BEIJING, April 7 (AFP): China raised wholesale petrol prices by 500 yuan ($76) per ton and diesel by 400 yuan a ton late Wednesday, the third rise since December in the world's second-largest fuel consuming nation. The petrol hike marked...
MUMBAI, Apr 7 (AFP): An Indian pharmaceutical company has vowed to stop supplying US prison authorities with a key drug used in the execution of death row prisoners, its managing director said Thursday. Navneet Verma, from Kayem Pharmaceutical Ltd in...
SEOUL, Apr 7 (Reuters): South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Thursday forecast operating profit would fall more than a third in the first quarter to about 2.9 trillion won ($2.67 billion) due to weaker global demand. Samsung, the world's largest maker...
PARIS, April 7 (Xinhua): France's trade deficit increased for the fourth consecutive month in February while reaching a record-high 6.55 billion euros (9.36 billion US dollars), the government said Thursday. The February figure exceeded the previous record of 6.35 billion...
A five-day training course on 'Risk Management and Capital Adequacy,' conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM), concluded in the city recently. At least 25 high officials from different banks and financial institutions participated in the course. BIBM...
A court here Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to death for killing his wife in 2007. The convict Manik Mollah (24), son of Sona Mollah of Dakkhin Bhobanipur village in Kumarkhali Upazila strangled his wife Rashida Khatun (18),...
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) will launch four new departments in the upcoming academic session of the university, Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir said. He said this while addressing an orientation and farewell function at the Fazilatunnesa...
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Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Apr 7: The unemployed rural women in Rangpur district have set a rare example of becoming self-reliant by sewing handloom readymade garments. Different government and non-government organisations (NGOs) have extended their support to them. According to sources,...
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Our CorrespondentPABNA, Apr 7: Agitated land donors shut three union community health complexes of Ishwardi Upazila of Pabna Wednesday for not getting job for the donors families since last 10 years. The land donors claimed that they had donated land...
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A CorrespondentKUSHTIA, Apr 7: A group of outsiders attacked Kushtia Press Club Wednesday at about 8:p.m According to sources a group of outsiders backed by a group of the ruling party equipped with lethal weapons attacked the press club when...
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Our CorrespondentNATORE, Apr 7: An old woman was killed and over 200 houses were damaged as nor'wester lashed scores of villages in Baraigram Upazila of the district recently. Besides, several hundred of thatched houses and standing crops on vast tracts...
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Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Apr 7: World Health Day on the slogan of 'Antimicrobial Resistance and its Global Spread' was observed with a rally and discussion meeting organised by district health department and non-government organisations in Joypurhat Thursday. A colourful rally...
CHUADANGA, Apr 7 (UNB): Excess use of pesticides in agricultural land put the lives of huge number of farmers of four upazilas here at health risk. Concerned sources said pesticides worth about Tk 200 million are used annually in lands...
NETRAKONA, Apr 7 (UNB) : Tiger panic gripped the residents of several villages in Kendua Upazila here following attack by the animal. Residents of Rajnagar, Boaibari, Titua, Charamtala, Haripur Puranbari and other adjacent villages shut down doors and windows of...
CHANDPUR, Apr 7 (BSS): Jatka Preservation Week is being observed in Chandpur from Monday in a befitting manner. On the occasion, a colourful rally was brought out in the town. The rally paraded different roads of the district headquarters. A...
NETRAKONA Apr 7 (BSS): Netrakona district administration has chalked out an elaborate program to observe Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year-1418, in a befitting manner. The program includes organizing a three-day Baishakhi mela, colourful rally with...
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Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Apr 7: Sale of rice and wheat at subsidised rates for the poor and ultra poor people has started in Nilphamari district. Under the project, supervised by District Controller of Food, a total of 1,05,000 families across six...
Youth killed in road accident A bicyclist was killed when hit by a battery driven auto-rickshaw near the Munshiganj district general hospital in the town Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kabir Hossain (17), son of Rajab Ali of Manikpur...
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) will launch four new departments in the upcoming academic session of the university, Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir said. He said this while addressing an orientation and farewell function at the Fazilatunnesa...
AJDABIYA, Libya, Apr 7 (AP): Rebel fighters are claiming that NATO airstrikes hit their forces on the front lines and touched off a retreat from the outskirts of the oil port of Brega. Several militiamen fleeing back toward rebel-held Ajdabiya...
The sounds of a fierce gun battle rang out early Thursday from the home of Laurent Gbagbo in Abidjan as the bloody fight to determine who would be the president of Ivory Coast continued, a Red Cross official said, reports...
MINAMI SOMA, Japan, Apr 7 (AP): Japanese police raced Thursday to find thousands of missing bodies before they decompose along a stretch of tsunami-pummeled coast that has been largely off-limits because of a radiation-leaking nuclear plant. Nearly a month after...
BEIJING, Apr 7 (AFP): China Thursday warned the international community it had 'no right to interfere' in the case of outspoken artist Ai Weiwei, who has been detained for investigation of unspecified economic crimes. Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei confirmed...
BEIRUT, Apr 7 (Reuters): Syria has released 48 ethnic Kurds, a rights group said, in the latest move by President Bashar al-Assad to try to ease resentment over nearly five decades of authoritarian Baathist rule. Once unthinkable popular protests have...
ROME, Apr 7 (AFP): Hopes faded Thursday for some 150 African refugees fleeing Libya whose boat capsized in the middle of the Mediterranean in stormy weather, a day after 53 survivors were plucked from the sea. "We are still searching...
France rescues Japanese envoy in Ivory Coast ABIDJAN, Apr 7: French forces rescued the Japanese ambassador and seven other Japanese diplomats, France's foreign minister said Thursday, as Ivory Coast's strongman remained holed up in an underground bunker refusing to cede...
CHANDPUR, Apr 7 (BSS): Jatka Preservation Week is being observed in Chandpur from Monday in a befitting manner. On the occasion, a colourful rally was brought out in the town. The rally paraded different roads of the district headquarters. A...
NETRAKONA Apr 7 (BSS): Netrakona district administration has chalked out an elaborate program to observe Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year-1418, in a befitting manner. The program includes organizing a three-day Baishakhi mela, colourful rally with...
Our Correspondent | 2011-04-08 00:00:00
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Apr 7: Sale of rice and wheat at subsidised rates for the poor and ultra poor people has started in Nilphamari district. Under the project, supervised by District Controller of Food, a total of 1,05,000 families across six...
Youth killed in road accident A bicyclist was killed when hit by a battery driven auto-rickshaw near the Munshiganj district general hospital in the town Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kabir Hossain (17), son of Rajab Ali of Manikpur...
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