A total of 952 star tortoises has been seized by Indian border troops when they were being smuggled across to Bangladesh, in one of the largest recovery of these endangered reptiles.
Month: September 2013
Opinion: The new Math text book for students, simply rubbish!
What is our achievement after 17 years in our Math Text books? When we could not find the Math symbol in the global Text book all over the world but it has widely used in our new Math Text book…
Cooperative microcredit makes 750 river-eroded families self-reliant
The cooperative microcredit has become effective in bringing self-reliance to 750 rehabilitated destitute river-eroded families living in twelve barrack houses built under the government’s Asrayan Prokalpo in Gangachara upazila.
Touchstone statue worth over 73 lakh seizes in Rajshahi
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Rajshahi seized a touchstone statue valued at around Taka 73.90 lakh from a village in the district on Monday afternoon, BGB officials said here today.
Ensuring transparency in land registration stressed
Speakers at a function here on Monday stressed the need for making land registration process easier and modernized to remove people’s sufferings and ensure accountability and transparency of the registry offices.
1,780 bottles of Phensidyl recovered in Jessore
Police in separate drives recovered 1,780 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup and arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 30 pieces of Yaba tablet from the district town on Sunday.
37 Jamaat-Shibir men sent to jail in Bogra
A court here on Monday sent 37 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir to jail turning down their bail plea in an arson case.
Stalker gets 1 year’s jail in Kushtia
A mobile court in Mirpur upazila on Monday sentenced a stalker to one year’s imprisonment.
6 held over militant links in Jessore
Police arrested six people, including four women, suspecting them of having links with a militant organisation, from police line area of the district town on Monday afternoon.
3 bodies recovered in 3 dists
Police recovered the bodies of three people, including a farmer, from separate places in Satkhira, Moulvibazar and Madaripur districts on Monday.
Jute yield, market price low in Faridpur
Faridpur district sees harvesting of jute by the growers in a flamboyant mood but its production, despite going beyond target, could not come up to the amount to satisfy them.
6 killed in road accident in dists
A young girl and a child were killed and 22 others injured in a road accident at Iqbal Nagar in the municipality area of the district on Tuesday morning.
BNP’s 8-hr hartal underway in Sylhet
An eight-hour hartal, called by the local unit of BNP to press for confirming the whereabouts of the missing party leader M Ilias Ali and release of its 93 activists, is passing off peacefully in Bishwanath upazila on Tuesday.
Fukushima leaks: Japan pledges $470m for ‘ice wall’
Japan is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into building a frozen wall around the Fukushima nuclear plant to stop leaks of radioactive water.
Weird! tiny frog uses its mouth to hear
by Denise Chow, LiveScience
Seized shark fins dumped in Pacific ceremony
The Marshall Islands symbolically disposed of confiscated shark fins at sea Tuesday in a ceremony witnessed by regional leaders attending the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).
Sir Elton John wins first Brits Icon award
Sir Elton John has won the first ever Brits Icon award, in a gala concert which marked his stage return after surgery for appendicitis.
Miley Cyrus speaks out on VMAs performance
The sitdown with MTV appears to be part of a longer documentary Cyrus is currently working on. ‘It’s been done before,’ the singer said of her VMAs performance.
Acer launches world’s first 4K smartphone
With three days to go until the start of this year’s IFA consumer electronics show, the Taiwanese company gets the jump on its rivals by unveiling what is currently the only handset that can record footage in ultra-high definition.
No cell phones allowed: Some colleges ban modern-day gadgets
Erin Milligan has to surrender her cell phone to school officials before going back to college this year.
Microsoft to acquire Nokia’s handset business for $7.2 bln
Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it will buy Nokia’s mobile phone business for 5.44 billion euros ($7.2 billion).
On giant blue alien planet, it rains molten glass
Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor
The three-decade delay of a nuclear waste repository
By Alan Caruba
The Arab divide on Syria
By C. Raja Mohan
The consequences of Cameron’s Syria defeat
By Deepak Tripathi
Bale reveals Ronaldo was major factor in Madrid move
Gareth Bale has stated that the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid was one of the reasons why he joined the Liga giant and added that he’s looking forward to playing alongside the Portugal star.
Female athlete breaks record with Cuba to US swim
By Suzanne Presto
BCB elections by first week of October, says Hassan
BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said the board’s elections, which have been much delayed, will be completed by the first week of October at the latest. It has been 39 days since the Supreme Court of Bangladesh ruled in favour…
Syria hails ‘historic American retreat’ as Obama hesitates
BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Syria hailed a “historic American retreat” on Sunday, mockingly accusing President Barack Obama of hesitation and confusion after he delayed a military response to last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus until after a congressional vote. U.S.…