SHANGHAI, April 18 (Reuters): Great Wall Motor Company Limited aims to raise more than five billion yuan ($765 million) from an initial public offering (IPO) in mainland China later this year, Chief Executive Wang Fengying told the reporter Monday. Great...
JAMALPUR APR 18 (BSS): The target of jute cultivation has been fixed on 56335 hectares of land in the district this year. Most of the farmers in the district have already cultivated jute of Desi variety on maximum land. The...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Apr 18: Realisation of all kinds of taxes of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) has increased due to receiving through bank. The realisation of tax has been increased two-fold during the last 6 months than the previous record. Sources...
A four-day long training course on "Community Participation and Management of Water Supply and Sanitation" was inaugurated at the conference room of Civil Engineering Department of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) Sunday arranged by KUET International Training Network...
MYMENSINGH, Apr 18 (UNB) : Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on-collision between two trucks in Signboard area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal Upazila Sunday midnight. The deceased were identified as Shah Alam (25) and Nazmul...
RANGPUR, Apr 18 (BSS) :Small-scale and common tea growers of Panchagarh expressed their happiness as the concerned authorities today fulfilled their demand for increasing price of green tea leaves by Tk 2.50 per kg. The tea growers thanked officials and...
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Apr 18: Speakers said at a discussion meeting that Rabindranath Tagore is not only indispensable to us but also a source of inspiration. The poet is our constant inspiration against fundamentalism, communalism and the enemies of Bengali...
A CorrespondentJHENIDAH, Apr 18: Sixty-four government and non-government secondary schools are running without headmasters and assistant headmasters in the district amid serious difficulties in academic and administrative activities. Sources say none of the three government schools and 61 of the...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Apr 18 (BSS): Bumper production of Boro is likely this year in Chapainawabganj district for adequate supply of fertiliser, irrigation facilities and timely rainfall. According to the Chapainawabganj District Office of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), an extensive...
Our CorrespondentJESSORE, Apr 18: BNP backed Mizan- Bablu- Kabul and Awami League backed Banshi- Kabu- Mizan panels shared posts in the election of Jessore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. BNP backed panel got 10 posts while Awami League backed panel...
At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over taking lease on a water body at Tighor village in Sarail Upazila of Brahmanbaria Monday morning.Sources said followers of Emdadul Haque and Mahfuj Member came...
A bird catcher was awarded six months imprisonment by a mobile court in the Lalmonirhat town Sunday midnight.The convict was identified as Ataur Rahman, son of Wasimuddin of Dupchachia Upazila of Bogra district.Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted a Dhaka-bound...
Police recovered the decomposed floating body of a minor boy from Turag river in Konabari area of Sadar Upazila in Gazipur Sunday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Local people found the body floating in the river...
A teenage madrassah girl student allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Jhaudogi village in Sadar Upazila of Laxmipur Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Yasmin Akhter (14), daughter of day labourer Momin Ullah of the village and a student...
Seven persons were arrested with 10 puria and 100 grams of hemp from Ranirhat under Baraigram Upazila of the district Friday.On secret information, Officer-in-Charge of Baraigram Thana arrested Moylal Mollah (37), Akbar Ali (45) , Ganesh Dash((65),Atul Chandra (62), Abdul...
A man was arrested along with counterfeit currency notes from NCC Bank branch of Savar Sunday.The arrestee was identified as Kamrul Hasan, son of late Solaiman Khan of Panchkhola village in Sadar Upazila of Madaripur district.Police said Kamrul deposited 15...
AJDABIYAH, Apr 18 (agencies): Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi bombarded Misrata with rockets and artillery Monday and pounded the insurgents' eastern frontline outpost of Ajdabiyah, rebels said. A rebel spokesman said 17 people were killed in shelling Sunday in Misrata,...
KABUL, April 18 (AFP): Ten Iranian engineers and five of their Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by Taliban gunmen on Monday in a remote western region of Afghanistan near the border with Iran, an official said. The men, who were working...
TEHRAN, Apr 18 (agencies): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday accused the United States of wanting to create tension between Iran and Arabs, after Gulf Arab states urged the Iranian regime to stop interfering in their affairs. "America and its allies...
Remote-controlled robots are being sent into the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant to measure radiation levels, reports BBC. The readings from two reactors showed a harsh environment for humans to work in, complicating efforts to stabilise the damaged reactors. It comes...
Voting has begun in the first phase of legislative elections in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, reports BBC. The state's government, the world's oldest democratically-elected Communist administration, is being challenged by an opposition led by India's Railway Minister...
BAGHDAD, Apr 18 (Reuters): Two powerful car bombs exploded near a security checkpoint at a crowded entrance to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 15, a security official said. Baghdad security spokesman Qassim...
GUANGZHOU, Apr 18 : At least 18 people were killed and 155 injured in south China's Guangdong Province as of Monday after hailstorms and strong winds rocked the region, flood control authorities said. Winds as strong as 164 km per...
KAMPALA, Apr 18: Ugandan police on Monday detained 17 opposition leaders, including three who ran against President Yoweri Museveni in polls, ahead of a new protest against spiralling food and fuel prices. The opposition had called for another "walk to...
AMMAN, Apr 18: Syrian forces killed 8 protesters overnight in the central city of Homs in confrontations after the death of a tribal leader in custody, a rights campaigner in Homs said Monday. "Homs is boiling. Security forces and the...
KHARTOUM, Apr 18: A Sudanese army helicopter crashed on Monday at El-Fasher airport in North Darfur, killing all five people on board, the army spokesman said, in the second accident of its kind in less than a week. "The helicopter...
DUBAI, Apr 18: Bahrain does not seek to dissolve the main Shiite opposition group Al-Wefaq, and wants it as a "partner for the future," Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad al-Khalifa said Monday in Dubai. "We're not there to dissolve...
Police recovered the decomposed floating body of a minor boy from Turag river in Konabari area of Sadar Upazila in Gazipur Sunday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.Local people found the body floating in the river...
A teenage madrassah girl student allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Jhaudogi village in Sadar Upazila of Laxmipur Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Yasmin Akhter (14), daughter of day labourer Momin Ullah of the village and a student...
Seven persons were arrested with 10 puria and 100 grams of hemp from Ranirhat under Baraigram Upazila of the district Friday.On secret information, Officer-in-Charge of Baraigram Thana arrested Moylal Mollah (37), Akbar Ali (45) , Ganesh Dash((65),Atul Chandra (62), Abdul...
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