BANDARBAN, Nov 26 (bdnews24.com): A Bandarban court has rejected the request seeking cancellation of the public litigation filed to ban tobacco cultivation and processing in the district.The petition was filed by three tobacco companies-British American Tobacco (BAT), Dhaka Tobacco and...
NARAYANGANJ, Nov 26 (bdnews24.com): At least 20 people have been injured after the police charged baton on a procession of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Friday here. Witnesses said the police assailed the procession twice, first at around 11am near the...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over many places of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Khulna division today (Saturday).Light fog may occur over the river basins of...
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has been moving at a snail's pace in carrying out the High Court order to pull down illegal billboards from the city, reports bdnews24.com.Sources said, there were nearly 2,500 unauthorised billboards of which only 230 had...
Thousands of students will receive modern education at lower costs when the country's first private residential university starts functioning early next year.Located at Shakhipur in Tangail, Bangabandhu International Residential (Cadet) College and University will host nearly 12,000 students and begin...
The 824 suspected main culprits of 2009 massacre of 57 army officers, who were serving the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), are set to appear on the dock in January next year to be tried in a Speedy Trial Tribunal, Law Minister...
Security officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka Friday arrested a passenger along with a firearm on his way to Sylhet by a aircraft of United Airlines. Mashfiq Mahmud Khan (30), son of Yeahia Khan of Doublemuring thana of...
NEW DELHI, Nov 26 (BSS)- A piece of history is to be notched up shortly with the international release of director Goutam Ghose's Indo-Bangla co-production, Maner Manush that had its first screening at the 41st International Film Festival of India...
CHITTAGONG, November 26: Chittagong city mayor has decided to withdraw more than 80,000 pedaled rickshaws from the city roads and issue 35,000 new licences besides the approved 33,000 rickshaws now plying legally.He said this while addressing an opinion exchange meeting...
Masud A Khan, a TV presenter, writer, language researcher, development activist and president of Dhaka Language Club and Founder chairman of Better Bangladesh Foundation was born on this day in 1969.His birthday will be celebrated in the National Press Club...
IN the latest Human Development Report Bangladesh has been lauded as one of the two best performers among 95 developing countries, despite repeated natural disasters, the population burden and political hassles. Its achievement in mother and child health care was...
A fresh ‘Bangladesh skills development policy’ has reportedly been drawn up, with the assistance of the International Labour Organisation, under a $20 million EU project. The purpose : to address the state of technical and vocational training in Bangladesh and...
Modern society places increasing importance to the availability of good quality recreational amenities, which is seen as beneficial to the physical and mental health and quality of life. The provision of recreational facilities is also believed to contribute to a...
Has Khaleda Zia committed any wrong, illegal act, or any crime in living long 28 years at Cantonment house/ land? She did not ask/request our past government/Dhaka Cantonment Board to give/allot/allow her to use Cantonment house/land.The fact is our past...
UNFORTUNATELY, ethical conditions in the area of medical services continue to leave a lot desired. Doctors in many cases prescribe unnecessary tests and take also unreasonable fees from patients.Many doctors are otherwise found to have an understanding with the numerous...
WE have every reason to be proud of our cultural heritage and legacy. However, it must be said that over the years our work culture has suffered a serious setback. It is the cumulative effect of the wrong policies and...
In the 1960's only 20 per cent people in Asia lived in cities, but as Asian cities and towns are producing about 80 per cent of the GDP for their respective countries, by the year 2030 some 55 per cent...
People in Pakistan are now realizing what it is like to face a natural calamity like the devastating flood that recently affected over 20 million people in their country. Like Pakistani people we Bangladeshis too and also our neighbours in...
am(Program may subject to change without prior notice) AM07:00 Announcement, The Holy Quran, The Holy Tripitak Paath and Programme Outline 07:20 Geet Bitaan07:45 Desh O Biggyan08:00 Sakaler Sangbad08:15 Maati-O-Manush08:20 Bishwa Pratidin08:35 Deshtake Bhalobeshe08:55 Sangbad Shironam09:00 Docu- Fire Dekha09:10 Kishor Mancho10:00...
People just love to hear the sort of declarations made by finance minister M A Muhith at the inaugural function of the 21st Bangladesh Apparel and Textile Exposition (BATEXPO) on Wednesday. He was quoted for saying to the media on...
The International Rice Congress, dubbed the world's biggest gathering of agronomists and economists, traders and policymakers, met recently in Hanoi to take stock of the global situation of rice, the staple for some three billion people of Asia. Judging by...
I came across the blanket distribution late in the afternoon near the road, on the outskirts of Kot Addu. As soon I got out of the car, people surrounded me. It's all unfair, they shouted. Officials are not giving blankets...
Two summits were held nearly simultaneously. The NATO-Russian summit was held between the twenty-nine NATO leaders and the Russian President Medvedev in Portugal and the thirteen-nation tiger summit was hosted by the Russian Premier Vladimir Putin to save the dwindling...
THE workshop was grounded on the assumption that dissemination and sharing of research findings with a wider audience is possible through transforming these into fictional form depending on the writing skill and talent of young writers, inclusive of both the...
South Africa has revealed its New Economic Growth Path plan, which has set an ambitious target of creating five million jobs over the next decade, through slashing unnecessary red-tape, improving competition in the economy and stepping up skill development in...
Two months after the direct Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations broke down, effort by the US to restart them seems stumbling.When Israel's 10-month freeze on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank ended in September, so did the U.S.-sponsored peace talks between...
SEOUL, Nov 26 (AFP): North Korea staged an artillery firing drill Friday near the South Korean border and warned that planned US-South Korean naval exercises at the weekend would bring the peninsula closer to war. The shelling sent residents of...
SANAA, Nov 26, (AFP): A suicide bomber wounded eight Yemeni tribesmen on Friday as they headed to the funeral of the spiritual leader of Zaidi Shiite rebels who have been observing an uneasy truce with the government, a rebel spokesman...
YANGON, Nov 26 (AP): A senior United Nations official will visit Myanmar this weekend to meet the country's military rulers and recently released democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, diplomats said Friday.Vijay Nambiar, chief of staff for U.N. Secretary-General Ban...
BANGKOK, Nov 26, 2010 (AFP): Thailand is expected to learn the fate of its ruling Democrats next week in a court verdict that could lead to the party's dissolution, the deputy prime minister said Friday.The Constitutional Court is due to...
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