Bangladesh 232 in 1st innsings and 133 for 4 wickets in 30.0 overs in 2nd innings against Sri Lanka's 730 for 6 dec (Jayawardene 203*, Mathews 86, Vithanage 103*) Bangladesh scored 133 runs for the loss of four wickets in...
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The prices of most of the stocks on both bourses --- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)-- witnessed upward trend in early hours of trading Thursday, maintaining the previous session’s uptrend. After first 30 minutes of trading,...
A brick kiln worker was gunned down and another bullet-hit by miscreants at Kumari village under Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga district on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sujon, 35, son of late Malek Mridha of Sahapur village of Ishwardi...
Police on Thursday produced before court 11 of the accused in 2004 Chittagong arms haul case including former ministers Matiur Rahman Nizami and Lutfozzaman Babar for the verdict. The verdict in the sensational 10-truck arms haul cases will be delivered...
Lunch: Bangladesh 232 and 150 for 6 (Nasir 11*, Perera 3-47) trail Sri Lanka 730 for 6 dec (Jayawardene 203*, Mathews 86, Vithanage 103*) by 348 runs There was no stoic resistance from Bangladesh on the fourth morning as they...
Police recovered the body of a local leader of Awami League (AL) from his residence at Katashore under Mohammadpur Police Station in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Alauddin Alal, 38, a leader of the ruling party’s...
The High Court has declared illegal and unconstitutional the provision that clipped the wings of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) regarding filing of graft cases against government employees, particularly govt officials. Sources at the High Court said the higher court passed the...
Former ministers Matiur Rahman Nizami and Lutfuzzaman Babar were among 14 people getting death penalty in Chittagong 10-truck arms haul cases filed about a decade ago. Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge and Special Tribunal-1 judge SM Mojibur Rahman delivered the verdict...
Unidentified miscreants slaughtered an employee of Palli Bidyut Samity office in Benapole union of Sharsha upazila of Jessore on Wednesday night. The dead is Masud Hossain, 45, the driver of Jhikargacha Palli Bidyut Samity office. Police recovered his throat-slit body...
US Senior Adviser on Myanmar Judith Beth Cefkin will arrive in Bangladesh on February 2 on a two-day visit to consult with international partners, including senior government officials and civil society groups, on reforms and other developments in Burma. She...
Sri Lanka recorded their second biggest ever Test win by an innings, wrapping up the first Test an hour after lunch on the fourth day with Bangladesh still 248 runs short of making the visitors bat again. An innings deficit...
Fifty-two people were accused in the 2004 Chittagong 10-truck arms haul case. Fifty people were charged in one of the cases filed under the Arms Act – and 52 people in the second case, filed under the Special Powers Act...
Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel in a drive arrested 14 alleged pirates along with hand bombs and sharp weapons from Gagramari and Pashwemari areas in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district on Thursday. The identity of the arrestees could not be known...
Thailand's army says it will increase the number of troops in the capital on standby to 10,000 ahead of Sunday's election that anti-government protesters say they will disrupt as part of their campaign to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the High Court (HC) order that had asked the police to refrain from harassing or arresting BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir until the submission of inquiry reports...
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Stocks ended flat amid volatile trading Thursday with turnover crossing Tk 8.0 billion-mark once again as investors went for buying spree amid optimism.The market opened with a positive note and the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) rose...
Bombings near a market and a restaurant in Baghdad killed six people on Thursday as the death toll for January topped 900, with no end in sight to Iraq's worst violence since 2008, according to AFP in Baghdad. The protracted...
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A dialogue entitled “Relative Role of International Law and Domestic Law in International Commercial Arbitration” was held recently at a local hotel organized by Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC). The keynote speaker at the Dialogue was the former Solicitor General...
A mob armed with shotguns attacked a remote village in northeast India, killing at least 10 people in a long-simmering land dispute, police said Thursday. The attackers fired indiscriminately Wednesday evening in Chauldhua village in northern Assam state, said resident...
France’s former first lady says she and the president had grown detached recently but she was caught totally by surprise by his affair with an actress. Valerie Trierweiler gave interviews to two French publications coming out this week describing for...
Ukraine’s embattled president Viktor Yanukovych is taking sick leave as the country’s political crisis continues without signs of resolution. A statement on the presidential website Thursday said Yanukovych is on sick leave due to an acute respiratory illness and high...
The protest leader, a monk in flowing orange robes, sat sternly at the head of a long hardwood table, his newfound authority in this patch of Bangkok plain for all to see. Before him, three high-level Thai officials were begging...
Chairman of the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad on Thursday said the so-called civil society members actually speak to gain their own interest, rather than for people. “They (civil society) actually speak for their own interest, not for...
A leader of Jessore unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, was reportedly abducted from Topkhana Road area of the capital on Wednesday. The victim was identified as Foysal Khan, vice-president of the JCD district unit. Foysal’s...
The country’s foreign exchange reserve is still maintaining an over 18-billion mark remaining at $18,160.61 million as of January 28 this year. The foreign currency reserve also witnessed a rise of $5,117.94 million from the $13,042.67 million registered on January...
A court here on Thursday sentenced eight people to life term imprisonment and eight others to seven years imprisonment for killing two brothers in Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur district in 2000. The court fined the eight lifers — Nurul Islam,...
Voicing deep concern over the recent spate of reported extrajudicial killings, President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Thursday urged the government to take prompt action against it. In a statement, the former president said, “The media...
The inquiry officials of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will visit the Election Commission (EC) on Sunday to collect the affidavits of six politicians, including former ministers and MPs, for carrying out probes into their alleged graft. “We’re still waiting...
The High Court on Thursday declared unconstitutional the latest amendment to the Anti Corruption Commission Act curtailing its power. Passing the judgment upon a wit petition, an HC division bench comprising Justice Kazi Reza-Ul Haque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain,...
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