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Road blockaded for 3 hrs

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentGAIBANDHA, Oct 2: Rangpur-Bogra Road at Boalia area under Gobindaganj Upazila Town in the district was blockaded for 3 hours Friday in protest against ransacking or a temple of the area.Police said a group of the locals along with...

IBBL holds workshop in Brahmanbaria

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Oct 2: Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL), Sylhet zone arranged a daylong outreach workshop on agricultural, rural investment, consumer investment and customer service development. The workshop was conducted by IBBL Brahmanbaria branch. Director General (DG) of Islami Bank...

DFID funded fisheries project limping

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, Oct 2: DFID funded large multipurpose fisheries project at Parbatipur is being neglected. The north west fishery extension project was established in 1987 on 50 acres of land not only for boosting fish production in the entire northern...

Two more Mawa ferries down

2010-10-03 00:00:00

MADARIPUR, Oct 2 (bdnews 24.com): Two more ferryboats on the Mawa Kawrakandi route have broken down, raising the total count of inoperative boats to six, according to the operator. More than 500 passengers were left stranded on the two sides...

AL leader chopped to death in Pabna

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentPABNA, Oct 2: A union level Awami League leader was hacked to death at Bandiramchar of Santhia upazila in Pabna Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rouf Mondol (60) of Bandiramchar. He was the secretary of ward...

RLI meet at Natore

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Our CorrespondentNATORE, Oct 2: A special development and view exchange meeting initiated by Rupali Life Insurance Co Ltd was held at Natore service sale office premises presided over by S.M.Manir Bakul Joint Deputy Project Director, Rupali Life Insurance Co Ltd....

Two youths held with arms in Chandpur

2010-10-03 00:00:00

CHANDPUR, Oct 2 (UNB): Two youths were arrested along with arms from a village in Faridganj Upazilla of the district Friday morning. The arrestees were identified as Rakib Hossain (19) son of Ali and Nayan (20) son of Ali Azam...

1 killed in attack in Sylhet

2010-10-03 00:00:00

SYLHET, Oct 2 (UNB): A man was killed and two others were injured in an attack by their rivals at Tilokpur village in Sadar Upazila Friday.The deceased was identified as Tarikullah (35) son of Ikram Ali of the village.Police said...

30 injured in road mishap

2010-10-03 00:00:00

MANIKGANJ, Oct 2 (UNB): At least 30 people were injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Nobogram in Shibalaya Upazil Friday.Police said the mishap occurred at about 6 pm when a capital bound Sakura Paribahan...

3 held for selling text books

2010-10-03 00:00:00

NARAYANGANJ, Oct 2 (bdnews24.com): The police have seized over 10,000 school text books from Rupganj Upazila in Narayanganj. Rupganj police sub-inspector Ahsan Ullah said those books of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) were taken to Purbachal Paper Mill...

2531 bottles of phensidyl seized

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Our Correspondent JOYPURHAT, Oct 2: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of Joypurhat camp seized 2531 bottles of Phensidyl (codeine) syrup from Pahatoli area under Punchbibi Upazila in Joypurhat district Saturday morning. Lieutenant Commander Alomgir Hossain of Joypurhat (RAB) camp said, on...

Indonesia train crash kills 36

2010-10-03 00:00:00

A train crashes near the Indonesian city of Pemalang in Central Java province has killed at least 36 people, officials say, reports BBC.Dozens more were hurt and many bodies were trapped in the carriages, though almost all have now been...

Ex-guerrilla poised to take over from Brazil's Lula

2010-10-03 00:00:00

SAO PAULO, Oct 2 (AFP): Brazil's 135 million voters appeared poised to elect Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla turned career civil servant, as their first woman president in elections Sunday. Rousseff, 62, held a dominating lead over her rival...

Bin Laden's aid idea seen as bid for support

2010-10-03 00:00:00

CAIRO, Oct 2 (AP): Osama bin Laden called for the creation of a new relief body to help Muslims, seeking to exploit discontent after this summer's devastating floods in Pakistan by depicting the region's governments as uncaring.The audiotape released Friday...

IMF programme, euro at stake in Latvian elections

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Latvians have begun voting in elections that are expected to reflect anger at the government's tough austerity measures in the Baltic state, reports BBC.The vote could determine the country's commitment to its international loan agreements and plans to adopt the...

Iraq breaks record for time taken to form government

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Political parties in Iraq have broken the world record for the amount of time taken to form a new government, reports BBC.In 1977, it took 208 days for Dutch politicians to agree to a coalition. Correspondents say the Iraqis are...

US drone strike kills 18 in Pakistan

2010-10-03 00:00:00

MIRANSHAH, Oct 2 (agencies): A US drone strike killed 18 militants Saturday in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt along the Afghan border, local security officials said. Four missiles hit a house used by militants in Dashgah village near Datta Khel town,...

Ecuador president safe after foiled police uprising

2010-10-03 00:00:00

QUITO, Oct 2 (AFP): Ecuador's President Rafael Correa was back at work Friday under tight security after loyalist troops rescued him from a police mutiny in a day of gunfire and street clashes that left eight dead. "No one can...

news digest

2010-10-03 00:00:00

China calls on Japan to 'maintain relations' BEIJING, Oct 2: China called on Japan to "maintain the full spectrum of relations" between the two nations amid a damaging territorial row that has rumbled on for more than three weeks, state...

News in brief

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Housewife chopped to death in ChandpurA housewife was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants at West Alonia village in Faridganj Upazila Friday.The deceased was identified as Kitabernesa, wife of Babul Miah of the village.Police quoting locals said some armed...

Message

2010-10-03 00:00:00

On 3 October 1990 the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic peacefully reunified to a single state. This year we commemorate the twentieth anniversary of this historic moment which laid the foundation for a united and stable...

BGCCI - the business gateway to Germany and Europe

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Saiful Islam On behalf of the members of BGCCI I would like convey my warm felicitations on the occasion of the German National Day and the 20th anniversary of German Unity. We hope that the harmonious relationship between our two...

Sunday

2010-10-03 00:00:00

BTVam07:00 Announcement, The Holy Quran, The Holy Tripitak Paath and Programme Outline 07:20 Geet Mallay07:45 Chir Shilper Bari08:00 Sakaler Sangbad08:30 Maati-O-Manush08:55 Sangbad Shironam09:00 Docu- Fire Dekha09:10 Baithok Khana09:35 Mone Pore10:00 News10:05 Muktijuddha Pratidin10:30 Sustho thakun11:05 Progotir Pathe11:30 Natun Sure Natun...

Balancing between preparing for terminal exams and job exams

2010-10-03 00:00:00

M A IslamTHE last days of the university often may seem boring and long for the outgoing students. They have been in the university for long and may feel 'suffocated' during the last days--they eagerly wait for passing out and...

'Only' and I

2010-10-03 00:00:00

S. A. MansoorDICTIONARY shows that "only" can be an adjective, adverb as well as a conjunction! Small wonder then, that this very commonly used word has an uncommon flexibility in its usage and application in spoken and written English language....

Inter-university debating championship at East West University

2010-10-03 00:00:00

The final round of inter-university debating championship was held at East West University in the city on 30 September, 2010. East West University team secured the first place in the Bangla competition while for English event, London College of Legal...

quotable quotes

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is wont to hide herself. --Heraclitus Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nature...

'Charter change only from parliament'

2010-10-03 00:00:00

In a refreshing, rare agreement, the ruling party and the main opposition say only parliament has the exclusive authority to amend the constitution. The spokesmen of the largest parties were speaking at separate forums in the city Saturday on the...

Education minister calls for united resistance against militancy

2010-10-03 00:00:00

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Saturday called upon all progressive, patriotic and religious people to consciously resist militancy, reports BSS."Militancy hinders peace and stability in society," he said while speaking at a seminar on prevention of militancy at Kabi Nazrul...

Stress on Gandhi's ideology for violence-free society

2010-10-03 00:00:00

DU CorrespondentExercise of Mahatma Gandhi's ideology can play a vital role in establishing a violence-free society at the present backdrop of the world, former chief justice Md Habibur Rahman said.He was addressing a seminar on 'peace, non-violence and democracy' at...