At least 15 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups over land-related dispute at Salemanpur village in Maheshpur upazila in Jhenidah on Thursday. Shahjahan Ali, officer-in-charge of Maheshpur Police Station, said Abul Kashem and Azizul Haque had...
At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups of the local unit Awami League (AL) over establishing supremacy in Sreepur upazila of Magura district on Thursday night. Police said Abdul Halim, an AL leader and...
BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia has gifted a 'jamdani sari' to Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. BNP Vice Chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury said, 'The jamdani sari was presented to Sushma Swaraj before the official meeting between the two leaders.'...
Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has left Dhaka after her three-day visit. It was her first visit to any country after taking over charges at the external affairs ministry last month. Sushma Swaraj left for New Delhi on a...
A young man was killed in a road accident at Kamarkhali under Kestopur area of Magura district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Tarequl Islam, 25, son of Liakot Hossain, a resident of Kasundi village of Sadar upazila. Jahangir...
Miscreants allegedly tortured to death a man, 40, and later left his body in a dustbin in Bakshibazar near the Dhaka Education Board on Friday. Being informed, police recovered the body near at Karim Tower adjacent to the Education Board...
Thunderbolt killed two farmers at Ishwardi Upazila in Pabna district on Friday morning. The dead are Abdur Rahman Mollah, 51, a resident of Bayra village under Dashuria union and Abu Sayeed, 60, resident of Baghhasla village under Muladuli union. Family...
After 15 days of arguably the best group stage in history, the World Cup knockout stage is set with half of the 32 countries advancing to the Round of 16. There will be no matches on Friday, but World Cup...
A bus plunged into a ditch on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Manikganj Sadar upazila on Friday morning killing at least two people. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police and witnesses said a Dhaka-bound passenger bus of ‘Padma...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has said the construction work of the tunnel under the Karnaphuli River will begin in January next year. ‘The 3.5-kilometre-long (km) tunnel will be built at a cost of Tk 90 billion,’ he said after visiting...
A huge 22-km long traffic jam, from Bhatiari to Bara Awlia, has disrupted vehicular movement in Chittagong's Sitakunda Upazila on Dhaka-Chittagong highway for more than 10 hours since Thursday evening. As Thursday was the last working day of the week,...
Iraqi helicopters fired on a university campus in Tikrit on Friday to dislodge insurgents who overran the city in an onslaught that has given them control of most majority Sunni regions and brought them close to Baghdad. Tikrit, the hometown...
Ukraine signed on Friday an historic free-trade agreement with the European Union that has been at the heart of months of violence and upheaval in the country, drawing an immediate threat of ‘grave consequences’ from Russia. Georgia and Moldova signed...
Indian government will work with Bangladesh government, India's external affairs ministry's spokesperson on Friday said Bangladesh’s internal issues should be left to the people of Bangladesh to resolve. Syed Akbaruddin was briefing journalists' in the city on Friday moment before...
Asian markets were mostly lower Friday following losses on Wall Street fuelled by anaemic US consumer spending, while the dollar and euro extended losses against the yen. Investors were taking a breather ahead of the release next week of key...
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah led several thousand demonstrators through Kabul on Friday, upping the stakes in his protest against alleged election fraud that has triggered a political crisis. Abdullah has vowed to reject the election result, saying he was the...
Customs officials at Petrapole arrested an Indian national along with 13 gold bars weighing 3.3 kg from the no-man's land between Benapole check post and Petrapole on Friday while he was returning from Bangladesh. N Zaman, International Customs House Super...
A woman in western China claims to have just celebrated her 128th birthday which would make her the oldest person in recorded history. Almihan Seyiti, from the Xinjiang region, lives in a village near the city of Kashgar. A member...
Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj invited Bangladesh Opposition Leader Raushan Ershad to visit India. Sushma extended the invitation during her meeting with Raushan at the Opposition Leader’s parliament office Friday, according to a news agency. Issues relating to power...
A man allegedly committed suicide after killing his three sons in Hemayetpur area Friday evening, according to a news agency. The deceased were identified as Abu Sayeed, 42, and his three sons Rabiul, 8, Mostafa, 6, and Rahat, 4, of...
Bangladesh Standards and Tensing Institute (BSTI), the country’s only National Standards body, is not playing its due role in curbing the adulteration of foodstuffs, including the use of toxic chemicals, alleges the Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh (CAB). CAB general secretary...
Terming BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia a ‘fake mother of democracy’, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said country’s democracy cannot be protected by such a person. He made the remarks while addressing a function organised by Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal at Shaheed...
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized Indian saris worth about Tk 6.1 million from Mansurabad under Double Mooring police station of the port city of Chittagong Friday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Coast Guard under East Zone conducted...
The Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Detective Branch (DB) under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) rescued a little boy and arrested four alleged kidnappers from the city’s Mirpur-12 bus stand area Friday. The rescued was identified as two and half years old...
Citing the contributions of Narayanganj’s Osman family in the Awami League’s political history, Syed Ashraful Islam said his party will always be by their side. He said, “Osman family is a part of Awami League. We can’t erase the Osman...
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...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-27 00:00:00
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...
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