Dhaka – Two cloth stores were gutted as a fire broke out at RDA market in Rajshahi on Monday night.
Month: March 2018
As Serena Williams returns, Venus says her game hasn’t left
New York,(AP/UNB) – Venus Williams gave a scouting report on her warmup partner that sounded the same as always.
Making the business case for gender equality
Achim Steiner and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka New York – Around the world, gender bias is attracting renewed attention. Through protest marches and viral social-media campaigns, women everywhere are demanding an end to sexual harassment, abuse, femicide, and inequality.
The future of fish farming
Linus Blomqvist New Haven – Demand for seafood is skyrocketing, and will continue to rise throughout this century. The only way to meet it will be through aquaculture. Yet, while next-generation aquaculture will be far more ecologically responsible than its…
Far-right, anti-EU parties surge in “Ungovernable Italy”
Rome — A rival pair of populist and stridently anti-European Union political forces surged in Italy’s parliamentary election, but neither gained enough support to govern the country alone, preliminary results showed Monday.
Inter-school football tournament held at Uttara
Dhaka, March 5 – The DPS STS Inter-school Football Tournament DIFT-2018 held at its Uttara main campus last Sunday. Eighteen schools participated in fortysix matches of three different categories in the the annual tournament.
Shahjalal students say more than one involved in Zafar Iqbal attack
Staff Reporter Dhaka,Mar 5-The attacker on the popular author, Academic, Professor Muhammed Zafar Iqbal arrested the day when the incident happened but till now the law enforcement agencies could not tell how many of the attackers were involved with the…
মুজিব-জিয়াই স্বাধীনতার ইতিহাস নয়ঃ নিউ ইয়র্কে আলোচনা সভা
Discussion on 22 February 1970 in New York
Private agencies announce Hajj pacakage of Taka 232000 each
STAFF REPORTER Dhaka,Mar 5 -The Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) Today announced the Hajj packages keeping minimum cost at Tk 332,868 per pilgrim those who wanted to perform Hajj this year.
HC rejects petition against quota in govt jobs
STAFF REPORTER Dhaka,Mar 5- Some 1,010 Qawmi madrasa graduates Monday join government service for the first time as the Qawmi madrasa certificates got the government recognition.
‘No right to differ with govt in Bangladesh Politics’
A former adviser of Caretaker Government M Hafizuddin Khan has compared the present political situation of Bangladesh with English writer Gorge Orwell’s novel Animal Farm saying that here nobody have the right to differ with the government.He made the remark…
Girl commits ‘suicide’ taking poison in Barisal
Dhaka – A college girl allegedly committed suicide by taking poison over a family feud in Borakotha village of Uzirpur upazila in Barisal on Monday morning.
Farmer’s body found in Jessore
Dhaka – Police recovered the body of a farmer from the playground of a school in Lebutola union of sadar upazila here in Jessore on early Monday.
Housewife’s body recovered in Sitakunda
Dhaka -Police recovered the body of a housewife from a house at Fakirhat Panthishah Mazar area in Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong on Monday noon.
7 get life for rape, murder in Sirajganj
Dhaka – A court here on Monday sentenced seven people to life term imprisonment for killing a minor girl after rape in 2010.
Boy dies falling off bus roof in Jessore
Dhaka – A school boy was killed after falling off the roof of a moving bus on Jessore-Khulna Highway at Basundia here on Monday.
Australia rounds off 118-run win over SAfrica in 1st test
Durban,(AP/UNB) – Australia needed less than 20 minutes of the final day to take the one more wicket it needed to finish off a 118-run win in the series-opening test against South Africa.
8th round of Premier Cricket begins Tuesday
Dhaka – The 8th round matches of the 12-team Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League will begin at three separate venues in Dhaka and its adjoining areas on Tuesday.
School Handball: Scholastica Uttara maintain all-win run
Dhaka – Scholastica Uttara maintained all-run in the boys’ section of the Bubble Gum Under-14 School Handball Tournament beating Scholastica Mirpur by 7-3 goals at Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium here on Monday.
Tri-nation Nidahas T20I Trophy kicks off Tuesday
Dhaka – In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence, the seven-match Nidahas Trophy will kick off at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday.
3rd Div Football: Dipali JS rout Gov Printing Press 3-0
Dhaka – Dipali Juba Sangha defeated Government Printing Pres S&RC by 3-0 goals in the Saif Power Battery 3rd Division Football League at Birshreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur on Monday.
Xi Jinping Chinese President for Life?
President Xi is expected to be granted broad new powers by China’s National People’s Congress, which kicked off its annual session today. For more than two decades Chinese presidents have been limited to two five-year terms, said CBS News correspondent…
PM visits Dr Zafar Iqbal at CMH
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday visited the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here to see Dr Zafar Iqbal who was injured in a knife attack on the campus of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet.She went to…
Kuwait reinstates ban on Bangladeshi Migrant workers
Kuwait has imposed a ban on recruiting Bangladeshis to work in the northern Arabian Gulf state.Kuwait’s Interior Minister Shaikh Khalid Al Jarrah has ordered the ban and asked the interior ministry to apply it, reports Gulf News on Monday quoting…
Myanmar army again deployed along border
After a three-day interval, Myanmar Army again took position along Tambru border in Naikkhonchhari upazila of Bandarban district on Monday, creating panic among the Rohingyas who have taken shelter on no man’s land.
Berlusconi’s flat tax fallacy
“A flat tax is for a flat earth”: This was my answer to Grzegorz Kolodko, Poland’s Minister of Finance and First Deputy Premier for the Economy (1994-97 and 2002-03), when in the mid-1990s he asked me – his adviser sponsored…
More Europe is more freedom
Will the period of postings be shortened from 24 months to 12 (with a potential 6-month extension) as proposed last week by the negotiators on behalf of the European Parliament, the Council and Commission? The current talks between European Parliament…
EED implements Tk 361.31cr projects in Rajshahi, C’nawabganj
Education Engineering Department (EED) has implemented 981 schemes under 14 major development projects at a cost of around Taka 361.31 crore in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts during last nine years.
Source of ‘world’s worst listeria outbreak’ found
South Africa says it has finally traced the source of a listeria outbreak that has killed 180 people in the past year – said to make it the worst in history.
Art project Shohor Nama inaugurates in city
A group art exhibition ShohorNama inaugurated at the Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct on March 3. The venue features works by Tayeba Begum Lipi, Najmun Nahar Keya and Shimul Saha and Kao Jun-Honn (Taiwan) while Salauddin Ahmed’s work is being displayed…