ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 29 (AP): Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., swamped southwest Florida on Wednesday, turning streets into rivers, knocking out power to 2 million people and threatening catastrophic damage further inland.A...
MOSCOW, Sept 29 (BBC/AFP): Russia's Vladimir Putin will hold a signing ceremony on Friday formally annexing four more areas of Ukraine after self-styled referendums condemned by Ukraine and the West as a sham.Russian-backed officials had earlier claimed the five-day exercise...
YANGON, Sept 29 (BBC): An Australian professor and former adviser to Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been jailed for three years by military authorities.Sean Turnell was detained in Yangon in February 2021, days after the junta arrested...
LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters): England's aggressive approach to Test cricket under skipper Ben Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum has paid rich dividends at home and batsman Joe Root is keen to see how it fares abroad in different conditions.Casting...
DOHA, Sept 29 (AFP): Coronavirus vaccinations will not be mandatory for the million-plus fans going to the World Cup in Qatar this year, the Gulf state said Thursday.But players and match officials may be forced into a secure "bio-bubble" if...
LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters): The English Premier League reported the most injuries (1,231) for the 2021-22 season, followed by the German Bundesliga (1,205) and Spain's La Liga (848)Injuries across Europe's five major leagues rose by 20 per cent last season...
SEOUL, Sept 29 (AFP): World number two Casper Ruud advanced to the quarter-finals in Seoul on Thursday after battling through a tight round-of-16 game with 111th-ranked Nicolas Jarry.Top seed Ruud got off to a fast start against Jarry -- who...
NEW DELHI, Sept 29 (AFP): India's Jasprit Bumrah has been ruled out of the remaining two matches against South Africa due to a back injury and remains doubtful for the T20 World Cup starting next month.Bumrah, who recently returned to...
Bangladesh cricket team will leave for New Zealand today (Friday), report agencies.Ahead of the T20 World Cup, which will be played in Australia next month, Bangladesh will participate in a tri-series T20 in New Zealand that also involves Pakistan.Bangladesh Cricket...
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 29 (BSS): A mobile court of the district administration in a drive seized 1,500 metres of current nets and a boat from Sattarghat and Penker Hat points of Raozan upazila of Halda River on Thursday morning.The mobile court...
SAVAR, Sept 29 (UNB): A 16-year-old boy riding a bike died while the pillionrider sustained injuries after their two-wheeler hit a road divider at cruise speed on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar.The dead is Tuhin Mahmud Joy, a class X...
SYLHET, Sept 29, (UNB): Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has detained a Rohingya couple and their two children from Assampara area of Sylhet's Jaintapur upazila.The detainees are Shariat Ullah (34), his wife Taslima Bibi (22) and their two daughters Sharifa Akter...
CHANPAINAWABGANJ, Sept 29 (UNB): Export-import activities between Bangladesh and India via Sonamasjid land port will remain suspended for eight days on the occasion of Durga puja, port authorities said on Thursday.Abdur Rashid, general secretary of Sonamasjid Land Port C&F Agents...
KHULNA, Sept 29 (UNB): Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has said the statement given by Rahima Begum, who was found alive in Faridpur after remaining missing for 29 days, about her 'disappearance' to the PBI and in the court is...
KURIGRAM, Sept 29 (UNB): A Kurigram court has placed Lutfur Rahman, headmaster of Nehal Uddin Girls' High School, on a three-day remand in connection with his alleged involvement in SSC question paper leak. Kurigram Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Sumon Ali...
Farmers have produced 3,16626 bale of jute, the golden fibre of Bangladesh, in Jamalpur district this year. Reasonable price of jute in local markets also makes farmers profitable, reports BSS.Sources said per maund natural fiber was sold Tk 2500 to...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-09-30 00:00:00
A veritable gloom fills the thoughtful and conscientious people during the nation's observance of special days. These occasions' observances are meant to sensitise people to one or another issue's importance to the lives of the people. The subjects, befitting a...
Street crimes in Dhaka city have become a common problem these days. Almost every other day, we hear news about a person being hijacked or robbed for money and jewellery. Those carrying out these crimes do so because they are...
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Bangladesh. And the rate has been rising every year. According to a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) report published in 2021, the death toll from cardiac arrests increased in 2020 compared...
Capsize of boat is nothing new in Bangladesh. Just a few days ago, a boat carrying approximately 100 passengers, mostly Hindu devotees, sank in the Karatoa river in Panchagarh. So far, 69 bodies have reportedly been recovered while rescue operations...
Zahid Huq | 2022-09-30 00:00:00
Various state agencies, though late, have taken actions or feigned to do so in order to rein in the soaring prices of most essentials in recent months. Most of them, however, have failed in their 'avowed' mission. If not anything...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-30 00:00:00
The latest Human Development Report 2021-22 aptly titled, " Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World" launched by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on September 8 last makes a disconcerting read. For the first time...
Soon after garment export from the country took off in the mid eighties, subcontracting began to gradually assume an important role in catering to exports, albeit indirectly. Over the decades, subcontracting became almost integrally linked to exports as many exporting...
Imtiaz A Hussain | 2022-09-30 00:00:00
The Himalayas is being so reconfigured that we may no longer have monsoon floods. Known as the 'third pole' because it contains more ice than any locations other than the North and South poles, its glaciers now melt ten times...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-29 12:00:00
Not very long ago, a newscaster on one of our many television channels had the axe fall on her for her wrong pronunciation of the name of the Chinese President. She had thought the XI in Xi Jinping referred to...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
The Kishwan Group is manufacturing quality food products in the country. The products are meeting the demands of the consumers. The Kishwan Group is exporting the products to other countries including United States of America (USA) and European Union (EU)....
Jubair Hasan | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
Pran RFL Group, a leading processed food producer in the country, further intensifies its efforts to expand its business locally and internationally with more focus on quality issues.As part of the plan, the company that also exported processed food items...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) in a major move plans to set up a state-of-the-art reference laboratory facility to ensure quality food in the country where food adulteration remains a serious concern.The laboratory will help address food testing-related complexities as...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute or BARI, of late, invented some technologies for producing food products by using locally-produced "Aloo Bukhara" or plum. The BARI said at least seven such products could be produced by using the technologies. Earlier, it...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2022-09-29 00:00:00
The growth of the food processing industry has seen a boom in recent times. This growth was inevitable as almost all big corporate houses invested in this particular segment. It happened mainly because of the rapid urbanisation coupled with the...
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