A court here on Monday sent six Jubo League men to jail in a case filed in connection with the killing of their fellowman Humayun Kabir Murad. Metropolitan Magistrate Ahmed Sayeed passed the order when they surrendered before his court...
Accusing the government of harassing its probable candidates, BNP on Monday threatened to boycott the upazila (UZ) polls in Khulna division. “The BNP-backed aspirants and key leaders are being harassed, repressed and arrested. Some senior party leaders are being put...
LONDON: European stocks markets advanced Monday, building on a recent recovery, while investors were increasingly warming to eurozone trouble spot Italy. In foreign exchange trading, the British pound struck the highest point against the dollar for more than four years....
After a long wait, the 35th sitting of the (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Saarc Foreign Ministers will be held in Male, the capital of the Maldives, on Thursday with a focus on regional connectivity and enhancing trade ties...
The first session of the 10th Parliament has been adjourned until 4:30 pm on February 25 (Tuesday). Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Mia made the adjournment announcement after Monday’s business, according to a news agency.
A new ‘American Corner’ will be inaugurated in Rajshahi on Tuesday linking a nationwide network of American Spaces in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Khulna and over 400 American Spaces around the world. The newest American Corner, established in partnership with...
Bangladesh lost their first ODI against Sri Lanka by 13 runs after suffering a middle-order collapse at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Monday. Sri Lanka, put in to bat first, folded up for 180 in the 43-over-per-side match. In reply,...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 16 (BSS): Gardening around homesteads in both summer and winter seasons in the region including its vast Barind tract has been gaining popularity with production of different fruits and vegetables. Marginal farmers and the poor people in the...
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RANGPUR, Feb 16: Female labourers in Rangpur district are being deprived of equal rights as they get much less wage than their male counterparts for the same sort of work. A good number of women in the region work in...
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PABNA, Feb 16: Over 3 hundred bigha cultivated land was washed away as the dyke of sugar mill waste pond collapsed in Dashuria of Ishwardi Upazila under the district Saturday. Agitated farmers besieged the Pabna Sugar Mill demanding compensation of...
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CHUADANGA, Feb 16: Farmers of Chuadanga district are happy over a bumper production of turmeric and its price in the local market due to favourable weather condition this season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said, a total of...
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JESSORE, Feb 16: Speakers at a roundtable said a number of people of the country going to India in search of better jobs are most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. They need to be conscious about the deadly disease AIDS. They also...
A three-day ‘familiarisation’ tour for the Ambassadors and High Commissioners stationed in Dhaka began in the beach town of Cox’s Bazar Monday. The Foreign Ministry arranged the familiarisation programme in which envoys representing various countries, including Russia, Pakistan, Brazil, the...
BRAHMANBARIA, Feb 16 (BSS): Three drivers were killed and ten others injured in separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway under Sharail upazila of the district today. The identities of the two deceased were known immediately. They are Parvej, 30,...
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TANGAIL, Feb 16: Nursery business is gaining popularity in Tangail as it has become lucrative the recent times. The business is changing the life of young and unemployed people. Different types and sizes of nurseries are spreading over the district....
India's Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has cut indirect taxes on cars and mobile phones in an attempt to boost economic growth. Mr Chidambaram unveiled the move as he presented the interim budget ahead of this year's general elections. In his...
SHERPUR, Feb 16 (UNB): A nine-month old boy, who was kidnapped from the capital's Banani area nine days ago, was rescued from Gazaripara village in Jhinaigati upazila on Saturday afternoon. Police said Khokon Mia, 30, who worked as a mason...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Feb 16 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting here said the Hijras (trans-sexual) should be rehabilitated to be taken into the main stream of the society. They added the Hijras should be given proper counseling so that they do not...
FARIDPUR, Feb 16 (BSS): The three-week Jasim Pollimela (village fair) jointly organized by Faridpur Jasim Foundation and district administration marking the 111th birth anniversary of the folk poet Jasimuddin concluded last evening here on the premises of poet's ancestral home...
One electrocuted, 2 injured in Meherpur A youth was electrocuted and two others injured at Kumaridanga village in Gangni upazila Meherpur Saturday noon. The deceased was identified as Sazzad Hossain, 30, of the village. Sazzad was electrocuted as he came...
KATHMANDU, Feb 16 (AFP): Rescuers in Nepal scrambled on Sunday to find a Nepal Airlines plane carrying 18 people that went missing in the country's mountainous west, officials said. The plane with 15 passengers and three crew on board lost...
NEW DELHI, Feb 16, 2014 (AFP) - The party of firebrand anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal pushed ahead Sunday with preparations to contest India's looming general election, just days after he dramatically resigned as Delhi chief minister. Kejriwal's upstart Aam Aadmi...
Japan's economy grew less than expected at the end of last year, countering forecasts it would see higher spending ahead of a sales tax increase in April. Gross domestic product rose by 1 per cent on an annualised basis in...
KARACHI, Feb 16 (AFP): A bomb targeting a passenger train in southern Pakistan killed at least seven people and wounded more than 30 on Sunday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks this year. The bomb went off...
CAIRO, Feb 16 (AFP): A blast ripped through a bus near an Egyptian resort town bordering Israel on Sunday, killing at least three foreign tourists, police said. The cause of the blast near the resort town of Taba in south...
TUNIS, Feb 16 (AFP): Jihadists shot dead two people in a car they stopped at a roadblock near Roman ruins in Tunisia and two policemen who later sped to the scene, the interior ministry said Sunday. The killings occurred on...
KIEV, Feb 16 (AFP): Protesters in Kiev vacated city hall on Sunday after occupying the building for over two months as part of anti-government unrest sweeping Ukraine, in a highly symbolic gesture ahead of a new mass protest. The building...
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