PM declares jute as agricultural goods
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina announced giving jute production and jute the status of agricultural goods and extending same facilities to the agriculture sector for its production, marketing and export.
Super Saturday: Trump, Cruz score double victories
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz claimed two Super Saturday victories each while Democrat Bernie Sanders also scored a pair of morale-boosting wins and Hillary Clinton won one state.
Man wins $291 million in lottery, brother wins $7
Remember when your parents used to tell you to be nice to your siblings? Maybe it was because one day you both would grow up and win the lottery, except one of you would win the jackpot and the other would win $7.
North Korea ship impounded in Philippines as part of fresh sanctions
While North Korea keeps firing literal and figurative salvos, the world has responded with harsher sanctions -- ones that the Philippines has put into effect by detaining a ship from the reclusive East Asian nation.
4 nuns, 12 others killed in 'diabolical' attack on elderly home in Yemen
There are few places in Yemen -- homes, schools, hospitals -- that haven't been scarred by the ongoing war ravaging that Arab nation.
Zia’s brother to float new party
Bangladesh Nationalist Party founder late president Ziaur Rahman’s younger brother Ahmed Kamal on Saturday said that he would float a new nationalist party to implement ideals and principles of Zia from which, according to him, the party had deviated.
Govt plans to invest with IOCs for offshore exploration
Energy adviser to the prime minister Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhurty on Saturday said that the government was planning to invest together with the international oil companies in oil and gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal to facilitate the search for new deposits.
People urged to join Sunderbans march
Leaders of the national committee to protect, oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports on Saturday called on people of all walks of life to take part in the Dhaka Rampal long-march scheduled in March 10-15 to save the Sunderbans.
Tigers take on India for Asian supremacy
Bangladesh will be eyeing to register their mark in cricket’s shortest format when they take on India in the final of the Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament at Mirpur today.
Attack on religious minorities on rise: leaders
At least 24 people of religious minority communities were killed and 1,562 individuals, families and institutions were attacked in 262 incidents of human rights violation in the country in 2015, Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council said on Saturday.
