Observing that Bangladesh has good relations with India, Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi on Monday said the ties will reach a new height with the new Indian government being in place. He came up with the remarks…
Month: May 2014
Narayanganj-5 by-poll June 26
The Election Commission has decided to hold bypoll at Narayanganj-5 parliamentary constituency on Jun 26. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed announced the schedule of the bypoll on Monday. The seat fell vacant after the death of Jatiya Party MP…
Case filed over launch mishap
Police have filed a case four days after a launch capsized in the Meghna River at Munshiganj’s Gazaria, killing scores of people. Gazaria Police Station SI Haider Hossain Akhand filed the case early on Monday accusing the owner of the…
Muslim-country envoys hope B’desh would consolidate global standing
Diplomats of Muslim countries in Dhaka believe Bangladesh will consolidate its global standing as “a progressive and forward-looking nation” for international peace and security. According to the foreign ministry, the diplomats also reiterated their conviction that Bangladesh will continue to…
Annual Dev Program size to be Tk 790 billion
The annual development programme (ADP) for the upcoming 2014-15 fiscal year is being fixed at Tk 790.31 billion, a 17 percent increase over the current FY. Tk 81 billion is being earmarked for the construction of the Padma bridge, country’s…
Khaleda to attend lawyers’ rally May 24
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will attend a protest rally organised by party-backed lawyers on May 24. Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum, a BNP-backed lawyers’ body, has planned the rally to protest the murder of fellow lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar in Narayanganj and…
Narayanganj lawyers demand Maya’s resignation
Incensed by the police not showing disgraced RAB officers arrested in the multiple-murder case, lawyers at Narayanganj have called for Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya’s resignation from the cabinet. The demand came from a rally on Monday at the Narayanganj court…
AL wins 6 posts of chairman BNP 2 in UZ polls
Awami League loyalists swept the sixth phase upazila elections held on Monday, bagging eight chairman posts against BNP favourites’ two. According to unofficial results, AL-backed chairman candidates won polls in Gangachhara and Sadar of Rangpur, Kamarkhand of Sirajganj, Taltali of…
Serena Williams defeats Sara Errani, erases doubts
Merlisa Lawrence Corbett Serena Williams played coy about her health and readiness going into the Italian Open in Rome. But as if she wanted to quiet the skeptics and feed her fans, Williams erased all doubts by defending her title…
Azarenka withdraws from French Open with foot injury
Victoria Azarenka has confirmed she will miss this month’s French Open.
‘Game Of Thrones’ Recap: Season 4, Episode 7 – ‘Mockingbird’
Tyrion Lannister struggled to find a champion, The Mountain returned to King’s Landing and The Hound opened up to Arya Stark about his troubled childhood, all before one character met their exit in the latest episode of HBO’s “Game of…
Every third newly elected MP has ‘crime’ background
Every third of the newly elected member of the Lok Sabha has a criminal background, an analysis of the disclosures they have made in their affidavits has shown, news agency IANS has reported from New Dlehi
Conchita Wurst, Eurovision winner, in Austria concert
Bearded drag queen Conchita Wurst has given her first public concert since her Eurovision victory this month, performing in Vienna on Sunday.
This European city wants to eliminate cars by 2034
George Kennedy With the onset of hybrid technologies, automakers are making it possible for daily drivers to use less and less fuel, but wouldn’t the ideal solution be to not have to use a car at all? One city in…
Esa’s Cryosat mission sees Antarctic ice losses double
Antarctica is now losing about 160 billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean – twice as much as when the continent was last surveyed.
Putin orders troops back from Ukraine border
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine’s border to withdraw, the Kremlin says.
1,200 poor eye patients treated in Panchagarh
About 1,200 poor eye patients were treated by a group of doctors at a daylong free eye camp here on Sunday.
2 held with firearm in Jessore
Police arrested two alleged terrorists with a firearm and bullets from Bejpara-Naldanga area in Jessore town last night.
Nor’wester lashes Magura; 10 injured
At least 10 people were injured as a nor’ wester lashed several union parishads in Shalikha and Sadar upazilas of the district on Sunday night.
Bangladeshi youth beaten dead ‘by BSF’ on Putkhali border
A Bangladeshi young man was beaten to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops on Putkhali border in Sharsha upazila early Monday.
Jubo Dal activist found shot dead in Noakhali
A Jubo Dal activist was found shot dead at a private clinic in sadar upazila on Friday.
Tea seller slaughtered to death in Bagerhat
A tea stall owner was slaughtered to death by miscreants at Sonakura village in Rampal upazila early Monday.
Apple apps made to run on Android devices
The software, called Cider, has been created by postgraduate researchers at Columbia University.
A brief history of plastics, natural and synthetic
By Laurence Knight Believe it or not, from a chemist’s perspective all these things are made of the same class of materials: Polymers. And the distinction between which ones we happen to call “plastics” and which ones we don’t is…
Yunus launches European Social Business Week in Sweden
Second European Social Business Week was held in Lund and Malmö on 12–16 May, 2014. Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus participated in the week long Forum as the chief guest. Social problems in Europe and their solutions were discussed and…
Freestyle rigging in UZ polls: ‘Law enforcers inactive’
Our special Correspondent – It was 10:45am on Monday. We a group of journalists reached Jamtoil Primary Government Scholl, a polling centre, about 10km South of Sirajganj town as Kamarkhand Upazial Parishad poll was held. Two angry women were seen…
Nurses, a force for change vital health, IUBAT program told
Speakers at the annual celebration of the ‘International Nurses Day 2014’ at IUBAT on Monday reflected the great role of nursing community in saving human life. They said Bangladesh requires 100,000 additional nurses to meet the mounting needs of rising…
18 members of Rab-3 withdrawn
Eighteen officers and members of Rab-3 were closed to the Rab Headquarters on Monday for their alleged controversial activities. Director (Legal and Media Wing) of Rapid Actin Battalion (Rab) Headquarters Wing Commander ATM Habibur Rahman said that they were attached…
BNP-backed UZ chairman candidate held in Rangpur
Police arrested an upazila parishad election candidate for violating electoral code of conduct in Pagla Pir area of Sadar upazila early Monday. The arrestee was identified as Masud Rana, 45, a chairman candidate backed by BNP from sadar upazila.
Lankan Hathurusingha to be Bangladesh coach
Former Sri Lanka batsman Chandika Hathurusingha has left his position as assistant coach of New South Wales in favour of coaching Bangladesh. This will be his first stint as head coach of an international side. Bangladesh had been contemplating on…