MAGURA, Dec 22 (UNB): A local leader of Chhatra League was killed when a speedy truck hit his motorcycle at Parnanduali in Sadar upazila on Magura-Kamarkhali road on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Rabiul Islam, 24, library secretary...
SYLHET, Dec 22 (UNB): A tribunal here on Wednesday convicted six people and sentenced them to the life imprisonment for killing a teenage girl after gang rape. The convicts were also fined Tk 50,000 each, in default, to suffer one...
NARSINGDI, Dec 22 (BSS): Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive programme for the cultivation of Boro paddy in Narsingdi during the current season for overcoming food deficit in the district. According to an official source, a...
NATORE, Dec 22 (BSS): The government has allocated 3,556 blankets for distribution among cold-hit distressed people of the district. Sources concerned said the district relief office will distribute the blankets among the distressed people in six upazilas of the district....
A Correspondent JHENIDAH, Dec 22: A round-table conference was held on Wednesday in the conference room of deputy commissioner, Jhenidah, organised by Dhaka Ahsania Mission under Access Health and Empowerment Project regarding how to give modern health care to the...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 22 (BSS): Potato traders and growers have been facing an embarrassing situation with their 15million bags of stored potato in cold-storages in the district. According to the sources concerned, the huge potato remained stockpiled in 26 cold storages...
Our Correspondent NARSINGDI, Dec 22: All six thana police in Narsingdi raided different places and arrested 28 accused in different cases including 17 dacoits of the district during the last 20 days from December 1 to 20 and recovered one...
SIRAJGANJ, Dec 22: At least 13 workers were arrested by RAB-12 forces from Motishaheber ghat area in Sirajganj town during lifting sand illegally from the Jamuna riverbed. The arrestees are: Nurul Islam, 40, Bachhu Mollah, 40, Nur-e-Alam, 50, Ripon Sheikh,...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 22 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar here yesterday stressed the need for bringing all char children aged 0-5 years of the district under Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI) to protect them from eight fatal diseases. They emphasized increasing...
A woman was killed allegedly by her husband for dowry at Maijhail Ghospara village in Belkuchi upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Ankhi Sutradhar, 18, daughter of Nantu Sutradhar of Barahar village in Ullapara upazila. Ankhi was...
BAGHDAD, Dec 22 (AFP): A wave of attacks in Baghdad Thursday killed 57 people as Iraq faced a political crisis, with its vice president accused of running death squads and the premier warning he could break off power-sharing. The apparently...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 22 (AFP): Pakistan's embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Thursday said conspirators were plotting to bring down his government and delivered an unprecedented tirade against the powerful military. In astonishing confirmation that he fears being ousted, he angrily...
PARIS, Dec 22 (Reuters): Sixty-six journalists were killed worldwide in 2011, many of them covering Arab revolutions, gang crime in Mexico or political turmoil in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Thursday. Ten journalists were killed in Pakistan, most of...
ILIGAN, Dec 22 (AFP): The United Nations Thursday appealed for aid for victims of floods that killed more than a thousand people in the Philippines, likening the devastation to that of a tsunami. UN country coordinator Soe Nyunt-U appealed to...
KINSHASA, Dec 22 (Reuters): Democratic Republic of Congo security forces have killed 24 people since President Joseph Kabila won a disputed presidential election, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The rights group said all but four of the victims were killed...
BEIRUT, Dec 22 (AP): A team of Arab observers headed to Syria on Thursday as neighboring Turkey condemned President Bashar Assad for turning his country into a "bloodbath" after the regime killed more than 200 people this week alone, drawing...
CAIRO, Dec 22 (AFP): Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal were meeting in Cairo on Wednesday night for the second time in less than a month, for talks seeking to reconcile Palestinian rivals. The two men arrived...
MALI, December 22 (AFP): An Al-Qaeda offshoot that claimed the abduction of three Europeans in Algeria is threatening to spread jihad beyond North African deserts and establish a foothold in sub-Saharan West Africa. Some analysts believe the new group is...
Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed reinstating direct elections of regional governors, in a far-reaching plan for political reform. Direct elections were abolished by his predecessor Vladimir Putin in 2004, since when the governors have been Kremlin appointees. Mr Medvedev...
Shakib Al Hasan, the former Bangladesh captain, has become the No. 1 Test allrounder in the latest ICC rankings following his outstanding performance against Pakistan in Mirpur which has ended Jacques Kallis lengthy hold on the position, reports Cricinfo. Shakib...
LONDON, Dec 22 (AFP): Manchester United kept up their pursuit of leaders Manchester City with a 5-0 victory at Fulham but the three points came at a cost as England duo Phil Jones and Ashley Young were injured. Both will...
Curtain of the season's domestic football will be raised today (Friday) as the Grameenphone Federation Cup Football begins with Bangladesh Navy taking on Cox City FC in the opening match, reports UNB. The match will kick off at 3:00 pm...
The zonal round of the two-day Meizan National Kabaddi, sponsored by Bangladesh Edible Oil Limited began Thursday at five separate venues across the country, reports UNB. At the Barisal venue, host Barisal became the zonal champion beating Patuakhali 64-13 with...
KARACHI, Dec 22 (AFP): Pakistan came from two goals down Thursday to beat a much improved China 5-3, taking the lead 2-0 in a four-match series that marks the first international hockey in the troubled country for seven years. Forwards...
LONDON, Dec 22 (AFP): Manchester City maintained their two-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 defeat of Stoke as rivals Manchester United destroyed Fulham 5-0 to stay in touch. City ensured they will lead the...
ZURICH, Dec 21 (Reuters): Spain remained top of the Fifa world rankings and were acclaimed 'Team of the Year' for the fourth time running Friday, while Wales, inspired by the work of their late manager Gary Speed, were declared the...
The Sultana Kamal 4th Central South Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championship will be held at Mirpur Shaheed Suhrawardi Indoor Stadium in the city from December 28-30. A total of six countries - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Uzbekistan and hosts Bangladesh...
FE Report The government has taken up a project for expanding 40 industrial estates of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in a bid to accommodate more entrepreneurs there and help boost country's industrialisation, Industries Minister Dilip Barua...
Police foiled BNP's mass procession protesting against what the opposition said 'secret' killings and obstruction to demonstrations, reports bdnews24.com. Police used water canons and fired tear gas shells to disperse pro-BNP lawyers at the Nightingale intersection near the party's Naya...
FHM Humayan Kabir The government is set to sign a deal with the ADB to get financial support and appoint foreign consultant for completing feasibility study and design of the Dhaka-Chittagong Expressway, the Ministry of Communications officials said Wednesday. The...
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