13 dead as Afghan car bomb detonates prematurely PULI ALAM, Mar 2: At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed in an explosion on Sunday as Taliban militants prepared a car bomb in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The...
RANGPUR, Mar 2 (BSS): Commercial cultivation of Sweet Jumbo Grass on the char lands in the Brahmaputra basin has brought success to the extremely poor char people in achieving economic self-reliance in recent years. Expanded cultivation of the Australian hybrid...
BARISAL, Mar 2 (UNB): Three people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Barisal Highway at Rampatti in Babuganj upazila early Sunday. The deceased were identified as bus driver Rustom Ali, 40,...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 2 (BSS): In the wake of abnormal lowering of underground water table, farmers in the vast Barind tract are being encouraged adopting water-saving irrigation method like AWD. The farmers are also suggested to cultivate wheat instead of only...
NETRAKONA, Mar 2 (BSS): The annual athletic and sports competition and annual prize giving ceremony-2014 of Netrakona Government University College was held on the college playground here yesterday. The deputy minister for youth and sports Arif Khan Joy MP formally...
NARSINGDI, Mar 2 (BSS): The construction work of 630-metre long and 9.1-metre wide bridge on Narsingdi-Karimpur Road over the Meghna River is progressing satisfactorily. The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is implementing the project at a cost of Taka 808.19...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Mar 2 (BSS): Urban Food Day-2014 was observed in the district on Saturday. The slogan of the day was 'cultivation on homestead gives nutrition twelve months.' Chapainawabganj municipality arranged rally, agriculture fair, discussion meeting and prize distribution on the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Mar 2: The annual sports of the district police was held amidst enthusiasm at new police line ground Saturday. About 100 police personnel from five thanas of the district participated in 18 events of competitions. S.M. Mahfuzul Haque Nooruzzaman,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Mar 2: Fisheries and Livestock Minister Md. Sayedul Haque said, "According to experts, Bangladesh is a prospective country in South East Asia. So, congenial atmosphere is a prerequisite for continuous progress of the country.'' The minister made this observation...
One strangulated to death in Gopalganj A man was murdered allegedly by some miscreants at Chhoto Tarail village under Maksudpur upazila of Gopalganj Sunday. The deceased was identified as Kokhon Biswas, 40, son of Matilal Biswas of the same village....
FE Report | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
A three-day public hearing on the fresh electricity tariff hike for all categories of consumers starts from tomorrow (Tuesday) before announcing the range of increase. The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has arranged the public hearing for three consecutive days...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
Ministry of Finance (MoF) has sanctioned Tk 4.66 billion as subsidy to the private sector and two government organisations against their import of fertiliser, officials said. Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) and the private importers...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
Protein-rich spirulina of local quality is getting popularity as a food supplement among consumers to meet their protein deficiency. With the help of French scientists and the Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) this food is currently harvested...
Standing knee deep in toxic chemicals, Mokter Hossain loads animal hides into huge drums filled with still more dangerous liquids at a tannery in the Bangladesh capital. Barefoot and sick with fever, Hossain stops every now and then to cough,...
DUBLIN, Mar 2 (Reuters): Ireland would like a "significant" new bank with a big balance sheet to enter its lending market this year to drive competition in the diminished sector, finance minister Michael Noonan said on Saturday. Ireland's banking crisis,...
Mukesh Ambani richest man with fortune of $18b NEW DELHI, Mar 2: India is home to the fifth largest group of billionaires in the world and Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, is the country's richest man with a personal...
The Bangladesh-Pakistan women’s cricket series will begin Tuesday at the newly constructed Sheikh Kamal International Cricket Stadium in the tourist town of Cox’s Bazar ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 Bangladesh 2014. Touring Pakistan women’s team will play two ODI...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
The growth of country's plastics industry is being hampered due to shortage of skilled manpower and technical support services. Plastic sector is growing at a phenomenal rate contributing more than US$2.0 billion to the economy including $320 million in exports...
FE Report | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
Some 100 printers showed demonstration in front of National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) in the city Sunday demanding payment of due bills worth around Tk 1.04 billion of printing textbooks of 2014. They gathered under the banner of Bangladesh...
FE Report | 2014-03-03 00:00:00
The number of women entrepreneurs in the country has reached 10 per cent of the total entrepreneurs over the last one decade against 25 per cent in the developed countries, said an SME Foundation release Sunday. It said the rate...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee approved Sunday an Energy Division's proposal to import 1.3 million tonnes of crude petroleum from Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi for the current calendar year, reports UNB. The approval came from a meeting of the Cabinet...
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