Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expects the construction of the Padma bridge to be over by 2018. She expressed the hope in Parliament Wednesday, a day after awarding the work order to a Chinese company, according to a news agency. “The...
The construction of the much-talked about four-lane Dhaka-Chittagong Highway will be completed within the last part of the current year, Communication Minister Obaidul Quader told Parliament on Wednesday. Responding to a supplementary question, he also said that the construction works...
Private mobile operator Airtel Bangladesh Limited has fulfilled its commitment to BTRC by launching its 3G service in Barisal and thereby ensuring 3G coverage in all the divisional cities of the country by June this year. FM Shahriar Omar Prince,...
The health condition of Jatiya Party (Zafar) chairman Kazi Zafar Ahmed, who is now undergoing treatment at Westmead Hospital in Sydney, Australia has improved slightly. After preliminary examining his health, doctors confirmed that his condition has improved a little bit,...
PIROJPUR: Local Jamaat-e-Islami Wednesday called a half-day hartal in the district for Sunday protesting a court order sending its district ameer to jail. Maulana Abdur Rob, secretary of the district unit Jamaat, made the announcement in the evening. The party...
Former Rab officer Major Arif Hossain, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the abductions and killings of seven people, has described the brutalities before a local court. Arif made a confessional statement before the court of Senior Judicial...
A Mohammadpur College student has drowned in the Dhanmondi Lake. The dead has been identified as Mohammad Rajib, 18. He had gone to bathe in the lake without knowing how to swim. He was lived in Raer Bazaar of Hajaribagh...
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RANGPUR, Jun 3: Aquaculture in paddy fields has brought smiles on the faces of the farmers of Koranipara village under Taraganj upazila in Rangpur district as they are getting financially solvent through fish cultivation in paddy fields. Over 150 farmers...
SIRAJGANJ, Jun 3 (UNB): Two people, including the wife of Akkelpur municipality mayor, were killed and eight others injured as a truck crashed into a bus on Dhaka-Sirajganj Highway in Raiganj upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Samina...
KURIGRAM, Jun 3 (UNB): Hundreds of acres of hitherto uncultivable, sandy char lands across the Dharla and Dudhkumar rivers in the district have been brought under mung bean cultivation by small and marginal farmers, thanks to the 'Thousand Farmers, Thousand...
Terming erroneous the 10th parliament election, noted jurist Dr Kamal Hossain on Wednesday asked for fresh parliamentary election or else he said the people of the country and history ‘would not exonerate us’. He came up with the view while...
MANIKGANJ, Jun 3 (BSS): The untimely erosion of the Jamuna River has already devoured the ten villages of Daulatpur upazila of the district and more vast areas of Charkatari, Bachamara, Baghutia, and Khalshi unions of the upazila are on the...
LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets wobbled Wednesday, with caution prevailing on the eve of interest rate decisions in Britain and the eurozone, dealers said. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies 0.26 per cent to 6,818.63 points, taking a hit...
KUSHITA, Jun 3 (UNB): A newlywed housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband at Kabarbaria village in Mirpur upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Kumkumi Khatun Shampa, 19, wife of Rubel of the village. Victim's father...
An activist of Jatiytabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) was killed in an attack allegedly by the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Towhidul Islam, a 4th year...
LAXMIPUR, Jun 3 (UNB): A man was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Katakhali area in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Khokon, second-in-command of Didar Bahini, a notorious gang, and son of late Ali Ahmed...
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CHUADANGA, Jun 3: Damurhuda thana police recovered the body of a youth from a mango orchard at village Kaliyabokri of Natipota union under Damurhuda Upazila of the district Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mukul (30), son of freedom...
BARGUNA, Jun 3 (BSS): Betel leaf cultivation in the district is increasing for its growing popularity and it has proved as profitable crop in the recent year. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said it might change the fate...
Faridpur journalist passes away Journalist Abul Bashar, editor of now defunct 'Weekly Chashi Barta' breathed his last on Monday after prolonged illness at his residence of Raghunandanpur in the suburb of Faridpur. He was 65. He left behind his wife,...
DAMASCUS, June 3, (AFP): Syrians in government-held areas voted Tuesday in a controversial presidential election in which incumbent Bashar al-Assad is looking to boost his grip but which the exiled opposition has slammed as a "farce". Assad is facing two...
BANGKOK, June 3 (AFP): Thailand's junta said Tuesday that it was scrapping a curfew in three major beach resorts to woo back tourists in the wake of last month's military coup. The measure will be lifted for Pattaya, Koh Samui...
WARSAW, June 3 (agencies): US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Russia's President Vladimir Putin to meet the next leader of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. Obama said that he would give that message to Putin when he sees him this...
KARACHI, June 3 (agencies): The leader of Pakistan's MQM party, Altaf Hussain, has been arrested in London on suspicion of money laundering, reports said Tuesday, sparking panic in his home city of Karachi. British police said only that a 60-year-old...
India cabinet minister dies in car accident NEW DELHI, Jun 3: India's Rural Affairs Minister Gopinath Munde has died in a car accident in New Delhi. Munde was on the way to the airport Tuesday when his car was hit...
The newly-appointed Bangladesh bowling specialist coach Zimbabwean Heath Streak said he will work with eight to ten players especially to create a core group of fast bowlers, reports UNB. "I want to work separately with eight to ten pacers, even...
Mohammedan Sporting Club (MSC) and Abahani Limited earned comfortable wins in the Metropolis Women's Cricket League at BKSP ground in Savar Tuesday, reports UNB. Mohammedan SC managed 77-run victory over Khelaghor SKS at BKSP ground-4 while Abahani Limited earned a...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Wednesday urged the media to identify the patrons of militants. He said the militants have no humanitarian sense and respect for the constitution. “So, they’ve emerged as a biggest threat to the country’s politics...
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