Barisal, Bangladesh News

Asaduzzaman Asad bdnews24.com Correspondent Benapole, May 11 - Export of Hilsa fish to India through Benapole Land Port in Jessore district in the first 10 months of the ongoing 2011-12 fiscal has fetched Tk 2.21 billion.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed deep shock at the death of senior reporter of English daily The Independent Bibhash Chandra Saha and photojournalist of Barisal-based daily Matobad Shahiduzzaman Titu in road accidents on Friday.

Tanim Ahmed Dhaka, May 8 - Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee's defence resumed cross-examination with further questions regarding a URL reference of Kean University after lunch on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina talks to the people of Barisal through videoconferencing at her official resiennce of Gono Bhaban yesterday, while Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid looks on.

The government of Bangladesh will rehabilitate 2,000 beggars of the capital city, Dhaka, under a pilot project to be implemented by June.

Photo: STAR The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced a two-day dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal for the government's 'failure to return' missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.