LONDON, Apr 15 (AFP): Irish midfielder Stephen Ireland has signed a new three-year contract with Stoke City, the Premier League club announced Tuesday. The 27-year-old joined Stoke on loan from Aston Villa last year and after making the deal permanent...
The Young Tigers Under-18 National Competition will begin tomorrow (Thursday) in four venues across the country, reports BSS. The venues are Faridpur, Barisal, Rangpur and Dinajpur. Ten Divisional/equivalent teams will participate in the tournament and all matches are three-dayers.
The seven-day Walton friendship cycle rally formally ended in Chittagong on Tuesday through donating blood by 15 Indian cyclists, reports UNB. The blood donation programme was arranged by the Red Crescent Society and Blood Donors Association. However, the 10 Bangladesh...
Coverage advisory for IPL NEW DELHI, Apr 15: Agence France-Presse regrets it is unable to provide coverage of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, starting Wednesday, after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) failed to lift restrictions...
Mentioning that protecting the country and ensuring the welfare of its people is the main motto of her party, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has said they will restore democracy in the country at any cost, reports UNB. "We've liberated the...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Tuesday submitted a charge sheet to a court accusing 12 people in the Jubo League (JL) leader Riazul Haque Khan Milky killing case, reports UNB. Assistant superintendent of police M Qazemur Rashid of RAB-1, also...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Tuesday said a natural historical museum and another most modern museum will be built in the country, reports BSS. The PM said this when a four-member delegation of Bangladesh National Museum led by Cultural Affairs...
Pahartali Textile & Hosiery Mills, a spinning unit of MM Ispahani Limited, successfully started commercial production at its new blend yarn unit located at Ispahani Complex of Pahartali in Chittagong recently, says a press release. Chairman of the company Ali...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Apr 15: Security employees of Karnaphuli Fertiliser Co have demanded wages and benefits like permanent employees of the company and confirmation of their services. They submitted a memorandum to the authorities concerned through Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Chittagong Mesbah...
DU Correspondent | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
A day-long ICT seminar styled 'Fast Track Future Leader' was held at the Dhaka University (DU) Tuesday. Leveraging ICT for growth, employment and governance project of the Ministry of ICT and Dhaka University (DU) IT Society in association with World...
GAZIPUR, Apr 15 (UNB): At least four people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a human-hauler on Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakair Upazila Tuesday morning. Three of the deceased were...
Our Correspondent | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Apr 15: SM Nurul Hoque, director of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry and vice president of Bangladesh-Myanmar Chamber of Commerce and Industry has been elected chairman of the Rima Trust executive committee. Other elected office-bearers of the Rima...
FE Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
'Neglect and wrong treatment' were responsible for the death of Sirajul Islam, a former president of National Press Club Employees' Union, relatives and family members alleged at a press conference Tuesday. The press conference was organised at the National Press...
Vasavi Boishakhi fashion show held Vasavi Fashions, a popular fashion house, inaugurated the Boishakhi Live Fashion Show in Bangladesh for providing exclusive men's and women's dresses. The fashion show presented varieties of gorgeous attires for both men and women. The...
Bikrampur Bandhan, a social organisation, celebrated the Bengali New Year-1421 Monday evening at Banasree in the city, said a press release. Noted social scientist, writer, former minister and founder Chairman of Centre for Development Research, Bangladesh (CDRB) Dr. Mizanur Rahman...
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 15 (UNB): A young man was stabbed to death allegedly by his brother-in-law at Nabiganj Kushiara in Bandar upazila Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rakib Hossain (20), a boatman and son of Jakir Hossain of the area....
Weather is likely to remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country today (Wednesday). Mild to moderate heat wave is sweeping over the country except the regions of Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chittagong, Cox's Bazar , Kutubdia, Teknaf, Srimangal...
FE Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
The government has sent the progress report on implementation of 'Bangladesh Action Plan 2013' in the country's ready-made garment (RMG) sector to the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) in a bid to get back the suspended trade...
Medical services at Birdem Hospital in the capital remained suspended as the doctors went on work abstention Tuesday morning protesting assault on some physicians by the relatives of a patient who died on Sunday night, reports UNB. Doctors came out...
FE Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
The Alliance for Bangladesh Workers Safety has assured the government of paying two months' wages to the workers of any readymade garment factory, production of which will be suspended following inspection. "The visiting Alliance Board has informed us that if...
FE Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) issued Tuesday a contempt of court rule against 14 former and incumbent government officials for their failure to comply with its earlier order on relocating tanneries from the city's Hazaribagh area. The HC bench comprising Justice...
FE Report | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
The government's highest economic policy-making body ECNEC revised the upazila office complex expansion project Tuesday along with two other development projects at a total cost of Tk 14.19 billion. Presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of...
BAGERHAT, Apr 15 (UNB): Some 40 prisoners of Bagerhat district jail fell sick on Tuesday morning due to food poisoning after they were provided with improved diets on Monday on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
The refusal of ConocoPhillips to sign production-sharing contract (PSC) for shallow water block SS-07 in the Bay of Bengal will not affect the US-based company's exploration activities in other blocks, a company insider said. "The decision on block SS-07 does...
Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, was celebrated amid Monday much fanfare, festivity and gaiety across the country under tight security cover, reports UNB. True to the centuries-old tradition, people from all walks of life gathered at different...
Zahid Hussain and Johannes Zutt | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
Since January 2013, political parties enforced 85 days of nation-wide general strikes (hartals) and blockades, of which 45 days were in July-January, FY14. Unlike in the past, these political agitations were not limited to Dhaka and a few major cities. ...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
One day, it had suddenly dawned on Ratan Krishna Majumder, a fish trader, operating reportedly at Mathbaria of Pirojpur district (some newspapers, however, mentioned Khulna city as his place of business operation), that the job of an orthopaedic surgeon would...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-04-16 00:00:00
A record quantity of 225 kilogrammes (kgs) of gold, smuggled into the country in the form of bars, were seized in the first three months of the current calendar year. The quantity is equivalent to near about 50 per cent...
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