Bangladesh have bettered their chances of securing Champions Trophy qualification after their brilliant win over India in the first One Day International (ODI) took them to seventh spot in the ICC ranking, reports bdnews24.com. Mustafizur Rahman's five-wicket haul on debut...
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Hotel Saibal of Cox's Bazar will be developed as a big entertainment and tourism village on 129 acres of land under a public-private partnership (PPP) model for making the country's tourism city more attractive to tourists from home and abroad....
The President of Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB) Mohammad Asad Ullah along with some of his Council Members met with Finance Minister AMA Muhith Thursday at his chamber in the Bangladesh Secretariat. The ICSB President introduced his Council...
Citi celebrated its 10th annual Global Community Day, as more than 80,000 Citi volunteers in 500 cities spanning 93 countries and territories engaged in service activities to benefit their local communities recently, said a statement. In the days leading up...
The Supreme Court has given 18 months to Sahara India to repay Rs 360 billion of the investors' money which its two companies, SIRECL and SHFCL, had collected in 2007-08 through OFCDs, according to IANS/bdnews24.com. However, an apex court bench...
A dialogue on Trade Facilitation in South Asia through Transport Connectivity: Operationalising the Motor Vehicle Agreements (MVAs), arranged by Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will be held today (Saturday) at 10.00 am at the BRAC Centre Inn Auditorium in the...
Square Textiles Ltd. declared cash dividend at the rate of 20 per cent and stock dividend (bonus share) at the rate 10 per cent to its shareholders for the year ended December 31, 2014 at its 20th Annual General Meeting...
A fund set up to compensate the victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse has finally reached its 30-million target, the UN's International Labor Organisation (ILO) said this week, reports BSS. With all the funding now secured, the last families...
India's progress in health outcomes during the past two decades has been slower in comparison to other developing countries, including Bangladesh, with comparable incomes, a latest working paper prepared by Niti Aayog said, highlighting crucial gaps in India's healthcare system,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid Friday rich tribute to the memory of poet Begum Sufia Kamal on the occasion of her 104th birthday, reports BSS. "I convey my profound respect to the memory of Begum Sufia Kamal, one of the...
The class IV employees of the government demanded Friday that the government immediately review the proposed pay scale keeping Tk 16,000 instead of the proposed Tk 8,250 as employees' lowest basic salary, reports UNB. The demand came from a press...
Psychiatric disorders among children are associated with malnutrition, low education of fathers and a family history of mental illness, says a recent ICDDR,B study, reports UNB. It showed that behavioral disorders were most common among children, but psychiatric disorders were...
Police have arrested four people on charges of posing as detective police personnel in the city, reports bdnews24.com. Four others were also arrested for mugging. Detective Branch spokesman Monirul Islam said on Friday they were arrested in drives on University...
Five people were killed and five others injured in separate road accidents in Dhaka, including the city, and Jessore districts on Friday, reports UNB. In the capital, three people, including two drivers, were killed as a pickup and a truck...
The prize-distribution ceremony of the Inter-Area Annual Qirat and Azan Competition-2015 of the Bangladesh Army was held at the Signal Brigade Mosque at Dhaka Cantonment after the Jumma prayers on Friday, says an ISPR Press release. Director General of Military...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions with moderately...
BAPA holds seminar on safe food, water A seminar on taking safe food and water in the month of Ramadan was held at a city auditorium on Friday. Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA) organised the programme. Joint President of BAPA Professor...
Detectives in their separate drives arrested a laboratory assistant of Dhaka University (DU) and three other people from different parts of the city on Thursday for their alleged involvement in supplying chemicals to militant groups, reports UNB. The arrestees are...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will host an Iftar party for the wounded freedom fighters, orphans, disabled children and alem ulemas today (Saturday), reports UNB. The Iftar party will be held at the Banquet Hall of the PM's official residence...
RAJBARI, June 19 (UNB): A schoolboy, who was abducted from the capital on Thursday, was rescued from Padmar Mor on Daulatdia-Khulna highway in Goalundo upazila of Rajbari district on Friday morning. The rescued was identified as Jihadul Islam (10), son...
A college student has been sued in Gazipur on charge of raping a disabled schoolgirl. The mother of the fifth-grader filed the case against the student of the Bhawal Mirzapur Degree College with Kaliakair thana on Friday, reports bdnews24.com. Referring...
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq put emphasis Friday on strengthening the rule of law in cyberspace, reports BSS. He also sought international cooperation against cyber crime while addressing the closing ceremony of the three-day Octopus Conference, the...
Police confirmed on Friday that the bullets which left two people dead in the city's New Eskaton area on April 13 were fired from the pistol of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, reports UNB. Rony is the son of Awami League MP...
KHULNA, June 19 (UNB): A Jubo League (JL) activist was stabbed to death by miscreants in Mandra Khal area of Lobonchara thana on Friday noon, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Imran Sajib Akando (28), son of Nazrul Islam...
BENAPOLE, June 19 (UNB): Five alleged robbers were injured in a gunfight with police in Khajura area on Jessore - Magura highway in the early hours of Friday. A patrol team of police, led by Masudur Rahman, sub-inspector (SI) of...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia took Iftar with orphans and alem-ulema (Islamic scholars) on the first day of the fasting month of Ramadan on Friday, reports UNB. The BNP chief hosted the Iftar party at the city's Ladies Club. Entering the...
MADARIPUR, June 19 (UNB): The operation of small launches will remain suspended during monsoon to avoid accidents, said Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Friday. He said this while talking to reporters after inspecting the repair work on the town protection...
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