BARISAL, Oct 5 (BSS): District administration and the members of army distributed a total of Taka 2.20 million among the erosion victims of Babugonj in the district today.Official source said each of the erosion-hit families received Taka 10 thousand as...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 5 (BSS): A literacy programme for aboriginal people of Babudaing under Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila began on October 4. The three-month programme has been taken by the Chapainawabganj Zila Parishad.Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi Mohammad Shafiul Alam was the chief...
RANGAMATI, Oct 5 (BSS): Hawngsha Dhawja Chakma, convener of Chittagong Hill Tracts Communication Committee, died of old-age complication at a clinic in Dhaka.Shantu Larma, Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, expressed his deep shock at the demise of...
FE ReportPrices of brinjal declined slightly and the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week.Traders said brinjal prices came down in the markets mainly due to adequate supply of other vegetables.During the...
FE Report The 202nd meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) was held at its head office in the city recently. AIBL Executive Committee Chairman Md Enayet Ullah presided over the meeting. The meeting reviewed...
FE ReportWarid Telecom has introduced an exciting bonus talktime offer styled 'Eidi' for prepaid subscribers ahead of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. Subscribers who have not topped up their account after August 01, 2007 can reload now and talk as much as they...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate remained steady last week ignoring withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Government Treasury(BGT) bonds and Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills, fund managers said.The market experienced...
Commercial Bank of CeylonSeptember 30 - October 04, 2007In the last two days of last week Bangladesh taka got some appreciation against US dollar as the import pressure got an ease and due to substantial volume of inward remittances ahead...
FE ReportGrameenphone (GP) signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently to provide complete communication facilities under its corporate package 'GP Business Solutions'.BB General Manager (Expenditure Management) Asoke Bandhu Das and GP Director (Finance) Arif Al Islam signed the agreement...
JESSORE, Oct 5 (BSS): A toxin-free vegetables market was set up in the town in cooperation with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of the district on Wednesday.With the inauguration of the new market, local farmers are now able to sell...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 5 (BSS): With only a week left for Eid-ul- Fitr, the greatest Muslim religious festival, the Eid shopping has gained momentum here amid huge supply of consumer goods, traffic jam and enthusiasm among the people for buying.All the...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 5 (AFP): Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf agreed Thursday on a national reconciliation accord that paves the way for a power-sharing deal, the government and her party said. The agreement gives an amnesty for...
TEHRAN, Oct 5 (AFP): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday Iran would work until "all of Palestine is liberated" from Israel's hands and repeated his deeply controversial questioning of the Holocaust. "The Palestinian people are standing firm. The Iranian people and...
BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (Gulf News): Roadside bombs killed a Shiite mayor and wounded a tribal leader working with US military forces yesterday, part of a spate of apparently sectarian attacks across the country.Abbas Al Khafaji, Shiite mayor of Iskandariya and...
YANGON, OCT 5 (AP): The top US diplomat in Myanmar was summoned for rare talks Friday with Myanmar's hardline government a day after its leader announced a conditional offer to meet with detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.Diplomats and...
MADRID, Oct 5 (CNN): Spanish police have arrested 22 leaders of an outlawed Basque pro-independence party on suspicion of aiding the armed separatist group ETA, a judicial source told CNN.Police lead a member of Basque Batasuna party into a car...
KATHMANDU, Oct 5 (AFP): Crucial elections to decide Nepal's future were postponed indefinitely Friday after the government and Maoists failed to agree on the fate of the monarchy and the election system. "The seven party leaders (of the coalition government)...
SRINAGAR, Oct 5 (AFP): Security forces have shot dead an Islamic militant leader and his aide, police said Friday, claiming a "major success" in the fight against insurgency in Indian Kashmir. An army officer also died in the fierce gunbattle...
DR Congo plane crash kills 38KINSHASA, Oct 5 (AFP): A Soviet-era cargo plane crashed in a residential area of Kinshasa Thursday, killing 23 people on board and 15 on the ground as it ploughed into houses and exploded in a...
HYDERABAD, Oct 5 (BBC): A magnificent 121 from Yuvraj Singh could not prevent Australia taking a 2-0 lead in the series with a 47-run victory over India in Hyderabad. After three wickets fell in the first five overs, Yuvraj smashed...
Swimmer Al Mahmud Bin Dipu clinched the first gold for Bangladesh in 50-metre freestyle group AQ50 event of the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2007 at Shanghai Pudong Natatorium in China Friday, reports UNB. Dipu won the gold medal clocking...
KARACHI, Oct 5 (BBC): South Africa sealed an emphatic 160-run victory over Pakistan before tea on the final day of the first Test in Karachi. Resuming on 146-3 in search of 424, Younus Khan clipped Andre Nel to the boundary...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Friday named a 20-member national squad for the World Cup qualifying round home match against Tajikistan to be held on October 8 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city at 3:00 pm, reports UNB.Bangladesh squad:...
England again demonstrated their ability to bounce back from adversity with a commendable 65-run win to draw level in the one-day series at Dambulla, their first one-day victory in Sri Lanka since 1982. Riding on Owais Shah's 82, which led...
Gazirchot Sporting Club beat PWD SC by 3-0 goals in a super league match of the Metropolis Third Division Football League at the Bir Shreshtho Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium in Kamalapur Friday, reports UNB.Sanwar Hossain Sana put Gazirchot Sporting...
PARIS, Oct 5 (AFP): Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's appeal against a four-match ban has been partially reduced to three months by European football governing body UEFA Thursday. The Brazilian had been banned for four matches by UEFA's Control and...
PARIS, Oct 5 (AFP): FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called on the European Union (EU) to recognise the autonomy of sport when it comes to matters regarding labour laws. Blatter wants football to be exempt from freedom of movement laws,...
TOKYO, Oct 5 (AFP): Venus Williams quashed a spirited challenge from Danish teen Caroline Wozniacki Friday to reach the final of the Japan Open tennis tournament, while former world number one Lleyton Hewitt was knocked out. The Wimbledon champion, heavily...
FE ReportA total of 188 art and archaelogical objects, selected from museums in Bangladesh - Dhaka National Museum, Mahasthangar, Paharpur and Mainamati archaeological museums and Varendra Research Museum - is likely to be showcased at the Guimet Museum in France....
Visiting British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Director for South Asia John Dennis paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed at Army Headquarters Thursday. During the meeting, they discussed matters of bilateral issues, an ISPR...
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