LAXMIPUR, Dec 19 (UNB): Pirates swooped on five fishing boats and looted fishing nets and engines worth Tk 0.1 million (one lakh) in the river Meghna near Char Abdullah in Ramgati Upazila Thursday.The affected fishermen said a gang of armed...
Ashrafuzzaman Khan, former director general of Bangladesh Betar, died in the city Friday at his Tejkunipara house. He was 97, reports UNB.He died due to old age ailment at 1.20 pm. He is survived by one son.A close associate of...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 19 (UNB): Two convicts were executed in the district central jail here Thursday midnight.Jail sources said Dulal (46) of Sutiakhali village in Sadar Upazilal, was hanged for killing his wife Hazera for dowry on April 30, 1997.After the...
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) has extended the time limit for application for its housing scheme in the two suburbs of the city -- Purbachal and Uttara-- to January 15. This is in response to the demand from a large number...
Syed Fattahul Alim The time of reckoning for the caretaker government has arrived, for, finally, it is at the end of its mission to hold a free, fair and credible national election to install the next political government in power....
Dewan Jahidul HassanGLOBAL mobile usage has reached more than 3.6 billion users, with 15 new connections established every second, more than 1.3 million per day, many of these in most remote areas and underprivileged corners of the world. More than...
THEY say that six million Afghans are on the verge of starvation and the UN is in a quandary as to how to tackle the matter. After seven years of war and occupation, the Anglo-American-led NATO forces (the rest like...
BANGLADESHI missions abroad need to attend to the problems of the country's expatriate workers. For that, the missions need to be properly geared. Specially, corruption in them should be flushed out. Each mission should be staffed with competent labour attaches...
IT is really shocking that FEMA, the biggest and oldest election observing organisation in Bangladesh didn't get the permission to observe the upcoming election by the Election Commission (EC). This organisation is working on election observation since more than an...
Karar Mahmudul HassanDifferent agencies of the government had a number of hectic meetings in the month of October 2008 on traffic issues and several decisions, some pragmatic and mostly not implementable, were taken which the city dwellers and country people...
Iftu AhmedDEAF people are often viewed as intellectually inferior, linguistically impoverished and treated them as outcasts, though they can do everything EXCEPT hearing. World Deaf athletics (track and field), badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, bowling, cricket, cross country, cycling, futsal (an...
BAGHDAD, Dec 18 (AFP): Iraq has arrested about 50 interior ministry officials for plotting a coup against the Shiite-led government, a senior Iraqi security official said Thursday. "Fifty interior ministry civil servants, including senior officials, were arrested over the past...
BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters): China will send warships to the seas off Somalia to help international efforts to fight piracy there, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday, in what would be the first operation of its kind for Beijing.NATO ships began...
Pakistan's top diplomat in India has said that the leader of a prominent Pakistan-based militant group is not being held in Pakistan, reports BBC.Earlier this month, Pakistan said it had arrested Masood Azhar, founder of the Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group.Pakistan's high...
Five troops, separatists killed in Philippine clashes ZAMBOANGA, (Philippines), Dec 18: Fresh clashes between government forces and Muslim guerrillas in the southern Philippines left five troops and separatist rebels dead, a military spokeswoman said Thursday. Two soldiers and three members...
Women having unsafe sex may be at more risk of HIV than thought after tests revealed the virus could breach even healthy vaginal tissue, reports BBC.It had been believed that only damaged skin inside the vagina could provide a route...
BEIRUT, Dec 18 (Reuters): The hurling of shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq strikes many in the Middle East as a fittingly furious comment on what they see as his calamitous legacy in...
Dhaka Mohammedan SC and Brothers Union Club advanced to the 2nd slot jointly after winning the day's matches in the Citycell 2nd B League that resumed Thursday after an 11-day recess for the Eid-ul-Azha vacation, UNB reports.Both teams secured 19...
Inspired bowling by left-arm paceman Mitchell Johnson put Australia on top on day two of the first Test against South Africa in Perth, reports BBC. The 27-year-old took 7-42, his best figures in Tests, as the tourists stumbled from 234-3...
Manchester United eased through to the Fifa Club World Cup final despite a spirited late effort from Gamba Osaka, reports BBC. Nemanja Vidic and Cristiano Ronaldo easily converted first-half headers while Masato Yamazaki pulled a classy goal back for the...
India have pulled out of next year's planned cricket tour of Pakistan in the wake of November's attacks in Mumbai after receiving government advice, reports BBC. They were due to arrive in Pakistan on 4 January for three Tests, five...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Thursday announced a 14-member Bangladesh national cricket team for a two-match GrameenPhone Test series against touring Sri Lanka, UNB reports.Mohammad Ashraful has been retained as captain while speedster Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as vice captain. Top order...
FE Report The final match of the Abdus Samad Memorial Football Tournament was held at the Dhanshail High School playground in Sherpur on December 13. Bharera football team lifted the trophy at the end of the match by beating Bager...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda Thursday directed the law enforcing agencies to ensure safety and security for female and minority voters at the polling centres on December 29, reports BSS."Make sure that female and minority voters could cast...
An application for drawing contempt-of-court proceedings against Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda and the two other election commissioners was filed Thursday with the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) over election-related complications, reports UNB.Maj (retd) Manzur Quader of...
Adviser for Commerce and Education Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman said in the city Thursday that the government was putting its best efforts to hold a free, fair and neutral election in the country, reports BSS."We are marching ahead to achieve...
The High Court (HC) Thursday declared illegal the detention of former BNP MP Mosaddek Ali Falu, reports UNB.Delivering the verdict upon a habeas corpus petition challenging the detention under the Special Powers Act, a division bench, comprising Justice Mir Hasmat...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 18 (BSS): Bangladesh Awami League led Mohajote candidate and film actress Sarah Begum Kabori has received a boost against Four-party Alliance nominee Shah Alam in the battle for Narayanganj-4 parliamentary seat as Narayanganj Pourasabha Mayor Dr Selina Hyat...
Ahead of the upcoming polls, no distributors and utility-service providers can go for marketing, circulating and broadcasting their own programmes through video, VCD and DVD in the country, according to government's prohibitory order, reports UNB.The restrictions were imposed under the...
FE Report Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma has announced that the Commonwealth Observer Group to monitor the Bangladesh Parliamentary Elections on December 29 will be led by the former President of Mauritius Cassam Uteem. Mr Sharma also welcomed the lifting...
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