About 400 poor women in Khetlal upazila of the district have achieved self-reliance after receiving loan from Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) and engaged themselves in various income generating activities.They brought revolutionary changes to their life getting the loan from…
The Second phase of rural employment and road maintenance programme for destitute women in all the six upazilas of Narsindhi district is going on satisfactorily.
Five people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Gajaria upazila on Tuesday morning.
At least 13 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out in Municipality Market area of Daudkandi upazila early Tuesday.
The poultry industry in the district has suffered a severe recession for the political turbulence, marked by hartals and blockades, the country has passed through for the last several months.
Police arrested two people along with a pistol, four rounds of bullet, two machetes and two pieces of iron rod on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Daudkandi upazila early Tuesday.
Police recovered the body of a housewife, cut into six pieces, kept in a bag and two sacks from her house in Naljani area of the city on Tuesday morning.
Ferry service on the Paturia-Daulatdia route remained suspended for six hours till Tuesday morning due to poor visibility caused by dense fog.
YouTube video views, Facebook “likes” and Blogger visits are among activities GCHQ has monitored in real-time, according to the latest Snowden leaks. Details of an alleged GCHQ programme codenamed Squeaky Dolphin have been published by NBC News. It reports that the…
The world’s first multi-material full-colour 3D printer has been launched by Stratasys, the owner of the MakerBot range of printers.
New York –The Bangladeshi government should authorise an independent investigation into a recent spate of alleged extrajudicial killings by security forces, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should publicly order law enforcement agencies to ensure the safety of all…
Bandarban – Two people, including a minor boy, were trampled to death and another was injured by wild elephants at Bhagyakul village in Sadar upazila Monday midnight.
Barisal – A court here on Tuesday sentenced two siblings to death and three other people to life term imprisonment for the killing of five members of a family in Mehendiganj upazila in 2008.
Dhaka – A CMM court here on Tuesday sent BNP chairperson’s adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain, also the vice chairman of Bangladesh Bar Council, to jail after rejecting both his bail and the IO’s remand prayers in a case filed in…
Dhaka – Sri Lanka strengthened their grip on the Test through steady accumulation, aided by a series of let-offs that allowed Kaushal Silva score his maiden Test century.
Dhaka – Deploring the proposed two-tier test cricket system and money-driven control of the popular game, the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) and all the national cricket authorities, including Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), to…
A report “Many students of Shylhet and Baniachong have not got the text books yet though they have passed the annual examination a month ago” published in a Bengali daily has drawn my attention. The students of grade nine of…
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma History has never been as readable – intriguing, engrossing and gripping! By weaving fact and fiction together, Alex Rutherford has brought the historical characters of the bygone era to life in his Empire of the Moghul series.…
Archaeologist Jesse Casana couldn’t have foreseen the violence that would break out in Syria less than a year after he left his dig site in summer 2010. “No one knew whether it was going to blow over quickly,” Casana said.…
At least one type of “sixth sense” isn’t real, new research suggests. The new study, detailed Monday (Jan. 13) in the journal PLOS ONE, found that what people perceive as a sixth sense may simply be their vision systems detecting…
The drive among students to become entrepreneurs when they grow up decreases as they get older, new research shows. A Gallup-Hope study revealed that students’ desire to start their own business is lower among high schoolers than middle schoolers, and…
Dhaka, Jan 27 (UNB) – Newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Kurigram-4 constituency M Ruhul Amin was sworn in on Monday.
Dhaka – A rickshaw puller was beaten to death allegedly by a group of local people over a silly matter at Syadabad under Dakkhinkhan police station in the city on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Mostafizur Rahman, 35,…
A launch has capsized in Patukhali’s Lohaliya River on Monday with over 100 passengers on board. Patuakhali river port’s Deputy Director Badrul Alam said that the launch sank after being hit by another Dhaka-bound vessel, ‘Anchal-2’, around 6pm.
Cabinet Purchase Committee on Monday approved six (6) proposals including appointment of a private firm to issue machine readable passports (MRPs) among 600,000 Bangladeshi expatriates in Malaysia. The committee’s nod to the proposals came from a meeting, attended by senior…
Biman Bangladesh Airlines will resume its New York flight from June 4 this year after nearly eight years. The flight will operate via Birmingham. Biman’s Dhaka-New York flight remained suspended since July 2006 due to financial losses and serious shortage…
Dhaka – Terming the recent incidents of crossfire a stage-managed drama, BNP on Monday alleged that extrajudicial killings are being carried out in the country at the state patronage to eliminate the opposition.
Share price index at the country’s twin bourses – Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – suffered loss on Monday, the first after consecutive gain for six sessions in the last two weeks. The DSE benchmark index,…
Bogra – A case has been filed against 23 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in connection with the killing of Baki Billah, a former Islami Chhatra Shibir leader and assistant teacher of Bogra Biam Model School and…
The journey of 10th Parliament of the country begins tomorrow without the presence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main political rival of the ruling Awami League.