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CCDM suspends Badal from cricket

2014-12-09 00:00:00

The Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) on Tuesday suspended Lutfar Rahman Badal, chairman of Premier Division Cricket Club ‘Legends of Rupganj’ from all kinds of cricketing activities for his derogatory remarks against the BCB top brass. It also recommended...

FVO to inspect BD shrimp, fish industry

2014-12-09 00:00:00

An audit team of the European Commission’s Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) will visit Bangladesh in April next to inspect various aspects of shrimp and fish productions. During the visit from April 20 to 30, the FVO team will inspect...

Detailed DSE Trading

2014-12-09 00:00:00

Farmers\\\' support to expand cotton farming in Barind tract emphasised

2014-12-09 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Dec 8 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong discussion urged the farmers and others concerned to expand cotton farming in the vast Barind tract for boosting up its production to meet up the country's demand. They viewed prospect of boosting...

Prices of vegetables, rice fall in Narsingdi

2014-12-09 00:00:00

NARSINGDI, Dec 8 (BSS): Prices of vegetables have come down with the huge supply of winter vegetables in the local markets. Different kinds of winter vegetables grow a plenty in Shibpur , Belabo and Raipura upazilas of the district this...

Safe migration of jobseekers for enhancing remittance stressed

2014-12-09 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Dec 8 (BSS): Speakers at a media dialogue here on Sunday afternoon stressed for increasing export of human resources ensuring safer migration and upholding their maximum interests abroad to enhance remittance inflow. They suggested for creating mass awareness, producing...

3 killed in road accidents

Our Correspondent | 2014-12-09 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, Dec 8: A minor girl was killed, five others injured and three of them critically, in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Haridaspur village area in Gopalganj Sadar Upazila of the district yesterday (Sunday). The deceased was identified...

Netrakona liberated on Dec 9

2014-12-09 00:00:00

NETRAKONA, Dec 8 (BSS): December 9, 1971 has turned out to be a red-letter day for the people of Netrakona as they were liberated and their soil was freed from the occupation of Pakistani military forces. Every year, the people...

Two bodies recovered in districts

2014-12-09 00:00:00

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 8 (UNB): Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a char in Chowhali upazila on Sunday. Police said local people spotted the body of the woman, aged around 45, in the area in the morning and...

Nat’l Electricity Week begins in Gaibandha

2014-12-09 00:00:00

GAIBANDHA, Dec 8 (BSS): National Electricity Week-2014 has begun in the district on Sunday amid creating much awareness among the consumers to halt misuse of electricity. To mark the week in a befitting manner, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and...

A freedom fighter dreams of a poverty-free Bangladesh

2014-12-09 00:00:00

KHULNA, Dec 8 (BSS): Md. Younus Ali Inu, 73, Deputy Commander of Muzib Bahini (BLF) in Greater Khulna during the War of Liberation, who led several attacks on the invading Pakistani Army and their collaborators Razakar, Al Badr and Al...

B’baria LGED distributes profit among LCS members

Our Correspondent | 2014-12-09 00:00:00

BRAHMANBARIA, Dec 8: Haor Infrastructure and Livelihood Improvement Project (HILIP)" under  Brahmanbaria Local Government and Engineering Dept distributed the profit amounting Tk 611574 for construction of Nabinagar Bakdohor Road  among 90 members of Labour Contracting Society (LCS) at the auditorium...

17 injured in Sirajganj clash

2014-12-09 00:00:00

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 8 (UNB): At least 17 people including two women were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over land-related dispute at Kumajpur village in Salanga upazila on Sunday. Quoting local people, police said Sohrab and Siddik...

News in brief

2014-12-09 00:00:00

Five pirates held in Satkhira Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a dive arrested five alleged pirates from Kanchikata area in Sunderbans in Satkhira on Sunday. The arrested were identified as Siddiq Hossain,,son of Zumman Ali of Uttar Kadamtola...

China keen to help BD produce paper at low costs

2014-12-09 00:00:00

China Light Industrial Corporation for Foreign Economic and Technical Cooperation (CLETC) on Tuesday showed its eagerness to help Bangladesh produce paper at low costs using modern technology. The state-owned enterprise, CLETC, also offered to extend all sorts of cooperation to...

Photo: LAXMIPUR: A farmhand seen taking care of cauliflowers

2014-12-09 00:00:00

Wreckage from Ukraine plane crash in Netherlands

2014-12-09 00:00:00

A convoy of eight trucks carrying wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster has arrived at a Dutch military base, as the official investigation into the cause of the plane's destruction continues. The Dutch-led international team investigating the disaster...

Photo: SHARIATPUR: As winter is setting in date juice

2014-12-09 00:00:00

DCC polls aimed at confusing people over movement: BNP

2014-12-09 00:00:00

BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is speaking about holding Dhaka City Corporation elections only to confuse people about the opposition’s ongoing movement. Fakhrul, the BNP acting secretary general, came up with the remarks...

California protesters clash with police

2014-12-09 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (AFP): Angry protesters in California-some vandalizing, looting and clashing with police-gathered for a second night Monday to condemn recent killings of black suspects by white officers. Hundreds of protesters gathered late Sunday and continued marching into early...

One dead as Pakistan opposition workers clash with police

2014-12-09 00:00:00

FAISALABAD, Dec 8 (AFP): An opposition party worker was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday as hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police armed with water cannon and batons in the central city of Faisalabad. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (Pakistan Movement...

Myanmar officer jailed for backing reduced military role

2014-12-09 00:00:00

YANGON, Dec 8 (agencies): A Myanmar army officer has been jailed for two years after he signed a petition supporting Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts to reduce the military's role in politics, a member of her opposition party said Monday....

Manila braces for storm, as Hagupit leaves 27 dead

2014-12-09 00:00:00

MANILA, Dec 8 (Reuters): Typhoon Hagupit weakened to a tropical storm as it churned close to the Philippine capital on Monday, after killing 27 people on the eastern island of Samar island where it flattened homes, toppled trees and cut...

Modi campaigns in Kashmir after deadly attack

2014-12-09 00:00:00

SRINAGAR, Dec 8 (AFP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi told voters Monday not to be intimidated against casting ballots in Indian Kashmir's state elections after a string of attacks, as he hit the campaign trail in the Muslim-majority region. Modi's Hindu...

Eight to die for attacks in China’s Xinjiang : CCTV

2014-12-09 00:00:00

BEIJING, Dec 8 (AFP): A Chinese court condemned eight people to death Monday for two deadly attacks in Xinjiang, as Beijing cracks down hard on violence in the homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur minority. Five others were given suspended...

news digest

2014-12-09 00:00:00

Indian capital bans Uber after alleged rape NEW DELHI, Dec 8: Delhi's government on Monday banned Uber from operating in the Indian capital after a passenger accused one of its drivers of rape, dealing a fresh blow to the reputation...

Photo: SRI LANKA : Sri Lanka\\\'s main opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena

2014-12-09 00:00:00

Photo: UKRAINE : Four lorries loaded with debris from Malaysian Airlines flight MH-17

2014-12-09 00:00:00

ECB\\\'s loans offer clues in QE guessing game

Robin Emmott of Reuters in Brussels | 2014-12-09 00:00:00

The guessing game over the timing of euro zone money printing will intensify as the European Central Bank unveils a closely watched gauge of policy in the coming week, the highlight of a calendar dominated by Europe's malaise. On the...

Majority of Germans want Merkel to run for fourth term

Noah Barkin of Reuters in Berlin | 2014-12-09 00:00:00

A majority of Germans want Angela Merkel to run for a fourth term as Chancellor and nearly three in four believe she would like to remain in office beyond 2017, when her current term ends, a new poll shows. Last...