A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body in more than 460,000 bees for a publicity stunt aimed at selling more of his honey, he said Thursday, using a technique known as "bee bearding." She Ping, a 34-year-old honey merchant from...
Myanmar census takers made their final rounds Thursday in the country's first population tally in three decades, which triggered international concern over a refusal to recognise the stateless Rohingya. More than 10 million households have taken part in the survey,...
A group of Russian lawmakers have formally requested prosecutors to probe former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for treason over the breakup of the Soviet Union, one lawmaker said Thursday. Ivan Nikitchuk, a lawmaker with the Communist party, said that recent...
New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits tumbled last week to the lowest level in seven years, government data released Thursday showed. Initial jobless claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, totaled a seasonally adjusted 300,000 in the week...
Chittagong Metropolitan Police (KMP) has given conditional permission to Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh to hold its two-day Shan-e-risalat mahfil at Laldighi Maidan from Friday. Contacted, KMP additional commissioner (Crimes and Drives) Banoj Kumar Majumder said the Islamist group was given permission for...
Mobile phone operator Airtel Telecom launched its 3G service in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday. Sarwar Kamal, mayor of Cox’s Bazar, officially inaugurated Airtel’s 3G services as the chief guest through a video call from Cox’s Bazar with Airtel’s CEO and...
The sponsor of the National Cricket League (NCL), Walton seeks ways to draw cricket fans to the four-day-match 6th round domestic cricket league. The sponsor appears worried about the turn-out of the fans after the dismal performance of the national...
Sudan's state news agency says authorities have asked a United Nations official to leave the country, saying that she interfered in Sudan's internal affairs. SUNA on Wednesday quoted Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abu Bakr el-Seddiq as confirming the expulsion of Pamela...
Veteran Awami League lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta on Thursday suggested the Law Minister to immediately file sedition cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman and other top BNP leaders for violating the constitution through their recent remarks. “The...
Ruhul Amin Howlader has been removed from the post of Jatiya Party’s Secretary General, said Chairman HM Ershad’s spokesperson Sunil Subho Roy. Presidium member and MP Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu will replace him, said Roy. Bablu, who served the military strongman’s...
Censuring BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for his latest remark involving Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed Khan Menon on Thursday said BNP has begun hatching new conspiracies conceding their political defeat. “The latest speech of...
The High Court on Thursday directed the government to take action against those who were involved in the 2001 post-polls violence. The court asked the Home Secretary, the Inspector General of Police and other respondents to implement the directive and...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday asked the government to bring back home 72 children held at different shelter homes in India. Passing the interim suo moto order, an HC division bench comprising Justice Farah Mahbub and Justice KM Ejarul...
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will start providing financial assistance to Rana Plaza victims from the workers’ welfare fund from this month. Srinivas Reddy, Director at the ILO office in Dhaka, made the announcement at a BGMEA press briefing on...
A case was filed on Thursday against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for calling Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman illegal prime minister of Bangladesh. KM Hasan Kabir Arif, assistant secretary of central Awami League sub-committee, filed the case with Sadar Police...
Danish drug-maker Novo Nordisk launched a new long-acting insulin in Dhaka on Thursday in its effort to retain its biggest share in Bangladesh’s growing diabetic drug market. The world’s biggest insulin producer enjoyed more than 80 per cent of Bangladesh’s...
Veteran journalist ABM Musa who passed away in the capital on Wednesday was laid to eternal rest here on Thursday night. He was buried at his family graveyard at Kutubpur village in Fulgazi upazila around 9:30pm following fourth namaz-e-janaza. Earlier,...
A local activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir was injured by bullets during a clash with police at Debhata upazila in Satkhira on Thursday morning. The injured was identified as Milon Babu Sohag, 22, son of Shahadat Gazi, a resident of...
Agitated locals swooped on a Palli Bidyut office in Lalmohan upazila, protesting frequent power outages. Locals said several hundred people attacked the office at Banglabazar at noon. The power-hungry people vandalised furniture and windowpanes of the office at that time....
RANGPUR, Apr 9 (BSS): Distribution of Taka 62.6 million as special incentives among the farmers of 11 northern districts continues in full swing for enhancing Aus cultivation during this season, official sources said today. According to Department of Agriculture Extension...
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RAJSHAHI, Apr 9: Several hundred homesteads along the river Padma at Bhata village under Matikata union of Godagari Upazila are on the verge of destruction due to unabated and unplanned extraction of sand from the river by a number of...
JAMALPUR, Apr 9 (BSS): Civil Surgeon Dr. Mohammad Hafizur Rahman said today number of patients getting health service at Jamalpur General hospital is increasing day by day. He said patients are coming to hospital for the availability of proper health...
KHULNA, Apr 9 (UNB): A woman and her son were chopped to death allegedly by her husband at Kazimosa village in Paikgachha upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Anima Das, 35, wife of Dipak Das, a resident of...
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RANGPUR, Apr 9: A three-day long Women and Development Fair 2014 has begun here at Begum Rokeya University (BRUR) ground in Rangpur city on Tuesday morning. United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Begum Rokeya University have jointly organised...
MYMENSIN GH, Apr 9 (BSS) Farmers are expecting a bumper production of Boro in the current season in Mymensingh district. Tender paddy plants rippling in the breeze not only catches the imagination of the onlookers around, it also sends waves...
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JHENIDAH, Apr 9: The driver of an onion-laden Koriman (shallow engine-run three-wheeler) was killed on the spot as the vehicle overturned Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Yunus Ali, 29, son of Eman Ali Sheikh of...
SIRAJGANJ, Apr 9 (UNB): A man died from electrocution near Jhawail bridge on the west side of the connecting road of Bangabandhu bridge in Kamarkhand upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Malek, 35, son of late Atahar...
Huge Indian goods seized in Joypurhat Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in anti-smuggling drives seized huge quantity of smuggled Indian goods worth about Taka six crore from different frontier areas of Joypurhat during March. BGB sources said the seized...
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