Bangladesh Police personnel, engaged in UN peacekeeping missions in different trouble-torn areas of the world, have earned nearly Tk 40 billion in the last 25 years. Sources at the Police Headquarters in Dhaka said an amount of Tk 37.5 billion...
In line with its policy to diversify both products and markets to achieve higher export growth, the government wants to take a serious look at the idea of ‘One District One Product (ODOP)’. Since the country has a limited number...
Thailand's military government has detained former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and members of her family. They were detained on Friday after she and other ministers were summoned for talks at a Bangkok military facility a day after the military seized...
Bangladesh women’s Karate team won two gold medals in the 8th NSKA International Martial Art Karate Championship in Nepal Friday. In the Women’s Kata team event, Bangladesh team comprising Munni Khanam, Nasima Akter Jui and Mariam Khatun Bipasa won the...
Police on Friday rescued a school girl in Satkania Upazila in Chittagong district, about two weeks after her abduction from Hathazari Upazila. The 14-year old was saved from Madarsa village of Keochia Union on Friday morning. Hathazari police SI Kawsar...
A unity among the affected people from both Bangladesh and India needs to be forged for putting international pressure on India to realise an equitable share of water of trans-boundary rivers, suggests Dr Akbra Ali Khan. “We need to proceed...
NILPHAMARI, May 23: Police early Friday arrested a ‘nephew’ of former State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Motahar Hossain Chowdhury MP along with 80 bottles of Phensidyl syrup in Jaldhaka upazila. The arrested was identified as Sabbir Hoissain, 30,...
BAGERHAT: The fire that erupted at Chandpai Range of the Sundarbans East Zone Wednesday afternoon was finally brought under control Friday. Morelganj upazila fire station officer M Ariful Haque told UNB that the fire is now totally under control and...
The World Health Assembly Friday passed a Bangladesh-pushed resolution on autism in Geneva. Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim told bdnews24.com over telephone that it had been “a great success” for Bangladesh. Bangladesh placed the resolution last year that...
RAJSHAHI, May 22 (BSS): Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here today unequivocally called for collective efforts alongside forging social resistance to end violence against women for taking the nation towards cherished goal. They viewed changing mindset towards women coupled with...
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TANGAIL, May 22: Jute cultivation is facing setback in Tangail as there is no rain in the district for about 4 months. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Tangail sources said they have taken a programme to bring 2.2523 hectares of...
PIROJPUR, May 22 (BSS): Over 3,000 farmers of twenty-eight villages under Swarupkathi Upazila of the district have achieved self-reliance through commercial cultivation of 'Bombai chilli, a chilli variety of the South-Asian region, here. Although the 'Bombai chilli' cultivation has increased...
RANGPUR, May 22 (BSS): Speakers at a regional meeting here today demanded heavy taxation on all tobacco products to discourage consumption of tobacco products those cause every sixth adult death in the country. They were addressing the meeting of Rangpur...
BOGRA, May 22 (UNB): The target to procure Boro paddy and rice is unlikely to be achieved in the district due to higher prices of the food grains in the local markets, as compared to the official procurement rates. Sources...
SUNAMGANJ, May 22 (UNB): A minor girl was killed and three other people were injured in a road accident in Monar Bhangti area of Jagannathpur upazila on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Liza Begum, 5, daughter of Delwar...
BAGERHAT, May 22 (BSS): A court here today sentenced five persons to life imprisonment for killing a fisherman at Dublarchar of the Sundarbans under Sarankhola upazila of the district in 2007. The court also fined them Taka 1 lakh each,...
THAKURGAON, May 22 (UNB): A man was killed as a part of a tin-shed house collapsed on him during a nor'wester that lashed Sadar upazila on Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Mafij, 50, of Futkibari village in the...
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JESSORE, May 22: Several hundred easy-bike drivers formed a human chain in front of Jessore Press Club to meet their 5-pont charter of demands including providing registrations Thursday morning. A rally was held where transport worker leader Wahiduzzaman and Asaduzzaman...
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RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, May 22: The Department of Mass Communication & Journalism offers a two-year durable evening Masters course at the Rajshahi University (RU). Admission form against payment of Tk 500 will be available until June 25 at the dept office...
15-bigha betel field torched in Kushtia Miscreants torched a betel field in Mathurapur Barobazar area of Doulatpur Upazila in Kushtia early Thursday, burning down betel leaves on 15 bighas of land. Owners of the betel field said a group of...
NEW DELHI, May 22 (AFP): Narendra Modi's landslide victory in India's polls has swept aside the long-dominant Congress party and left many of the most high-profile politicians clinging on for dear life after staggering electoral losses. Modi's campaigners hailed the...
ISLAMABAD, May 22 (Reuters): Pakistan has received an invitation to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to attend the inauguration of Indian Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and will decide on Thursday whether to accept, the foreign office said. India invited Sharif and...
BANGKOK, May 22 (AFP): Thailand's military on Thursday declared a night- time curfew across the troubled country after seizing power in a coup. "Under martial law, the National Peace Keeping Committee prohibits anyone across the kingdom from leaving their home...
SHANGHAI, May 22 (AFP): Talks between Tehran and six world powers on a comprehensive deal over its nuclear programme are "very likely" to reach a successful conclusion by a July 20 deadline, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday. "We are...
PODGORICA, Montenegro, May 22 (AFP): Limited Russian troop movements near the border with Ukraine "may suggest" preparations for a withdrawal, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday. "Late yesterday (Wednesday), we have seen limited Russian troop activity in the vicinity...
SEOUL, May 22 (AFP): North Korea on Thursday fired shells into waters near a South Korean warship on patrol south of the disputed Yellow Sea border, prompting an evacuation of residents on a nearby island, officials said. Two shells fell...
Underwater MH370 search resumes SYDNEY, May 22: A mini-sub searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 recommenced its operations on Thursday after technical problems, as it enters its final week of scouring the Indian Ocean seabed for signs of the...
The American Inter national University Bangladesh (AIUB) clinched the Walton Refrigerator 2nd University T20 Challenge Cup title beating University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) by 80 runs in the final at BKSP ground-3 in Savar Thursday, reports UNB. Earlier, AIUB...
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