Walton beat GP by 7 wickets Walton beat Grameenphone (GP) by seven wickets in a preparation match ahead of the Marcel T20 Corporate Cricket Tournament at the Lalmatia Housing Society School and College playground in the city Friday. Winning the...
Babul Barman | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Stocks plummeted last week and key index of the prime bourse dipped below 5,100-mark as worries over political unrest dampened investors' sentiment. "The investors were in selling spree throughout the week as the week-long countrywide strike following war crimes verdicts...
The local currency was little volatile during the week of November 2 to November 6 last and was traded around 77.41 levels. Bangladesh received $1.01 billion as inward remittances in the month of October, 14 comparing with $1.34 billion in...
FE Report High interest spreads, ineffective corporate governance and inadequate regulatory oversight of financial institutions are adding to the risk of financial instability, said business consultancy Keystone. Despite repeated instructions to bring the rate within the desired level, high interest...
MUMBAI, Nov 7 (Reuters): India's benchmark BSE index edged lower on Friday after setting records in each of the previous four sessions as investors took profits in recent outperformers such as State Bank of India, with caution also prevailing ahead...
Ismail Hossain The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to expand its activities to all 64 districts from present 22 districts. There will be 10 regional offices of the ACC to supervise district offices across the country. In a bid to...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
The project of manufacturing artificial limbs to be set up at the national orthopaedic hospital with assistance from the Thai government is going ahead in full swing, sources said. According to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) sources,...
The deep depression over the West Central Bay and adjoining East Central Bay remained practically stationary and it weakened into a depression over the same area, reports UNB. It centred at 3pm on Friday about 1045 kms southwest of Chittagong...
Our Correspondent | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Nov 7: A total of 2,095 examinees did not sit for Junior School Certificate (JSC) Examination under Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board Chittagong on its first day (Friday). Chittagong Board officials said a total of 140,651 students enrolled...
FE Report A group of ruling party activists physically assaulted Friday the protesting aspirants seeking second chance for Dhaka University (DU) admission test, sources confirmed. According to them, a group of 25-30 unruly activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) led...
In another alleged controversial move, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is going to relieve former Housing and Public Works secretary Dr Khondaker Showkat Hossain of the allegation of taking government plots abusing power, reports UNB. “Many senior government officials, including secretaries...
Six persons were killed in separate road accidents at different places in Gazipur, Dinajpur, Gaibandha and Thakurgaon districts Friday, report agencies. In Gaibandha, a housewife was killed after a passenger bus crushed her at Hirok Mour on the Rangpur-Dhaka highway...
Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) will hold a discussion at its auditorium at 10 am in the city today (Saturday) marking its 44th founding anniversary, said a press release. Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu, MP, will attend the occasion...
A move is underway to build some 550 cyclone shelters to help save the lives of the people of nine coastal districts and their property from natural disasters, reports UNB. The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) under the Ministry of...
PANCHAGARH, Nov 7 (UNB): Documents relating to several hundred cases at the Joint District Judge’s court were burnt to ashes by a fire that broke out at the courtroom on Friday. Police said Azhar Ali, night guard of the Chief...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 7 (UNB): A man was killed and eight others injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over harvesting paddy from a disputed land at Paroil village in Gobindaganj upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified as...
Light rain is likely to occur at one or two places over Chittagong division until 6pm today (Saturday). Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country, Met Office said. Night and day temperature may remain...
Jute godown, 4 shops gutted in Kurigram fire KURIGRAM, Nov 7: A jute godown and five shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Borobhita Bazar in Phulbari upazila early Friday. Fire service sources said originating from electric short...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday they will realise their demand for snap polls under a non-party administration through a strong mass movement, reports UNB. "They (AL leaders) are repeatedly saying no election before 2019, but people...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia paid on Friday homage to the party's founder, late President Ziaur Rahman, marking the 'National Revolution and Solidarity Day', reports UNB. BNP and its associate bodies chalked out a 10-day programme to observe the day in...
A group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders, left out of its recent committee, allegedly attacked a vehicle carrying BNP leaders Shaheed Uddin Chowdhury Annee and Sultan Salauddin Tuku, reports bdnews24.com. They came under attack at the Bijoy Sarani intersection...
BEIJING, Nov 7 (UNB): President Abdul Hamid arrived here Friday to attend a dialogue on strengthening connectivity partnership at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. A regular flight of Singapore Airlines carrying the President landed at Beijing International Airport...
Awami League (AL) presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said Friday that staying abroad Tarique Rahman, a corrupt to the backbone, has been resorting to repeated falsehood, reports BSS. "He (Tarique) has been uttering remarks like...
The second day of the fresh 48-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the death sentences awarded to its two leaders for war crimes, concluded Friday amid poor response, reports UNB. The shutdown programme began at 6.00 am Wednesday and...
Awami League (AL) advisory council member and former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, MP, called upon the constitutionally responsible persons Friday to take measures to execute the capital punishment against war criminal Kamaruzzaman expeditiously, reports BSS. "The War Crimes Tribunal is...
KUSHTIA, Nov 7 (UNB) : Awami League joint general secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif said on Friday BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is talking gibberish against the government out of the frustration that she will not be able to come to power in...
NETRAKONA, Nov 7 (UNB): Activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) allegedly attacked the district BNP office at Chota Bazar in the district town Friday noon, leaving five people injured. District BNP president Ashrafuddin Khan said a group of BCL men...
BOGRA, Nov 7 (UNB): Police in an overnight drive arrested 13 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student associate body of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its district unit president (North), and a leader of the Islamic party's another affiliated organisation from different...
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