HABIGANJ, Oct 4 (UNB): Around 100 people, including 12 with bullets, were injured in a fierce clash between two groups of villagers over a trifling matter at Shahpur village in Baniachang upazila on Saturday. Liakat Ali, officer-in-charge of Baniachong Police...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over all the seven divisions in next 24 hours till 6pm today (Sunday). Day and night temperature may remain nearly...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
This paper in a front-page photograph published on October 01 showed a policeman realising fine from a motorcyclist found guilty of riding on the footpath in front of Ramna Park. Indeed this is a rare occasion of penalising a biker...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Oct 4: Cattle markets in the port city witnessed a high supply of sacrificial animals as all eight markets were teeming with sellers and buyers Saturday. There is large supply of animals coming from different parts of the country....
A meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) on October 12 will decide the fate of its presidium member Abdul Latif Siddique, now under fire for his derogatory remarks on hajj, Tablig Jamaat and the Prime Minister's son,...
Hong Kong's leader has warned protesters that police will take "all actions necessary" to ensure government offices and schools reopen on Monday, reports BBC. In a televised speech on Saturday, CY Leung called on demonstrators to allow the government and...
Protesting the move to raise gas price, BNP called upon the government on Saturday to rescind its decision to avert any bad consequences, reports UNB. "The government will have to face adverse consequence if it raises the price of gas....
Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman of Dhaka Mohammedan SC emerged unbeaten champion of the 40th Berger Paints National A Chess after the 13th and final round matches at the Media Centre of Bangladesh Olympic Association on Saturday, reports UNB. With this title...
North and South Korea have agreed to resume formal high-level talks that had effectively been suspended since February, reports from South Korea say. The agreement came during a surprise visit to South Korea by North Korean officials for the closing...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
A sharp 49 per cent increase in the procurement of fuel oils pulled the country's overall import payments up by nearly 12 per cent in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), official sources said. However, the...
Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims, will be celebrated across the country tomorrow (Monday) with due religious fervour and the spirit of sacrifice, reports UNB. To commemorate Hazrat Ibrahim's devotion to almighty Allah proven by his readiness to...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
The cattle markets in the city witnessed buying spree Saturday, just two days ahead of the holy Eid-ul- Azha as the sellers showed flexibility of their asking prices. A visit to some makeshift cattle markets revealed that the sufficient supply...
FE Report | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
It came as a nagging pain for many getting caught in limbo as they could neither return to their residences nor see the transport booked for journey home after long await. Severe schedule failure caused such intolerable inconveniences as most...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-10-05 00:00:00
The government has no immediate plan to intervene in the country's non-essential drugs market despite fixation of higher prices of those by the manufacturers, officials said. Manufacturers often raise the prices of non-essential drugs themselves in the absence of any...
Five people were killed, three of them students, as a bus ploughed through passengers of another bus just as they got down from it in Shibchar upazila town of Madaripur Saturday. Angered over the fatal accident, locals blocked the Dhaka-Kawrakandi-Khulna...
COX'S BAZAR, Oct 04: A suspected robber was killed and four cops were injured in a gunfight between a gang of dacoits and policemen at South Rumaliachhara in Cox's Bazaar on Saturday. After being informed that a gang of criminals...
The government has imposed an 11-day ban on catching, selling and transportation of hilsa from Sunday across the country to ensure safe spawning and protect mother fishes. — UNB
The biggest online classified ad site ‘Ekhanei.com’ is getting busier with ads of sacrificial animals. More than three ads for cattle and other sacrificial animals are being posted per minute in the ‘Ekhanei.com’ website. Interested buyers from Dhaka and other...
Amid reports of artificial fattening of cattle, medium sized cows appear to be in high demand in Dhaka’s Eid cattle markets. Two days before Eid-ul-Azha, on Saturday, businesses were booming at the cattle markets in the city. But many sellers...
A housewife and two of her infant sons were killed when a microbus spun off the Ujanishar bridge in Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila and fell into a canal early on Sunday. Fire service official Mohammed Walliullah at Brahmanbaria said that three...
The inter-bank call money rate marked a slight rise ahead of Eid-ul Azha and Durga Puja festivals, because of higher withdrawl of cash from the banks, according to treasury departments of commercial banks. The rate hit 9.50 per cent Thursday,...
Two persons died in a 'shootout' in Khulna early on Saturday. The victims have been identified as 'Karimul', 40, and 'Hobi', 42, from Khulna's Dumuria Upazila. Police claim they were members of a gang of robbers. Khulna's Additional Superintendent of...
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