An all-round performance by Shorna Akhter helped Bangladesh women's cricket team to clinch the country's first medal, a bronze, in the ongoing 19th Asian Games Cricket in Hangzhou on Monday, reports UNB.Two-time Asian Games silver medalists Bangladesh women's cricket team...
Nine killed in Taiwan golf ball factory fireTAIPEI, Sept 25: At least nine people were killed in a fire at a golf ball factory in southern Taiwan over the weekend, including four firefighters who died in an explosion, officials said...
BEIJING, Sept 25 (AFP): North Korea will allow foreign nationals to enter the country from Monday, Chinese state media reported, after over three years of Covid-induced isolation.North Korea has been largely closed off from the outside world since early 2020,...
MOSCOW, Sept 25 (Reuters): Russian air strikes killed four people in Ukraine and caused "significant damage" to infrastructure at the Black Sea port of Odesa and to grain storage facilities, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.The attacks were part of an...
BHARSINGHPURA (India), Sept 25 (Reuters): A bitter row between India and Canada over the murder of a Sikh separatist is being felt in Punjab, where some Sikhs fear both a backlash from India's Hindu-nationalist government and a threat to their...
ISTANBUL, Sept 25 (AFP/BBC): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has arrived for a meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as thousands of ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh after Baku defeated the breakaway region’s fighters in a military operation last week.Erdogan is...
MAGURA, Sept 25 (UNB): Two people including an eighth grader have allegedly committed suicide in Magura's Mohammadpur upazila. The deceased were identified as Sagar Samajdar, 23, son of Sanjit Samajdar of Madhupur village under Palashbaria union of Mohammadpur upazila, and...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 25 (BSS): The Right to Information (RTI) Act can be the crucial means of boosting the level of confidence of the marginalized women side by side with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Living and livelihood conditions of the...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Sept 25 (UNB): Agricultural entrepreneur and mango exporter Ismail Khan Shamim has garnered significant attention by adopting ultra-high-density mango cultivation technique that has doubled the yield. Shamim's innovative approach has set an example for sustainable and high-yield farming methods...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-09-26 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Sept 25: Bangladesh Silk Development Board is facing serious problems due to shortage of manpower. A total of 429 out of 581 officer-employee posts have remained vacant for long time. As a result no duties are being performed properly,...
World Pharmacist Day is celebrated every year on September 25. It is a celebration of every pharmacist, pharmaceutical scientist and others who are part of this industry. The day gives us a chance to recognise and honour the service that...
Many schools in Bangladesh do not have facilities for clean drinking water, hygienic toilets and arrangements for hand washing. According to a report of the UN agencies, one in five schools (19 per cent) across the country does not have...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-09-26 00:00:00
Scientists of the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) are learnt to have come up with a novel alternative to antibiotics and growth promoters used in the country's poultry farms. The medicine is extracted from 'neem leaves'. Neem is a well-known evergreen...
Shihab Sarkar | 2023-09-26 00:00:00
Passengers who had to regularly travel by large and mid-size motor launches between Dhaka's Sadarghat terminal and destinations in six districts under Barisal Division may recall with a sense of great relief the days of their immense sufferings. They had...
A six-hour heavy downpour on September 21 (Thursday) evening, measuring 113 millimetres, severely disrupted life and traffic movement in Dhaka city. Though its intensity was less than two record rainfalls the capital city had experienced on September 14, 2004 (341mm)...
Tushia Amin | 2023-09-26 00:00:00
The world we live in is bearing the consequences of intense heat waves and rising sea level, affecting people's life and business across the globe. The worst could come if human misconduct against nature continues. Scientists assert that immediate and...
Muhammad Zamir | 2023-09-25 12:00:00
The world has been monitoring for the past two and half months the gradual evolution of the geo-strategic paradigm. International meetings like the BRICS, ASEAN and the G20 have led to discussions, consultations and opinions by geo-strategists.Bangladesh has always attached...
Dhaka, Sep 24 (UNB)- Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General (DG) Major General AKM Nazmul Hasan on Sunday said that the paramilitary force is always ready to deal with any situation including maintaining law and order in the country centering...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-25 00:00:00
There are a total of 1,008 rivers in the country and more than 20 of them flow through each district of the country while a maximum of 97 rivers flow through Sunamganj district.This was revealed at a seminar titled 'Rivers...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said the roadmap to the country's democracy will be set on the basis of people's opinion, reports BSS."The people will resist any kinds of local or...
COTONOU, Sept 24 (Xinhua): At least 35 people were killed and more than ten seriously injured in a fire at a petrol warehouse on Saturday in Benin's southeastern department of Oueme, the Beninese Ministry of the Interior and Public Security...
Cyber security experts at a meeting Sunday suggested resolving issues in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) used on the Birth and Death Registration Office website within the next 7 days and send a report to the Digital Security Agency (DSA) in...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said that there are some legal complications in allowing BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for treatment and it might require permission from court, reports UNB."There may be a need for court...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has ruled out any tension in Bangladesh-US relations following the State Department's announcement of initiating visa restrictions on Bangladeshi individuals, reports UNB."We have no tension with the US," he told reporters in Manhattan on...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-25 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has issued a warning, giving the government 48 hours to allow party chairperson Khaleda Zia to go abroad for advanced medical treatment."There will be no profits by applying tactics. Arrangements must be taken by the...
WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday evening (local time) reached Washington DC, capital of the US.She left the Place of Residence, Lotte New York at 11:40 am Saturday (local time) and arrived in Washington DC by...
YASIR WARDAD | 2023-09-25 00:00:00
The prices of hilsa have shot up again beyond reach of the low-income groups amid the start of its exports and an announcement of a fishing ban from October 12 next, traders said.The prices increased further by Tk 150-300 a...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-25 00:00:00
Dealers risk losing licence for price hike of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as such forewarning comes from the minister after finding the fuel selling at higher than the government-set rate.The State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Nasrul Hamid,...
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