Opener Shahriar Nafees and middle-order bat Alok Kapali left Tuesday morning for New Delhi by a Jet Airways fight to sign deal for the breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL), reports bdnews24.com.Their departure meant they did not appear before the Bangladesh...
MELBOURNE, Sept 16 (Reuters): Australia will go ahead with their four-test tour of India after a security review following a series of bombings in New Delhi, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Tuesday. CA said on Sunday it would review security...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) Tuesday refused to accept the retirement letters submitted by six national cricketers as they did not turn out to meet the board authorities, reports bdnews24.com.The board also called an emergency meeting today (Wednesday) to decide subsequent...
Bangladesh Women's Kabaddi team leave Dhaka for India today (Wednesday) to participate in the 3rd Asian Women's Kabaddi Championship, reports UNB.The third version of the 12-team Asian Women's Kabaddi will be held in the Indian city of Madhurai in Tamilnadu...
ISLAMABAD, Sept 16 (AP): Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar should not compete in next month's domestic Twenty20 tournament unless he pays a pending 7 million Pakistan rupee (US$91,539) fine, the Pakistan Cricket Board's legal adviser said Tuesday."Akhtar has to pay the...
Sri Lankan Development XI were all out for 252 runs in their first innings against GP-BCB National Cricket Academy team on day one of the 2nd four-day match at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo Tuesday, reports UNB.Jeevan scored brilliant century...
Awami League (AL) Tuesday asked the government to withdraw all the cases against its president and ex-PM Sheikh Hasina, as the party plans to jumpstart preparation for the parliamentary polls just after her return from the United States, reports UNB.Awami...
Dr Kamal Hossain's Gono Forum Tuesday accused the caretaker government of dashing people's hope to the ground through its procrastination, failure in resolving crises in public life and stepping into the quicksand of "compromise under a political deal", reports UNB.A...
The Election Commission (EC) is making a special arrangement for registering ex-premier and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia as voter, along with other VIP and general persons left out during the last nationwide voter-listing drive, reports UNB.Khaleda Zia had refused to...
The government has taken up an initiative to make a law effective within two months to prevent sexual harassment and repression in all educational institutions across the country, reports UNB.University Grants Commission (UGC) has started its work to formulate a...
The body of Bangladeshi UN Peacekeeper Mainul Islam, who died of cardiac arrest at Darfur in Sudan, arrived in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.Additional Inspector General of Police (Training) Mohammad Aminul Islam received the body of Mainul Islam when it...
The city police commissioner has requested the citizens to take police escort while carrying any substantial amount of money that has been the main cause of the recent secret murders and mugging, reports UNB.When asked about three murders within 24...
Enrollment of girl students for primary education in the country remained stagnant for several years against remarkable progress in the 90s, reports BSS.The situation is worst in urban slum areas where enrollment rate is only 61 per cent, which is...
FE Report The Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) Forum called upon the government of Bangladesh to lift the restrictions on trade union (TU) activities invoked by the emergency power ordinance and to establish and implement a framework for mature industrial relations...
The well-marked low over the north-west Bay and adjoining areas moved west-north-westwards, intensified into a monsoon depression, and now lies over the north-west Bay and adjoining areas off Orissa coast of India, reports UNB.It was centred about 590-km west-south-west of...
FE Report Drinking water supply to Rampura and adjoining areas has been contaminated following leaks in the Dhaka WASA pipeline resulting in major health issue in the region.The dwellers of the region have taken the matter to the attention of...
Bangladesh Skill Develo-pment Institute (BSDI), one of the institutes of Daffodil Foundation, and Addvalue Training Solutions, one of the call centre training institutes of India, signed an agreement in the city recently, said a press release. On signing of the...
FE ReportState-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC)'s losses in diesel and kerosene have declined by more than 300 per cent after the dramatic fall of global oil prices since their historic high in July, its chairman said Tuesday.Anwarul Karim said his...
Shamsul Huq Zahid After a lull for nearly one and a half years since the emergency was proclaimed in January last year, crimes and criminals are back on the streets of Dhaka city with a big bang. A middle-aged director...
FE ReportThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tuesday suggested that Bangladesh increase the bank interest rate and take a tight monetary policy to tame the inflationary pressure on the economy."If you continue the accommodative monetary policy the inflation could go up...
Syed Ishtiaque RezaA section of private traders is reportedly importing low quality wheat, which is not suitable for human consumption, from Ukraine and Russia.According to sources, the wheat that is being imported is used as animal feed in those countries....
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Agencies): Urgently trying to keep cash flowing amid a Wall Street meltdown, the Federal Reserve on Tuesday pumped $50 billion into the nation's financial system to help ease credit stresses. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's...
Shakhawat Hossain Sadharan Bima Corporation seeks to invest more US$ 1.1 million to double its stake in the emergency Asian Reinsurance Corporation (ARC), officials said Tuesday. In a recent letter to the finance ministry, the lone state-owned general insurance company,...
FE ReportThe inter-bank call money rate shot up to 18 per cent Tuesday because of rising pressure for withdrawal of fund ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr festival, officials said. The call money rate rose Tuesday morning as some banks faced sudden...
FE ReportStock prices remained steady on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Tuesday with a slight enhancement in the turnover on the back of huge transaction of Titas Gas.The trading was however dominated by losers as only 88 issues gained, 126 declined...
Former Prime Minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, now abroad on parole, Tuesday secured bail from the High Court in an extortion case in the last-ditch effort for her release, reports UNB. Responding to a petition, a vacation bench...
BEIJING, Sept 16 (UNB): China will provide special preferential treatment for access of some Bangladeshi products to its market to reduce the prevailing trade imbalance between the two countries and cooperate in paving the way for implementation of the Ruppur...
Air Commodore Zahed Kuddus (retd) has been made Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd. His appointment to the post will be effective from today (Wednesday), said a press release Tuesday night. Before joining the...
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) Tuesday recommended 1:1 stock dividend and 10 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30 last. An ICB source said the recommendation was made in a board meeting of the largest...
FE ReportThe council committee on government purchase Tuesday sent back the proposal of assigning two international oil companies (IOCs) for exploring oil and gas in the Bay saying the energy ministry itself can approve it, a senior adviser said Tuesday.Since...
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