BSS A mobile court comprising Fisheries Department, RAB and police seized 30 lakh meters of banned current net from a factory in Nayagaon area of the town on Monday. Acting on a tip off, the court, led by Executive Magistrate Asif Anam Siddique, conducted a drive to ‘Tasfia Fishing Net’ factory and seized the banned…
Desk Report: A whopping 274 per cent rise in fuel oil import enhanced country’s overall imports growth by nearly 16 per cent or US$ 640.40 million in July, officials said, reports Financial Express. The settlement of letters of credit (LCs), generally known as actual import, in terms of value, rose to $4.69 billion in July,…
Arab News The Daesh group’s deliberate destruction of agriculture in northern Iraq has hindered the return of hundreds of thousands of residents, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. The New York-based rights group said Daesh fighters burnt or chopped down orchards and sabotaged wells by filling them with rubble, oil or other h…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Preening in front of the mirror is nothing new to us but just expect a fish doing the same thing; No this isn’t some science fiction movie or animation I’m talking about but real, real life. Giant manta rays were filmed for a study by Csilla Ari, of the University of South Florida…
Tanzim Taqrim From colony’s tea stall to online websites, gambling has been a trend recently. Moreover, gambling has taken over Bangladesh’s trending franchise BPL. On Tuesday a betting of 300 crores in a cricket match. The 3oo crores bet was occurred all over the world by the gamblers through online betting websites when Comilla Victorians…
M Humayun Kabir: Home-bound passengers have thronged in thousands at the Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka yesterday, the first day of Eid journey, on trains. While visiting the station, a large number of home-goers were seen waiting in queues in front of platforms to get standing tickets. Talking to the Daily Star, Sitangshu Chakraborty, station…
Arab News: A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Daesh captor who held her as a sex slave for three months. Ashwaq Hajji, 19, says she ran into the man in a German supermarket in February. Traumatized by the encounter, she returned to…
AFP: Vote counting was under way across Mali on Monday after a tense presidential runoff in which a poll worker was killed and 100 polling stations were forced to close due to the security threat from Islamist militants. Security had been drastically boosted ahead of the election’s second round between President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT The government has vigorously protested Myanmar’s absolute false allegations of Bangladesh’s part in a terrorist attack on a police post in Maungdaw Township near the boundary pillar No 41 in the early hours of January 24. The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday afternoon summoned Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka Lwin Oo to hand…
UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated eight newly constructed power plants on Sunday, adding some 1742 megawatts (MW) of electricity to the national grid, reports UNB. She opened the power generation stations through a videoconference at her official residence Ganobhaban in the city. The Prime Minister also inaugurated two power grid substations and 100 per…