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Shops gutted

2011-03-20 00:00:00

At least 20 shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at two markets in the Haor area of Mithamoin Upazila of Kishoreganj Saturday. Local sources said, the fire originated from the burning mosquito coil at a shop and...

Drug peddler arrested

2011-03-20 00:00:00

RAB members arrested drug peddler along with huge quantity of phensidyl in Dhulivita area on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai Upazila early Saturday. The arrested was identified as Munna (35) of Jessore district. Acting on information, a team of RAB-4 conducted...

Railway to reform 380 illegal level crossings

Arafat Ara | 2011-03-20 00:00:00

Arafat AraBangladesh Railway (BR) plans to reform around 380 unauthorised level crossings to check road accidents in the country, said a senior official Thursday. He said there are 1083 unauthorised level crossings across the country, which are responsible for increasing...

World leaders launch

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Continued from page 1 col. 8 The United States, Britain, France and 19 other participants in an emergency summit in Paris Saturday "agreed to put in place all the means necessary, in particular military" to make Gaddafi respect a U.N....

BSMMU, SGH to sign deal on jt replacement surgery

FE Report | 2011-03-20 00:00:00

FE ReportBangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) is going to sign a technical support agreement on 'joint replacement surgery' with Singapore General Hospital (SGH) soon. This was unveiled at a seminar on Continuous Medical Education (CME) and a live demonstration...

Investors urge govt to allow Unipay2U operation

Our Correspondent | 2011-03-20 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 19: Investors of multilevel marketing company Unipay2U faced obstruction from the police today as they wanted to organise a meeting at a community centre in the city without prior permission from the law enforcers. Over one thousand...

Minor boy killed, 3 hurt in city road mishap

2011-03-20 00:00:00

A minor boy was killed and three others injured when a passenger bus hit a CNG-auto rickshaw in the city's Demra area Saturday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Hasadur Rahmamn alias Rafi, a one year old boy and...

Renovation of Barisal river port continues

2011-03-20 00:00:00

BARISAL, Mar 19 (BSS): The renovation work of Barisal river port, the second largest river port in the country, is developing fast. Work on two development and modernisation packages, out of three, has already been completed in the port and...

Ershad's 81st birthday today

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman and former president Hussain Mohammad Ershad will celebrate his 81st birth anniversary today (Sunday), reports BSS. Marking the day, Pallhibandhu Foundation and front organization of JP has taken a number of programmes including, holding doa mahfil,...

Qulkhwani of Nurussafa held

2011-03-20 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Mar 19 (BSS): Qulkhani and Doa Mahfil of late Advocate Nurussafa Talukdar, father of State Minister for Forests and Environment Dr Hasan Mahmud, was held at his Shukbillas village home under Rangunia Upazila of the district Saturday. Industries Minister...

Govt urged to ensure uninterrupted power supply to cold storages

FE Report | 2011-03-20 00:00:00

FE ReportBangladesh Cold Storage Association has urged the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to country's 350 cold storages for the next three months in view of a bumper production of potatoes, said a release Saturday. Potato production is expected...

Birth registration rates poor due to poverty

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Birth registration rate is low in char and remote areas of the country due to their extreme poverty and illiteracy, reports BSS. According to representatives of local bodies at Hatiya Upazila of Noakhali district. About 40 per cent people were...

BCL leader killed in gunfight

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Terokhada thana Chhatra League General Secretary Imran Fakir was killed and other 20 persons were injured in a clash between two supporters of Terokhada Sadar Union Parishad Chairman candidates Saturday morning. Police and local source said that a clash was...

Old man hacked to death

2011-03-20 00:00:00

An octogenarian man, who was stabbed by a miscreant Wednesday at Borodesh village in Kanaighat Upazila of Sylhet died at OMCH .The deceased was identified as Juaid Ali (78), son of late Mobashir Ali of the village.Police said Fahad, son...

10 injured in a clash

2011-03-20 00:00:00

At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Mohishkundi Paschimpara village in Doulatpur Upazila Friday. Witnesses said an altercation ensued between Rezaul Islam and Bhangon. Ali of the village over a trifling matter...

One held with arms

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Police in a drive arrested a young man along with a country made pistol from Doulatdia launch ghat of Rajbari road early Saturday. The arrestee was identified as Khorshed Alam (20), son of Shaheb Ali of Korollachari village in Matiranga...

Shops gutted

2011-03-20 00:00:00

At least 20 shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at two markets in the Haor area of Mithamoin Upazila of Kishoreganj Saturday. Local sources said, the fire originated from the burning mosquito coil at a shop and...

Drug peddler arrested

2011-03-20 00:00:00

RAB members arrested drug peddler along with huge quantity of phensidyl in Dhulivita area on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai Upazila early Saturday. The arrested was identified as Munna (35) of Jessore district. Acting on information, a team of RAB-4 conducted...

Nine BD workers' bodies may be flown back home

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Bangladesh has asked its ambassador in Greece to send back home the nine bodies of the migrant workers who jumped to sea from a ship during the evacuation from Libya to the Greek island of Crete on March 6, reports...

11 AL activists injured in BNP attack in Pirojpur

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Eleven activists of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) were injured in an attack by supporters of Nazirpur Upazila unit BNP leader and Sriramkathi Union Parishad Chairman Motahar at Bhubankathi village in the upazila Friday night, reports UNB. Villagers said AL-backed Sriramkathi...

PM condoles death of Prof Hamida

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Saturday expressed deep shock at the death of Prof Hamida Khanam, a former principal of Home Economics College, reports BSS. Hearing the death news of Prof Khanam, the PM visited the Banani residence of the...

Shu-Shyastha launched for health promotion in Chittagong

2011-03-20 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Mar 19 (UNB): 'Shu-Shyastha', a new health initiative, was launched at a village in Chittagong district with the mission of health promotion and disease prevention through creation of health literacy amongst the community members. Dev Care Foundation, a non-profit...

Rakhains demand constitutional recognition as indigenous

2011-03-20 00:00:00

BARISAL, Mar 19 (UNB): A human chain was formed and rallies were held in Patuakhali and Barguna districts Saturday morning demanding constitutional recognition for Rakhains as indigenous people, not as 'ethnic minority groups' and end to discriminations against indigenous people...

Delwar laid to rest

2011-03-20 00:00:00

MANIKGANJ, Mar 19 (UNB): BNP Secretary General Advocate Khandaker Delwar Hossain was laid to rest with state honour at his family graveyard at Khirai Pachuria village in Ghior Upazila this afternoon. He was buried after the seventh and the last...

Sajeda urges new generation to know correct history

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Deputy Leader of Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury Saturday said the new generation would have to know the correct history of the Liberation War, reports BSS. The teacher community would have to play the pioneering role in this regard, she said...

BCL leader shot dead in Khulna

2011-03-20 00:00:00

KHULNA, Mar 19 (UNB): A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was gunned down by some unidentified miscreants at Terokhada Bazar in Terokhada Upazila Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Imran Fakir (28), general secretary of BCL Terokhada...

Govt urged to ensure uninterrupted power supply to cold storages

FE Report | 2011-03-20 00:00:00

FE ReportBangladesh Cold Storage Association has urged the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to country's 350 cold storages for the next three months in view of a bumper production of potatoes, said a release Saturday. Potato production is expected...

Birth registration rates poor due to poverty

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Birth registration rate is low in char and remote areas of the country due to their extreme poverty and illiteracy, reports BSS. According to representatives of local bodies at Hatiya Upazila of Noakhali district. About 40 per cent people were...

BCL leader killed in gunfight

2011-03-20 00:00:00

Terokhada thana Chhatra League General Secretary Imran Fakir was killed and other 20 persons were injured in a clash between two supporters of Terokhada Sadar Union Parishad Chairman candidates Saturday morning. Police and local source said that a clash was...

Old man hacked to death

2011-03-20 00:00:00

An octogenarian man, who was stabbed by a miscreant Wednesday at Borodesh village in Kanaighat Upazila of Sylhet died at OMCH .The deceased was identified as Juaid Ali (78), son of late Mobashir Ali of the village.Police said Fahad, son...