Mirpur Hockey Training Academy earned a narrow 2-1 goals victory over Chhayabithi Society High School in the Dhaka Bank Shaheed Smriti School Hockey Tournament at the Maulana Bhasani National Stadium Sunday, reports UNB.Russell Ali and KH Tushar scored for the...
ADELAIDE, FEB 17 (AP): Mitchell Johnson took 3-42 and Australia overcame a lackluster batting performance to beat India by 50 runs in a limited-overs tri-series match Sunday at the Adelaide Oval.India was bowled out for 153 chasing Australia's 203-9.The win,...
SYDNEY, Feb 17 (AFP): Australian Eamon Sullivan broke the world record in the men's 50m freestyle at the New South Wales swimming championships here Sunday.Sullivan clocked 21.56 seconds to eclipse Russian Alexander Popov's 2000 mark of 21.64 sec by 0.08...
Former US Ambassador to Bangladesh Howard B Schaffer said in Dhaka Sunday he strongly supports the roadmap for holding free and fair election timely to return the country to democracy, reports UNB.Talking to reporters after a meeting with Foreign Adviser...
SHARIATPUR, Feb 17 (UNB): Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury Sunday called for uprooting seed of corruption from everyone's mind."Though corruption has taken roots in our minds, may be it will not remain in future," he said while speaking...
FE ReportPeople's Democratic Party (PDP) wanted National Assembly election first and the election to other bodies to follow it.This will enable the people to give a peaceful and a fair opinion about the national affairs.This was disclosed at a press...
Acting BNP office secretary Rizvi Ahmed Sunday alleged that the caretaker government was conspiring to destroy the party, reports bdnews24.com."They have not stopped, even after bringing one fabricated case after another against Khaleda Zia and her family. They have also...
The verdict on a case against Sheikh Helaluddin and his wife Rupa Chowdhury, accused of amassing wealth by unfair means, will be delivered on February 24, reports bdnews24.com.
A two-day national consultation workshop began in the city Sunday seeking to prepare a draft national sustainable development strategy paper for the country, reports UNB.Department of Environment (DoE) in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Centre for Asia-Pacific,...
DU CorrespondentStudents of the country's public universities and the colleges affiliated with the National University threatened Sunday to throw an indefinite strike programme from February 26, if the quota system in Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination is not rearranged by...
A spokesman of the Ministry of Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Sunday urged Bangladeshi workers working in Saudi Arabia to abide by Saudi laws, rules and regulations, reports UNB.The appeal was made responding to reported remarks by Saudi officials that...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Feb 17 (UNB): A touchstone made statue of lord Krishna was recovered from Udayan Cinema Hall in the town Saturday night.Acting on a secret information, a BDR team raided the cinema hall at midnight and recovered the statue weighing...
FE Report 'Princes of the Tides' written by Farah Mazid Sadda, an expatriate residing in the USA, was launched at Bangla Academy Boi Mela on February 15 last. The book is published by Arundhoti and the price of the book...
COMILLA, Feb 17 (UNB): Rail communications on three routes were suspended for over 11 hours since Saturday night as a goods train derailed at Gunabati station in Chouddagram Upazila here.Railway sources said five bogies of Dhaka-bound 803 no. goods train...
FE ReportEminent freedom-fighter Al-Hajj Zainal Abedeen of Dhanua under Faridganj in Chandpur passed away Thursday at 11:30 pm.Zainal, son of Asar Uddin Patwary, also participated in the Second World War. He was buried at his home Friday after the Jumma...
Doulot Akter MalaThe central bank has suggested for the continuation of tax exemption facility on the amount provisioned by individual commercial banks for the next three assessment years, starting from 2008-09.Under the finance act 2005, the actual amount provisioned or...
FE Report The government is set to adopt a new guideline to speed up implementation and bring qualitative changes in the annual development programme (ADP) worth more than US$ 3.5 billion.A meeting Sunday led by finance and planning adviser Mirza...
London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has projected Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) growth to slow down to 5.8 per cent and budget deficit widen to 5.2 per cent of GDP during the current fiscal year, reports UNB.
The government Sunday decided in principle to abolish the ancient system of Gram Sarker, a spokesman said, reports bdnews24.com. The interim cabinet gave initial approval to Gram Sarker (Annulment) Ordinance 2008, at its regular meeting chaired by chief adviser Fakhruddin...
FE ReportThe stock market regulatory body is working to introduce book-building method to ensure fair price in the initial public offerings (IPOs) for the entrepreneurs whose companies will go public."The present IPO pricing system has some distortions which do not...
FE Report Bangladesh should scale up public spending in agriculture to make a dent in hunger while generating rural jobs and promoting new technology, economists said Sunday.Currently state investment in agriculture remains at 4.0 per cent of the country's gross...
Mushir AhmedBangladesh's latest air deal with India will allow the country's private airlines to spread their international wings and consolidate their position in a competitive market, the civil aviation chief said.Dhaka and New Delhi last week signed the new air...
Daniel Pimlott, FT Syndication ServiceNEW YORK: Bangladesh's Grameen Bank has made its first loans in New York in an attempt to bring its pioneering microfinance techniques to the tens of millions of people in the world's richest country who have...
FE ReportDhaka stocks fell Sunday led by banks, pharmaceuticals, power and energy issues amid increased turnover.The downturn of the market on the day has been attributed to the fall in share prices of heavyweight companies hit by the diversion of...
Detained Awami League President and former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday expressed her willingness to go abroad for treatment on physicians' advice, but the authorities said the jail-code would not allow her trip outside the country on medical grounds, reports...
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will be interrogated at jail gate as a court Sunday passed the order for quizzing her in the Niko corruption case involving a gas-exploration deal with the foreign firm, reports UNB.Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani passed...
Three top leaders of outlawed Jama'atul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB) were sentenced to death Sunday in charge of killing eight innocent people by blasting bombs in Udichi and Shoto Dal Shilpi Goshthi office in Netrokona on December 8, 2005. The judge...
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Fani Bhushan Chowdhury was Sunday transferred as Additional Inspector General to the Police Headquarters in the latest reshuffle in the police administration. He was replaced by Additional Inspector General at the Police Headquarters Jabed Patwary,...
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed will attend the 11th Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Senegal on March 13-14. The head of the caretaker government will leave Dhaka on March 10 for London en route to Dakar, the capital...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Naim Ahmed Sunday said the number of routes and vehicles would be reduced in next two months to ease traffic congestion in the capital. 'The DMP commissioner expressed the hope that reduction of the number...
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