Councillor Nur Hossain paid members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) to carry out the abduction and killings, claims a relative of slain Councillor Nazrul Islam. "RAB has murdered my son-in-law taking Tk 60 million from Councillor Nur Hossain, Siddhirganj Awami...
RAJSHAHI, May 3 (BSS): Low-cost biogas, an alternative fuel for cooking, is increasingly getting popular among the people in different rural areas even in outskirts of the metropolis for the last couple of years. Biogas is not only used as...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, May 3: Cultivation of sunflower has been gaining popularity in Tungipara of Gopalganj district as the farmers benefit greatly from its sale in the local markets. According to official source, a total of 144 acres of land have been...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
KHULNA, May 3: The historic May Day was observed here in Khulna as elsewhere in the country with renewed pledge to uphold the rights of the working people. In Khulna different political parties and its front organisations, journalists union and...
HM Ershad is the man behind the murder of Ziaur Rahman and Maj Gen Muhammad Abul Manzur, said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia. She made the allegation while speaking at a ‘mass hunger strike’ held at the National Press Club on...
KHULNA, May 3 (BSS): After one month of a heat wave, a nor'wester accompanied by rain brought some relief to more than 2 million people in the city and its adjoining areas today (Saturday). There was no report of any...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
RANGPUR, May 3: A 10-day Divisional Book Fair-2014 has begun at Public Library premises in Rangpur city Friday afternoon. Minister for Cultural Affairs Asaduzzaman Noor, MP, formally inaugurated the fair as the chief guest. Presided over by Divisional Commissioner Muhammad...
BENAPOLE, May 3 (UNB): A total of 508 government primary schools in Jessore district are running without any headmaster. Besides, a total of 693 posts of assistant teacher are lying vacant in the district's government primary schools for long. Consequently,...
An apparently angry commerce minister has said Bangladesh does not need preferential facility under GSP in the US market. Tofail Ahmed said on Sunday there had been a lot of talks on the GSP but they produced no results. “We...
GAIBANDHA, May 3 (BSS): Harvest of Boro paddy has begun in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current season with much enthusiasm to the farmers. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said farmers of the district cultivated...
FARIDPUR, May 3 (BSS): A timber merchant was killed in a road accident this morning at Bagat bazaar under Madhukhali upazila on Dhaka-Khulna Highway here. The deceased was identified as Ranjit Saha, 45, a resident of Goalchamat area of the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
PABNA, May 3: A schoolboy was killed and four others injured following a clash over playing cricket in Iswardi Upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased Md Nahid Hossain, 14, son of Akmal Hossain of village Pakuria in Ishwardi Upazila was...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, May 3 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion meeting here today stressed the need for publishing objective news. Local Government Journalists Forum (LGJF) organised the discussion in observance of the World Press Freedom Day at Chapainawabganj Club. President of LGJF...
9 houses gutted by fire in Bandarban At least nine houses were gutted in a devastating fire at Modhampara of Bandarban in the early morning Friday. Local sources said the fire originated from a furniture shop and soon engulfed the...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
Higher education in Bangladesh is imparted to students at 34 state-run, 78 private and 3 international universities. Students can choose to study in chartered accountancy, engineering, technology, agriculture and medicine at a variety of universities and colleges. At the higher...
Md Abdullah Al Helal | 2014-05-04 00:00:00
Character education is the teaching of people in a manner that will help them develop as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non-bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant or socially acceptable beings. It is not a new phenomenon, rather it is...
UKRAINE, May 3 (agencies): At least 42 people were killed in street battles between supporters and opponents of Russia in southern Ukraine that ended with pro-Russian protesters trapped in a flaming building, bringing the country closer to war. Pro-Russian rebels...
BANGKOK, May 3 (Reuters): Thai opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva Saturday urged that a general election planned for July be delayed by up to six months to allow time for reforms aimed at ending a protracted political crisis that threatens to...
MOGADISHU, May 3 (AP): At least seven people were killed Saturday, among them a prominent Somali official, in a bomb attack in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and security officials said. Security sources said they believed a...
GUWAHATI, May 3 (agencies): Security forces in northeast India found the bodies of nine Muslims Saturday, raising the death toll to 32 in a spate of attacks by suspected tribal militants as a weeks-long general election re-opens ethnic divisions. The...
CAIRO, May 3 (AFP): An Egyptian court sentenced 102 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to 10 years in prison Saturday over protest violence, state television reported. The army-installed government has rounded up thousands of Morsi supporters and put...
DAMASCUS, May 3, (AFP): Talks for rebels to withdraw from a handful of besieged neighbourhoods in Syria's Homs city have entered their final phase, regime and rebel representatives told AFP Saturday, a day after a ceasefire began. Homs was dubbed...
Schools in Nigeria capital closing for security LAGOS, May 3: Nigeria's president is ordering all schools and non-essential government offices in the capital to close during an international conference as a precaution against terror attacks. The order Friday night follows...
With Shane Jurgensen set to leave as Bangladesh coach after the proposed One Day International (ODI) series against India in June, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is on the look-out for his replacement, board president Nazmul Hassan said, reports Cricinfo....
A sixteen-member of Tripura Sports Journalist Club arrived Saturday in the city to play a friendly cricket match against Jatiyo Press Club (JPC) scheduled to be held today (Sunday) at the National Cricket Academy ground in Mirpur, reports BSS. The...
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