Gardening around homesteads in both summer and winter seasons in the region including its vast Barind tract has been gaining popularity with production of different fruits and vegetables.
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Speaker back from Delhi, leaves for Teheran Monday
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returned home on Saturday afternoon after a four-day visit to India. The Speaker made the visit at the invitation of Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar. She leavesDhaka for Tehran on Monday to attend the conference…
7 primary school students killed in Jessore road crash
Jessore – Seven primary school students were killed and 40 others injured as a bus carrying picnickers plunged into a pond at Jhautala in Chaugachha upazila on Jessore-Meherpur Highway on Saturday night. Officer-in-charge of Chaugachha Police Station Motiur Rahman said…
13 BNP-Jamaat men held in Dinajpur
Joint forces in separate drives have arrested 13 persons for their alleged involvement of election related clashes from different areas here on Friday.
Election matters of GOP, BJP and BNP
Dr. M. S. Haq During 2012 US presidential elections season, I wrote newspaper articles that dealt with inter alia: 01. analyses of election related ground realities of GOP, Democratic party, and others concerned; 02. identification of strengths of, and developmental…
Empower women for enhancing their dignity
According to a report of the human rights wing of the UN, one-third of women are raped or physically tortured during their life, which is around one billion across the world. To raise awareness and to end of violence against…
Hazaribagh tannery washing plant catches fire
A fire broke out at a tannery washing plant in the capital’s Hazaribagh on Friday. Fire Service sources said the fire originated in Karim Leather & Washing Plant around 2:35 pm.
3 of a family among 5 killed in road crashes in 3 dists
Comilla – Five people, including three of a family, were killed and seven others injured in separate road accidents in Comilla, Chuadanga and Sirajganj districts on Friday. In Comilla, three members of a family were killed and seven people injured…
Five BNP leaders expelled
Dhaka – Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has expelled its five leaders, including national executive committee member Alamgir Mohammad Mahfuzullah Farid.
Sri Lanka takes T20 series too
Dhaka – Touring Sri Lanka won the two-match T20 series 2-0 after beating hosts Bangladesh by 3 wickets in the 2nd T20 match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Friday. Earlier, in the first T20 match, Bangladesh conceded…
Sk Selim urged India to arrest BD militants in shelters
Awami League MP Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim on Tuesday urged the Indian central government and West Bengal government not to allow any Bangladeshi militant to take shelter in their territories. Taking floor on point of order in Parliament, Selim urged…
Saudi Arabia ‘opens’ window for change of Iqama
Saudi Arabia is allowing Bangladeshi workers to change their ‘Iqama’ or residency permit. The move means the kingdom is now again open for Bangladeshi labourers, said Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain.
12th Social Business Design Lab Saturday
The 12th Social Business Design Lab will be held at Yunus Centre in the capital on Saturday. The Yunus Centre Social Business Design Lab is a meeting place for the people of diverse backgrounds having the goal of developing and…
9 Jamaat men among 113 held in 5 dists
Police and joint forces in their separate drives have arrested 113 people, including nine Jamaat activists, from different places of Sylhet division and Chuadanga district on various charges. In Sylhet division, at least 100 people were arrested by police from…
Winged guests give cold shoulder to Hakaluki Haor
Winged guests seem to have shown little interest about Hakaluki Haor, one of the country’s biggest haors and a protected Ramsar site, as fewer of them have visited it this year compared to previous years due to local disturbances, loss…
Immediately compensate Rana Plaza victims’ families
Leaders of RMG workers on Friday at a rally in the city demanded of the government to compensate the families of the Rana Plaza victims immediately.
BNP demands immediate elections
The BNP has asked the government to call fresh general elections heeding the appeals made by Western countries, including the United States. The party’s acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir voiced the demand at a discussion in the capital…
BNP loses to AL strategy not joining JS polls: Obaidul
Communication Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said that BNP lost to the political strategy of Awami League, by boycotting the January 5 general election. “BNP must have realised its mistake… they’ve now plunged to the fray in the upcoming upazila…
Tk 2.5-trillion budget likely for next fiscal: Muhith
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said the size of the country’s national budget for the next fiscal year is likely to be Tk 2.5 trillion. “The budget for the next fiscal year may be two and a half lakh…
Govt unnerved as BNP joins upazila polls: Gayeshwar
Dhaka – BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday said the government has “become unnerved” seeing the BNP’s participation in the upazila elections and feared it might resort to manipulate the election. “The government is hatching conspiracy to…
US making mistake by pressuring Bangladesh: Muhith
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the US is making a mistake by pressuring Bangladesh on matters related to its internal politics and other issues. And the BNP had stayed off the general election just because of its…
Indian anti-graft crusader Kejriwal quits as Delhi CM
New Delhi — Anti-graft activist Arvind Kejriwal quit Friday as the top elected official in the New Delhi state government after lawmakers blocked the introduction of a bill to create a strong ombudsman in the Indian capital. Kejriwal’s resignation came…
Fee hike move by public varsities irks ex-student leaders
While the government is pursuing a policy to cut public expenditure on education and research in public universities, the insufficient allocations are also wasted in unplanned recruitment and promotion of teachers and staff, observed former student leaders. They voiced a…
Immigration and US national survival
When pondering our obsession with immigration, I’m reminded of how people in the ridiculous dystopian film Idiocracy were watering their crops with an energy drink called Brawndo.
From music to medicine
“If you had asked me six years ago, I would never have guessed that the video analysis system could be used in this way,” says Alexander Refsum Jensenius, Head of Department at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo.
Mass evacuation in Indonesia as Java volcano erupts
Tens of thousands of Indonesians have fled their homes after a volcano erupted in east Java.
Penguin India defends decision to recall book: The Hindus
Penguin India has defended its decision to recall and destroy copies of a book on Hinduism by a prominent US scholar.
Sochi 2014: Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov win pairs gold
World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov won Winter Olympic gold in the pairs figure skating event.
Zhang Hong wins women’s speed skating 1,000m
Zhang Hong stormed to victory in the women’s 1,000m speed skating, winning China’s first Winter Olympic gold in the event.
Declaration signed on illegal wildlife trade
Governments from around the world have vowed to take action on the illegal trade in wildlife.