CHENNAI, Oct 18 (AP): Across most of India the three men on death row for the 1991 assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi are reviled as murderous traitors to the nation. But many Tamils, a major ethnic group in southern...
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct 18 (AP): Somali militants threatened to bring down Nairobi skyscrapers after Kenya sent hundreds of troops into Somalia. The threat emanated from the same lawless country in which the al-Qaida masterminds behind 1998 bombings of two U.S....
TOKYO, Oct 18 (AFP): Fukushima City began Tuesday its first decontamination of private properties, seven months after the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl spread radioactive materials over eastern Japan. The first such organised cleanup of peoples' homes by an affected...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 18 (BSS): West Indies' dream of clean sweep turned out to be a nightmare as they were sent crashing to their second-lowest ODI while Tigers strolled to an emphatic eight- wicket win in the 3rd ODI at Zahur...
ABU DHABI, Oct 18 (AFP): Pakistan dismissed Sri Lanka for 197 on the opening day of the first Test with left-arm paceman Junaid Khan taking a maiden five-wicket haul at Abu Dhabi stadium here Tuesday. Sent into bat, Sri Lanka...
BARCELONA, Spain, OCT 18 (AP): Barcelona is counting on Lionel Messi to maintain his excellent scoring form when it hosts Czech champion Viktoria Plzen in the Champions League Wednesday. Messi's pair of goals in a 3-0 victory over Racing Santander...
SEC directive on rights share subscriptions The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), in exercise of power conferred in Section 20A of the Securities and Exchange Ordinance, 1969, has issued the following directive for all the listed companies; namely: the company...
FE ReportRecently EXPOPRO, a private business support organisation involved in different types of business development including human resource development and communications activities signed a MoU with the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM) as their official strategic partner to promote and...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, October 17: PHP Group, a leading national industrial conglomerate, has been conferred the HR Honour Award 2010 for its role in the management of human resources. Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) has selected the Group for the prestigious...
Nazmul Ahsan The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have extended the deadline for putting into effect their respective loan agreements with the government to early 2012, on constructing the Padma Bridge. The extension of...
FE Report All necessary measures would be taken gradually with the support of the government to ensure a stable stock market, said Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Professor M Khairul Hossain Monday at a press briefing. He said the...
FE Report The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued Monday three separate Statutory Regulatory Orders (SROs), restoring tax benefits for investors in stock market. From now on, NBR will deduct 0.05 per cent tax at source from stock exchange members...
Munima Sultana The government has again requested Japan to rehabilitate the already threatened Meghna Bridge for ensuring traffic movement on the country's busiest Dhaka-Chittagong highway as it has severe fund constraints. Officials said a formal request was made to the...
The cabinet Monday gave the nod in principle to a proposal for amendment of the Local Government (City Corporation) Act 2009 to constitute two city corporations dividing the 92 wards of the existing Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) on 150 square...
PM visits Dahagram, Angarpota tomorrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Dahagram and Angarpota enclaves in Lalmonirhat district tomorrow (Wednesday). This will be her first visit to the enclaves after signing a deal with India for 24-hour access to Dahagram...
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has assured the new British High Commissioner of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's commitment of upholding people's right and not compromising with anything less than democracy and not travelling through a "convenient path", but only the 'right...
Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday said the voters in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls would get voting information through mobile phone SMS two days before the elections, reports UNB. Talking to reporters at the EC...
BNP has condemned closing its website by the government before its planned road march to Bogra and Chapainawabganj, reports UNB. BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in a statement Sunday, criticized the government, saying it closed BNP website...
Awami League (AL) Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta Monday urged BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to march towards parliament and election commission instead of staging road march. The AL leader said this at a discussion titled 'Khaleda-Amini's threat of ousting the...
SYLHET, Oct 17 (UNB): Two Chhatra Dal activists were injured in an attack allegedly by some cadres of Bangladesh Chhatra League at Jollarpar in the city Monday afternoon.The injured were identified as Azad Hossain (27), and Tilok Chowdhury (25). Witnesses...
Former Home Minister and Awami League leader Mohammad Nasim today said BNP Vice-Chairman and former diplomat Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury had played a vital role in rehabilitating the killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after August 15,...
RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Oct 17: Motihar police early on Monday arrested three Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) men from Katakhali area near Rajshahi University in connection with February 8, 2010 campus violence. The arrestees were Manzur Rahman, a third year...
The government has decided to suspend five officials of Jessore Education Board for irregularities in answer scripts of 2011 HSC examinations, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said on Monday, reports UNB. He said show cause notices will be served on...
Khairul Islam The students and teachers of Dhaka University (DU) have congratulated the recent directive of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to set up e-library (Electronic Library) at the university to facilitate distance learning in line with the modern world. The...
Mushir Ahmed Dhaka Zoo cut an eight-pound (3.6 kilogram) cake and threw a small party Monday to celebrate the 23rd birthday of Shanti, long-term zoo resident and the park's most famous lioness. Local lawmaker Ilias Uddin Molla cut the cake...
KHULNA, Oct 17 (UNB): Female students of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) on Monday laid a siege to its administrative building demanding punishment to stalkers.The agitating students put the gate of the administrative building under lock and key...
The 9th death anniversary of journalist Muzaffar Hossain Manik, former executive editor of The New Nation, was observed on Monday, said a press release. He was also the founder-convener of Bangladesh Crime Reporters' Association (CRAB), Editor and publisher of Weekly...
TANGAIL, Oct 17 (UNB): Two people were crushed under the wheels of a train in Shalla area in Kalihati Upazila early Monday. The deceased were identified as Nirob (35), of Kamalpur village of Gobindaganj Upazila of Gaibandha district and Ayub...
Police allegedly beat up a mugging victim as he tried to get down from a police van in front of Dhaka Medical College Hospital's emergency gate on Monday, reports UNB. Witnesses and hospital sources said Rezaul Karim, manager of Baishakhi...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 17 (UNB): A young man was killed and 10 others were injured when a human hauler collided with a bus at Kumurpur in Godagari Upazila on Monday. The deceased was identified as Sadequr (30), helper of the human...
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