Outgoing US ambassador Patricia Butenis has regretted she has to leave Bangladesh without witnessing a free, fair and credible election she hoped, reports bdnews24.com. In her last public speech Thursday during her assignment in Bangladesh, she hoped the country would...
MYMENSINGH, June 15 (BSS): The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested three persons, including an alleged activist of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and an Indian national yesterday and today. In a drive, RAB arrested JMB activist Imran Ali...
BHOLA, June 15 (bdnews24.com): One more case was filed against former Bhola lawmaker and BNP leader Hafiz Ibrahim Thursday on charges of misappropriating relief CI sheets. Md Zakiuddin, Borhanuddin Upazila project implementation officer filed the case against Hafiz with Borhanuddin...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, June 15 (bdnews24.com): A case was filed against Shamim Kabir Helim, chairman of Shibganj municipality and general secretary of municipal unit of BNP Thursday on the charges of cheating people and extortion, the police said. Mominul Haque, a businessman...
CHITTAGONG, June 15 (bdnews24.com): Only 15 cases were filed in the past five years over illegal hill-cutting and only two of them were heard in court, says the Directorate of Environment (DoE). No cases were filed for destruction of hills...
Eight persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Sirajganj, the slaughtered body of a teenage girl was found in her bedroom at Nukali village...
Speakers at a national health conference Thursday underscored the need for launching an awareness campaign on the `health rights' of people in the country, reports BSS."Health is one of the basic rights of people so that medicare services should be...
FE ReportGlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will donate 50 million doses of H5N1 adjuvanted pre-pandemic influenza vaccine to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in support of the latter's stockpile initiative. The donation will help establish a much needed stockpile of pre-pandemic vaccines that...
DINAJPUR, June 15 (bdnews24.com): The district administration has imposed an embargo on coaching and private tutoring by government school teachers in the district. Saiful Hasan, the deputy commissioner (DC) of Dinajpur, clamped the ban after complaints from guardians that the...
FE ReportCreatas Communications Ltd has sponsored 10 underprivileged children growing up with the guidance of Utsho Bangladesh.Next one year's expenditure of the children will be provided to Utsho Bangladesh from the part income of the recently-organised concerts by Jagjit Singh....
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, June 15: Chittagong customs authority seized two containers loaded with pipe fittings on charge of importing goods with false declaration at Chittagong Port. Kabir Steel, owner of the goods, allegedly imported the pipe fittings along with the declared...
FE ReportGeneral Secretary of Greater Comilla Association, Dhaka Shish Haider Chowdhury was awarded the Golap-Kuri life term appreciation as the best organiser recently.He was awarded the honour at a reception ceremony held at the National Press Club auditorium. Former adviser...
FE ReportAsset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared net asset values (NAV) of its two unit funds.The total NAV of ICB AMCL Unit Fund stood at Tk 558,297,265.48 on the basis of...
FE ReportNational Bank Limited (NBL) arranged a day-long workshop on "Methodology of Risk Assessment for Risk-Based Inspection" at its training institute in the city recently.NBL Additional Managing Director Md Abdur Rahman Sarker presided over the workshop while Department of Banking...
June 10 - June 14, 2007The local market of US dollar and Bangladesh taka was quite active last week. The transaction of total volume was around $77.10 million against $111.40 million in the previous week. US dollar depreciated against Bangladesh...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate rose and fluctuated last week in an active market. The central bank was active to keep the swinging of the rate at a reasonable level, fund managers saidThe market felt some pressure on liquidity...
GAZA CITY, June 15 (AFP): Jubilant Hamas fighters were in control of the Gaza Strip Friday, effectively creating an Islamic enclave on Israel's border after routing their secular Fatah rivals in days of vicious gunbattles. The Islamist group-branded a terror...
SEOUL, June 15 (AFP): South Korea said Friday that North Korea would soon receive the funds it has demanded before it honours a long-delayed nuclear disarmament deal, but Japan expressed caution on whether the row was settled. Hopes of an...
WASHINGTON, June 15 (AFP): Democratic and Republican leaders on Thursday agreed a deal to rescue a crippled overhaul of US immigration laws, which would offer a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants. The bill, one of President George...
BEIJING, June 15 (Reuters): As many as 1,000 children may have been sold into slave labor in central China, enduring maiming and brutality in primitive brick kilns, state media said Friday amid an expanding scandal about official neglect. The owners...
BAGHDAD, June 15 (AP): A citywide clampdown emptied Baghdad's streets of all vehicles Thursday in attempts to hold off what authorities dread: a storm of Shiite attacks in revenge for the bombing of one of their main shrines. The tactic...
A weight loss drug used by thousands of Britons has been rejected by US safety officials because of an increased risk of suicide, reports BBC. Rimonabant, launched in the UK last summer, has been shown to aid weight loss by...
BAGHDAD, June 15 (AP): Five U.S. soldiers died in Iraq, the U.S. military announced Friday, a day after extremists fired shells into Baghdad's Green Zone during a visit by the State Department's No. 2 official. Three of the soldiers were...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, June 15 (Reuters): A bomb exploded at a bus station in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey Friday, injuring five civilians and a soldier, security officials said. The bomb targeted the city's busiest street and...
MANILA, June 15 (Reuters): A Philippine Navy officer who led an attempt to topple President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo four years ago took his oath as a member of the upper house of Congress Friday. "This is a victory for the...
US astronauts have ended their second spacewalk, folding up old solar panels on the International Space Station, reports BBC. The two shuttle Atlantis astronauts folded a solar wing to allow a new system of panels to rotate properly. They should...
Archrivals Abahani Limited and Mohammedan Sporting Club eye a solo lead when they square off for a second time in the B League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium today (Saturday). Both of the giants along with Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra...
Tiger Woods struggled off the tee but showed his usual skills around the greens to finish well placed on one over after the US Open's first round, reports BBC. The world number one started his Oakmont challenge by driving into...
The start of the fourth and final Test between England and West Indies has been delayed by a day because of torrential rain at Chester-le-Street. It had rained solidly throughout Thursday and continued on Friday morning, and the umpires ruled...
Britain's Alex Bogdanovic got to within two points of causing a major upset before losing to world number five Andy Roddick at the Artois Championships. Bogdanovic (23) was two points from victory in the second set tie-break when Roddick made...
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