There was noted much enthusiasm for a project when it was officially inaugurated about three years ago. The first phase of it was reportedly completed at a cost of Taka 360 million and work was carried out on 29.50 km...
KATHMANDU, Aug 28 (AFP): South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains.Experts say the...
BANGKOK, Aug 28 (AFP): Fighting between Myanmar's junta and ethnic groups Friday raised fears of full-scale civil war and forced more refugees from the northeast across the Chinese border, media and analysts said.A battle in Shan state between the Kogang...
BARILOCHE, Argentina, Aug 28 (AP): It might have seemed like nothing more than a contract renewal to US negotiators - a 10-year lease on space at seven Colombian bases that would improve the fight against drug traffickers and leftist rebels.After...
SEOUL, Aug 28 (Reuters): The rival Koreas reached a deal Friday to resume from September reunions of families torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War, as the isolated North reaches out to its foes after being hit by UN sanctions.In...
KABUL, Aug 28 (AP): The US military's decision to use a helicopter gunship to fire on a medical clinic where an injured Taliban commander had bunkered was a violation of Islamic and international law, a parliamentarian representing the region said...
Pak court orders govt to lift curbs on N-scientistISLAMABAD, Aug 28: A Pakistani court ordered Friday the government to lift any remaining restrictions on a scientist alleged to have spread nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya, his lawyer...
Sri Lanka, polished by an unbroken 68-run stand between Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, bolstered their grip on the second Test with a lead of 339 and eight wickets in hand - and two days to go. A torrential downpour...
Three players -- GM Dibyendu Barua of India, GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil and GM Gagunashvili Merab of Georgia -- shared lead in the Insurance & United Leasing Grandmasters Chess Tournament with 6.5 points after the 9th round matches at the NSC...
LAHORE, Pakistan, Aug 28 (AFP): Pakistan Friday said that it hoped to get 18 million dollars in compensation for losing its share of World Cup 2011 matches over security fears.The International Cricket Council (ICC) Thursday announced the World Cup matches...
CHENNAI, India Aug 28 (Reuters): A cricket-crazy Indian fan has sold his business to fund a dream of meeting Mahendra Singh Dhoni, domestic media reported Friday. Ravindra Kumar Saini from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh sold his audio...
David Hussey provided the heat on a cold and windy day in Scotland as his first ODI hundred drove Australia to an intimidating 345 in Edinburgh. Hussey launched five sixes in a brutal 111 and was supported by half-centuries to...
NEW HAVEN, Aug 27 (AFP): Russian top seeds Nikolay Davydenko and Svetlana Kuznetsova tumbled out of the quarter-finals of the last US Open tuneup.France's Amelie Mauresmo, seeded eighth, won a 20-point first-set tiebreaker en route to a 7-6 (11/9), 2-6,...
MADRID, Aug 28 (AFP): Barcelona may have signed Swedish superstar Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the summer but neighbours Espanyol pulled off a transfer coup of their own with the capture of Japanese star Shunsuke Nakamura from Celtic on a free transfer.It...
Saiful KaiserThe third day of the second Test between hosts Sri Lanka and New Zealand saw the hosts in a strong position with still two more days to go. Will this be another drubbing by the hosts? That remains to...
Minister for Law Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Shafique Ahmed has denied any international pressure on the government not to hold trial for crimes committed during the 1971 War of Independence from Pakistan, days after another minister had spoken of...
NOAKHALI, Aug 28 (BSS): The government will take all measures to stop repression of women and children in the country.State Minister for Children and Women Affairs Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury Friday said this at a views exchange with government officials...
The government is considering extension of duty-waiver facility to Khulna, Rajshahi and Barisal metropolitan cities, like Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, for the import of taxicabs under a plan for expanding this civic transport service in a wider range, reports UNB.Aiming...
BENAPOLE (Jessore), Aug 28 (UNB): Thugs ransacked the house of a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and looted valuables worth Tk 0.5 million (5.0 lakh) injuring four inmates at Laxmanpur village in bordering Sharsha Upazila Wednesday night. Quoting villagers, the...
Speakers paid rich tributes to August 15 victim Abdur Rob Serniabat who left invaluable contributions for protecting the rights of country's peasantry, especially the landless people in abject poverty. The speakers said this at a discussion jointly organised by Jatiya...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 28 (UNB): Assistant secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chittagong University unit was arrested early Friday on charge of snatching.The police said BCL leader AK Sohel Rana was arrested from Gate No. 1 of the university along with...
FE ReportThe Indian High Commission in Dhaka has organised a photo exhibition titled 'Liberation War of Bangladesh' in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The exhibition will continue until September 27, 2009 at the High Commission's Cultural Centre at Road no...
KURIGRAM, Aug 28 (BSS): Erosion of the Dharla, Teesta, Brahmaputra and Dudhkumar rivers are going on unabatedly which has already devoured several hundred acres of cultivable land and four educational institutions in the district.Some of the establishments of the Water...
Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh Arturo Perez Martinez called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique Wednesday at the latter's office, says a press release.The ambassador was accompanied by his wife Kayoko Takagi de Perez, Deputy Head of Mission Eduardo...
Twenty-nine Bangladeshis have been waiting to hear from the Bangladesh embassy for the last four months about their repatriation after landing in an immigration detention centre in Bangkok bdnews24.com. Coastguards of Myanmar and Thailand detained them in the sea as...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 28 (BSS): The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a Tk 1.09 billion uplift project titled 'Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection (phase-2)'.The main objective is to attain economic prosperity besides alleviating poverty in the metropolis. Officials told...
FE ReportA security guard of a garment factory was shot and critically wounded by alleged extortionists at Kafrul in the city early Friday, police said.An officer of Kafrul police station told the FE some miscreants arrived at the main gate...
A prayer has been offered Friday in the city on the occasion of the death anniversaries of Alhaj Kafiluddin, a yarn businessman and philanthropist of Chwakmugaltuli and his wife, Yamonnesa.An Iftar was also arranged to mark the occasion at Concord...
Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Syndications & Structured Finance of Prime Bank Limited Md Touhidul Alam Khan obtained postgraduate diploma (PGD) in Islamic Banking and Insurance, says a press release.He was also awarded Associate Fellow Membership from Institute...
Khwaja Mozammel Hoque Foundation (KMRF) has distributed one-off working capital to poor and destitute families with a view to helping them create self-employment opportunities. Foundation Chairman Khwaja Tipu Sultan gave away fund to 168 people at a ceremony in the...
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