BRIDGETOWN, May 9 (Reuters) : Sri Lanka's record-breaking spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is heading home for treatment on his groin injury and will miss the rest of the Twenty20 World Cup. Muralitharan was surprisingly included in the team which beat West...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said his ministry has included 1,022 non-government educational institutions in the monthly payment order (MPO) as per policy of the government maintaining all transparency. Inclusion of new educational institutions in MPO created employment opportunity...
State minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Quamrul Islam has said the politics of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of the Awami League, was earning a bad name for the government.He said that action would be taken...
CHITTAGONG, May 9 (bdnews24.com): The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) marched towards the Election Commission Office in Chittagong Sunday demanding cancellation of the results of the Bhola by-polls and resignation of three election commissioners.As part of the party's scheduled...
Police Saturday night arrested three students of Dhaka University (DU) from Surjo Sen Hall on suspicion of their being members of Hijbut Tahrir, reports UNB.The arrested were identified as Abdul Hai Raju, student of Finance, Mohsin Hossain, student of Accounting...
BNP Secretary General Khankader Delwar Hossain Sunday demanded that more institutions should be established after the name of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and other Bangali poets.He made the demand one day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had said that...
The Appellate Division bench of the Supreme Court (SC) Sunday continued its stay for a week the operation of the High Court (HC) order that had asked the government not to disturb, or bar graft-convict and ex-state minister for civil...
MANIKGANJ, May 9 (BSS): A rally of freedom fighters (FFs) Sunday called for preparing a genuine list of war criminals to help expedite the trail of the perpetrators of crime against humanity during the liberation war. The freedom fighters expressed...
FE ReportThere are 10 million Thalassaemia carriers, 0.35 million are known patients and hundreds of new Thalassaemia babies are born everyday, this was disclosed at a seminar in the city Sunday.Dhaka Shishu Hospital Thalassaemia Centre, Bangladesh Thalassaemia Samity, Bangladesh Thalassaemia...
SHERPUR, May 9 (UNB): Tornado tore through four villages of Gosaipur union of Sribordi Upazila early Sunday razing houses, uprooting trees, damaging standing boro crops and leaving at least a dozen people wounded.Sultan Mia, resident of Bharera village told that...
BENAPOLE, May 9 (UNB): Bangladesh Rifles rescued two teenage girls while being trafficked to India and arrested an alleged woman trafficker from Benapole transport stand Saturday.Acting on secret information that some human traffickers were taking the girls to India a...
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, May 09: Orientation programme of Northern University of Bangladesh (NUB) of Rajshahi campus for the new MBA students 2010 was held yesterday at 3.00 pm on Talaimari campus auditorium in city.
The government has decided to import 25,000 tonnes of sugar to meet the demand during the holy month of Ramadan. Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase at a meeting, presided over by Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Sunday approved a procurement proposal...
Some 400 journalists and employees of Channel 1 Sunday submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina urging to withdraw ban on operation of the private TV channel, reports UNB.A seven member delegation on behalf of Channel 1 family...
Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Z U Ahmed left the city Sunday to attend the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium scheduled to begin today (Monday) in United Arab Emirates' (UAE) capital Abu Dhabi, says a press release.Ahmed will call on...
Professor Mohammad Ali, former VC of Chittagong University (1985-1988) had been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Southern University Bangladesh, Chittagong.He graduated in English Literature from University of Dhaka and Oxford University, England. He started his teaching career in Rajshahi University in...
NARSINGDI, May 9 (UNB): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel after a shootout arrested one robber from Bhatpara Balur Maath area of Polash Upazila Sunday.The arrested was identified as Based Mia (35), of Belabo Upazila.
Farhad Bin Mannan, director of Phoenix Insurance Company Ltd and son of late Maj General Abdul Mannan Siddiqui died Friday at his residence at the age of 42, says a press release.He left behind his mother, two sons, wife, relatives...
Nazmul AhsanAn official committee formed by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has suggested some major changes in the draft policy on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative. The report prepared by the committee, according to sources, has brought about changes in the...
Mohammad MufazzalThe company owning Dhaka's posh Westin Hotel will go public by July and has finalised a move to sell a minority stake to Beximco Group, its owner said Sunday.Noor Ali told the FE that money raised from initial public...
FE ReportPetrol pump owners and tank lorry workers-owners Sunday suspended their scheduled indefinite strike for a month after the government agreed to implement their 13-point demands.The strike suspension comes after a meeting between the government and Bangladesh Petrol Pump Owners...
FE Report The Consumers' Price Index (CPI) inflation increased slightly further in March on the annual average basis but declined on point-to-point, officials said. The rate of annual average inflation went up by 0.31 percentage point in March this year...
FE ReportThe country must review the tax-free status of fast booming capital market, apparel industry and wages earned by migrants if it wants to scale up the government's dismal revenue earning, the Finance Minister said Sunday. Market capitalisation of the...
FE ReportThe stock prices in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) were in the negative territory on the first trading session of the week Sunday. The DSE general index (DGEN) shed over 37 points on the day with 147 stocks belong...
FE Report Thousands of river-route travellers endured more travel chaos Sunday thanks to lower-than-usual presence of vessels as a faction of water transport workers observed nationwide strike for the second day. On the day, travellers were forced to seek alternative...
Awami League's acting general secretary Mahbub-Ul-Alam Hanif Sunday said BNP chief Khaleda Zia had whitened Tk 13.31 million between 2002-03 and 2006-07 fiscal years and paid almost Tk 3.4 million as tax and fine, reports bdnews24.com. The opposition party leader...
The outgoing Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), Maj Gen Mainul Islam, Sunday said the BDR mutiny was fuelled by the spread of rumour by some over enthusiastic people, reports UNB."Some over enthusiastic people spread rumour to create chaos… it...
A Dhaka court has sent Awami League lawmaker Sheikh Helal Uddin and his wife Rupa Chowdhury to jail. Their bail petition in a corruption case was rejected Sunday. However, the couple is currently in Shikdar Medical College Hospital, seeking medical...
The Sultan of Oman says that his country will take back deported Bangladeshi workers who can prove to have stayed within the country's immigration laws. This was disclosed when newly appointed Bangladeshi Ambassador to Oman Nurul Alam Chowdhury called on...
HABIGANJ, May 9: Six persons in a car were killed when it collided with a truck in Madhavpur upazila on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at 5 pm today. The victims including three women were going to Sylhet from Dhaka, They all died...
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