Month: April 2015
Bangla New Year’s Day celebrated Tuesday amid festivities
Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year’s Day was celebrated on Tuesday amid traditional festivities and fervour acrossBangladesh. Baishakhi fairs, colourful processions, musical soirees at public places were the highlights of the day’s programmes and festivities. Most families had their own…
Enter now: Fix the food system
Danielle Nierenberg Young people and their innovative ideas have the power to change the food system. The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) Young Earth Solutions! (YES!) program was established in 2012 to encourage young people—specifically, students under the…
German Nobel literature prize-winning author Günter Grass dead
German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Tin Drum”, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said.
Bangladesh Bank asks 5 state-run banks to do more to prevent money laundering, terror finance
The central bank has warned five state-owned banks over their failure to make headway in prevention of money laundering and terror finance.
‘Kick’, ‘Bang Bang!’ nominated for stunt awards in US
Bollywood blockbusters “Kick” and “Bang Bang!” have been nominated in Taurus World Stunt Awards alongside Hollywood biggies like “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction”.
South Africa win thriller against Bangladesh Under-19s
South Africa Under-19s have beaten Bangladesh Under-19s by two runs in the third match of the Youth ODI series after losing the first two matches.
As an instant target for foes, Clinton may struggle to get message heard
Hillary Clinton entered the 2016 race for the White House on Sunday and the good news for her is that there are few serious contenders to challenge her for the Democratic nomination.
6 Bnp activists held at close of Khaleda’s Pahela Baishakh program
Six activists of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bnp) were picked up from the party’s Naya Paltan central office premises soon after its chairperson Begum Khaleda set off at the close of the Pahela Baishakh, Bangla New Year’s Day celebrations…
Founder of Ottoman Empire: Recalling to this day
Dr Sinha M. A. Sayeed Any attempt to know and understand Osman I or Osman Gazi (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان غازى Osman Ghazi; Turkish: I. Osman or Osman Bey or Osman Gazi or Osman Gazi Han; 1258[1]–1326), sometimes transliterated in the…
Günter Grass obituary: theguardian
Jonathan Steele Günter Grass, who has died aged 87, was Germany’s best-known postwar novelist, a man of titanic energy and zest who, besides his fiction-writing, enjoyed the cut and thrust of political debate and relaxed by drawing, painting and making…
Branoo – the next flipkart of Bangladesh?
Sejal bamboli Don’t be surprised, I am not saying Branoo is as big as FlipKart but my research is saying that they have all possibilities to be the Flipkart of Bangladesh. Definitely they need to run a long race. The…
Hillary runs for US Presidency
It is heartening to learn that the former US First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton will run for the US Presidency as the likely 2016 Democratic nominee. If she wins the election she would be the…
Water insecurity costs $500b yearly, hinders global growth
Water insecurity costs the global economy some US$ 500 billion annually, according to Global Water Partnership (GWP). That figure does not take into account environmental impacts so the total drag on the world economy could be 1% or more of…
Pahela Baishakh being celebrated Tuesday
Pahela Baishakh, the Bangla New Year’s Day is being celebrated in Bangladesh amid traditional festivity and fervour. Baishakhi fairs, colourful processions, musical soirees, poetry recitation sessions, discussion meetings and cultural programmes are being held across the country marking the day.
CEC asks law enforcers to avoid harassment
Amid the growing demand by all the candidates that the Election Commission must ensure fair polls in the three city corporation elections, Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on Monday reaffirmed that their top priority is to hold credible elections…
HC orders police not to arrest Abbas till bail hearing
The High Court on Monday asked the police not to arrest or harass BNP-backed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas until order on his interim bail petitions. An HC bench comprising Justice Quamrul Islam Siddique and Justice…
Pak pacer Sohail Khan replaced with Jonaid
Pakistan spearhead Sohail Khan was Sunday ruled out of the tour of Bangladesh after suffering a back injury and was replaced by Junaid Khan. This is the second injury setback for Pakistan after batsman Sohaib Maqsood was also ruled out…
Three on remand in blogger Washiqur killing case
A Dhaka court on Monday placed Zikrullah, Ariful Islam and Saiful on a three-day remand each in the blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu murder case. Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud of Dhaka CMM Court passed the order after Inspector of Detective Branch (DB)…
Couple electrocuted in Naogaon
A couple was electrocuted at Parkasunda village under Atrai upazila of the district last night.
One killed in Barisal road crash
A man was killed in a road accident at Old launch ghat area in the city this morning.
Govt decides to set up agriculture training institute in Manikganj
The government has decided to set up a modern agriculture training institute under a project here to provide trainings to the students and farmers on latest agriculture technology to boost agriculture production in the country.
Strawberry farming getting popular in Gaibandha
Farming of strawberry, a juicy and succulent fruit, is getting more popular among the farmers of Sadullapur upazila in the district day by day for being a highly profitable crop.
Programmes chalked out to celebrate Pahela Baishakh in Rajshahi
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), Divisional and District administrations and other educational and socio-cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate the Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year-1422 in a befitting manner in the city tomorrow.
Thousands win over extreme poverty in riverine char areas
Thousands of the have-nots group char families, living in the riverine char islands, have successfully won over extreme poverty to change their fortune and lead better life on the Brahmaputra basin in recent years.
Over 100 Illegal structures evicted in Rangpur
A joint mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and district administration has evicted over 100 illegally erected structures built on the occupied ‘Kedi Khal’ (a canal) lands in Rangpur city yesterday.
Body recovered in Rajshahi city
Police recovered a bullet-riddled body of a man from Naodapara Bypass area under Shahmukhdum Police Station in the city early this morning.
Driver of police vehicle killed in Tangail road crash
A driver of a police patrol car was killed and five others injured in a road accident in Sunbandha area of Ghatail upazila early Monday.
Shibir activist killed in Sirajganj ‘gunfight’
An activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir was killed in a ‘gunfight’ at Dhanbandhi in Sadar upazila early Monday amid the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the execution of condemned war criminal M Kamaruzzaman.
Jamaat-Shibir men torch three vehicles in Chittagong
Activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir set three vehicles afire at Sholoshahar Mayor Goli in Pnachlaish area in the city in support of their countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Monday morning,