Seven Bangladeshis sustained injuries in two explosions that ripped through Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. Condition of one of the injured was ‘critical,’ it added.
Day: November 20, 2013
Tk 21cr migration loan extended for jobs abroad: Muhith
The Expatriate Welfare Bank has so far provided around Tk 21 crore as ‘migration loan’ to the persons who are willing to go abroad, Finance Minister AMA Muhith told Parliament on Wednesday.
Hit streets, force govt to quit, Fakhrul asks BNP’s student associate
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday called upon the leaders and activists of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student organisation of the opposition BNP, to take strong position in the streets to force the government to…
The fallout from Fukushima
From: Chris Busby, The Ecologist A new study finds that radioactive Iodine from Fukushima has caused a significant increase in hypothyroidism among babies in California, 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.
BNP’s return will make B’desh militants’ den: PM
Reminding people that Bangladesh will again turn into a den of militants and terrorists if BNP returns to power, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought votes for Awami League in the next general election for the country’s peace and…
Aman in Sherpur gives an upbeat message
Fair prices cheer growers as harvesting on Farmers in Sherpur are taking delight at the good yield as well as reasonable market prices of Aman paddy Finance as harvesting of the crop is now on in full swing everywhere in…
After Bangladesh, Pakistan, BSF to guard Indo-Myanmar border
In a major decision, government has decided to replace the Assam Rifles (AR) with BSF for guarding the porous Indo-Myanmar border notorious for movement of insurgents and smuggling of arms and narcotics.
End dramas for democracy to win, independent MP Fazlul Azim
Lone independent MP Mohammad Fazlul Azim in Parliament on Wednesday urged the political leaderships to end all the ‘dramas’ and sought united efforts to help democracy win at the end of the day. “Now is the time to wake up.…
Make Rohingya Muslims citizens: UN asks Myanmar
United Nations — The General Assembly’s human rights committee passed a resolution urging Myanmar to give the stateless Rohingya minority equal access to citizenship and to crack down on Buddhist violence against them and other Muslims in the southeast Asian…
Bangladesh aid restrictions impact Rohingyas
By IRIN Limited humanitarian access continues to have an adverse effect on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh.
2 back after 3 days of arrest in India
Two Bangladeshis have returned home from India three days after their arrest by Indian Border Security Force (BSF).
Ershad in court faces Manjoor murder case
Jatiya Party chairman Hossain Muhammad Ershad on Wednesday appeared before a Dhaka court in a case filed in connection with the murder of Major General MA Monjoor in 1981.
12 BNP, Jamaat men held in Comilla
Police in an overnight drive arrested 12 local activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami from different upazilas of the district on Tuesday.
BNP activists Tuku, Habib placed under fresh remand
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed former president of Chhatra Dal, Sultan Salahuddin Tuku on a two-day fresh remand, and Jatiyabadi Chhatra Dal central committee’s general secretary, Habibur Rashid Habid on a four-day remand in two separate cases filed with…
Tk 1 cr Indian clothes seized in Khulna
Police in a drive seized smuggled Indian clothes worth Tk one crore from Chuknagar Bazar area in Dumuria upazila of the district on Tuesday.
B’desh to be middle-income country by 2021, CPD resounds AL vision
Bangladesh may achieve the status of a middle-income country by 2021, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank, on Wednesday.
Libya on verge of disintegration
By Osama Al Sharif Libya is quickly turning into a failed state, amid Arab and international indifference, two years after the fall of the regime of Col. Muammar Qaddafi following foreign military intervention and a popular uprising.
Labourer killed as truck overturns in Sherpur
A labourer was killed and two others were injured as a truck loaded with sand overturned and fell into a ditch at Batarghat in Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday.
7 get life for murder in Tangail
A court here on Tuesday convicted seven people, including two siblings, and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2004.
Phensidyl seized, one held in Jessore
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police recovered 1,310 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from an alleged drug peddler’s possession and arrested him in this connection in Kudaya of Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Seedbeds being prepared for Boro cultivation in Gaibandha
Seedbeds are being prepared by the farmers to grow healthy seedlings for Boro paddy farming in all the seven upazilas of the district during the current Boro season.
US troops could stay in Afghanistan until 2024
By RT The US and Afghanistan have reportedly agreed on the draft of a mutual security pact indicating that US troops could remain in the country until 2024, according to Afghanistan.
Ensure women rights to gender, reproductive health: Speakers
Speakers at a roundtable here have stressed for ensuring women rights to gender and reproductive health, eradicating violence and repression for flourishing women leadership in building a developed nation.
Potato cultivation in C’nawabganj
An extensive potato cultivation plan has been taken up in the district this year.
Iran nuclear talks: Tehran ‘will not step back one iota’
Iran’s Supreme Leader has warned his country will not step back “one iota” from its nuclear rights, as it resumes talks with world powers in Geneva.
Preventive measures can cut asthmatic childhood deaths
Mass awareness as well as preventive measures is very vital to cut the existing rate of childhood patients suffering from asthma and death caused by the disease.
Adoption of latest technologies can increase crop production: experts
Agriculture experts have said that expanded adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) technologies can boost crop production at lower costs side by side making farm activities more profitable to ensure food security.
Egyptian troops die in Sinai bomb attack
Eleven Egyptian military personnel have been killed and dozens more wounded in a car bomb attack near the North Sinai city of el-Arish.
Efficient entrepreneurs for accelerating economic uplift stressed
Leaders of Rangpur Chamber of Commerce of Industry (RCCI) and executives of private sector commercial banks have stressed for creating efficient entrepreneurs to flourish business for accelerating socioeconomic uplift.
Hull to be UK City of Culture 2017
Hull has been named the UK’s next City of Culture, beating Leicester, Dundee and Swansea Bay to the right to hold the title in 2017.