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The registration for the DV-2011 (Diversity Visa) lottery for permanent resident card in the United States began yesterday. Entries for the DV-2011 Diversity Visa lottery must be submitted electronically

City dwellers are struggling to cope with the soaring prices of essential commodities including rice, vegetables and some spices. Market operators said, price of vegetables marked a sharp rise due to insufficient

More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue, according to Danish researchers. Increasing numbers of very old people could

Over 50 banned Maoist extremists struck at a village of Khagaria district in Bihar, about 200-km north of capital – Patna, at dead of Thursday night, and indiscriminately fired upon a group of sleeping villagers, killing

Chevron, a US-based international oil company (IOC), has planned to start its gas exploration drilling in Block-7 located in the country’s southern region. Petrobangla officials said they were working closely with

The ongoing global climate change (CC) has already caused a grave concern to the country’s agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, weather, environment and underground water levels,

The long-awaited first vaccination against swine flu – the squirt-in-the-nose kind – begin early next week in parts of the country, and states are urging people to be patient until more arrives. Just a trickle of vaccine,

Obscenity spread out by mobile phone users more or less hampers study of nearly 90 per cent of its users, who are also students of Dhaka University (DU), a research revealed recently. Over 50 per cent users of mobile

Police yesterday filed two murder cases over the deaths of two BDR members in mysterious circumstances after the February 25-26 mutiny by the border guards. Officer in-charge of New Market Police Station

The banking sector and the capital market have offered to chip in to mobilise resources for the proposed Power and Gas Development Fund worth up to $ 10 billion to help the country tide over the nagging

A district court yesterday granted bail to one of the five warranted accused in a case filed against Rid Pharmaceutical Ltd. The court reissued arrest warrants against the other four absconding accused and fixed October

Allaying the apprehension of new complications following the submission of a petition before the Supreme Court by the defence lawyers,  government side felt that there would be no hurdle in beginning the

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has not carried out any special preventive drive against dengue fever in the past 4-5 years attributing it to low incidence of the disease, and inadequate manpower and equipment. Medical

Twenty-five million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to the effects of climate change, says a report released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) yesterday. This study, the most

The authorities have decided to start the Hajj flight from Oct 21 and the return flights will take place from Dec 1. State minister for religious affairs Md Shahjahan said this to reporters on Wednesday after an inter-ministerial

The sense of uncertainty that was created centring swine flu among the intending hajj pilgrims above the age of 65 and below 12 has been ‘removed’ as the government yesterday made clear the Saudi authorities’ stand

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) team that started inquiring the alleged corruption and irregularities committed in Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) during the military backed caretaker government in

Workers of a garment factory blocked Rokeya Sarani near Shewrapara in Mirpur for several hours from 3:00pm yesterday following the death of a female worker in a road accident. Sources said a bus of Shikar Paribahan on

Country’s health service sector will be destroyed if the government does not stop termination and punishment transfer spree of specialist doctors from different public medical collages and universities

Seven out of the 11 terminated teachers of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday served a joint legal notice to the authority demanding justice. Two others got one-year contractual