DHAKA, April 30: Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka was stalled for 15 minutes after a Thai air force aircraft made a troubled landing injuring three passengers, officials said here today.

Civil aviation and Biman officials said the raining aircraft of Thai Royal Air Force skidded off the runway as it was landing at the airport this morning injuring the pilot and two others while it was carrying 15 passengers.



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In the wake of 2008 global economic turmoil rich and developed economies cried out a loud and were bleeding by the torn pockets of the age old public debts and suppressive foreign policies.

But what actually the world was the repetition of the same crisis which the Great Britain had faced after the Second World War [that] is the shrinking of the British Empire where the sun had never set. 

When the world was…

The world knows, we have won our liberation war in 1971 but we became the slaves of the poverty and Unemployment. After 41 year almost 49 percent of the total population still lives under the poverty line.  One of the major reasons behind this is unemployment problem.  It is a matter of concern at…

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PESHAWAR: Teachers and students have shown serious concern over the inclusion of two books of notorious blasphemer Salman Rushdie as additional courses for M.Phil/PhD at the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, University of Peshawar.

Protests have been planned at the university campus and elsewhere in the provincial metropolis today against the decision.The faculty board of the department of English had approved the two books —…

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PESHAWAR (APP REPORT): Peshawar University`s Azakhel Botanical Garden has been certified and included in the elite list of international agenda for botanic garden in conservation. 

Botanic garden conservation international (BGCI) is an organization which works for the worldwide implementation of the international agenda in support of plant conservation,…

PESHAWAR (APP REPORT): Like other parts of the country, PPP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chapter, People's Students Federation and PPP women Wing at Friday held rallies to pay tributes and express solidarity with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani for his respect of judiciary.Holding placards and chanting slogans for their leadership, they said that PPP and its allies rendered unrivalled sacrifices for strengthening democratic norms and PM Gillani became torch bearer of the struggle started by the…

DHAKA, April 27: Changes in weather patterns, burning sun, huge sweating, dehydration in the country are playing a crucial role in increasing high health risk among the children.



As the children are very weak and tender, a little change in season can cause several problems in their fragile health system causing cough, cold, fever, dehydration and diarrhea.



"Children are more sensitive to get sick in this hot and humid weather as they get dehydrated and germs multiply…

With the takeover of YPF by Argentina from Spanish oil giant Repsol has sparked new speculations over the investment climate in Argentina.

After the revival of its economy and having the third largest economic size among South American countries Argentina is now seeking to secure and procure the various lost opportunities which the nation lost because of the loopy investment policies. With Fitch warning Argentina about its growing isolation in…

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DHAKA, April 25: After around two and a half months of the murder of journalist couple Sagar and Runi, a Dhaka court yesterday permitted Rab to exhume the remains of their bodies from the graves for fresh autopsies to reveal the mystery surrounding the homicide.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha passed the order following a petition by Senior ASP Mohammad Zafar Ullah of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).

Court sources said it is likely the remains of the bodies would…

PESHAWAR (APP): University of Peshawar has launched quick response unit to deal with any emergency situation at varsity hostels.

Established under provost office, the unit comprises twenty members who would look after law and order, checking of illegal occupants, staying of permanent guests in hostels and any to be natural and manmade disasters etc.

The Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Prof. Dr. Qibla Ayaz on Monday met members of the unit. He…

Speaking at a news conference on Monday, the association’s president Shaukat Ali and other office-bearers asked the governor to promote teachers from grade 16 to 20 on seniority basis and regularise the services of all those working against ad hoc and fixed salaries. He also asked the government to provide funds to solve their problems.He said the provincial government had allocated funds and the court had also issued instructions but still 60 teachers had been deprived of their rights for…

DHAKA, April 24: Bangladesh has sent 2.30 lakh workers abroad during the last four months giving a boost to the country's manpower export this year, officials said.



They said the country has exported 2.30 lakh workers to different recipient countries from January to April 19 this year increasing the number of exporting manpower to 76,528 than the corresponding period last year.



The government explored some new destinations including Russia, Brunei Darussalam and…

DHAKA, April 24: All the 4501 Union Information Service Centers (UISCs) of the country will be brought under mobile banking services in the next three months to reach banking services to the rural people.



"A total of 1500 UISCs have already been brought under mobile banking services and the remaining 3001 UISCs will be brought within next three months," National Project Director of Support to Digital Bangladesh (A2I) Md Nazrul Islam Khan told newsmen at an MoU signing…

DHAKA, April 24: A general diary (GD) was lodged yesterday for making death threats against Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, police said today.



President of Janonetri Parishad AB Siddique lodged the GD against Abidur Rahman Rana, a teacher of Mechanical Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), with Shahbagh police, investigation officer of the GD, Biplob Kishore Shil, inspector (investigation), told newsmen.



In the…

Addressing a meeting after laying the foundation stone of academic blocks of Abdul Wali Khan University (AWKU) here, he said the people of Mardan were facing problems in the past to obtain higher education as their parents sent their children to other cities for the purpose.Well-known educationist and mother of the chief minister, Nasreen Bibi, MNA Himayatullah Mayar, MPAs Ghani Dad Khan and Sikandar Irfan, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar Vice-Chancellor Imtiaz Hussain…

DHAKA, April 22 (BSS)-Hundreds of policemen in riot gears and elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) enforced a sharp vigil as main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called daylong nationwide shutdown to protest mysterious disappearance of party leader Ilias Ali.



Newly formed 18-party alliance, led by BNP extended their support to the hartal as they put blame on the Awami League-led grand alliance's shoulder for the incident.



BNP organising secretary…

DHAKA, April 22: Police today rescued the seven-month-old baby girl from the capital’s Mirpur area, a day after she was abducted by robbers from her Khilgaon residence.

Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, said a housemaid first saw Maysha on a stair landing when she went out of the ground floor of a building at Dakshin Paikpara hearing a baby’s cry.

On information, police rescued Maysha from the four-storied building around 12:30pm, the OC…

One day very early in the morning some young and enthusiastic boys are found by this reporter in an open space of Tannery area of Savar showing some tough tact with their bike in front of some local inhabitants who are interestingly enjoying that exercise.

While asking those boys about the name…