Experts at a day-long farmers’ field day stressed expanded cultivation of tropical sugar beet as an effective substitute to sugarcane in increasing production of sugar and molasses. The weather condition of Bangladesh is suitable for sugar beet farming, its sweetness…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the people to reject BNP for its violent agitations. “BNP is synonymous with destruction, trouble and oppression of the nation,” she has said. She was speaking while inaugurating railway projects through video conferencing on…
Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad and CPA executive committee chairperson Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury today said equal rights of men and women can ensure empowerment of women.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday joined the electioneering for her party-backed candidates of the April 28 city polls by campaigning in Gulshan-2 area for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral contestant Tabith Awal.
A total of 337 Bangladeshis, who were evacuated from war-torn Yemen last week, is scheduled to return home from the Indian state of Kerala at the early hours of tomorrow.
Now it’s the turn of Awami League-supported mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation polls Annisul Huq to take broomstick to keep capital city clean and presenting it as a good habitable city. Taking a broomstick in his hand, Annisul…
Electioneering for Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong city corporation polls are getting momentum as the voting date of April 28 is approaching nearer.
The election of Bangladesh Bar Council with 48,465 voters will be held on May 20.
Speakers at a discussion today stressed the need for a children-friendly budget considering the children as the future of the country.
Eight persons including four children of a single family were killed on the spot when Buses of Shuhag Paribahan and village Line smashed a car at Barbaria area of Dhamrai upazila of the district this afternoon.
Twenty more Bangladeshi students will be awarded scholarships this year to study nuclear energy at under graduate and post-graduate levels in different academic facilities in Russia, which are members of Rosatom’s consortium of core higher educational institutions. Scholarship will be…
Water experts and activists at a roundtable in Dhaka city on Saturday underlined the need for greater awareness among the people to compel the government to undertake initiatives for durable and holistic settlement of Teesta water management. Dwelling on ‘Teesta…
The Group of 20 leading economies struck a hopeful tone on the outlook for global growth on Friday, even as officials fretted that Athens’ inability to strike a deal with its lenders could upset Europe’s tentative recovery.
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At least 19 people were killed on Friday after a minibus they were travelling in plunged into a river in southern Tanzania, police said.
Apple Inc’s cooperation with a court-appointed monitor has “sharply declined” as he reviews the iPad maker’s antitrust compliance policies, the monitor wrote in a report to a judge.
Analysis of meteorites that reached the Earth long after the cosmic collision which created the Moon indicate the satellite is 4.47 billion years old, according to an article published in the journal Science.
Bangladesh have finally broken their 16-year old Pakistan jinx in all forms of cricket in some style, crushing them by 79 runs with a superlative all-round show in the first ODI in Mirpur.
The estate of Adolf Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, is suing a publisher for royalties for the use of extracts from his diaries. A biography of Goebbels published by Random House quotes extensively from Goebbels’ diaries, which are copyrighted until…
Meanwhile, addressing a view exchange meeting with BNP-backed mayoral and councillor candidates of Dhaka North City Corporation, party standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed yesterday said that the forthcoming city poll is an “acid test” for both the government and…
Convenor of Adarsha Dhaka Andolon Prof Dr Emajuddin Ahmed yesterday accused the Election Commission of severe discriminatory attitude towards the opposition backed candidates from carrying out their campaign ahead of the city polls in Dhaka and Chittagong on April 28.