Awami League (AL) will have to join the election process, as it is the only way to free party chief Sheikh Hasina, said Amir Hossain Amu, a senior member of the party presidium, reports UNB."To free our leader Sheikh Hasina,...
Losing their only living places at Dhaka University dormitories due to its indefinite closure, hundreds of resident students are facing a severe problem in continuing their part-time employments by which they used to meet their own educational expenses and often...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has stressed the importance of BNP's reform to modernise the party, saying it was Tarique Zia who first launched the movement for its reform, although many now talk about reform, reports UNB."It was BNP's Senior Joint...
Former president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) AAMS Arefin Siddique has said the university dormitories should be reopened, at least on a limited scale, in the interest of the investigation launched into the recent campus violence, reports UNB."The nation...
BNP's student wing president Azizul Bari Helal was remanded Friday afresh in custody in a second case involving recent campus violence that later spread to streets, reports bdnews24.com.Interrogators will now question Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Helal for four more days...
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Friday felicitated Uzbek President Islam Abduganievich Karimov on the occasion of the Independence Day of Uzbekistan, reports UNB.In a message to his counterpart, President Dr Iajuddin said he is...
SHERPUR, Aug 31 (UNB): Joint forces Friday arrested Nakla Pourasava chairman from his office on charge of embezzling rice allocated for poor people under vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme.The joint forces raided the pourasava office at noon and picked up...
Bangladesh-Libya Brotherhood Association President Advocate Eskander Ali Miah and General Secretary M Mujibur Rahman issued a joint statement Friday congratulating Great Leader of Libya's Great Al-Fatah Revolution, Moammar Al-Gaddafi, and his people on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of...
The United Kingdom (UK) has contributed US$ 20 million (Tk 140 crore) towards Bangladesh's 'Preparation of Electoral Roll with Photographs (PERP)' project to support the government of Bangladesh's effort to hold a credible, safe and fair election, reports UNB. UK's...
RANGPUR, Aug 30 (BSS): A total of 72,696 people of Rangpur municipality got their all formalities completed, including photography and fingerprinting by Friday evening, to register themselves as voters and to get national identity cards (NICs).The third phase of the...
The one-member judicial commission to probe the August 20-21 incidents on the Dhaka University (DU) campus will start functioning Saturday, reports UNB. The commission office at the central Circuit House Road, Kakrail will remain open from 9:00 am. All those...
JESSORE, Augt 30 (bdnews24.com): Two Indian nationals were arrested while they were moving about suspiciously in the Jessore Cantonment area Thursday.Soldiers of Jessore Cantonment later handed them over to Kotwali Police Station.The two men were identified as Mobin Saha of...
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (AFP): India's scorching economic growth will likely show a slight slowdown in first quarter data due Friday and risk of a sharper deceleration looms if the US subprime crisis persists, economists said. Gross domestic product growth...
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (AFP): Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter to a US senator that the central bank would act "as needed" to ease the impact of a credit squeeze on the US economy. The letter by...
DUBAI, Aug 30 (AFP): The Gulf emirate of Dubai is making headlines with a series of high-profile investments abroad in everything from aircraft builders to Las Vegas casinos, but some deals are financially risky and could even spark a protectionist...
BEIJING, Aug 30 (CEIS): China's top leader Hu Jintao has called for accelerating banking reform to push forward the sustainable and healthy development of the country's financial sector. Hu, state president and general secretary of the Communist Party of China...
LAHORE, Aug 30 (APP): Director, Indian Ministry of Commerce, Rajeev Kumar has invited members of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to take part in exhibitions being held in India to gain first-hand knowledge about business opportunities. Addressing the...
TOKYO, Aug 30 (AFP): Japan and the European Union will launch talks next month to enhance economic cooperation in the first step to a long-shot possibility of a free trade deal, officials said yesterday. The two major economic blocs are...
BEIJING, Aug 30 (CEIS): China's currency, the yuan, yesterday hit a new high against the US dollar for the second consecutive day after more than one month of downward adjustment, according to the Chinese Foreign Exchange Trading System. The central...
BRUSSELS, Aug 30 (AFP): The European Commission voted yesterday in favour of extending anti-dumping duties on Chinese- made energy-saving light bulbs for up to a year, a spokesman said. The decision came despite a high-level EU drive to use more...
ABU DHABI, Aug 30 (Xinhua): Etisalat, the telecom giant of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), announced yesterday that it has launched GSM service in Afghanistan, Emirates News Agency reported. The GSM service of Etisalat's Afghanistan division is now available in...
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (PTI): Petrol and diesel prices are unlikely to be hiked in the near future, with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram agreeing in-principle to share a third of the revenue loss that state-run oil firms incur on sale...
TOKYO, Aug 30 (AFP): The dollar was mixed in volatile Asian trade today as investors waited for further economic developments in the United States to gauge the state of jittery markets, dealers said. The dollar dropped to 115.35 yen in...
FE ReportThe sale met with less demand and prices were easier all around, particularly for the medium and plainer teas and there were fairly heavy withdrawals. Blenders/packeteers lent a good support whilst loose tea buyers operated in usual strength. Pakistani...
FE ReportThe 57th meeting of the board of directors of Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank (AVUB) was held at its head office in the city recently. The meeting was chaired by Ansar-VDP Director General and Ansar-VDP Unnayan Bank (AVUB) Chairman Md Sadik...
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (Xinhua): India's state-run railways has decided to privatise train manufacturing in the country, which has one of the world's largest rail networks, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported yesterday. "There is a growing need for...
SINGAPORE, Aug 30 (AFP): World oil prices traded flat in Asia today as the market weighed surprisingly steep declines in US energy stockpiles and the potential of weaker global demand amid financial turbulence. New York's main futures contract, light sweet...
TOKYO, Aug 30 (AFP): Japanese and South Korean firms have won a 1.8 billion-dollar contract to build a diesel oil refinery in Egypt to respond to rising car demand in the emerging economy, the Japanese company said today. Japanese trading...
Australian cricket coach John Harmer arrived in city Thursday to make presentation before the BCB interview board as a candidate for Bangladesh cricket coach, reports UNB.John Harmer, a former coach of England women's team, will make his presentation at the...
Bangladesh National Cricket Academy team suffered second successive defeat in Australia tour conceding an 8-wicket loss against Queensland Academy of Sports in the third one-day match in Kahlin Thursday, reports UNB.Batting first, GP-BCB National Academy team were all out for...
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