Former Bawm Social Council president Jumlian Amlai has started writing the first-ever history of the Bom ethnic group, reports bdnews24.com. Amlai said, "The Bawms in Bandarban embraced Christianity in 1927. Because the Bawms did not have an alphabet, Christian priests...
NEW YORK, Oct 5 (UNB): Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury Thursday said while there still exists an understandable interest of Bangladesh in the Malaysian labour market, time has come to seriously re-examine its various implications and protect the interest...
NEW YORK, Oct 5 (UNB): Foreign Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury called upon the UN membership to dispel "misunderstandings among different faiths".He said that followers of different religions and faiths in Bangladesh live in a state of tranquil harmony, as we...
Poor people facing kidney failure are at a greater risk of dying from lack of treatment because the state's lone specialist hospital dealing with kidney diseases offer no free dialysis kits, reports bdnews24.com. At the National Institute of Kidney Diseases...
SIRAJGANJ, October 5 (bdnews24.com): Fish resources of Cholon Beel are fast depleting as some fishermen have been harvesting mother fishes, fish fries and fingerlings indiscriminately. Once celebrated as a nursery-cum-storehouse of about 175 species of local sweet-water fishes, Cholon Beel,...
Three persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last two days, report agencies.In Brahmanbaria, a man was chopped to death by his brother-in-law at Chartolachar village in Ashuganj Wednesday....
GAIBANDHA, Oct 4 (BSS): Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police, Rajshahi Range A K M Shahidul Hoque has said community policing could play an important role in preventing domestic violence and girls' teasing in the society."To check all kinds of...
BARISAL, Oct 5 (BSS): District administration and the members of army distributed a total of Taka 2.20 million among the erosion victims of Babugonj in the district today.Official source said each of the erosion-hit families received Taka 10 thousand as...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 5 (BSS): A literacy programme for aboriginal people of Babudaing under Chapainawabganj Sadar Upazila began on October 4. The three-month programme has been taken by the Chapainawabganj Zila Parishad.Divisional Commissioner of Rajshahi Mohammad Shafiul Alam was the chief...
RANGAMATI, Oct 5 (BSS): Hawngsha Dhawja Chakma, convener of Chittagong Hill Tracts Communication Committee, died of old-age complication at a clinic in Dhaka.Shantu Larma, Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, expressed his deep shock at the demise of...
FE ReportPrices of brinjal declined slightly and the prices of other essential commodities remained unchanged in the city markets over the past week.Traders said brinjal prices came down in the markets mainly due to adequate supply of other vegetables.During the...
FE Report The 202nd meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) of Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited (AIBL) was held at its head office in the city recently. AIBL Executive Committee Chairman Md Enayet Ullah presided over the meeting. The meeting reviewed...
FE ReportWarid Telecom has introduced an exciting bonus talktime offer styled 'Eidi' for prepaid subscribers ahead of Holy Eid-ul-Fitr. Subscribers who have not topped up their account after August 01, 2007 can reload now and talk as much as they...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate remained steady last week ignoring withdrawal of large amounts of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Government Treasury(BGT) bonds and Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills, fund managers said.The market experienced...
Commercial Bank of CeylonSeptember 30 - October 04, 2007In the last two days of last week Bangladesh taka got some appreciation against US dollar as the import pressure got an ease and due to substantial volume of inward remittances ahead...
FE ReportGrameenphone (GP) signed an agreement with Bangladesh Bank (BB) recently to provide complete communication facilities under its corporate package 'GP Business Solutions'.BB General Manager (Expenditure Management) Asoke Bandhu Das and GP Director (Finance) Arif Al Islam signed the agreement...
JESSORE, Oct 5 (BSS): A toxin-free vegetables market was set up in the town in cooperation with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) of the district on Wednesday.With the inauguration of the new market, local farmers are now able to sell...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 5 (BSS): With only a week left for Eid-ul- Fitr, the greatest Muslim religious festival, the Eid shopping has gained momentum here amid huge supply of consumer goods, traffic jam and enthusiasm among the people for buying.All the...
ISLAMABAD, Oct 5 (AFP): Former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf agreed Thursday on a national reconciliation accord that paves the way for a power-sharing deal, the government and her party said. The agreement gives an amnesty for...
TEHRAN, Oct 5 (AFP): President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday Iran would work until "all of Palestine is liberated" from Israel's hands and repeated his deeply controversial questioning of the Holocaust. "The Palestinian people are standing firm. The Iranian people and...
BAGHDAD, Oct 5 (Gulf News): Roadside bombs killed a Shiite mayor and wounded a tribal leader working with US military forces yesterday, part of a spate of apparently sectarian attacks across the country.Abbas Al Khafaji, Shiite mayor of Iskandariya and...
YANGON, OCT 5 (AP): The top US diplomat in Myanmar was summoned for rare talks Friday with Myanmar's hardline government a day after its leader announced a conditional offer to meet with detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.Diplomats and...
MADRID, Oct 5 (CNN): Spanish police have arrested 22 leaders of an outlawed Basque pro-independence party on suspicion of aiding the armed separatist group ETA, a judicial source told CNN.Police lead a member of Basque Batasuna party into a car...
KATHMANDU, Oct 5 (AFP): Crucial elections to decide Nepal's future were postponed indefinitely Friday after the government and Maoists failed to agree on the fate of the monarchy and the election system. "The seven party leaders (of the coalition government)...
SRINAGAR, Oct 5 (AFP): Security forces have shot dead an Islamic militant leader and his aide, police said Friday, claiming a "major success" in the fight against insurgency in Indian Kashmir. An army officer also died in the fierce gunbattle...
DR Congo plane crash kills 38KINSHASA, Oct 5 (AFP): A Soviet-era cargo plane crashed in a residential area of Kinshasa Thursday, killing 23 people on board and 15 on the ground as it ploughed into houses and exploded in a...
HYDERABAD, Oct 5 (BBC): A magnificent 121 from Yuvraj Singh could not prevent Australia taking a 2-0 lead in the series with a 47-run victory over India in Hyderabad. After three wickets fell in the first five overs, Yuvraj smashed...
Swimmer Al Mahmud Bin Dipu clinched the first gold for Bangladesh in 50-metre freestyle group AQ50 event of the Special Olympics World Summer Games 2007 at Shanghai Pudong Natatorium in China Friday, reports UNB. Dipu won the gold medal clocking...
KARACHI, Oct 5 (BBC): South Africa sealed an emphatic 160-run victory over Pakistan before tea on the final day of the first Test in Karachi. Resuming on 146-3 in search of 424, Younus Khan clipped Andre Nel to the boundary...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Friday named a 20-member national squad for the World Cup qualifying round home match against Tajikistan to be held on October 8 at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city at 3:00 pm, reports UNB.Bangladesh squad:...
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