Two people were killed and 20 others injured in separate road accidents in Magura and Mymensingh districts on Friday, reports UNB. In Magura, a microbus driver was killed and 10 other people were injured when a truck rammed into his...
COMILLA, Dec 5 (UNB): Bus movement between Comilla city and 10 other districts came to a halt Friday as a section of bus workers of Jangalia Bus Terminal in the city went on strike demanding punishment of those involved in...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 5 (UNB): Police arrested a man along with four firearms, seven magazines and 15 rounds of bullet at Tarapur village in Shibganj Upazila Thursday. The arrested was identified as Babu, 25, son of Azizul Mekar of the village....
Customs Intelligence officials seized 90 cartons of illegal foreign cigarettes Friday and detained a Pakistani national at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital, reports UNB. Sources at the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) said Pakistani citizen, Yusuf,...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary, partly cloudy sky over the country today (Saturday). Light to moderate fog may occur over the country during midnight until morning, Met Office said. Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged...
DU VC shocked at Latifa Akanda's death Dhaka University Vice-chancellor AASM Arefin Siddique expressed deep shock at the death of Latifa Akanda, former professor in the Department of Islamic History and Culture at DU. She passed away at a city...
FE Report | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Ten renowned personalities and two organisations received the 'Nawab Bahadur Nawab Ali Chowdhury National Award 2014' on Friday for their outstanding contributions to different fields. The recipients of the prestigious award are late AKM Sarwarjan Biswas (posthumously for the liberation...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Planned online Value Added Tax (VAT) payment system is set to see the light of day as the government is going to receive US$60-million loan, halted for more than one year, from the World Bank. Economics Relations Division (ERD) officials...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Funds constraints have been hampering the operational activities as well as effectiveness of the Equity and Entrepreneurship Fund (EEF) for agro-processing sectors, officials said. They said, "The EEF agro-fund has dwindled while the information technology (IT) fund has a significant...
FE Report | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
The unidentified female patient, who was found alive three hours after being declared dead by the doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday, died on Friday there, officials said. Her body is now being kept at mortuary, as...
MALE (Maldives), Dec 5 (AFP): Drinking water had to be airlifted into the Maldivian capital Friday as desperate residents scuffled and attacked shops over dwindling supplies of bottled water following a fire at a desalination plant. India said it had...
JU Correspondent Charming colours of the beautiful wings of 125 species of butterfly and kites overheard as replicas of the flying insect enthralled many nature-lovers at a fair on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus Friday. US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
A move is underway to increase the non-tax revenue (NTR) through a review which involves readjusting and levying fresh charges on various services. According to government officials and economists the NTR turnovers have remained very low over the years in...
Aiming to give their relations a stronger footing, Bangladesh and Bhutan will renew their bilateral trade agreement on Saturday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Bhutanese counterpart Tshering Tobgay witnessing the signing ceremony, reports UNB. The Bhutanese Prime Minister...
Terming her just concluded Kula Lumpur tour very successful, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said it would cast a positive impact on boosting manpower export from Bangladesh to Malaysia, reports UNB. "In overall consideration this tour (Malaysia) was very...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
The government moves to launch four new investment bonds with tax-free facility on stake for expatriate Bangladeshis to encourage them to invest their remittances in various sectors in the country. Officials said the Internal Resources Division (IRD) under the Ministry...
The gender pay gap in Europe ranges from about 100 euros (£79) to 700 euros per month, the ILO report suggested. In the UK, women earn about 28 per cent less than men on average, the UN body found, reports...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh will have to pay nearly US$100 million to get a stake in the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a founder-member, officials have said. "So far, 22 countries have joined hands in establishing the bank. We may need...
RAJBARI, Dec 5: A cotton factory was gutted by a fire in the English Market area of the district town on Friday noon. The fire broke out at 'Asha Enterprise' around 12pm and it soon engulfed the whole factory, said...
Bangladesh men's team started well in the International Handball Federation (IHF) Trophy Tournament-2014 while women's team tested the 2nd consecutive win beating their respective rivals in the day's matches at Faisalabad in Pakistan Thursday, reports UNB. In the men's group,...
HAMBANTOTA, Dec 4 (AFP): Kumar Sangakkara became only the fourth batsman in history to surpass 13,000 one-day runs as Sri Lanka scored 242-8 off 35 overs in a rain-curtailed match against England in Hambantota Wednesday. The 37-year-old left-hander reached the...
Ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang, the most senior Chinese official to be investigated for corruption, has been arrested and expelled from the Communist Party, state media report. The Supreme People's Procuratorate, China's top prosecuting body, said it had opened a formal...
There are several ways to measure Bangladesh's success in the Test and One Day International (ODI) series against Zimbabwe over the past six weeks. The 8-0 winning streak represents a general sense of relief and a restoration of a cricket-mad...
Dhaka Abahani Ltd secured the second slot after the eight round matches of the Walton Dhaka Metropolis Premier Division Cricket League (DPL) beating Victoria Sporting Club by 8 wickets in a match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the...
Bangladesh confirmed the final round berth in the Men's Junior AHF Cup Hockey beating their main contenders Oman by huge 7-0 goals in the Islami Bank Men's Junior AHF Cup Qualifiers at the Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium in the...
Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan,Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh have been omitted from the 30-member preliminary squad for the World Cup picked by India's selectors Thursday, reports Cricinfo. It has been almost a year since any of them made...
SYDNEY, Dec 4 (AFP): Selectors called batsman Shaun Marsh into Australia's Test squad Thursday as cover for recovering captain Michael Clarke ahead of next week's opening Test with India. Marsh, 31, will join the original 12-man squad in Adelaide, where...
Cook gets one-match ban for slow over-rate COLOMBO, Dec 4: England captain Alastair Cook was Thursday suspended for one match and fined 20 percent of his undisclosed match fees for his team's slow over-rate in the third one-day international against...
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