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Premier Bank holds training course

2010-04-24 00:00:00

The 20th foundation training course for the newly-recruited management trainee officers of Premier Bank Limited was held at the training institute of the bank in the city recently, said a press release.Premier Bank Managing Director Niaz Habib was present as...

UCBL to receive Qubee subscribers' bills

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Qubee subscribers now will be able to pay their monthly bills through the United Commercial Bank's counters, as an agreement to this effect has been signed recently.On behalf of Qubee, the agreement was signed by Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...

Commercial Bank of Ceylon

2010-04-24 00:00:00

The local call money market saw some downward trend in the past week. The inter-bank call money rate drifted around the range of 3.50 per cent and 4.50 per cent.Bangladesh Bank (BB) had accepted 91-day T/bill of Tk 1.50 billion...

Scorching heat worsens chicken pox outbreak

2010-04-24 00:00:00

The recent outbreak of chicken pox has taken on an epidemic form due to scorching heat sweeping across the country.According to the city's hospital sources, the number of people infected with pox is mounting by the day and the doctors...

Children also 'vulnerable to heart diseases'

2010-04-24 00:00:00

FE ReportThe way the number of cardiac patients is increasing in the world, including Bangladesh, the World Health Organisation apprehends that heart diseases will be epidemic in the next 10-15 years and calls for immediate measures to control them.Heart specialists...

Draft Environment Law to be placed before next JS session

2010-04-24 00:00:00

FE ReportThe draft Environment Law will be placed before the parliament's (JS) next session for passing it considering the present realities, state minister for environment and forest Dr Hasan Mahmud said Thursday."The Cabinet okayed the draft law, and it is...

East West University holds convocation tomorrow

2010-04-24 00:00:00

East West University will hold its 9th convocation at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre tomorrow (Sunday). The ceremony will begin at 10 am, says a press release.President and Chancellor of the university Md Zillur Rahman is expected to preside over...

Lions Club's district convention begins

2010-04-24 00:00:00

The 15th annual District convention of Lions Club International, Zila-315A2 of Bangladesh began at a city hotel Friday, reports BSS. Prime Minister's Adviser Syed Modasser Ali inaugurated the two-day convention.Former international directors of the organisation Sheikh Kabir Hossain and Moslem...

JAICAF keen to facilitate IT-based agriculture services in B'desh

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Japan Association for International Collaboration of Agriculture and Forestry (JAICAF) has expressed its interest to help Bangladesh in disseminating technology-based agricultural information services to farmers in the country, reports UNB. They showed the interest when a two-member JAICAF delegation, led...

Two killed in Gazipur road accident

2010-04-24 00:00:00

GAZIPUR, Apr 23 (UNB): Two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Sonakor under Sripur Upazila Friday morning.The deceased were identified as Masud Miah (25) and Faruk (35) of Kapasia Upazila.Police said the accident occurred...

Tigers upbeat about beating Pakistan to move to 2nd round

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Upbeat about beating defending champions and group opponent Pakistan in the ICC World Twenty20, a-15 member Bangladesh squad leaves here for West Indies Saturday night, reports UNB. The 3rd version of the ICC World Twenty20 will begin on April 30.Prior...

SA Academy take lead over GP-BCB Academy team

2010-04-24 00:00:00

CHITTAGONG, Apr 23 (UNB): Despite Ronny Talukder's polished ton, touring South Africa National Cricket Academy team took 120 runs first innings lead over GP-BCB National Cricket Academy on the 2nd day of the first four-day match at the Zahur Ahmed...

IPL teams should be able to retain 8 players: Tendulkar

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Sachin Tendulkar, the Mumbai Indians captain, has said the IPL franchises should be allowed to hold on to a certain number of players from their existing squads as the league prepares for a reshuffle at the end of the 2010...

Fulham earn draw

2010-04-24 00:00:00

HAMBURG, Apr 23 (AFP): Fulham will take a slight advantage into next week's Europa League semi-final, second-leg at home to Hamburg having earned a 0-0 draw in the Hanseatic City in Thursday's first leg.Hamburg will host the final on May...

AB Bank becomes team sponsor of national cricket team

2010-04-24 00:00:00

AB Bank has become the team sponsor of the national cricket team for the ICC World Twenty20 that will begin on April 30 in West Indies, reports UNB.An agreement to this effect was signed between Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and...

Dhaka Abahani crush Ctg Abahani

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Holders Abahani Limited maintained their all-win record beating Chittagong Abahani by 6-2 goals in the only match of the City Bangladesh League crushing Chittagong Abahani at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city Friday, reports UNB.With this win, Abahani...

Bangladesh A scores 346 runs against SA A

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Bangladesh A team scored 346 runs for all in 88.3 overs in the first innings against touring South Africa A team on the first day of the first four-day match at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium at Mirpur in the...

Govt set to announce ‘farcical result’

2010-04-24 00:00:00

BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain has said the government set the stage to announce a farcical result of Bhola-3 parliamentary by-election knowing its certain defeat in the polls."The government is poised to forcibly prove its popularity through declaring prearranged...

Tribunal to prosecute the accused even in absentia

2010-04-24 00:00:00

The war crimes investigation agency chief Abdul Matin said Thursday that the special tribunal would prosecute people charged with war crimes even if they were not in the country, reports bdnews24.com."If the accused try to flee, let them do so....

BNP wants to create ‘anarchy for foiling by-polls’

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Awami League alleged that the BNP wanted to create anarchy for foiling the Bhola-3 by-election so that they could get an issue against the government.AL Joint Secretary Mahabub-Ul-Alam Hanif made the allegation when he was briefing journalists at the AL...

Senior BNP leaders denied entry into Lalmohan Upazila

2010-04-24 00:00:00

BHOLA, Apr 23 (UNB): RAB and police barred around 20 central leaders of BNP and its front organisations from entering into Lalmohan Upazila in Bhola Friday.The leaders are Maudud Ahmed, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Mujibur Rahman Sarwar MP, Harunur Rashid Chowdhury...

India committed to completing fencing project along Bangladesh border

2010-04-24 00:00:00

NEW DELHI, April 23 (BSS): Indian State Minister for Home Affairs Mullappally Ramachandran informed the Rajya Sabha Thursday that Indian government was committed to completing the fencing project along Bangladesh border."The scheduled date for completion of the sanctioned projects is...

Police recover injured AL activist from Hafiz's house

2010-04-24 00:00:00

BHOLA, April 23 (BSS): Lalmohan Thana Police recovered an injured Awami League (AL) activist, Abul Kashem Sabbir, Thursday night from the house of Major (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, BNP candidate in Bhola-3 by election.Police said Sabbir was wounded while BNP...

JMB activist arrested in Naogaon

2010-04-24 00:00:00

NAOGAON, Apr 23 (UNB): Police arrested an activist of the banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at Bamnitola in Atrai Upazila early Friday. The arrested was identified as Babu, a close associate of JMB second-in-command Bangla Bhai and...

Ammunition found in Rangamati

2010-04-24 00:00:00

RANGAMATI, April 23 (BSS): A group of day labourers found two iron boxes on the upper region of a hill containing ammunition at Ghagra under Kawkhali Upazila of the district Thursday evening.Police and locals said day labourers found 10 live...

Notorious extremist held in Rajshahi

2010-04-24 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Apr 23 (BSS): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rounded up an accused of Taherpur police killing case Goldar Hossain alias Hitler (25) from Durgapur municipality area in the district Thursday night. Police said Hitler, son of late Ajaher...

Vested quarters out to foil Biman's facelift bid

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Mashiur RahamanThe state-run Biman's over-booked Dhaka-London flights take-off with a large number of empty seats, as its marketing and sales department failed to check corruption emerging out of rising passenger demand, Biman official said.Official data of the state airlines from...

Fire spectre looms, but RMG units unfazed

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Jubair Hasan Over 98 per cent of the local garment manufacturing factories do not follow the fire safety measures keeping the country's biggest foreign currency earning sector vulnerable to recurring accidents that could cost millions of dollars, officials said.The grim...

Dhakaites devour fast foods worth Tk 8.0m a day

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Mehdi Musharraf BhuiyanAfter years of market saturation in the Dhaka's major uptown areas, brand fast food restaurants are now eyeing the mostly untapped part of the capital and the major suburbs to open outlets aiming to double their market size...

Digital database of Dhaka city land survey finalized

2010-04-24 00:00:00

Fazlur RahmanThe government has prepared a digital database of land surveys of Dhaka city for publishing on the internet as part of its move to modernise the old record system.The Directorate of Land Records and Surveys under the Ministry of...