Our Correspondent | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, July 12: President of Chittagong city Awami League and former city mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury accorded farewell to the retired judge SM Mojibur Rahman today. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, accompanied by former Chittagong Metropolitan public prosecutor (PP) Kamal Uddin Ahmed, visited...
A gang of armed hoodlums Saturday shot at a fish trader and looted Tk 25,000 and other valuables after injuring him in the East Rajabazar area in the city, police and hospital sources said, reports BSS. The victim was identified...
Samira Rahman Ali, director of Spotlight Event Management Ltd (Bitopi Group), has recently been appointed honorary consul of Iceland in Bangladesh, said a press release. She obtained her BSc degree in Economics and MSc in Development Studies and later involved...
Israeli forces urged to stop genocide in Gaza Israeli forces have been urged to stop genocide in Gaza in the Holy month of Ramadan. The high officials of International Human Rights Commission (IHRC) made the appeal when Israeli military killing...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Chittagong, Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet, Barisal and Khulna divisions until 6:00 pm today (Sunday), reports UNB. Moderately heavy falls...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to approve US$505 million loan for Bangladesh's railway sector. The bank will negotiate with the government next week on the credit, officials said Saturday. The Manila-based bank has already assured the Bangladesh Railway...
All those political parties, including BNP, which boycotted the January-5 national election may lose their registrations with the Election Commission (EC) as per the Representation of the People Order 1972 (RPO) if they do not join the 11th parliamentary elections,...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
The market monitoring drive against the unscrupulous traders in the capital by the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) is yet to yield any satisfactory result, consumers have alleged. Only 19 teams of the DNCRP are monitoring markets across...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, July 12: A gold ornaments trader committed suicide in the city Friday night. He had been living with his family at Barua Bhaban of Anderkilla under Kotwali police station for a long time. Kotwali police said Samir Das (48)...
Monira Munni | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
The apparel makers' body BGMEA may finalise the list of 160 readymade garment (RMG) workers, who still remained missing after the Rana Plaza tragedy at Savar in Dhaka in April last year. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA)...
CAIRO, July 12 (agencies): Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Saturday that escalating the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza would cost more "innocent lives," as the death toll climbed to 127 Palestinians. Sisi's spokesman said the government was...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
Muggers have started becoming active ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr despite tight security arrangements made to avert incidents like snatching and robbery in the month of Ramadan. Sources with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said the muggers had changed their strategy...
Arafat Ara | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
People of middle and lower middle-income groups on Saturday continued to crowd different shopping centres of the city like Gawsia and Chandi Chalk to purchase their desired Eid wears, shoes, ornaments etc at affordable prices. Traders said mostly middle-income people...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
Afghanistan - the war-ravaged country for last several years - is now on the threshold of a new crisis over the outcome of its presidential election. So much so has been the intensity of the looming crisis that the United...
Munima Sultana | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
A substantial volume of public money spent every year on the construction of a number of bridges goes down the drain as the latter are found to be not compatible with the existing roads and also with the designs. Now...
Faruque Ahmed | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
Maritime experts have suggested the government create appropriate organisations and take up necessary plan of actions to protect, conserve and commercially exploit its sea resources. The size of the country's territorial waters is now almost equal to that of its...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-07-13 00:00:00
The government of China has sought to invest nearly US$ 1.0 billion in modernisation and repair of 24 mills under the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) under a government-to-government (G2G) arrangement. The state-run China Northeast Electric Power Engineering Company (NEPC)...
JHENIDAH, July 12: Two activists of an outlawed party were killed in two incidents of 'shootout' between their cohorts and police in Kotchandpur and Harinakunda uapzilas of Jhenidah district early Saturday. One of the deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid,...
At least 10 people, including two policemen, were injured in a clash between the workers of a garment factory and police at Kachukhet in the city Saturday. Police said about 2000 workers of two garment factories took to the street...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina visited Saturday ailing journalist and former lawmaker Baby Maudud at the United Hospital in the capital. The PM stayed there for some time and enquired about her health condition. She also wished her early recovery. ...
Brazil’s miserable World Cup campaign ended to a chorus of boos on Saturday as the hosts slumped to a 3-0 defeat against the Netherlands in the 3rd place playoff match. A penalty from Robin van Persie and a Daley Blind...
US oil and gas services giant Halliburton has announced its first joint venture for hydraulic fracturing services in China, teaming up with private Chinese firm SPT Energy Group. Halliburton on Saturday said it had signed an agreement with the SPT...
Bangladesh-origin UK citizens will be in trouble as the United Kingdom Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge to Home Office rules for UK citizens who want their overseas spouses to live with them in Britain. The verdict has...
The Power Ministry is likely to revise its rooftop solar power provision to ease the process for obtaining new power connections. The existing provision, introduced in 2010, makes it mandatory that if a residential consumer wants to have an electricity...
A young man was killed in a road accident at DOHS under Cantonment Police Station in the city on Sunday. Two other people were also injured in the motorbike accident. The dead is Shamim, 19, son of Abdus Sobahan, hailed...
Miscreants slaughtered a couple in a house in Akua area in Mymensingh town on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Abdul Haq, a retired government officer and his wife Raihatunnessa. Kotwali Model Police Station officer-in-charge Abu Md Fazlul Karim...
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