Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Sept 21 : About 12 thousand subscribers of power living in Chittagong metropolitan area are being brought under pre-paid metering system by December this year, Power Development Board (PDB) sources said.PDB has chalked out a pilot scheme for...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Sept 21: One barge was detained and fined taka 0.2 million today for transporting excess CR Coil and breaking the Kalarpol Baily bridge. Chittagong Port (CP) magistrate Munir Chowdhury penalised the barge. The detained barge is lying with...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 21 (BSS): The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a poverty alleviation programme in its slum areas since 2001 successfully.The six-year "Local Partnership for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (LPUPAP)" is being executed aimed at lifting up the...
JAMALPUR, Sept 21 (UNB): Three persons were sentenced to life term imprisonment by a court here Thursday in a murder case.The court also fined the convicts - Jamiron, her husband Mofazzal Hossain and Shahidul - Tk 5,000 each, in default,...
The well marked low over west central Bay and adjoining northwest Bay off North Andhra-Orissa coast intensified into a depression over the same area, reports UNB.It was centred about 715 kilometres southwest of Chittagong port, 660 kilometres southwest of Cox's...
FE ReportThe annual Urs marking the 270th death anniversary of Alhaj Hazrat Maulana Shah Sufi Syed Abdur Rahim Shaheed ®, founder of Mia Shaheber Maidan Khanka Sharif, and 10th descendant of Baro Pir Hazrat Abdul Kader Jilani ®, will be...
MAGURA, Sept 21 (UNB): The District and Sessions Judge and Judge of the Special Tribunal here Thursday convicted a man and awarded him life term imprisonment for violating a girl after abduction.The convict was identified as Kamal Hossain, son of...
BENAPOLE, Sept 21 (UNB): A housewife was gang raped by some local terrorists at Pakshia Bazar under Sharsha Upazila early Friday.Local people said four to five terrorists led by Imamul and Mithu kidnapped the housewife at gunpoint and took her...
PIROJPUR, Sept 21 (UNB): Joint forces arrested an employee of district income tax office Wednesday on charge of taking bribe from a man.Sources said the joint forces caught Nurul Haque, notice server of the office, from Bazar Road area in...
BARISAL, Sept 21 (UNB): A devastating fire that broke out at Alif-Lam-Mim cotton mill at Gobordhan under Gournadi Upazila here Thursday gutted valuables worth Tk 0.10m (one lakh). Local people said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at...
FE ReportPrices of edible oil increased and the prices of green chilli and lemon declined slightly while the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week.Trader said the over-consumption of edible oil during...
FE ReportA memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between Dhaka Bank Limited and Haq's Bay Automobiles Limited took place in the city recently.Under the deal Dhaka Bank will extend its retail auto loan service to the clientele of Haq's Bay,...
FE ReportBRAC Bank Limited inaugurated three more ATM (Automated Teller Machine) booths in the city's Bijoy Nagar, Shantinagar and Panthapath recently. The 24-hour cash withdrawal facility in the booths are expected to bring more convenience and comfort for the fast...
FE ReportSummit Power Limited, a power generating company ventured by Summit Group, has appointed Prime Finance and Investment Limited, one of the leading non-banking financial institutions and merchant bank, as the manager to the issue for its forthcoming rights issue...
Call rate remains steadySarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate was steady last week despite 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...
Commercial Bank of CeylonSeptember 16 - September 20, 2007In the first week of holy Ramadan, the local foreign exchange market observed the same vigorous tone of U.S. dollar against Bangladesh taka due to constant lofty demand for the greenback to...
KABUL, Sept 21 (Agencies): A bomb attack Friday against a convoy of French troops killed one soldier and injured many Afghans near the blast, while heavy fighting in southern Afghanistan killed about 75 Taliban fighters and six civilians, officials saidThe...
OMUGENYA, (Uganda), Sept 21 (Agencies): Floods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands...
WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (AFP): The United States wants to see a smooth transition to democracy in Pakistan for the country's long-term stability and to aid the fight against terror, a top State Department official said Thursday. The comments by Richard...
YANGON, Sept 21 (Agencies): Monks took to the streets in Myanmar's largest city for a fourth straight day Friday, while the military junta insisted it has no plans to call a state of emergency to quell protests that have posed...
BEIRUT, Sept 21 (Agencies): Family, colleagues and supporters marched Friday in a mass funeral procession for a slain Lebanese lawmaker, the latest victim of a campaign the country's anti-Syrian faction accuses Damascus of orchestrating to scuttle the upcoming presidential election....
PARIS, Sept 21: (AFP.) The UN cultural agency UNESCO added 23 new sites to their global 'bio-reserves' list on Thursday, naming areas from Australia to Mongolia in an effort to prevent further flora and fauna loss. They were selected from...
Three Palestinians killed in Gaza GAZA CITY, Sept 21: Three Palestinians were killed Thursday during an incursion by Israeli forces into the Gaza Strip, including a 16-year- old boy run over by a bulldozer, witnesses and medics said. Mahmud Kayed's...
DURBAN, South Africa, Sept 21 (AFP): India snatched a dramatic 37-run victory over hosts South Africa Thursday to storm into the semi- finals of the Twenty20 World Championships. India, restricted to 153-5 in a game they had to win to...
TIANJIN, China, Sept 21 (AFP): A determined China battled past New Zealand Thursday to tee-up a women's World Cup quarter-final with Norway, while Australia snatched a last-gasp equaliser to book a showdown with Brazil. The host nation, watched by a...
KARACHI, Sept 21 (Reuters): Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram believes Twenty20 cricket could eventually replace one-day internationals. Akram said the success of the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa could spark greater interest in the format. "Twenty20 cricket already...
LONDON, Sept 21 (AFP): Big-spending Chelsea could face a player backlash following the shock departure of controversial but popular coach Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese coach sensationally left Stamford Bridge Thursday by "mutual consent" after the club revealed there had been...
KOLKATA, Sept 21 (AFP): Second seed Daniela Hantuchova easily advanced to the quarter-finals of the 175,000-dollar WTA Sunfeast Open here Thursday with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over Anastasia Rodionova of Russia. The Slovak, who needed barely an hour to finish...
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 21 (AFP): Final standings in the Super Eights round of the inaugural Twenty20 world championships which ended Thursday:Table (played, won, lost, no-result, points) Group E India 3 2 1 0 4New Zealand 3 2 1 0 4South Africa...
PARIS, Sept 21 (AFP): Portugal's Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari has been banned for four matches by UEFA after a violent altercation with Serbian player Ivica Dragutinovic. Scolari and Dragutinovic were caught up in a pitch-side flare-up after a hot-tempered...
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