NOAKHALI, Sept 30 (UNB): At least 13 fishermen sustained severe burn injuries when their rivals sprayed hot water on them while fishing in Meghna river in Haitya upazila Saturday.Police said, there was a longstanding rivalry between two groups of fishermen-one...
BAGERHAT, Sept 30 (UNB): Armed pirates looted fish and fishing nets worth Tk 2.0 million from twenty-five fishing trawlers in the Bay and coastal belt here Friday and Saturday leaving twenty-five fishermen injured. The injured fishermen said the gang numbering...
LAXMIPUR, Sept 30 (UNB): A man was arrested from Chowdhury Bazar in Sadar Upazila here on Saturday while realising toll identifying himself as an official of Anti-corruption Commission (ACC).Police said, Belal Hossain alias Raju (30), son of Abdul Matin of...
NARSINGDI, SEPT 30 (UNB): Robbers looted valuables worth over Tk 0.8 million from the house of a businessman at Madhabdi municipality in Sadar Upazila Friday night.Sources said the gang numbering eight to nine swooped on the house of businessman Habibur...
SAVAR, Sept 30 (UNB): Four day-labourers were electrocuted at Baipail under Ashulia thana Sunday afternoon.Local sources said the day-labourers came in contact with the live wire of 11,000-KV electric line during soil testing on a nearby site at about 2:30pm,...
ACI Limited Director Rafiqul Islam Khan expired Sunday (September 30) in India, said a press release.He is survived by his wife Hasina Momtaz, a renowned singer, and only son Shibli Rubayatul Islam, assistant professor of Banking Department of the University...
The namaj-e-janaza of Dr SA Latifur Reza, eminent economist and former professor and chairman of Economics Department of Dhaka University, will be held at the Gulshan Central Mosque (Azad Masjid) after Johr prayer tomorrow (Tuesday), said a press release.He will...
Today marks the 58th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. On this auspicious occasion, I would like to extend my warmest blessings to my motherland's greater advancement and prosperity, and my best wishes to the Government...
Li Shijia China, together with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, staged a joint anti-terrorism exercise in mid August this year, the fifth drill launched within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) since it was founded in June...
Cheng Zhiliang Abdulla Arken needs to find a new line of work - and soon. Every morning he takes firewood to sell at the market in Hotan county near the Taklimakan Desert, in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.But on...
Rong Jiaojiao As Beijing prepares to host athletes throughout the world to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games, the city's Olympic new look begins to unfold.Of the 31 new and refurbished venues for the Olympics, the iconic "Bird's Nest" National...
SHANGHAI, Sept 30 (AFP): A ruthlessly efficient Germany tamed Brazil Sunday to win the World Cup final 2-0 with goals from Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr making them the first nation to successfully defend their title. The Germans also owed...
Rajshahi DSA emerged as group champion to reach the Super Six of the Araf Apparels 21st National Youth Hockey Competition as the last team, outplaying Dinajpur DSA by 5-0 goals at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium in the city...
After the withdrawal of candidature by all the three short-listed coaches, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is looking for appointing a coach for the national cricket team by October 30, reports UNB.The decision was taken at a BCB ad-hoc executive committee...
KARACHI, Sept 30 (Cricinfo): Unmistakably, change is in the air. Pakistan and South Africa meet at the National Stadium in Karachi today (Monday) for the first Test, one eye on the now, one on the future. South Africa, without any...
Bokul Hossain scored a brilliant hattrick as Matuail Udoyon Sangsad notched a 3-0 goals victory over Spondon KC in a match of the Metropolis 3rd Division Football super league at the Bir Shreshtho Shaheed Sepoy Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Stadium at...
BANGKOK, Sept 30 (AFP): Dmitry Tursunov broke a summer losing streak in style Sunday, racing to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over German Benjamin Becker to win the Thailand Open. Sixth seed Tursunov, 29th in the world, lifted a trophy in...
TEHRAN, Sept 30 (XINHUA): Iranian lawmakers Saturday branded the US troops and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as terrorist groups, according to a statement released by the Iranian state media. The statement said that more than 200 Iranian parliament members...
KANDAHAR, Sept 30 (AFP): Afghanistan's Taliban militia Sunday rejected peace overtures by President Hamid Karzai, insisting they would never negotiate as long as international soldiers were in the country. The Taliban is also not interested in government positions, the movement's...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AFP): Kurdish separatists fired shots at a bus in southeastern Turkey, killing 12 people and wounding two others, local officials said Sunday.The incident happened Saturday near the town of Beytussebab in Sirnak province not far from the Iraqi...
YANGON, Sept 30 (AP): A UN envoy held back-to-back meetings Sunday with Myanmar's military rulers and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he sought a peaceful solution to the government's crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. The separate talks occurred...
ISLAMABAD, SEPT 30 (AP): Pakistani journalists marked Sunday as a "black day" to condemn police beatings during opposition protests against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's pursuit of another five-year term.Musharraf picked up a key legal victory Saturday when the Election Commission...
Bolivian President Evo Morales welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Bolivia Thursday, sparking an outcry in Bolivia, where the leftist Morales is a hero to some, a divisive demagogue to others. He's seldom short of words.The visit came a day...
LONDON, Sept 29 (Bloomberg): An explosion in the capital of the Maldives injured 12 people including two Britons, the UK government said. The bomb exploded at about 1:30 pm local time outside the main mosque in Male, said a spokeswoman...
Doulot Akter MalaThe extended period for legalising the undisclosed money expired Sunday with the National Board of Revenue (NBR) mopping up total tax revenue of Tk. 6.87 billion against the disclosure of Tk. 37.75 billion. During the extended period of...
The High Court Sunday stayed the proceedings of the GATCO scam case against detained former premier and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and her younger son Arafat Rahman Koko, granting bail only to Khaleda, reports UNB. A division bench, comprising Justice...
FE ReportThousands of stock market investors remain in the dark on the renewal of their Beneficiary Owner (BO) accounts, the deadline of which expired Friday last.If not extended, the investors who have failed to renew their BO accounts by the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Sunday filed eight separate cases against 17 persons, including former Energy Adviser Mahmudur Rahman, Awami League Joint General Secretary Obaidul Quader, business tycoon Salman F Rahman and Managing Director of Globe Construction Ltd Atiqullah Khan Masud,...
FE Report The advisory committee responsible for finalising the coal policy, is yet to give it a final shape, sources at the energy division said.They alleged that the reconstituted committee headed by a former vice chancellor of BUET was dragging...
A special judge's court in Dhaka sentenced Basundhara Group chairman Shah Alam to eight years of imprisonment Sunday on twin charges of concealing wealth information and evading tax, reports bdnews24.com.The court also fined him Tk 83 million (8.3 crore), in...
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