Professor M Zahidul Haque In developing countries whose mainstay is agriculture, technology generation and diffusion is a crucial factor to eradicate hunger and poverty through attainment of food security and increase of farm income. Small farming, particularly in countries where…
The BNP on Sunday said it expects no low-taste and provocative remarks from the government and ruling party men as those only pollute the country’s political environment. A statement signed by its joint secretary general Barkatullah Bulu said this Criticising…
Bangladesh has suffered a financial loss of around $2.2 billion or around TK 17,150 crore in the current fiscal year especially over the last three months due to political turmoil, said the World Bank. The World Bank revealed the findings…
Anisur Rahman, a second-year intermediate student of Moulana Bhashani College, Sirajganj was killed in a reported ‘gunfight’ with police on Sunday night. According to a message received in Dhaka the reported ‘gunfight’ took place in the Dhanmandhi area of Sirajganj…
Even if everyone were to get a Ferrari, it will only be the Fiat of its generation. It is tough to imagine ‘de-growth’ as an idea of our times. One would argue that resisting growth is to risk economic and…
A bus was torched in the Mirpur area of Dhaka city on Sunday evening, ahead of the countrywide daylong hartal called by Jamaat for Monday. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is set to enforce the nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal protesting for what it said…
The Supreme Court on Sunday stayed a High Court order that had stayed a lower court order placing BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on remand again in a vehicle torching case. A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by…
Police in a drive arrested a youth and recovered a foreign made pistol, four round of bullets from Collegepara area in the town today.
The Chittagong Divisional Innovation Circle was held today in the port city of Chittagong with a view to creating enthusiasm about implementing innovative programmes among the field-level government officials.
Anti-Smuggling Task Force conducted raid at Uttara Express train at Panchbibi rail station under Joypurhat this morning and recovered Indian smuggled goods worth over Taka one crore and detained five smugglers.
Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) from Shamshernagar Road area of the district town on Saturday night in connection with a case for assaulting police.
Police in an overnight drive arrested 39 people, including 10 Jamaat-Shibir activists, from different areas of the district.
Politics A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), who received bullet wounds in an internal clash of the organisation over establishing supremacy on Saturday, died at a private hospital here on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Saiful,…
More than 10,500 households from the extreme poor and underprivileged communities have got the path of eradicating their long-lasting poverty through self-managed savings and credit activities to some extent in Naogaon town.
A man was strangulated to death and his wife injured by robbers during a robbery incident at Malipara village in Nangalkot upazila early Sunday.
Bangladesh Bank has told banks and financial institutions to find women interested in starting industry and trade.
Actor Vin Diesel sang some lines from the tribute song “See you again”, made for his “Fast & Furious” co-actor Paul Walker who died in a car crash in 2013.
The chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has ordered police not to harass any candidate without any reason. The CEC gave the order at an interaction with mayor and councillor candidates of Dhaka North City Corporation at Farmgate’s KIB Complex…
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred the submission of report on further inquiry into the death of actor Salman Shah to June 10. Magistrate Wayej Kuruni Khan Chowdhury of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka passed the order…
Dhaka’s Money Loan Court-1 (Artha Rin Adalat-1) on Sunday directed the authorities to publish gazette notification in newspapers summoning BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and three others in the case filed for the loan default of Dandy Dying Limited. Judge…
Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and Bnp chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday exchanged Pahela Boishakh greetings marking the Bangla New Year 1422 on Tuesday.
A pro-BNP intellectual on Sunday urged Mirza Abbas, who is contesting the mayoral post for Dhaka South City Corporation, to come out in public to campaign for the elections instead of remaiing underground. “Mirza Abbas has to come out in…
US President Barack Obama has said his meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro will help both countries “turn the page” after decades of hostility. He described the meeting on the fringes of the Summit of the Americas in Panama as…
The Election Commission will soon take a decision on whether the army will be deployed during the upcoming city corporation elections. Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed informed the mayor and councillor candidates about the commission’s position while exchanging views…
Ten more Bangladesh nationals returned home on Saturday evening from war-torn Yemen through Djibouti, raising the total number of returnees to 21. They arrived in a Fly Dubai flight that landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 6:45pm, said an…
BNP joint secretary general Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Saturday said they believe they would get back BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed alive soon. “After a meeting with Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner we’ve become a bit optimistic that Salahuddin Ahmed is…
The death penalty of Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman was executed at the Dhaka Central Jail at 10-31 pm on Saturday night, different sources confirmed last night. The sources said as per norms the IG Prison Brig Gen Syed Iftekharuddin, additional…
The slow-burning intrigue of a day of test cricket needed precious little embellishment for Richie Benaud, the former Australia captain and doyen of cricket commentary.
South Korea has shared its experiences on development of intellectual property with Bangladesh government.
An Argentine judge ordered the arrest of pop star Justin Bieber if he sets foot in the country after the Canadian singer failed to face questions about an alleged assault at a Buenos Aires nightclub in 2013, his court secretary…