After losing the first warm-up match by seven wickets, the visiting Bangladesh national cricket team again face Northern Knights today (Tuesday) in the second warm-up match at Seddon Park in New Zealand without medium pacer Syed Rasel and batter Tushar...
GALLE, Dec 17 (BBC): England have named Matthew Hoggard in a 12-man squad but will make a late decision on his fitness for the final Test against Sri Lanka in Galle. Hoggard missed the last Test with a back injury....
The Metropolis Senior Division Football League will begin on December 31 instead of 28 as scheduled earlier, reports UNB.The league committee, earlier in a meeting, deferred the league by two more days due to Eid-ul-Azha. The league will be held...
Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist will miss Thursday's one-day game with New Zealand to rest ahead of the upcoming Test series against India, reports BBC. Brad Haddin will replace Gilchrist with Australia needing to win or tie to regain the Chappell-Hadlee...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is collecting data and information for taking steps against the service-providing organisations that have earned bad reputation for corruption, reports UNB."We're collecting data and information in this connection… Then various measures will be taken gradually against...
S M JahangirPoor availability of fund from the government might undermine the successful implementation of agriculture rehabilitation programme in the country's Sidr-hit coastal districts, sources said. The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has sanctioned only Tk 460 million for the rehabilitation...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the government-owned commercial banks (GCBs) to allocate more funds to rehabilitate the cyclone-hit people in the country's southwestern districts.The instruction came at a review meeting on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed...
FE ReportStock prices, led by banks, power and insurance issues, gained Monday for the second consecutive trading day on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) amid buying spree from the retail and institutional investors.Trading resumed on the day after a three-day...
The grateful nation celebrated its 36th Victory Day (V-Day) anniversary Sunday, with people commemorating the resounding defeat over Pakistani occupation forces and their local collaborators and honouring the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country's independence, reports bdnews24.com.Tens of...
A freedom fighter Monday filed a case against 13 people including four senior leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh on charges of murder and arson in 1971. Mozaffar Ahmed Khan, a sector-2 freedom fighter, filed the case with the court of...
Muggers shot dead a bank manager, and snatched away Tk 1.5 million in a daylight attack on him at Singair in Manikganj Monday. Police and witnesses said, Maniruzzaman Khan (50), manager of Rupali Bank Bayera Branch, was going to his...
The Advisers Committee on Public Purchase, Monday approved a proposal for procurement of 78,000 tonnes of rice and 33,000 tonnes of wheat from the local suppliers. According to the proposal, placed by the Food Ministry, the local traders will supply...
An alleged criminal was killed, and two RAB members were injured during a gunfight between the elite force and miscreants at Maddhya Badda in the city Monday. Miscreant Mohammad Kamal (24) was dead on the spot. Two RAB members -...
Shakhawat Hossain The national board of revenue (NBR) has launched a drive to find out duplicate and false taxpayer identification numbers (TIN) to bring correction in the existing taxpayers' base, sources said.It has already instructed regional and zonal offices under...
FE ReportThe government Monday started negotiations with the World Bank (WB) for $100 million budgetary support fund that the latter offered in the wake of successive floods and devastating cyclone in recent months.Negotiations began Monday at the Economic Relations Division...
FE ReportThe inter-bank call money rate posted sharp rise Monday indicating high pressure on liquidity due to festival withdrawals. The rate rose to its peak at 16.00 per cent against previous day's high at 14.00 per cent in an active...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The customs authority is procuring container scanning machines for the Chittagong port mainly to prevent false declaration on imported goods and help expedite cargo handling. The Chittagong Customs House (CCH) opened an international tender Monday to procure...
FE ReportPower supply situation returned to near normalcy Monday after restoration of electricity generation in all the power plants that tripped due to collapse of the national grid Saturday last.The Power Development Board (PDB) Monday supplied 3302 megawatt (MW) of...
Business confidence has declined largely during the current quarter compared to the previous quarter despite recent government steps to ensure a better business environment in the country, said a study, reports UNB.However, the confidence is likely to improve a bit...
FE ReportEnergy and Power Adviser Tapan Chowdhury Monday inaugurated a 35-megawatt (MW) expanded unit of the Summit Power Limited, the country’s leading private power company, at Ashulia in Savar.With this expansion, the total generation capacity of the Summit’s Ashulia plant...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said, it is providing $21.2 million for the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal to enhance the availability of affordable broadband internet connections, skilled manpower, local content and...
The Bangladesh Better Business Forum (BBBF), a platform created recently by the present interim administration for promoting public-private partnership, held its maiden meeting in the capital Saturday last. The Forum though constituted late last month in the backdrop of sagging...
Syed Fattahul AlimThe five coalmines of Bangladesh including Barapukuria and Phulbari have an estimated 2221 million tonnes of proven reserves of coal. After gas, it is the second most important fossil energy reserve this country is in possession of. Like...
Amirul Islam BANGLADESH'S bilateral trade with India has been a source of worry because of the high deficit in this trade for the former. But it deserves a close scrutiny whether only the deficit should be highlighted or whether other...
Quentin Peel THE anointment of Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's first deputy prime minister, as heir apparent to Vladimir Putin is, on the face of it, confirmation of continuity in the Kremlin -- and of Mr Putin's intention to remain the power...
SOME 10 million people in Bangladesh are considered to be the carriers of the Hepatitis-B virus. The number alone reveals the enormity and seriousness of the problem. Ten million people is a huge number. It could be the combined population...
This is an overpopulated country and Dhaka is an overpopulated city. This is most felt on the streets of the city.Now a days it seems the city totally lacks any traffic system. Traffic jams are seen all over the city....
Hasan MahmudTHE general definition of affluence is a condition where all the material wants of the people are met. Human beings have various material wants for its survival and nature is the ultimate source of the means to meet those...
Shamim Ara BegumNIJUM, a three-year-old toddler, gets up in the morning only to find his parents out of the house for works. He hardly sees his parents together in the morning. The workplaces of Nijum's parents are situated near their...
THE nation celebrates today the Victory Day that marked the end of a nine-month old bloody war waged by the people of this land against Pakistani occupation forces. On this auspicious day, the forces under the then Eastern Command of...
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