to the ‘manipulation’ by a syndicate of ruling party-backed businessmen. “The government...
Garment workers Wednesday demanded paying their salaries, dues and Eid bonus before the 26th of Ramadan as fixed by the government. The demand was made at a human chain programme arranged by Textile Garments Workers Federation in front of the...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology Ministry Wednesday suggested the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) to take steps so that safe food can be made available for people. It also asked the BCSIR to innovate...
Stephen Brown of Reuters from Berlin | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
It has taken a quarter of a century longer than hoped but Berlin is now glimpsing the prosperity that was supposed to land in its lap after the Wall came down in 1989 and it was restored as the jubilant...
Alexei Anishchuk and Daniel Trotta of Reuters | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to help revive Cuba's struggling offshore oil exploration last week at the start of a six-day tour of Latin America as Russia aims to reassert its influence on the communist-ruled island. Putin was joined in...
Assuring of a post-Eid peaceful movement, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday warned that they will come up with a counter reply if the government tries to block their protest programme. Addressing an Iftar party, she also said a fresh...
Gavin Jones of Reuters from Seriana Valley (Italy) | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Italy has fallen behind two groups of rivals in recent years: high-tech, high-end competitors in countries such as Germany and the United States, and low-end producers in places like China, Bangladesh and Turkey. The best place to see the latter...
Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi of Reuters from Vienna | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
A major speech by Iran's Supreme Leader has limited the ability of the Iranian delegation at high-level nuclear talks to make concessions with six world powers and this could scuttle chances for Tehran to reach an accord to end sanctions,...
Stuart Grudgings of Reuters from Kuala Lumpur | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Deepa Subramaniam would not let go of her son, clinging to five-year-old Mithran's leg even as the car into which he had been bundled began to accelerate. The 30-year-old, a Hindu in Muslim-majority Malaysia, says she was dragged along the...
Frank Jack Daniel of Reuters from New Delhi | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
Shanghai looks set to become the headquarters of a development bank being launched by the BRICS emerging market nations, despite fears by some members of the group that China could hijack the bank to serve its interests. Brazil, China, India,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, July 15: Jhenidah Technical Training Centre (TTC) is conducting activities with backdated equipment, accommodation crisis, manpower shortage and insufficient budget for raw materials, electricity-telephone-internet bills and others. Furthermore, teachers and employees have not been getting their salaries and allowances...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
PABNA, July 15: Tuberculosis (TB) claimed at least 59 people in two years and the number is increasing which is alarming for public health of the district, said the speakers at a seminar organized by 'National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh'...
RAJSHAHI, July 15 (BSS): Wide-ranging promotion of rice-wheat-mugbean cropping pattern in bed planting system could be the effective means of making yield of those double in the region including its vast Barind tract. Agricultural scientists and researchers told BSS that...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, July 15: On the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan 389414 Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) cards have been allotted for the ultra-poor people of the district comprising 6 upazilas and 4 municipalities. Each card holder would get 10kg...
SYLHET, July 15 (UNB): A young man and his nephew were killed when a truck ran them over on Sylhet-Tamabil road at Darbasta Faruk Sarani in Jaintapur upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Aiyub Ali, 25, son of...
FARIDPUR, July 15 (BSS): With the object of helping the poor consumers during the month of Ramadan, the Office of Faridpur Deputy Commissioner (DC) has opened an outlet this morning at its office premises to sell soybean oil and sugar...
KHULNA, July 15 (BSS): With only 14 days left for Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest Muslim religious festival, Eid shopping has started gaining momentum in Khulna amid huge supply of consumer goods and enthusiasm among the people for buying. All the city...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
MAGURA, July 15: A seminar on rights of the disabled was held in Magura Tuesday. Non-government organisation Faith in Action, Magura arranged the seminar at Shatrijitpur union parishad office of Magura. Magura sadar Upazila chairman Nazimuddin was the chief guest...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said the government is going to approve ‘Palli Janapad’ project soon to provide rural people with civic amenities. Under the project, four-storey buildings will be constructed in rural areas, while flats will be...
RU Correspondent | 2014-07-16 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, July 15: Snatchers stabbed a student of the Rajshahi University (RU) critically injuring him on Monday night at the campus area. The victim was identified as Azimul Haque, a Master's student of Information Science & Library Management department...
BAGERHAT, July 15 (UNB): A young man was stabbed to death by unknown miscreants in C&B Bazar area on the Bagerhat-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila on Monday night. The deceased Bappi Shikder,23, son of Abdus Sattar, a resident of Brahmyakathi...
PANCHAGARH, July 15 (BSS): Police recovered the body of a youth from a residential hotel in the town here last night. The deceased was identified as Torit Kanti, 25, son of Ranjit Kanti of Korerhat village under Rajarhat upazila in...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, July 15 (BSS): Transplantation of Aus seedlings has been progressing fast in all the five upazilas in the district during the current season amid much enthusiasm to the farmers to get desired yield. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office...
NAOGAON, July 15 (BSS): A farmer was killed by lightning in Kirtipur area in sadar upazila here on Monday. The deceased was identified as Helal Uddin, 50, son of Phurun Ali at Chanla village in Badalgachhi upazila of the district....
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