National Desk : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today proposed nomination of Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus as World Bank president, [...]

Staff Correspondent:     The wide spread news media newshoursbd.com started its service to people. Till yesterday it was working [...]

National Desk : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has extended her best wishes to Bangla-speaking people at home and abroad, and [...]

NHBD/National Desk : The city dwellers have started feeling the pinch of power supply cut with the summer getting closer [...]

Sandwip/News Hours BD/National Desk : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the BNP chief’s ‘Dhaka Cholo’ programme is “designed [...]

Trade & Finance Desk : High interest rates, coupled with adverse global situation, are impacting investment and economic growth, Indian [...]

Dhaka/NewsHoursBD/Trade & Finance Desk : Bangladesh Bank governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Wednesday urged all concerned not to make any [...]

NewsHoursBD/Trade & Finance Desk : A Chinese firm will invest $ 9.45 million in the Mongla Export Processing Zone (EPZ) [...]

TOKYO(newshoursbd/AFP) : Japan’s Honda Motor, the country’s third- biggest carmaker, suffered a 20 percent plunge in its global production last [...]

RANGPUR: Rangpur Sadar Branch of Ansar-VDP Development Bank was launched at Sadar Upazila Parishad premises here on Wednesday to assist [...]

From Noakhali : The journalists community of Noakhali district here today formed human chain, brought a protest rally and held [...]

COX’S BAZAR/NewsHoursBD : Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel rescued 24 child labourers from captivity in a brickfield where they were [...]

NewsHoursBD/ From Rajshahi : Modernization of  Central Park and Zoo run by the Rajshahi City Corporation is progressing fast to [...]

KURIGRAM: Newly constructed building of 50 bed Rajarhat Upazila Health Complex was inaugurated on Wednesday. The health complex was constructed [...]

NARSINGDI: A court here today granted bail to Salauddin Ahmed Bachchu and three others in the Narsingdi Municipal Mayor Lokman [...]

News Hours BD Desk: Taslima Nasrin, the author of bestseller novel ‘Shame’, could not come to Kathmandu Saturday because she [...]

Benjamin Dangl Landlocked Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America and has the largest proportion of indigenous [...]

Abid Anwar Surrealism has been a widely-used and often misused element in art and literature of the modern era. The [...]

LET’S BURN Sunanda Kabir When suddenly the doors of the closed room are wide open The maddening wind blows The [...]

Ataul Goni Rabbani, From BAU: Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) observed the International Mother Language Day paying glowing homage to the [...]

Narsingdi/NewsHoursBD : A group of SSC examinees ransacked an examination centre in Sadar upazila as their demand for extra time [...]

DHAKA/NewsHoursBD : Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid today laid emphasis on enhancing research activities and practice of knowledge at universities [...]

Ataul Goni Rabbani, From BAU: At least 6 activists of Bangladesh Chhatra Union (BCU), including general secretary and former secretary [...]

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Regional Office of National University (NU) is going to function from January 29 (Sunday). According to the officials [...]

International Desk : Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day was observed in Canada with due solemnity and fervor. Expatriate [...]

NHBD/International Desk : Japan on Monday began a process that will see another one of the country’s nuclear reactors go [...]

TEGUCIGALPA/News Hours BD/International Desk : Hondurans are burying victims of one of the world’s worst jail fires as they search [...]

NewsHoursBD/International Desk : Two US drone strikes struck Islamist militants in Pakistan’s tribal badlands on Thursday, killing at least 13 [...]

NewsHoursBD/International Desk : Up to 33 million people in Africa and Asia living in poverty will have access to low-cost [...]

Sports Desk : Squads for the first of three Twenty20 internationals between Pakistan and England at Dubai Stadium here on [...]

Sports Desk : MS Dhoni has been suspended for one ODI and India fined for the team’s second over-rate breach [...]

Sports Desk : Former Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds, whose powerful, big-hitting performances were often overshadowed by bruising run-ins with officialdom, [...]

NewsHoursBD/Sports Desk :   Arsenal’s Champions League quarter-final hopes are in tatters after they were comprehensively beaten by AC Milan [...]

NewsHoursBD/Sports Desk : Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes that striker Thierry Henry is ready to sign off in style against [...]

Tom Cruise’s latest “Mission: Impossible” film topped the North American box office for a second week, ringing up $38.2 million [...]

Michael Jackson could not have caused his own death by self-administering a powerful sedative, the medic who carried out his [...]

NewshoursBD International Desk : Kylie Minogue has claimed a UK chart-topping album for the fifth time with her latest release [...]

(NewshoursBD.com/Indiatimes.com) : Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni got engaged to his childhood friend Sakshi Singh Rawat at a private [...]

Staff Correspondent AK Azad and Jasim Uddin bagged 21 out of 28 posts of directors who were elected though polls [...]

A China-based company plans to begin shipping a realistic-looking Steve Jobs action figure in February. It remained to be seen [...]

RAJSHAHI, Sept 25: Expanded Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has become indispensable for creating employment generation in both rural and [...]

News Hours BD Desk, Sept 18: Joel Simkhai, the creator of Grindr, a wildly popular mobile dating application for gay [...]

News Hours BD Desk, Sept 8: NASA is to launch Thursday a $500 million pair of unmanned spacecraft that will [...]

News Hours BD Desk, Aug 22: Skype, the Internet communications group set to be acquired by Microsoft, announced plans Sunday [...]

Is human safety universal? Realists, and later neo-realists, have seen safety as merely incomplete as well as provisional, for the [...]

Bipra Kanungo, Momin Road, Chittagong The concluding month of the year, December, brings for us the message of achieving freedom, [...]

Noushi Rahman, Associate Professor, Pace University, New York, US Many associations and clubs organise and host friendly tournaments to celebrate [...]

I am sure we all have heard a lot on this topic and many of us are constantly thinking and [...]