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Miscreants kill BNP activists in Jashore

Miscreants kill BNP activists in Jashore

-- 2018-08-26 21:36:02

A local BNP activist was stabbed and shot to death by miscreants at Shankarpur in the district town on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Mashiar Rahman, 45, an activist of local unit o...

Natore road crash: Bus owner arrested

Natore road crash: Bus owner arrested

-- 2018-08-26 21:06:59

Police arrested the bus owner from Bogura on Sunday in a case filed over the fatal road accident in Natore that left 15 people dead. The arrestee is Manju Sarker, the owner of 'Challenger Paribahan...

Magura, Sylhet rawhide traders suffer for fund shortage

Magura, Sylhet rawhide traders suffer for fund shortage

Our Correspondent 2018-08-26 20:57:50

MAGURA, Aug 26: Rawhide traders of the district are disappointed over the low price, high processing cost and fund shortage. Sources said around 500 merchants across the district are frustrated durin...

Erosion renders 500 families homeless

Erosion renders 500 families homeless

Our Correspondent 2018-08-26 20:56:36

RANGPUR, Aug 26: At least 500 families at different villages of Kawnia upazila in the district were rendered homeless during last couple of weeks owing to severe erosion by the river Teesta. &nbs...

SDC Jhenidah trains 3,400 youths

SDC Jhenidah trains 3,400 youths

Our Correspondent 2018-08-26 20:55:47

JHENIDAH, Aug 26: The Skill Development Centre (SDC) under the Urban Community Development (UCD) at Jhenidah social services office is playing a vital role imparting training to the youths of the muni...

Pallabi reservoir tank explosion: Another burn victim dies

Pallabi reservoir tank explosion: Another burn victim dies

-- 2018-08-26 20:39:22

Another injured person, who along with nine others received burn injuries in a reservoir tank explosion in the city's Pallabi area on August 21 night, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical Colleg...

EC to decide RPO amendment on Aug 30

EC to decide RPO amendment on Aug 30

-- 2018-08-26 20:29:03

The Election Commission (EC) will sit in a meeting again on August 30 to take a decision over the amendment to the Representation of the People Order (RPO) ahead of the next general election. Electio...

Four children die of ‘unknown’ disease in Chattogram  

Four children die of ‘unknown’ disease in Chattogram  

-- 2018-08-26 20:26:49

Four children died and 21 others fell sick in five days till Sunday due to the outbreak of an 'unknown' disease at remote Tripura Palli on a hill under Hathazari upazila in Chattogram. Family sources...

Salam Murshedi submits nomination paper as lone candidate

Salam Murshedi submits nomination paper as lone candidate

-- 2018-08-26 19:18:49

Awami League candidate Abdus Salam Murshedi, a former national footballer and ex-president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), submitted nomination paper for by-elec...

'Faridpur to be declared division soon'

'Faridpur to be declared division soon'

-- 2018-08-26 17:18:54

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said Faridpur will be made a division and a city corporation soon. Mosharraf said the works of making Far...

DMP files 2,149 cases for violating traffic rules

DMP files 2,149 cases for violating traffic rules

-- 2018-08-26 17:01:30

Traffic division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in their simultaneous drives on the city streets on Saturday filed 2,149 cases against different modes of vehicles for traffic rules violation....

Lawmen seize huge Indian contraband goods in Satkhira

Lawmen seize huge Indian contraband goods in Satkhira

-- 2018-08-26 16:50:52

A taskforce team comprising police and BGB members in a drive seized huge Indian contraband goods from a market in Sultanpur area of Satkhira district town on Sunday. On secret information, the taskf...

Debapriya becomes member of UN body

Debapriya becomes member of UN body

-- 2018-08-26 16:44:47

UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has appointed Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya, Distinguished Fellow of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a member to the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP). E...

Two friends die in Bogura road crash

Two friends die in Bogura road crash

-- 2018-08-26 16:19:45

Two friends have died in a road crash in Bijoyghat area of Nandigram upazila in Bogura on Saturday night. The deceases were identified as Ferdous Alam, 45, son of late Mayen Uddin of Namuit village a...

BR fines 86 passengers for travelling without tickets

BR fines 86 passengers for travelling without tickets

-- 2018-08-26 15:16:57

Bangladesh Railway (BR) today (Sunday) fined 86 passengers of two trains Tk 32,700 for travelling without tickets from Lalmonirhat on different routes under Lalmonirhat railway division, officials sai...

Hasina congratulates new Australian PM

Hasina congratulates new Australian PM

-- 2018-08-26 14:23:13

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has congratulated Australia's newly elected Prime Minister Scott Morrison on his assumption of office. "On behalf of the government and the people of Bangladesh and on my...

Govt approves four new medical colleges

Govt approves four new medical colleges

-- 2018-08-26 14:14:49

The government has approved four state-run new medical colleges in Naogaon, Netrokona, Magura and Nilphamari, according to Health Minister Mohammed Nasim. Another medical college planned for Chandpur...

High Aush paddy yield makes Barind farmers delighted

High Aush paddy yield makes Barind farmers delighted

-- 2018-08-26 13:46:48

Farmers are happy with satisfactory yield of newly harvested BRRI Dhan-48 in the region, including its vast Barind tract, in the current season. Amidst this glowing atmosphere the farmers are now ver...

Mymensingh-Bhairab train service resumes

Mymensingh-Bhairab train service resumes

-- 2018-08-26 13:32:58

The rail communication between Mymensingh and Bhairab resumed after four hours of suspension due to the derailment of a goods-laden train at Bakainagar in Gauripur upazila on Sunday noon. The tracks...

Bangladeshi dies in Malaysia landslide

Bangladeshi dies in Malaysia landslide

-- 2018-08-26 11:57:01

An expatriate of Monirampur upazila of Jashore was killed and his brother-in-law injured severely in a landslide in Penang city of Malaysia on Friday. The deceased was identified as Ruhul Amin, 32, s...

Train halts after derailing in Mymensingh

Train halts after derailing in Mymensingh

-- 2018-08-26 11:51:23

A good-laden train derailed at Bakainagar in Gauripur upazila of Mymensingh on Sunday morning suspending the communication link between Mymensingh and Bhairab. Four compartments of a slipper and ston...

‘Robber gang leader’ dies in ‘gunfight’

‘Robber gang leader’ dies in ‘gunfight’

-- 2018-08-26 11:31:19

A suspected leader of a robber gang was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Pattashi village of Indurkani upazila in Pirojpur early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Jakir Hossain, 54,...

BD faces socio-economic shock of longer Rohingya stay

BD faces socio-economic shock of longer Rohingya stay

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-08-26 10:06:09

As hopes of quick repatriation of over one million Rohingya are fading away, Bangladesh is facing the challenge of absorbing the social and economic shocks of hosting a large number of refugees for an...

Rohingyas stage protests to mark crackdown anniversary

Rohingyas stage protests to mark crackdown anniversary

Reuters 2018-08-25 22:10:50

Refugees in Bangladesh held demonstrations and prayers on Saturday to mark the passing of a year since the outbreak of a conflict in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state that drove hundreds of thousa...

Pungchu grass cultivation gaining popularity

Pungchu grass cultivation gaining popularity

-- 2018-08-25 21:10:44

Our CorrespondentBOGURA, Aug 16: Pungchu grass, an Australian variety, cultivation is gaining popularity in the district.A good number of farmers said Pungchu grass farming is now profitable venture a...

16,550 tonnes of groundnut production in five northern districts

16,550 tonnes of groundnut production in five northern districts

-- 2018-08-25 21:10:14

RANGPUR, Aug 25 (BSS): The farmers produced 16,550 tonnes of groundnut during the last Rabi season and just-ended Kharip-1 season in all five districts under Rangpur agriculture region this year.Offic...

Bidi factories rob thousands of childhood

Bidi factories rob thousands of childhood

-- 2018-08-25 21:09:37

Sayed Mofidul BabuRANGPUR, Aug 25: Aklima Khatun, six years old tiny lass, is one of those children who begins life with tobacco instead of pencil or pen. They forget to dream for a beautiful future i...

50pc Rohingya children refugees are orphans: Study

50pc Rohingya children refugees are orphans: Study

-- 2018-08-25 20:53:58

One in two Rohingya children who fled to Bangladesh without their parents were orphaned by brutal violence, said a new research study on Saturday. The research was conducted by Save the Children, a n...

Please don't make any conspiracy over election: Nasim

Please don't make any conspiracy over election: Nasim

-- 2018-08-25 20:27:59

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammed Nasim has urged BNP leaders to refrain from hatching conspiracy over the next general election. The Awami League presidium member made the remarks while ad...

Khaleda physically sick but mentally very strong: Fakhrul

Khaleda physically sick but mentally very strong: Fakhrul

-- 2018-08-25 20:22:01

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is physically sick but she is mentally very strong. "Her condition is not better than what I saw her last time i...