Thousands of people of Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal thronged outside photo studios with their cows as the Border Security Force (BSF) authority has introduced ID cards for cattle in a bid to stop their smuggling...
FE Report Executive officers of private sector companies will have an opportunity to exchange ideas on public-private partnership (PPP) with ministers and senior government officials at a United Nations business forum to be held in October in Seoul, Republic of...
COMILLA, Aug 31 (UNB): Three people and a minor girl were killed and two others injured in three separate road mishaps Thursday.In Comilla, a three-year-old girl was crushed under the wheels of a bus at Rampur on Comilla-Sylhet highway under...
The fourth Pakistan Dates Show-2007 will begin tomorrow (Sunday) at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel, reports UNB.The Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh in collaboration with Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) is organising the two-day show.Commerce Secretary Feroz Ahmed will inaugurate the...
BARISAL, Aug 31 (UNB): The court of Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal here Wednesday convicted three people and awarded them life term imprisonment in a murder case. The convicts are Rana Sikdar, Eskandar Molla and Rafiq Talukdar. All of them were...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 31 (UNB): The members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) seized smuggled Indian cloths worth Tk 5.0 million from a truck near Reazuddin Bazaar in the city Thursday afternoon.Acting on a tip-off, they chased the truck and seized 30 sacks...
SIRAJGANJ, Aug 31 (UNB): About 37 people were injured in two separate clashes in the district town and Ullapara Pourashava Thursday.Police said residents of Hossainpur and Dhanbandhi Dubapara mahallas in the town locked in a fierce clash over previous enmity...
KISHOREGANJ, Aug 31 (UNB): Abdul Aziz (60) was hacked to death at Chandpur Dhoparbag village under Kotiadi Upazila Wednesday night.Sources said some terrorists swooped on Aziz when he was returning home from mosque at midnight after prayers of holy Shab-e-Barat...
FE ReportCancer patient Munia, a nine-year-old girl now undergoing treatment at Ahsania Mission Cancer Hospital in the city, appealed for help.Daughter of Abdul Mannan at South Kafrul under Dhaka Cantonment Thana in the city, Munia is a student of class...
BARISAL, Aug 31 (UNB): The court of Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal here Wednesday convicted three people and awarded them life term imprisonment in a murder case. The convicts are Rana Sikdar, Eskandar Molla and Rafiq Talukdar. All of them were...
Awami League (AL) will have to join the election process, as it is the only way to free party chief Sheikh Hasina, said Amir Hossain Amu, a senior member of the party presidium, reports UNB."To free our leader Sheikh Hasina,...
Losing their only living places at Dhaka University dormitories due to its indefinite closure, hundreds of resident students are facing a severe problem in continuing their part-time employments by which they used to meet their own educational expenses and often...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has stressed the importance of BNP's reform to modernise the party, saying it was Tarique Zia who first launched the movement for its reform, although many now talk about reform, reports UNB."It was BNP's Senior Joint...
Former president of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) AAMS Arefin Siddique has said the university dormitories should be reopened, at least on a limited scale, in the interest of the investigation launched into the recent campus violence, reports UNB."The nation...
BNP's student wing president Azizul Bari Helal was remanded Friday afresh in custody in a second case involving recent campus violence that later spread to streets, reports bdnews24.com.Interrogators will now question Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal President Helal for four more days...
President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed and Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Friday felicitated Uzbek President Islam Abduganievich Karimov on the occasion of the Independence Day of Uzbekistan, reports UNB.In a message to his counterpart, President Dr Iajuddin said he is...
SHERPUR, Aug 31 (UNB): Joint forces Friday arrested Nakla Pourasava chairman from his office on charge of embezzling rice allocated for poor people under vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme.The joint forces raided the pourasava office at noon and picked up...
Bangladesh-Libya Brotherhood Association President Advocate Eskander Ali Miah and General Secretary M Mujibur Rahman issued a joint statement Friday congratulating Great Leader of Libya's Great Al-Fatah Revolution, Moammar Al-Gaddafi, and his people on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of...
The United Kingdom (UK) has contributed US$ 20 million (Tk 140 crore) towards Bangladesh's 'Preparation of Electoral Roll with Photographs (PERP)' project to support the government of Bangladesh's effort to hold a credible, safe and fair election, reports UNB. UK's...
RANGPUR, Aug 30 (BSS): A total of 72,696 people of Rangpur municipality got their all formalities completed, including photography and fingerprinting by Friday evening, to register themselves as voters and to get national identity cards (NICs).The third phase of the...
The one-member judicial commission to probe the August 20-21 incidents on the Dhaka University (DU) campus will start functioning Saturday, reports UNB. The commission office at the central Circuit House Road, Kakrail will remain open from 9:00 am. All those...
JESSORE, Augt 30 (bdnews24.com): Two Indian nationals were arrested while they were moving about suspiciously in the Jessore Cantonment area Thursday.Soldiers of Jessore Cantonment later handed them over to Kotwali Police Station.The two men were identified as Mobin Saha of...
NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (AFP): India's scorching economic growth will likely show a slight slowdown in first quarter data due Friday and risk of a sharper deceleration looms if the US subprime crisis persists, economists said. Gross domestic product growth...
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (AFP): Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said in a letter to a US senator that the central bank would act "as needed" to ease the impact of a credit squeeze on the US economy. The letter by...
DUBAI, Aug 30 (AFP): The Gulf emirate of Dubai is making headlines with a series of high-profile investments abroad in everything from aircraft builders to Las Vegas casinos, but some deals are financially risky and could even spark a protectionist...
BEIJING, Aug 30 (CEIS): China's top leader Hu Jintao has called for accelerating banking reform to push forward the sustainable and healthy development of the country's financial sector. Hu, state president and general secretary of the Communist Party of China...
LAHORE, Aug 30 (APP): Director, Indian Ministry of Commerce, Rajeev Kumar has invited members of Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to take part in exhibitions being held in India to gain first-hand knowledge about business opportunities. Addressing the...
TOKYO, Aug 30 (AFP): Japan and the European Union will launch talks next month to enhance economic cooperation in the first step to a long-shot possibility of a free trade deal, officials said yesterday. The two major economic blocs are...
BEIJING, Aug 30 (CEIS): China's currency, the yuan, yesterday hit a new high against the US dollar for the second consecutive day after more than one month of downward adjustment, according to the Chinese Foreign Exchange Trading System. The central...
BRUSSELS, Aug 30 (AFP): The European Commission voted yesterday in favour of extending anti-dumping duties on Chinese- made energy-saving light bulbs for up to a year, a spokesman said. The decision came despite a high-level EU drive to use more...
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