COX'S BAZAR, Oct 9 (UNB): Burglars stole a century old brass-made statue of Buddha from a temple of an indigenous group at Gorokghata in Maheshkhali Upazila early Monday.Local people said a gang of burglars took away the precious statue weighing...
Dhaka University conferred Ph.D degree on Md Tawhidur Rahman at a syndicate meeting recently. His thesis entitled "Allama Abul Hashim's Philosophy of Life and His Contribution to Islamic Hhought" was supervised by senior professor ABM Habibur Rahman Chowdhury, Depart-ment of...
Deputy Managing Director of Oman Bangladesh Leasing and Finance Limited Asadul Hoque passed away due to massive heart attack Saturday at the United Hospital in the city at the age of 57. He left behind his wife, one son, one...
Bangladesh won two more gold medals in the Special Olympics World Summer Games (SOWSG) 2007 Tuesday now being held in Shanghai, reports UNB.The athletes earned two gold medals, one in 100-metre sprint and the other in shot put, according to...
LAHORE, Oct 6 (BBC): South Africa finished day two of the final Test against Pakistan on top after reducing the hosts to 140-4. The tourists were bowled out for 357, with Danish Kaneria claiming 4-114 after Mark Boucher (54) and...
COLOMBO, Oct 9 (BBC): Paul Collingwood has set his sights on sealing a first one-day series triumph for England in Sri Lanka by winning Wednesday's fourth game in Colombo. The captain was passed fit after a precautionary scan on his...
Darrell Hair has dropped his claim of racial discrimination against the International Cricket Council, reports BBC. The Australian took action after being dropped from the elite umpires list following the controversial Oval Test between England and Pakistan in 2006. The...
LOS ANGELES, Oct 9 (AFP): Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has been stripped of her gold medals from the 2000 Olympics and asked to repay more than 100,000 dollars in prize and bonus money, the United States Olympic Committee said Monday....
India have called up uncapped batsman Subramaniam Badrinath to replace groin injury-victim Gautam Gambhir for the fifth one-day match against Australia, reports BBC. Badrinath, 27, has been prolific in domestic cricket and will join the squad in Vadodara for Thursday's...
The national booters undergoing residential training under the supervision of coach Nayeemuddin at BKSP are going on Eidul Fitr holidays today (Wednesday), reports UNB.National team coordinator Amirul Islam Babu told the news agency that the booters would resume training on...
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will not be risked in the remaining two one-day games against England as he is still struggling with a biceps injury, reports BBC. Muralitharan's manager Kushil Gunasekera said: "He has just started to bowl and...
The government has decided to call back two officers from the Bangladesh Mission Labour Wing in Kuala Lumpur (KL) and cancelled licences of four recruiting agencies amidst the on-going row over employment of the Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia, reports UNB....
FE ReportThe country has suffered losses worth Tk 26.896 billion (about $384 million) due to the recent floods that affected 40 districts throughout the country, said a government damage assessment report.The report was placed Tuesday at a meeting of the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid 'Monga' is a colloquial Bengali word meaning a situation where everything is too expensive and even the relatively affluent people cannot afford to give alms to the needy. The word that has been in use in the...
FE Report Availability of sufficient funds kept the inter-bank call money rate steady Tuesday despite huge withdrawal of cash from the banking system ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival. The call money rate moved up slightly on the day because of...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has asked commercial banks to give information on accounts of another 55 people, its chairman said Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com. The banks have also been directed to suspend banking transactions of nine persons. Accordingly, the...
Shakhawat Hossain Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has disclosed an additional Tk 4.0 million income for the tax assessment year of 2004-05, sources said.Put into a sub-jail by the caretaker government on alleged corruption charges last month, Khaleda, who is...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has streamlined its guidelines relating drawing arrangements with overseas exchange houses through increasing their security deposits to avoid any financial risks. The central bank took the move against the backdrop of First Solution Money...
A special court dealing with high-profile corruption Tuesday sentenced former BNP lawmaker Manjurul Ahsan Munshi to 13 years in jail for having undeclared assets and suppressing information, reports bdnews24. com. Mohammad Ashraf Hossain, the judge of Special Judge's Court 5,...
As per latest projections made by the Election Commission (EC), the new voter list with photograph may be finalised by July 2008 and the general election is likely to be held before October next year-a little ahead of the set...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has implemented the budget proposal relating to specific customs duty at the rate of Tk 39,000 per tonne against the import of lubricating oil to help the country's farming sector, sources said."We are hoping...
Clive Cookson, FT Syndication ServiceLONDON: Two Europeans have won this year's Nobel physics prize for a nanotechnology discovery that has led to the miniaturisation of hard disks in laptop computers and music players.Albert Fert of Université Paris-Sud in France and...
The trade union rights of the workers in the country's export processing zones (EPZs) have been extended up to October 31, 2010. The Council of Advisers at a meeting Tuesday approved a proposal in this regard to amend the EPZ...
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Liqun Jin arrives in the city today (Wednesday) on a three-day official visit. Liqun Jin is responsible for the operation of ADB's South Asia Department, Central and West Asia Department, and the Private Sector Operations...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Tuesday extended the deadline for re-registration of mobile SIM cards by two months to Dec 16. — bdnews24.com
The depression, formed over Barisal, moved north and north-westward Tuesday morning to hover over Tangail, Mymensingh, Sirajganj and areas close by. The depression was reported to have been causing medium to heavy rains all over the country, and weakening gradually.—...
FE ReportThe International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Bangladesh has urged the government to look into the issues of spiraling price hike of essentials and increasing inflation with due attention."The unabated price rise has put under threat the impressive achievements made...
FE Report The Ministry of Finance (MoF) will form a mid-term budgetary framework (MTBF) unit aiming to strengthen the budget management of the line ministries, sources said.It has to form the unit under its financial management reform programme. As such...
FE ReportBuying spree of institutional and retail investors continued to jack up the share prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Tuesday, the last trading day ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.As a result, the benchmark DSE General Index or DGEN crossed...
The government Tuesday appointed 179 officials working at different levels of the judiciary as judicial magistrates, reports bdnews24.com. There was no official announcement from the government in the form of a circular, but a senior official of the Supreme Court...
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