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“I was seeing my death closely when I sustained bullets in my body,” said Khaled Mahmud Sujon, a 12th grade student. “I felt like I became paralysed and lost consciousness. Then I recited the Kalima (Islamic prayers) as I was thinking myself on the verge of death&rdquo...
City
Primary and Mass Education Affairs Adviser Professor Dr Bidhan Ranjan Roy Podder on Saturday underscored the need for reforming people's mindset positively before reforming constitution or others. "If people are not reformed, there will be no benefit in reforming constitution or any ot...
Country, Districts
District police in a drive recovered 810 bottles of Phensedyl from Yusufpur village under Charghat Upazila in the district on Friday night, police said.Acting on secret information, a police team conducted a drive in the village and seized three gunny bags containing 810 bottles of phensedyl. H...
Business & Commerce
Bangladesh is poised to sign the tripartite agreement with Nepal and India soon to import hydropower from Nepal via Indian transmission lines, according to Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Md Fouzul Kabir Khan. "A delegation of the interim government will visit Nepal soon ...
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has been boosting the agro-based economy through financial investment in the country's northwest region.The specialized state-owned commercial bank has been providing loans to the grassroots farmers to supplement the government efforts of making the country s...
Friday operation of metro rail has began in the city with joyful afternoon travel of holidaymakers on Friday.For the first time commuters of the capital enjoyed their holiday riding on the metro rail as authorities successfully launched its operation from Uttara to Motijheel on Friday.Managing Direc...
Blue Helmets from Bangladesh serving with the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in South Sudan got appreciation from local residents for providing free medical services through a camp in Kuajok.They provided treatment through a free medical camp that treated more than 100 people with various ailme...
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive on Friday recovered huge quantities of firearms, ammunition, drone, signal Jammer and electronic equipment from bordering Dopanichara deep forest area.Based on information BGB conducted the raid in the Dopanichara border area under Ruma up...
Joint Forces arrested former UP chairman Nasiruddin Nannu, 62 and his son Md Arif, 33 from a house in the town in Bhola on Friday morning.Media Officer of Coast Guard South Zone lieutenant commander BNHMM Harun-or-Rashid said two pipe guns and a few number of sharp weapons were also recovered from t...
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will be celebrated at 1,294 mandaps in all five upazilas of the district this year.The puja will begin on October 9 with due respect and religious fervor across the country and end on October 12 with immersion of the idols o...
National,Front Page
ISPR warned the risk of terrible riot in three hill districts out of the incidents taking place there. It requested local leaders to help law enforcing agencies to ease the situation and maintain peace and harmony in the hill districts. Three people have been killed and several others inju...
Chief Advisor Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus is expected to address the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27.In his address, he will present the context of the anti-discrimination student movement that took place in Bangladesh in July-August last and the heroism of...
Information and Broadcasting Advisor of the Interim government M Nahid Islam on Friday said the government has a plan to bring more sectors, including education and mass media, under reform programme.“As part of the ‘state reform programme’, six committees have been formed and meet...
Bangladeshi foods have drawn huge attention of foreign consumers in the International Halal Food fair held in Kuala Lumpur this month.Malaysian Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry and Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation organized the fair on September 17-20.Noureen Foods Ltd...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the interim government would not be allowed to fail in any way. "The interim government is the outcome of the student-people revolution. We should let them work and extend all-out cooperation....
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday urged Singapore to play an impactful role in the ASEAN for a sustainable and permanent solution to the Rohingya issue. He made the call when Mitchel Lee, the newly appointed Chargé d' Affaires (CDA) of Singapore in Dhaka presented...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Vice-Chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu on Thursday urged the government to complete the initial stage of the trial process in journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case.“Journalist couple Sagar-Runi were brutally killed. Many think that pro-(Awami League) government i...
Adviser to the interim government on the Ministries of Finance and Commerce Dr Salehuddin Ahmed today said that the World Bank would provide support to Bangladesh in carrying out necessary reforms in the banking and other sectors."We'll receive support from the World Bank for the reforms we...
Donation cheques worth TK two lakh were distributed among two students of Noakhali Science and Technology University who were injured in the recent Anti-discrimination Students Movement.Vice Chancellor of the university Dr Mohammad Ismail handed over the cheques at a function held at the univ...
A high-yielding, biofortified zinc and iron-enriched lentil variety 'BARI Masur- 8' is being promoted in the region, including its vast Barind tract, to meet up the gradually mounting demands of pulse.The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (...
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