Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USAIn the 1960s, when I was a high school student, the voice from Radio Pakistan that I still fondly remember was of Anita Ghulam Ali, the prolific and legendary English news broadcaster. Every morning, perhaps...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Apr 24: Additional Secretary of Energy Ministry Tapash Kumar Roy visited the two under construction 145 mw Quick Rental Power Plant at Taltala under Nawapara of Jessore district Friday. Sources said that the present government called tender to...
Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Apr 24: Nursery business has changed the lot of many besides employing thousands of people of Rangpur district. The growth of nursery in the private sector has brought prosperity to the both urban and rural people in...
JHALAKATI, Apr 24 (UNB) : Medical service in the district is limping amid serious shortage of doctors. A total of 59 posts of doctors have been lying vacant in the district against 102 sanctioned posts. Now, there are 11 doctors...
A CorrespondentHABIGANJ, Apr 24: A human chain was formed at habiganj demanding implementation of Jatiyo Nari Unnayan Neeti (National women development Policy) at Deputy Collector's office Thursday. Organized by Jatiyo Mahila Shangsta Habiganj about 5 hundred women attended the programme....
PANCHAGARH, April 24 (BSS) : Freedom fighter Nabokumar Roy was killed in a road accident at Debiganj Karatoa bridge under Debiganj Upazila in the district Saturday night. The dead was identified as Nabokumar Roy (65),son of Sarat Chandra of Lakhirhat...
JU CorrespondentJAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY, Apr 24: A student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was killed in a road accident which took place at Narshingdi Friday. Source said, the deceased was identified as Rofiqul Islam Roton(22), a student of government & politics department...
RANGPUR, Apr 24 (BSS): Renowned experts said that top priority should be put on adaptation with the adverse impacts of climate change while taking effective steps to reduce further degradation of the situation. They urged all to ensure optimum utilisation...
KISHOREGANJ, Apr 24 (UNB) : Katiadi Upazila Vice-Chairman Rafiqul Islam Milon (42), who was stabbed by some terrorists Saturday evening in the upazila bus stand area, died at a hospital in the capital Sunday morning. Locals said when Milon along...
Our Correspondent PABNA, Apr 24: A cement laden vessel sank at Natokhola point of Jamuna river Thursday evening. At least one thousand two hundred bags of cement worth about Tk. 5 lakh fell into the river sources said. The recover...
Our CorrespondentNATORE, Apr 24: A mobile court in Bagatipara Upazila fined a youth Tk 5 thousand for harassing a girl student of Rahimanpur High School in Bagatipara Upazila of Natore district. The convict was identified as Bidyut, son of Mansur...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, Apr 24: The timetable for election of 91 union councils under eight Upazilas in Jessore was announced in a meeting chaired by Nurul Amin, Deputy Commissioner, Jessore Friday. The schedule will be announced within a very shot...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Joypurhat camp seized 400 sacks OMS rice, a truck and a motorcycle and arrested 4 criminals who were connected to trafficking of rice from Barokandi Bazar under Panchbibi Upazila in the Joypurhat district...
Two young men were crushed under the wheels of trains in separate incidents of Gazipur Sunday.Sub-Inspector of Tongi railway police camp Abul Khair said Dhaka-bound Dhumketu inter-city express train knocked down Ripon (28), when he was crossing the rail line...
Police recovered a body of a young man from Taltala garden in Kusumdi village of Mithapukur Union in Alfadanga Upazila Saturday.The victim was identified as Liton Munsi (28), son of Late Saikat Munsi of Kusumdi village. He was a cargo...
Police recovered body of a housewife named Ferdousi Begum (20), from her house at Gokornaghat of the Brahmanbaria town Saturday. Ferdousi was wife of Shahin Mia of Gokornaghat. Her body was hanging from the ceiling of the room. Sadar Thana...
Police recovered body of a young man, aged about (24) from Bakua area on Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Ullapara Upazila of Sirajganj Saturday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police suspected that miscreants following a previous enmity...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) destroyed smuggled drugs worth about Tk 90 million at the BGB office in Jessore Saturday.The destroyed drugs include 15,690 bottles of phensidyl, 2400 bottles of foreign liquor, 65.5 litres of stolen liquor, 4.5kg of hemp...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The government decision to start providing new electricity connections to over 280,000 consumers has surely evoked both surprise and elation. Most people would be surprised by the decision because of the existing gross mismatch between the demand...
The ubiquitous H5N1 virus was reported in sixty countries at its peak in 2006 but most have stamped it out. If allowed to run its 'natural' course, some say, it might die out without much fuss from common sense cleanliness...
Shafiqul AlamThe severe power crisis has guided the government to look for alternative solutions like quick rental power plants. However, this might further complicate the situation due to the huge gap between the production cost being claimed by the private...
As a result of high-rate of migration, non-formal economic activities in Dhaka city have exploded, with a large number of people struggling to survive in extremely insecure conditions. One common informal activity of the city is street vending where the...
Under Moghal rule of Delhi, the British East India Company was wrongly granted exemption from payment of taxes for carrying trade, export and import activities. And subsequently the history of the later period of whole of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan...
JU CorrespondentJAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY, Apr 24: A student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) was killed in a road accident which took place at Narshingdi Friday. Source said, the deceased was identified as Rofiqul Islam Roton(22), a student of government & politics department...
RANGPUR, Apr 24 (BSS): Renowned experts said that top priority should be put on adaptation with the adverse impacts of climate change while taking effective steps to reduce further degradation of the situation. They urged all to ensure optimum utilisation...
KISHOREGANJ, Apr 24 (UNB) : Katiadi Upazila Vice-Chairman Rafiqul Islam Milon (42), who was stabbed by some terrorists Saturday evening in the upazila bus stand area, died at a hospital in the capital Sunday morning. Locals said when Milon along...
Our Correspondent PABNA, Apr 24: A cement laden vessel sank at Natokhola point of Jamuna river Thursday evening. At least one thousand two hundred bags of cement worth about Tk. 5 lakh fell into the river sources said. The recover...
Our CorrespondentNATORE, Apr 24: A mobile court in Bagatipara Upazila fined a youth Tk 5 thousand for harassing a girl student of Rahimanpur High School in Bagatipara Upazila of Natore district. The convict was identified as Bidyut, son of Mansur...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, Apr 24: The timetable for election of 91 union councils under eight Upazilas in Jessore was announced in a meeting chaired by Nurul Amin, Deputy Commissioner, Jessore Friday. The schedule will be announced within a very shot...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Joypurhat camp seized 400 sacks OMS rice, a truck and a motorcycle and arrested 4 criminals who were connected to trafficking of rice from Barokandi Bazar under Panchbibi Upazila in the Joypurhat district...
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