Shah Md. Ahsan Habib | 2014-05-28 00:00:00
Pointing fingers to 'supervisory failure' is not very uncommon while detecting any fund misappropriation or increase in the non-performing loans in the banking sector of Bangladesh. It is well-recognised that the bank supervisor or the central bank can play an...
Maswood Alam Khan from Cockeysville, Maryland, USA | 2014-05-28 00:00:00
Shahidul Haque Khan, a lifelong bachelor, lives a solitary life in his own duplex house facing a small garden of flower plants at Indira Road, Dhaka, enjoying a tranquil life. He passes his waking hours reading books and magazines and...
SUNAMGANJ, May 27 (UNB): Litchi growers of Manikpur-Godabari village, famous for production of the delicious juicy fruit, in Chhatak upazila are much frustrated due to poor output of the item this year. The growers are to incur heavy losses this...
RANGPUR, May 27 (BSS): Four persons were killed and five others injured in a fatal road crash at Chiklee Bazar point on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway under Syedpur upazila in Nilphamari district last night, police sources said. The accident occurred when...
GAIBANDHA, May 27 (BSS): Speakers at a function here on Tuesday stressed the need for continuing the marketing system in char areas all the year round to help the char dwellers economically. "The char inmates incur losses economically at the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-28 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, May 27: Gopalganj Thana Police recovered body of a youth from a paddy field at Amuria under Gopalganj Sadar Monday night. The deceased was identified as Mezbah Chowdhury (22), a student of BA, Bangabandhu University College and son of...
RAJSHAHI, May 27 (BSS): By dint of house to house cattle farming, the Rajshahi region has started becoming enriched with livestock resources during the last couple of years. The feature has brightened the prospects of exporting beef to areas within...
Woman burnt to death in Gaibandha A visually impaired woman was burnt to death in a fire which broke out at a house of Harichandi village in Fulchhari Upazila in Gaibandha on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Kajali...
JESSORE, May 27 (UNB): A jute mill worker was shot to death by some miscreants at Barandipara in Sadar upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Hafizur Rahman, 22, a worker of Ahad Jute Mills and son of Abdul...
RU Correspondent | 2014-05-28 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, May 27: Agrani Bank Ltd, Rajshahi University (RU) branch has opened an ATM booth at the campus Monday, said a press release. With a view to providing better banking service to the teachers, students and officials of the...
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday the overall development of the region would be ensured once the potential for development of South Asian countries are fully exploited through Saarc. The Indian President also said Saarc can work as a bridge...
John Kemp of Reuters from London | 2014-05-27 00:00:00
"If I work in your Beijing, I would shorten my life at least five years," Premier Zhu Rongji, a career politician from Shanghai, quipped in 1999, referring to the notorious air pollution in China's northern capital. Research has confirmed life...
The Indian Premier League (IPL) Qualifier 1 between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders scheduled at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India Tuesday was cancelled due to inclement weather and will now be played Wednesday, according to a news...
New Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina to visit India. Modi conveyed the invitation through Bangladesh’s Parliament Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury during a meeting with her at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Tuesday...
RANGPUR, May 26 (BSS): A high profile delegation of the Department for International Development (DFID) lauded the CLP and PRIME activities which have been changing fortune of thousands of extremely poor in the hardly reachable char areas. The delegation members...
RAJSHAHI, May 26 (BSS): Journalists and development activists at a participatory discussion here today demanded enhancement of taxes on tobacco products for the sake of saving many people from various non-contagious diseases caused by tobacco consumption. They viewed more than...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-27 00:00:00
JESSORE, May 26: Bhabadaha Pani Nishkashan Sangram Committee, a body that was formed for movement to resolve water-logging problem at Bhabadaha, in a press conference demanded immediate implementation of tidal river management programme at Beel Kapalia to save people of...
NETRAKONA, May 26 (BSS): A three-member inquiry committee headed by Khaliajury upazila food officer Azizur Rahman has started investigating the allegations of preserving date-expired and damaged rice in different government food godowns in Purbadhala upazila of the district and supply...
JOYPURHAT, May 26 (BSS): Bumper wheat production has brought smile on the face of farmers of all the five upazilas in the district as they got fair price for the crop during the current season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)...
GAIBANDHA, May 26 (BSS): Health experts at a function on Sunday said pregnancy in early marriage, delayed and obstructed delivery including malnutrition of the expecting mothers may cause fistula. "Village women suffer from fistula due to negligence in healthcare, dependence...
The bodies of six of the nine Bangladesh nationals who were burnt to death in a fire at a furniture-manufacturing factory in Riyadh on May 12 will be brought home on Friday. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-27 00:00:00
MAGURA, May 26: Rabindra-Nazrul Joyonti was observed in Magura. Rabindra Sangeet Shammilon Parishad, Magura district unit, observed Rabindra Jayonti at Magura Asaduzzaman auditorium Friday and Nazrul Jayonti on Sunday at Magura public library. Indian singer Krishna Basu Sarker performed in...
MYMENSINGH, May 26 (BSS): The government has constructed 55 secondary schools buildings last year in Mymensingh district for providing better education facilities to students. The buildings were constructed at a cost of taka 300 million under direct supervision of engineering...
Police recover two bodies Police recovered bodies of a man and a woman from Savar and Ashulia Sunday morning. Police source said receiving information police recovered the body of Chhanda Akter 45, from Malancha area under Savar Pourashava at about...
BANGKOK, May 26 (AFP): Thailand's coup leader received royal endorsement to lead the politically divided kingdom Monday and quickly issued a stark warning that he would brook no further opposition to his takeover following a weekend of angry protests. In...
CAIRO, May 26 (AFP): Egyptians voted for a new president Monday in an election expected to sweep to power the ex-army chief who overthrew the country's first democratically-elected leader and crushed his Islamist movement. The two-day election is the first...
NEW DELHI, May 26, (AFP): Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the inauguration of Narendra Modi as his Indian counterpart Monday was a "great opportunity" for the two nuclear neighbours to open a new chapter in relations. "It is a...
A passenger train collided with a stationary goods train in India's most populous state on Monday, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 150, police and railway officials said, reports Reuters. Mangled passenger coaches climbed on top of...
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