Private mobile operator Airtel Bangladesh Limited has recently signed an agreement with state-owned operator Teletalk Bangladesh Limited on sharing infrastructure. Chris Tobit, CEO and Managing Director of Airtel Bangladesh Limited and Mujibur Rahman, Managing Director of Teletalk signed the Memorandum...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to extend her cabinet on Wednesday. Sources at the Cabinet Division told UNB that AH Mahmood Ali, an MP from Dinajpur-4 constituency, will take oath as a minister and he is expected to get...
The nation recalled Tuesday the horrific carnage at Peelkhana BDR headquarters in the capital where 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed on this day in 2009. Relatives of the martyrs, government high-ups, and Border Guard Bangladesh and army...
One of the biggest Bitcoin Exchanges, MtGox, has gone offline. The exchange has been hit by technical issues and recently halted all customer withdrawals of the digital currency after it spotted what it called "unusual activity". The move is a...
KANO: Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed 43 people Tuesday when they attacked secondary school students as they slept in the latest school massacre to hit Nigeria's troubled northeast. The raid at 2:00 am (0100 GMT) targeted the Federal Government College...
CAIRO: Outgoing housing minister Ibrahim Mahlab was appointed Tuesday as Egypt's new prime minister after the resignation of the cabinet installed by the military following last year's overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Mahlab, a former member of deposed president...
The European Commission has said economic recovery is "gaining ground" in the EU as it revised up its growth forecasts for 2014 and 2015. The Commission said the 18-nation eurozone would grow by 1.2 per cent this year and 1.8...
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) will appoint nearly 16,000 staff to its various posts this year, said BR Director General Tofazzel Hossain on Tuesday. “The process for the recruitment is on. We’ll start recruiting on completion of the process,” he told...
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury alleged that some ‘foreign powers’ are fostering militants in Bangladesh. “Some diplomats were holding meetings with the militants in madrasahs. This proves foreign powers are fostering militants. These diplomats don’t have any shame,” she said in...
PANCHAGARH: The SSC exam of Biology subject was taken with ‘Kha’ set question paper instead of ‘Ka’ set at a centre under Dinajpur Education Board in Boda upazila Tuesday. Later, the SSC examinees and their guardians blocked Panchagarh-Dhaka highway for...
LONDON: European stocks retreated from overbought territory Tuesday amid profit-taking, while the euro gained strength from revised higher growth forecasts for the European Union. The British capital's benchmark FTSE 100 index fell 0.37 per cent to 6,812.84 points mid-afternoon, after...
The election to 50 parliamentary seats, set aside exclusively for women, will be held on April 3 instead of March 29, said the Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday. According to the reschedule, the deadline for the submission of nomination papers...
JP Morgan announced it will cut 8,000 jobs in its mortgage and retail banking sections as those businesses continue to shrink. The bank had previously announced about half of those cuts, but said it was eliminating more positions to save...
The Norwegian defense group Kongsberg says it has been charged with corruption relating to its activities in Romania. Kongsberg say it was informed of the charges Tuesday by the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental...
The police headquarters on Tuesday released nine different images of the two militants convicts snatched from a prison van at Signboard of Trishal in Mymensingh on Sunday. In a filmy-style attack on the prison van, a group of militants snatched...
BANGLADESH: Sling-arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga grabbed five wickets in a devastating final spell to lead Sri Lanka to a 12-run win over defending champions Pakistan in the opening match of the Asia Cup in Fatullah Tuesday.Pakistan, chasing Sri Lanka’s...
The stationmaster of Joydebpur Railway Station was assaulted by extortionists at his office on Tuesday evening. Dadan Mia, sub-inspector of Joydebpur Government Railway Police (GRP) Station, said local miscreants had an altercation with stationmaster Ziauddin Sarder over extorting money from...
RANGPUR, Feb 24 (BSS): With the advent of the spring and rise in temperature after departure of winter, excellent sprouting of buds in mango trees continues now everywhere in the northern districts amid favourable climatic condition. Meanwhile, the mango trees...
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CHUADANGA, Feb 24: Farmers of Chuadanga district are expecting a bumper production of wheat this season due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agro-inputs in the district. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said they had...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 24 (BSS): Large-scale promotion of the livestock sector is very important to remove the existing protein deficiency alongside ensuring food security, livestock experts and dairy and poultry farmers said. The unemployment problem in the region especially in its...
COMILLA, Feb 24 (UNB): Two motorcyclists were killed when their vehicle collided head-on with a human hauler on the Gouripur-Homna Road in Ziarkandi area of Titas upazila on Sunday evening. The deceased were identified as Mission Sarkar, 24, son of...
CHANDPUR, Feb 24 (UNB): A devastating fire burnt down 16 shops and injured 20 people at Hajiganj Bazar in Hajiganj upazila on Sunday afternoon. Witnesses said the fire originated from a tea shop at Hajiganj Bazar in the afternoon and...
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MAGURA, Feb 24: A view exchange meeting on AIDS prevention was held in Magura Monday. The meeting reveals, in last 24 years (from 1989 to 2013) at least 1299 persons were attacked with AIDS while 472 died in the country....
NARAIL, Feb 24 (BSS): An eight-day 'Sultan Mela (fair)' in remembrance of the 89th birth anniversary of celebrated artist SM Sultan will begin at Sultan Mancha of Narail Government Victoria College tomorrow. Sultan Foundation in association with the district administration...
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NILPHAMARI: Feb 24: Government procurement of Aman rice is still going on in Nilphamari district and it will continue up to February 28 this year. The procurement target of Aman rice this season is 6284.600 metric tonnes and so far...
JESSORE, Feb 24 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested four people along with Tk 2.15 million of hundi money from Chachra area of Jessore Sunday. The arrestees-Abdur Rahim, Mona, Matiar Rahman and Rahmat-hail from different...
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JHENIDAH, Feb 24: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered a 9 mm bore pistol on searching a bus of Rafsan Paribahan of Garai Services bound for Kushtia from Khulna at around 8-30 pm on Sunday. Kaliganj police acting on a tip-off,...
CAIRO, Feb 24 (AFP): The government of Egypt's prime minister Hazem al-Beblawi submitted its resignation to interim president Adly Mansour on Monday, the cabinet said, in a move just weeks before a presidential poll. Egypt is due to hold the...
NEW DELHI, Feb 24 (AFP): India has dropped a plan to use a tough anti-piracy law to prosecute two Italian marines who killed two fishermen, the Supreme Court heard on Monday, amid a diplomatic row. Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati told...
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