The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) Monday overturned its Chamber Judge's stay orders upholding the High Court (HC) orders that had granted bails to three bigwig politicians facing corruption charges, reports UNB.Passing the orders, the Appellate Division, however,...
Our CorrespondentJESSORE, Oct 20: Jessore district Awami League Sunday formed a human chain in the town in support of its demand for permanent release of its president Sheikh Hasina.The human chain lasted for half an hour. Leaders of the party...
FARIDPUR, Oct 20 (UNB): Three members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Faridpur Rajendra College unit, were expelled from the party Saturday on charge of violating party disciplines.BCL Central Executive Committee took the punitive action against Suman Kumar Dey, Ronny and...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 20 (UNB): Riding on Aaron Redmond's maiden unbeaten fifty, New Zealand gave a resolute to chase to their target of 317 in the first Test against Bangladesh scoring 145 for 2 in 64 overs at stumps on the...
Barisal Division took a comfortable 247-run lead over Khulna Division scoring 169 for 9 in 90.1 overs in the second innings on the third day of the second round four-day match of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 10th National Cricket League...
India's top order set the table, and two of Australia's familiar tormenters tucked in to leave the home side five wickets away from a crushing win, and the series lead, against the No 1 side in the world. Gautam Gambhir...
Pakistan's selection policy has been tweaked to allow the captain more say in the selection of the final XI for home matches, reports Cricinfo.The move is a bid to ensure a smoother working relationship between the new, interim selection committee...
Mirpur Friends Club registered an emphatic 10-wicket win over Progoti Sangha Cricket Academy in a match of the third Division Qualifying Cricket League at the Gulshan Youth Club ground in the city Monday, reports UNB.Opting to bat first after wining...
James Sutherland, Cricket Australia's chief executive, has ruled out the possibility of Andrew Symonds replacing an injured Phil Jaques in Australia's Test squad in India, reports Cricinfo.Jaques, the reserve opener in the squad, returned home after succumbing to a long-standing...
Bangladesh held a 2-2 draw with Vietnam Monday in their last group B match of the traditional Merdeka Cup Football tournament at the Shah Alam Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, reports UNB.Monday's match was a mere formality as Bangladesh is already...
Bangladesh Men's Kabaddi team earned a comfortable 65-28 points victory over Thailand after leading the first half 32-9 in the First Asian Beach Games held in the Indonesia' s tourist town of Bali Monday, reports UNB.But, later in the afternoon,...
MOSCOW, Oct 20 (UNB): Seven leading Russian women athletes were banned for two years Monday for manipulating doping samples, the Russian Athletics Federation said.The seven women, many of them potential Olympic medalists, had been provisionally suspended by the IAAF in...
Nigel Plews, the former international umpire, has died aged 74, reports Cricinfo. Plews had been battling kidney cancer after he was diagnosed with the illness in March 2007. It was too late to operate, however, and the option to have...
FE Report Powdered milk-based food and confectionary industry is likely to suffer as top importers have put imports of dairy products on hold, businessmen said Monday, following reports on the presence of melamine in eight brands of powered milk. Local...
Doulot Akter MalaResponse from individual taxpayers and undisclosed money holders is hardly encouraging as only 92,000 people paid tax worth Tk 4.20 billion while 1850 persons and companies formalised Tk 1.50 billion until now. Time for both individuals' tax return...
FE ReportDhaka stocks declined for the fourth straight session Monday with the turnover coming down below Tk 4.0 billion-mark after about one month.The Dhaka stocks fluctuated throughout the session trimming some of its earlier gains.All the market barometers -- the...
FE ReportThe absence of proper monitoring at the import stage leaves enough scopes for the entry of contaminated and substandard food items, into the country. Under the existing rules, according to official sources, the customs department is required to seek...
Adviser for Finance Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam Monday said the World Bank (WB) has promised 1.34 billion US dollar in aid to Bangladesh at its recent annual meeting in Washington DC, reports BSS.The adviser told reporters at the Zia...
Two days after knitwear exporters alleged government inaction, Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed Monday sought to calm industry leaders and solicited strategies from them to protect Bangladesh's exports from the global financial crisis, reports bdnews24.com. "Please sit together, discuss all details...
FE ReportBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami submitted Monday, the final day, their application to the Election Commission (EC) for registrations with amended constitutions. Jamaat-e-Islami also revised its name. From now the party will be known as "Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami instead...
Awami League President and former premier Sheikh Hasina is likely to come home by November 7, said his lawyer Sheikh Fazle Noor Tapash Monday as her party and allies look forward to her return for cobbling them up into a...
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, October 20: There are plethora of news. Each seemingly more crucial than the other. It is difficult to fix the priority. The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is under a cloud; the...
A worrisome feature of a huge and bulging population of Dhaka city is that a big part of it are shanty and pavement dwellers, pavement dwellers or sheer vagabonds. In other words, they form a floating population of sorts numbering...
Shamsul Huq ZahidConsumers are confused over the results of the laboratory tests conducted on eight out of a large number of powdered milk brands available in the local markets. The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI) following the media reports...
Md AsaduzzamanSOME developing countries cultivate their citizens, who live and work abroad, for their resources. The expatriates are sought after for funds in foreign currencies to undertake economic activities in their countries of origin. Unfortunately, Bangladesh has not been able...
WE have a rather skewed system of education at primary and secondary levels that impact very differently on the pupils and create varying degrees of competence. The three prevailing different streams of education at these levels in the country include...
ARTIFICIAL rearing of enterprises is never good. Under a wall of protection, such enterprises never develop the urge, creativity or efficiency to produce quality goods at competitive prices in a dynamic business environment.Protected industries tend to shelter redundancy, inefficiency and...
MEAT shops and slaughter houses have mushroomed all over Dhaka city but the meat quality does not always meet the safety standards. It is said often buffalo meat is sold as beef. It is also alleged that beef often comes...
Maswood Alam Khan from Cockeysville, MarylandThe very utterance "Ban Islam as state religion" by C R Dutta only a few weeks before the national election must have already been used by protagonists of Islamic movement as a lucrative fodder to...
Jaspal BindraAS the ongoing market turmoil threatens to roil more financial institutions in the US and Europe, investors in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are turning to the safety and the relative stability of their home turf.Standard Chartered, like...
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