NATORE, Aug 4 (UNB): Miscreants snatched a motorcycle strangulating its owner to death at Adgram village in Boraigram upazila on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Hossain, 26, a resident of Chandipur village of the upazila. Quoting locals,...
NOAKHALI, Aug 4 (UNB): Two fishermen died as a trawler capsized in the Meghna River near Thengarchar in Hatiya upazila on Sunday night. Police recovered the bodies of the unidentified fishermen on Monday morning. SI Monir Hossain of Hatiya police...
JHALAKATHI, Aug 4 (BSS): Two motorcyclists were killed and one was injured in a road accident in Zero Point area of Dopdapia in Nalchhiti upazila here on Sunday. Police said the deceased were identified as Tarek, 20, and Babul, 30,...
BAGERHAT, Aug 4 (UNB): A young man was beaten to death by his rivals in Mongla upazila headquarters early Monday. The deceased was identified as Hridoy Bhandary, 18, son of Faruqe Bhandary of Koborsthan Road in Mongla upazila headquarters. Meanwhile,...
RANGAMATI, Aug 4 (BSS): Police recovered the body of a missing auto-bike driver from Kangalchhari under Naniarchar Sunday. Auto-bike driver Chandan Kumar Tripura, 30, went missing a few days back from Khagrachhari, police quoted brother of the victim as saying....
2 held with heroin in Chapainawabganj Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested two people along with 210 grams of heroin from LGED intersection in Chapainawabganj Sunday night. The arrestees were identified as Helal Uddin, 25, a...
Bangladesh men's team shared the lead in the Open category of the 41st World Chess Olympiad with 35 other countries beating Chile by 3-1 points in the 2nd round matches Sunday in Tromso, Norway, reports UNB. Bangladesh team secured maximum...
GLASGOW, Aug 4 (AFP): The Glasgow Commonwealth Games were hailed as "the best ever" on Sunday as the 11-day showpiece came to an emotional conclusion inside a chilly Hampden Park. An event long written-off as a dusty anachronism in the...
GLASGOW, Aug 4 (AFP): Despite ending in a weekend washout, Glasgow 2014 has rekindled some of the lustre of the Commonwealth Games after a troublesome Games in Delhi four years ago. Here, AFP Sports looks at some of the moments...
The national Under-23 football team started their camp Monday for September's Asian Games at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishthan (BKSP), reports BSS. The booters had their practice Monday morning under the supervision of head coach Lodewijk de Kruif and assistant...
Indian hockey team will arrive today (Tuesday) in the city to play three-match hockey series against their Bangladesh counterpart, reports BSS. The matches will be held on August 6, 8 and 9 at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Prothistan (BKSP) ground...
Bangladesh women's cricket team will start their training camp tomorrow( Wednesday) at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium ahead of the upcoming 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, reports BSS. Earlier Sunday, Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a 20-member of preliminary...
Six-times Olympic champion Usain Bolt has repeated his intention to continue competing until the world championships in 2017 after winning relay gold at the Commonwealth Games Saturday, reports Reuters. The world's fastest man had planned to retire after the 2016...
STANFORD, Aug 4 (AFP): World number one Serena Williams climbed out of an early hole to beat third- seeded German Angelique Kerber 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 on Sunday to win the WTA Stanford crown. The top-seeded American, playing her first tournament...
Two Indian sports officials arrested in Glasgow GLASGOW, Aug 4: Rajeev Mehta, secretary general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and Virender Malik, a senior wrestling referee, were arrested in two separate incidents of alleged assault on Saturday. Scotland police...
Sonia H Moni | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
The international price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has taken a downturn but its impact on the domestic market is unlikely to be felt anytime soon, business executives said. State-run Saudi Aramco has cut its August contract price for propane...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-08-05 00:00:00
Most of the microfinanciers operating in the country are not complying with the mandatory liquidity fund against deposits provision of the Mirco-credit Regulatory Authority (MRA), officials said. Under section 34 of the MRA Rules of 2010, (1) "Every micro-credit organisation...
The government has kept the door open for the World Bank (WB) to take part in the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project if it chooses to do so. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said the World Bank can get...
UK housebuilding grew at its fastest rate in nearly 11 years in July, a survey suggests. The Markit UK Construction PMI report said home building grew at its steepest rate since November 2003, driven by strong demand for new projects,...
A US major-general has been killed in an attack by a man in Afghan military uniform at a British-run military academy near Kabul, US officials say. Fifteen others have been injured. Half of them are thought to be Americans and...
BUCHAREST, Aug 4 (AFP): Romania's central bank cut its main interest rate by 0.25 points to a record low of 3.25 per cent on Monday against a backdrop of slowing inflation. The BNR said it had reviewed its annual inflation...
Honda July China sales fall BEIJING, Aug 4: Honda Motor Co Ltd posted a 23 per cent slump in July China vehicle sales, its biggest decline in 17 months, casting doubts over the company's full-year sales target in the world's...
MANILA, Aug 4 (Xinhua): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and two private firms on Monday rolled out a joint venture that will undertake commercially-oriented private equity investments in climate-related transactions across Asia. The Manila-based lender joined forces with ORIX Corporation...
TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters): The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is set to maintain its massive asset purchases and its optimistic view on the economic outlook this week, unfazed by a slew of weak data that has heightened expectations of a...
LISBON, Aug 4 (AFP): Portugal is launching a near 5.0-billion-euro EU-backed rescue for banking giant Banco Espirito Santo to avert a wider crisis across the financial system. Faced with the risk that the bank might crash and put the eurozone...
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