Shahab Uddin Khan has been elected president of Gulshan Club for the two-year term from 2014 to 2015. He was elected at the annual general meeting (AGM) of the club in the city recently, said a press release. Ten elected...
BD-CERN School on 'particle physics' opens at DU A three-day workshop on 'SN Bose 1st Bangladesh-CERN (European Council for Nuclear Research) School on 'Particle Physics' opened at the Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences (CARS) of Dhaka University (DU) Monday....
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, chances of light rain or drizzle at one or two places over Rangpur division until 6:00 pm today (Tuesday), reports UNB. Moderate to thick fog may occur...
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All the river routes in and around the Sundarbans should be closed permanently to heavy-duty vessels carrying harmful fuels and chemicals to protect the world's largest mangrove forest, experts suggested Monday. At a press conference held in Dhaka to project...
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German Chargé d' Affaires in Bangladesh Dr Ferdinand von Weyhe Monday said installation of a nuclear plant remains a risky affair for Bangladesh as it is an earthquake-prone country in the global map. "Germany is not an earthquake-prone area. But...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested four women, including two specially trained nursemaids of DMCH, and rescued a stolen baby from the city's Lalbagh area on Monday, reports UNB. The arrestees are nursemaids Farida, 40, and Zahanara Janu, and Ferdousi,...
The two-day second meeting of the Joint Study Group of the emerging regional cooperation framework-Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Cooperation (BCIM-EC) begins at the beach town Cox's Bazar tomorrow (Wednesday), reports UNB. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque will preside over the meeting to...
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Concerned over unrelenting increase in the load of non-performing loan (NPL), the central bank Monday asked bankers to bring down the NPL below 10 per cent by the end of this month, sources said. It also asked the bankers to...
The nation will celebrate the 44th Victory Day today (Tuesday) with elaborate programmes to pay deep homage to the 3.0 million martyrs who laid down their lives for the country, reports UNB. On this day in 1971, Pakistani occupation forces...
SYDNEY, Dec 15: Police stormed the Sydney cafe where a gunman had taken hostages and displayed an Islamic flag, television footage showed early Tuesday, reports AFP. Reporters near the scene heard a series of loud bangs and yelling as police...
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The government waived Monday the duty and taxes on import of coal. The waiver came following a ban imposed by Indian state of Meghalaya on export of its coal. Officials said Customs and Value Added Tax (VAT) wings of the...
KHULNA, Dec 15 (UNB): Six days after the oil tanker capsize in the Shela River, Forest Department officials started on Monday spraying water to remove oil from trees and grasses. Amir Hossain Chowdhury, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Sundarbans...
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Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina asked Monday government officials to gear up the ongoing efforts for removing spilled furnace oil from the rivers Shela and Pashur to protect the mangrove forest Sundarbans from further damage. The directive of the PM...
A delegation of 38 retired Indian military officers who fought for Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 called on Chief of Army Staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan on Monday at the Hotel Radisson in the city. General Bhuiyan received the Indian...
Victory Day today (Tuesday). The nation is celebrating the 44th Victory Day through various programmes. People from all walks of life have been paying homage to the three million martyrs for their supreme sacrifice for the country during the Liberation...
Sami Al Hafiz, Group Chief Communications Officer, Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. (MTB), has handed over blankets to A.F.M. Asaduzzaman, General Manager, Governor's Secretariat, Bangladesh Bank. Senior officials of both the organizations were present. As part of MTB’s annual winter clothes...
Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded. New South...
The 2-day 2nd meeting of the Joint Study Group of the emerging regional cooperation framework – Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Cooperation (BCIM-EC) begins in the beach town Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque will preside over the meeting to...
President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the 3 million martyred on the Victory Day on Tuesday morning. The President and the Prime Minister placed wreaths at the National Mausoleum at Savar in the morning...
One week after an oil tanker crash in Shela River, Forest Department officials on Tuesday started spraying water to remove oil slicks from trees and grasses in the Sundarbans. Amir Hossain Chowdhury, Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of the Sundarbans East...
At least five people were killed and six others injured in a road accident in Shayestaganj Upazila in Habiganj district on Tuesday morning. The identities of the deceased could not be known. Police and witnesses said the accident took place...
A local labour leader and the members of his family were murdered at Bhaluka Upazila in Mymensingh on Tuesday. Bhaluka Police Station's sub-inspector Shamim Al Mamum said that the incident occurred at the Lobonkota Village of the Upazila's Habirbari Union...
At least 23 people have been killed and 40 injured in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say. Five or six militants wearing security uniforms entered the school, officials said. Gunfire and...
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Bangladesh Bank has assured bankers of considering a plea to extend the exemption by one more year of provisioning against the losses they sustained through investing in the capital market in 2010. The central bank would take the decision in...
An old woman has been killed in a road accident at Majra village under Kashiani Upazila in Goplaganj district. The dead is Shefali Begum, 60. A speedy truck ran over her when she was crossing a road at Majra village....
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