JAMALPUR, July 02 (BSS): The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of T-Aman (Transplanted Aman) cultivation on 1,11,000 hectares with a production aim at 3, 32,194 tonnes of rice in the district this current Kharip-2 season.According to...
RAJSHAHI, July 02 (BSS): In line with the previous couple of years, hundred per cent domestic animals were sacrificed everywhere in Rajshahi division during this year's Eid. In the holy Eid-ul-Adha, around 2.21 million (22.14 lakh) animals, most of those...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Sunday said they seized various types of smuggled goods, arms and ammunition worth Tk 1.84 billion (184.36 crore) in June through drives in the country's border areas and other places, reports UNB.The seized items include...
State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury on Sunday said the Eid journey of this year was very smooth as common people expressed their happiness, reports BSS."The Eid-ul-Azha was celebrated across the country with festive mood. People were able to...
Rescuers have recovered a body from the oil tanker ravaged by an onboard explosion in JhalakathiThe body was found in the engine room of the tanker, styled Shagor Nandini-2, on Sunday afternoon, according to Md Shafiqul Islam, station officer of...
SYDNEY, July 02 (AFP): Giant centre Han Xu sank 26 points as China stunned five-time defending champions Japan 73-71 Sunday to win their first women's Asia Cup basketball title in more than a decade.New York Liberty's Han also made 10...
LOS ANGELES, July 02 (AFP): Katie Ledecky closed out the US swimming championships on a high note Saturday, winning the 1,500m freestyle in an impressive 15min 29.64sec to book a fourth individual event at the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.Ledecky,...
Members of Afghanistan white-ball squad are seen upon their arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday. — ACB
The Bangladesh national cricket team began its practice for the three-match ODI series against Afghanistan on Sunday at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram, reports BSS.All of the three matches of the series will be held in the port city....
HARARE, July 02 (AFP): Pathum Nissanka's sublime unbeaten 101 propelled Sri Lanka to a place in this year's Cricket World Cup in India as the 1996 winners trounced hosts Zimbabwe by nine wickets on Sunday.Sri Lanka had bowled out Zimbabwe...
VEVEY, Switzerland, July 2 (AFP): Nestle is stepping up its project to combat deforestation in Ivory Coast caused by the growth of cocoa farming, bringing cocoa trading companies directly on board.Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer, at 40...
Botswana and De Beers Group have agreed a new diamond sales deal in which the African country, the world's No. 1 diamond producer by value, gradually increases the share of rough stones it gets from their joint venture Debswana over...
WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters): The United States and China agreed to consider expanding commercial flights between the two countries to improve people-to-people contact, the top US diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said last week.He told a Center for Strategic...
BUENOS AIRES, July 02 (Reuters): Argentina's first plant for lithium batteries will begin operations in September, using metal extracted locally by US company Livent Corp, mining officials said on Saturday.Livent had agreed earlier this year to supply lithium to the...
PARIS, July 02 (Reuters): Wheat exporters in the European Union are facing a tougher start to the new season as massive supplies of cheaper Russian grain mop up international demand, leaving the EU reliant on Morocco and China to shift...
Muhammad Zamir | 2023-07-03 00:00:00
Climate change will accelerate humanitarian crises around the world in 2023, adding to the issues created by armed conflict and economic downturns, according to a study by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC). The agency, based in New York and...
The government has recently embarked on the design and development of an all-encompassing digital banking system in the country. This is no doubt a welcome move as our financial institutions need to keep abreast of the developments taking place both...
Dhaka city wears a different look during Eid vacations. No unbearable traffic jam and noise of people and vehicles can be seen in this one of the most populous cities in the world in those days. However, Dhaka will soon...
Neil Ray | 2023-07-03 00:00:00
Even the rhetoric, 'zero tolerance to corruption' has disappeared from political lexicon for a long time. It is not because corruption itself has taken its leave from administration and society. Far from it, if has been rife. Reports prepared by...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-07-03 00:00:00
The highest number of livestock including cattle, goat and sheep are slaughtered in Bangladesh during one of the major religious festivals of the Muslims, the Eid-ul-Adha. According to reports, around 12.5 million cattle and smaller animals were reared with an...
At the moment, Dhaka has few bustling areas where footpaths aren't chockablock with pedestrians wriggling through crowds and an array of consumer goods on display. The areas concerned have no permission for setting up shops along the space of footpaths,...
Two-time winners West Indies will not play in the 50-over Cricket World Cup for the first time after a comprehensive seven-wicket loss to Scotland in their Super Six clash at the qualification tournament in Zimbabwe on Saturday, reports Reuters.Scotland won...
Five people were burnt and four remained missing after an explosion aboard an oil tanker in Jhalakathi, reports bdnews24.com..The incident occurred at 2:10 pm on Saturday near the Rajapur Village on the southern bank of the Sugandha River near the...
Eight persons were killed in road accidents across the country in last two days, according the available reports by agencies. Of them four killed in Dhaka's airport road in two days. Two women pedestrians have been run over and killed...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-02 00:00:00
A police constable was stabbed dead allegedly by muggers in the city's Farmgate area early Saturday.The deceased was identified as Maniruzzaman Talukdar, 45, a constable of DC (Tejgaon) Traffic Division and hailing from Sherpur district.He went to his village home...
LONDON, July 1 (AFP): The hefty carbon footprint of global shipping networks that crisscross our oceans and keep the world's economy afloat will come under scrutiny next week, as countries wrestle over measures to slash planet-heating pollution.Nations are under pressure...
Eid-ul-Azha, the second biggest religious festival of the Muslims, was celebrated across the country on Thursday with due solemnity and religious fervour offering prayers at mosques and Eidgahs and sacrificing animals braving the monsoon rain, reports BSS.President Mohammed Shahabuddin and...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-02 00:00:00
Pieces of rawhide of sacrificial animals are being loaded onto a truck to take them to Posta in old Dhaka for preservation. Traders collected the rawhide on the day of Eid-ul-Azha. The photo was taken in Azimpur area of the...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-07-02 00:00:00
The overdue agricultural credit stood at Tk 69.5 billion at the end of April 2023, up by 10.75 per cent from Tk 62.74 billion at the end of April 2022. The overdue agricultural credit, as a percentage of outstanding balance...
GOPALGANJ, Jul 01 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday sought vote for her party's electoral symbol 'boat,' in the upcoming general election."Awami League has brought the country's independence, given its economic emancipation, socio-economic development and arranged food, clothes and...
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