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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
NEW DELHI, Apr 23 (bdnews24.com): The smaller nations of the eight-member SAARC may push for expanding the bloc's visa exemption scheme during the Thimphu summit on Apr 28-29. Despite the strained relations between India and Pakistan that might cast clouds...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves the city for Bhutan on April 27 (Tuesday) to attend the 16th SAARC summit in Thimpu, reports UNB.The two-day summit with 'Climate Change' as its theme will begin on April 28. This is for the...
BHOLA, Apr 23 (BSS): By-polls of Bhola-3 constituency will be held today (Saturday). Voters of the constituency comprising Lalmohan and Tazmuddin upazials are waiting to give their mandates through ballots. The Election Commission (EC) has completed all preparations for holding...
Speakers at a roundtable held in Dhaka Friday said the nagging severe power crisis cannot be eased through the profit-oriented private sector, reports UNB.There is no alternative to long-term government project to produce power, gas and coal with a view...
Labour leaders have demanded a minimum monthly wage of Tk 5000 for labourers and workers. The Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad (SKOP), a national platform of labourers and workers, made the demand at a roundtable discussion on minimum wage and poverty...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 23 : Drivers are directly and indirectly responsible for 70 per cent of road accidents that claim over 6,000 lives and injure 3,0000 people annually. Participating in a workshop on road accident, the speakers said the mishaps also...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanMobile phone subscribers are going to enjoy lower SMS rates as the telecommunication regulator has decided to reduce the tariff rate of short messaging service."The current SMS rate is Tk 1 to Tk 2 depending on the operators...
NEW DELHI, April 22 (AFP): The head of the UN's climate change panel defended his organisation Thursday against a new claim that its landmark 2007 report on global warming might have overblown the danger posed to Bangladesh.The Intergovernmental Panel on...
BANGKOK, April 23 (AFP): Thailand's army and anti-government protesters made tentative peace overtures Friday, seeking to avoid a looming crackdown and a repeat of clashes that left 25 people dead earlier this month.The army chief said that the use of...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, April 23: US is considering deploying a non-nuclear option that could be as lethal as a nuclear arsenal, President Obama made a high profile foray into nation's commercial capital yesterday chastising banks for their reckless behaviour...
FE ReportDhaka stocks returned to bullish trend in the week that ended Thursday after the three weeks of bear-run.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) gained 125.62 points or 2.29 per cent to close at 5615.29, riding mainly on financials.The broader...
Police Friday arrested 76 BNP activists including two ward councilors - Hasan and Masud Khan - after sporadic clashes between supporters of BNP and Awami League in city's Mirpur and Pallabi, reports UNB.At least 27 activists were injured during the...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 23: Singapore-based Chittagong Feeder Trade Committee has finally agreed to pay Tk 200 for handling of each 20-feet container ending a long-standing bargain over on-board handling charges at the Chittagong Container Terminal (CCT). In a two-day tripartite meeting...
BANGLADESH, over the last thirty-nine years of its existence, has been able to develop only a few export-oriented industries of any significance, the readymade garments (RMG) industries being the main one of them. This alone shows up the imperative of...
Enayet Rasul BhuiyanThe on-going uproar in the judicial realm of the country has put into sharp focus the issues that had been known for a long time but were strangely overlooked although the same demanded attention and reforms in the...
Shamsher ChowdhurySome members of the 'blessed students' organisation under the present political power matrix raped a girl in a remote village some time back. They sold a video of the entire bizarre act and then the matter was hushed up...
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