Our Correspondent | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
JESSORE, Jan 19: Classmates allegedly stabbed to death Shariful Islam, 20, a student of first year of department of commerce, and son of Shafiuddin of New Town Sunday morning. He was a student of Jessore Education Board Model School and...
Our Correspondent | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Jan 19: Cultivation of corns like gram, green gram, pea, lentil and so on is going on in Nilphamari district although these are not so extensively cultivated. Only some particular farmers cultivate these corns sporadically across the upazilas. DAE...
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury will run in the by-election in Rangpur-6 constituency, which was vacated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She told bdnews24.com that a nomination paper was bought for her on Monday. The Election Commission on Sunday announced the...
RU Correspondent | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Jan 19: The residential students of the Rajshahi University (RU) are suffering over food while hall dining has not been resumed even after 10 days of reopening of the dormitories. On January 7, 16 residential halls have been...
Youth found dead in Bogra A youth was found dead at Daspara village in Dhunat upazila in Bogra on Sunday morning. Police recovered the body of Ashim Kumar Das, 25, son of Anin Chandra Das of the village, from a...
A Bangladeshi youth has been beaten to death by miscreants in Petrapole area of India adjacent to Benapole Land Port. The victim was identified as Akhter Hossain Palsar, 22, son of Khalil Uddin of Samta village in Sharsha upazila in...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) is set to announce its monetary policy statement (MPS) for the second half (H2) of the current 2013-14 (FY14) financial year on January 27, a BB official said. One of the major focuses of the new MPS...
Local unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on Monday called a strike in all the educational institutions in Chuadanga district for Tuesday protesting the arrest of one of its leaders and demanding the removal of officer-in-charge of a local police...
Mai Nguyen of Reuters from Henoi | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Vietnam's benchmark VN Index rose 2.0 per cent at the break on the closing day of trading last week in positive sentiment, with banks climbing on news of lender BIDV's listing and investors buying blue chips on expectation of a...
Edmund Blair of Reuters from Nairobi | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Pirates have seized a merchant ship in the Red Sea and have taken it south towards Somali waters in the first successful hijacking in the region since 2012, maritime officials said on Sunday. The vessel, identified as the MV Marzooqah,...
Jack Kim of Reuters from Seoul | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
South Korea confirmed the outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu last Saturday and said it would expand the culling of birds to a radius of 3-km (1.9 mile) around a duck farm, but a nationwide suspension of poultry shipment was...
PESHAWAR, Jan 19 (AFP): A bomb claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed 20 soldiers and wounded 30 when it ripped through a military convoy in the restive northwest on Sunday, officials said. The attack, one of the deadliest to hit...
NEW DELHI, Jan 19 (AFP): India's opposition prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi mocked the ruling Congress party on Sunday for refusing to name Rahul Gandhi as its choice for premier in upcoming elections. In a speech in the capital, Modi...
HONG KONG, Jan 19 (AFP): Thousands of domestic helpers took to the streets of Hong Kong Sunday to demand justice for an Indonesian maid allegedly tortured by her employers, the second such rally in a week. Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, 22, was...
BANGKOK, Jan 19 (AFP): An attack on a rally in central Bangkok injured 28 people Sunday, the second such assault in two days on demonstrators staging "shutdown" protests aimed at toppling the Thai government. Unknown attackers have killed several people...
NEW DELHI, Jan 19 (AFP): Indian minister Shashi Tharoor, whose wife was found dead in a luxury hotel room, called Sunday for a swift inquiry so the truth "can come out as soon as possible", an official said. Tharoor wrote...
JAKARTA, Jan 19 (AFP): More than 30,000 Indonesians have fled their homes in the capital due to flooding that has left five dead, officials said Sunday, with people using rubber dinghies and wading through waist-deep water to reach safer ground....
Two Gazans hurt as Israel strike targets Islamic Jihad JERUSALEM, Jan 19: Two Palestinians were hurt, one critically, in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City on Sunday, which the military said had targeted a senior Islamic Jihad militant. Gaza...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Tour operators of the country foresee a rather bleak 2014 as they express doubt over regaining the country's image lost mainly due to political chaos over the last eight months of 2013 compelling hundreds of foreign tourists to cancel bookings...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-01-20 00:00:00
Patients are being deprived of getting the newly invented and some life saving research medicines as the national drug ordinance has restricted their options of getting foreign products by barring imports, sources said. They said these specialised medicines are manufactured...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday expressed the hope that Bangladesh would be able to achieve around 6.0 per cent GDP growth rate in the current fiscal year (2013-14) despite all odds and constraints. "We'll try to attain around...
State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid on Sunday said that the government plans to generate 24,000 MW of electricity by 2021. He urged all the officials and employees under the Power Division to work sincerely to achieve this target, reports...
BJSA gets new chairman Shabbir Yusuf, managing director of Faridpur Jute Fibres Limited, has recently been elected chairman of Bangladesh Jute Spinners Association (BJSA). Earlier, immediate past chairman of the Association Muhammad Shams-uz Zoha, director of Supreme Jute & Knitex...
Piracy at sea has reached its lowest levels in six years, with 264 attacks recorded worldwide in 2013, a 40 per cent drop since Somali piracy peaked in 2011, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) revealed...
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