After retaining title of the just ended season's curtain riser Federation Cup Football, football power house Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club embarked in a new mission to win the prestigious Bangladesh Premier Football League title which will begin on April 3,...
The seventh and final round matches of the four-day Walton 16th National Cricket League will begin at 9:30 am tomorrow (Monday) at four separate venues in Dhaka and adjoining areas, reports UNB. Opening day's matches Defending champions Dhaka Division vs...
Bangladesh Police team clinched the men's title of the Walton Home Appliances 1st National Throwball Championship while Khulna Throwball Academy earned the women's title beating their respective rivals at the Bangladesh Kabaddi Stadium in the city Saturday, reports UNB. Khulna...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) initially selected 37 footballers Saturday to form a Bangladesh team for the AFC Under-23 Championship Qualifiers to be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city from March 27-31, reports UNB. Four countries-Uzbekistan, Syria, India...
Bangladesh National Rugby team tasted their first international victory beating Nepal National team by 36-0 points in their 2nd match of the Olympic Pre-Qualifier seven-a-side Rugby tournament at the Indian city of Chennai Saturday, reports UNB. Earlier, Bangladesh Rugby team...
The Runner Group 30th Bangladesh Amateur Golf Championship will begin at the Kurmitola Golf Club in the city Wednesday, reports UNB. Some 37 amateur golfers from nine countries-Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Sri Lanka and hosts Bangladesh-are expected...
The prestigious domestic Bangladesh Premier Football League will begin on April 3 instead of March 9 as scheduled earlier, reports BSS. The decision was taken in a profession league committee's meeting held Friday at the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) conference...
Our World Cup not over, insists England's Morgan ADELAIDE, Mar 7: England captain Eoin Morgan is confident his beleaguered team are good enough to revive a faltering World Cup campaign, saying they are under no pressure despite facing two must-win...
In 2015, International Women's Day, celebrated globally on 8 March, highlights the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a historic roadmap signed by 189 governments 20 years ago that sets the agenda for realizing women's rights. While there have been...
Twenty years ago, when the world convened a landmark conference on women's human rights, the devastating conflict in the former Yugoslavia prompted deserved attention to rape and other war crimes there against civilians. Two decades later, with girls as young...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Economic contribution of women, especially in informal sector, yet to be taken into account while estimating the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Women, involved in household work, are widely regarded as 'unsung heros' as their mammoth contribution remained unaccounted for...
In 1995, at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, world leaders committed to a future where women are equal. One hundred and eighty nine countries and 4,000 civil society organizations, attended the conference. Women left Beijing with high...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
It is indeed a good news for the nation. At least for those who want to take up jobs abroad in a bid to change their lot. Since labour market in Saudi Arabia has been reopened recently for Bangladeshi job...
Kamrun Nahar | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Attitude of men towards women entrepreneurs has changed in Bangladesh significantly in recent times, said a young woman entrepreneur of the country. She also thinks the responsibilities---such responsibilities vary from one society to another because of the cultural differences--- of...
FE Report | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Leading civil society members and intellectuals Saturday pleaded for the introduction of bi-cameral system with proportional representation with a view to maintaining institutional checks and balance on power. While discussing a number of important national issues including the ongoing political...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Implementation of the Sherpur economic zone project in Moulvibazar is set to gather pace as a government-owned finance company has agreed to disburse Tk 3.65 billion (365 crore) for purchase of land for the project. The Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund...
The historic 7th March, marking the epoch-making speech of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was observed in the country on Saturday in a befitting manner, report agencies. In his speech delivered on this day in 1971 before...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
The Tk 1.0 billion block allocation for women entrepreneurs has either remained unused or spent in projects other than entrepreneurship development in the budgets since the fiscal year (FY) 2012-13. Women entrepreneurs, however, claimed that in absence of availability of...
BOGRA, Mar 7: At least five people, including three members of a family, were killed and eight others injured as a truck ploughed through a roadside fruit shop at Baghopara bus stand on the Bogra-Rangpur highway in Sadar upazila on...
LAXMIPUR, Mar 7: An activist of local BNP was stabbed to death by some miscreants at Balaishpur in Sadar upazila early on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sohel Rana, an activist of Parbatinagar union unit of BNP and son...
Syful Islam | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
The country's business community continues to put pressure on the government to have VAT (value-added tax) Act 2012' amended to make it 'more business and compliance-friendly', officials said. The leaders of the apex trade body, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Saturday her government is showing utmost patience to make BNP leader Khaleda Zia understand the consequences of her destructive politics and killing of innocent people, reports BSS. She said Khaleda Zia is giving directives from...
FE Report | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
The BNP-led 20-party alliance announced on Saturday another spell of 72-hour nationwide hartal from 6am today (Sunday) for the sixth time alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade. The alliance called the shutdown to push for, among many other demands,...
FE Report | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has selected few tax measures of the recently proposed Indian budget to scrutinise and consider those for upcoming budget of Bangladesh for Fiscal Year 2015-16. Major measures in direct taxes include limit for tax-free...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan, MP, said on Saturday there is no foreign pressure against arresting BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, reports BSS. "We are respectful to the law and if necessary she (Khaleda Zia) will be arrested following...
FE Report | 2015-03-08 00:00:00
Corruption, political influence, poor monitoring and lack of coordination are confronting proper selection of poor people for getting the benefits under social safety net programme (SSNP), said speakers at a meeting on Saturday in the capital. They suggested that the...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Records fell like nine pins in this year's World Cup cricket till the group stage contest. Chris Gayle's 215 score was the highest and first double tons in any World Cup match. De Villers then put paid to Gayle's superhuman...
Silvia Zaman | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
The term HIV/AIDS is known to all of us and different initiatives have been taken for last few years to address it. If a sustainable development goal is set to achieve zero level of HIV infection prevalence, then the monitoring...
Zeenat Khan | 2015-03-07 00:00:00
Performing live from the stages of London, Paris, and Tokyo - Bengali folk music Queen, bubbly Momtaz Begum, has mesmerized her audience from the get-go for almost over two decades now. Within a few years - Momtaz has evolved from...
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