KUSHTIA, Aug 10 (UNB): A local Awami League (AL) leader was arrested from Chandgram Naodapara village in Bheramara Upazila Thursday for not repaying bank loan.Police said Bheramara Upazila AL vice-president Abul Hossain, also former chairman of Chandgram Union Parishad, took...
SYLHET, Aug 10 (UNB): Ten students of the Sylhet Polytechnic Institute were injured during a clash between the activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student wing of BNP, and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, here Thursday night.Institution...
NARSINGDI, Aug 10 (UNB): Twenty people, including a policeman, were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over the ownership of a government 'beel' at Nilakka village in Belabo Upazila Friday.Local sources said the clash took place between...
PANCHAGARH, Aug 10 (UNB): A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Tentulia border Friday morning.The dead was identified as Zia (35) of Tentulia Crossing.The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and local sources said the BSF...
CHITTAGONG, August 10 (bdnews24.com): The seismic centre in Chittagong has got a facelift with modern equipment and sensors to better monitor information on earthquakes, according to officials. The centre, in the port city's Ambagan, is now connected with three other...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 10 (BSS): Agriculture, Fisheries and Livestock Adviser CS Karim said the government would soon start rehabilitation programme for flood affected people the district. "Though the devastating flood was tackled with coordinated efforts of joint forces and local administration,...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, July 10: Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has prepared the Second Phase list of the unapproved establishments and also those which had been constructed in violation of the approved design in different parts of the city. In this connection,...
Twenty-two persons were killed and many others injured in separate incidents in different places of the country during the last three days, report agencies.In Noakhali, a teenage schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of their bathroom...
The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development has provided 500.000 Euro for the relief of flood victims in Bangladesh, reports BSS.The ministry said the money would go to the World Food programme so it could send extra supplies of...
Australia has donated US$ 90,000 for the flood victims of Bangladesh through United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), reports UNB.The WFP Wednesday welcomed the contribution from the Australian government to provide food to the most vulnerable flood affected people in...
Bangladesh Bar Council has urged the country's lawyers to stand beside the flood victims, reports UNB.The call was made from an emergency meeting of the Bar Council on Tuesday to face the prevailing flood situation. Attorney General and ex-officio Chairman...
The fall of VVS Laxman's wicket, followed by the dismissal of Sachin Tendulkar, set India back a bit in the crucial first session of the second day's play at The Oval. That said, India had motored along from their overnight...
The 15-member Bangladesh national cricket team, led by Mohammad Ashraful, reached Sylhet Friday to undergo an extensive training for the Twenty20 World Cup.The week-long residential training camp begins today (Saturday) at the warfare wing of the Bangladesh Army's School of...
HOLLYWOOD, Aug 9 (AFP): Evander Holyfield can become a world heavyweight champion for the fifth time when he fights Russia's undefeated Sultan Ibragimov on October 13 in Moscow six days before his 45th birthday.Holyfield will fight for the lesser-regarded World...
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (AFP): David Beckham was delighted to finally make his Major League Soccer (MLS) debut Thursday, but disappointed he couldn't help his Los Angeles Galaxy to a victory. "It was a good night, but it was also a...
LOS ANGELES, Aug 10 (AFP): Top-seeded Maria Sharapova struggled past Michaella Krajicek here Thursday to become one of four Russians to book quarter-final berth at this 600,000-dollar US Open tuneup. Sharapova, winner of the tier one title in San Diego...
UNB news agency made a flying start in the Meril Media Cup Football Tournament beating formidable Channel i by 2-0 goals in one of the eight opening day matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Friday, reports UNB.Imran...
BCCI President Sharad Pawar has defended the Indian board's stand on withdrawing financial benefits from players involved with the Indian Cricket League (ICL), saying the tournament was an "out and out commercial venture". The players, he said, were free to...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will announce today (Saturday) separate national football squads for the upcoming two international meets to be held this month.The BFF would name a 20-member squad for the Nehru Cup Football Tournament and another 18-member squad for...
NEW DELHI, Aug 10 (PTI): After rectifying a technical glitch in his action, Arjuna award winning archer Jayanta Talukdar is now aiming at the ultimate recognition in Indian sport-the Khel Ratna.Talukdar said he was now consistently scoring well and looked...
Saiful KaiserIndia completed its first innnings of the last test against England at Oval with a massive total of 664 all out. Everyone contributed, everyone got to score something. Although scribes and fans alike had worried that the good start...
Speakers at a workshop Thursday emphasised incorporation of disaster risk reduction into the national planning process and suggested policy intervention and required institutional arrangement by the Government of Bangladesh, said a press release. The workshop on "Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction...
International Youth Day will be observed across the country, as elsewhere in the world, Sunday, reports UNB.This year's theme of the day is "Be seen, be heard: Youth Participation for Development".To mark the day, Youth Development Department and UNFPA will...
Visiting Chinese military delegation, led by General Chen Bingde, paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed at his office Thursday, reports UNB.Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh and senior army officers of the Army Headquarters were...
SUNDARBANS, Aug 9 (BSS):Eleven young of `Romeos', a rare species of alligators in the Sundarbans, were hatched out at the crocodile reproductive centre in Karamjal in the Sundarbans Monday after a long efforts of the researchers.The lone crocodile reproductive centre...
FE Report Enamul Haque Md. Al Mamun (52), an official of Bangladesh T & T Board, Mahakhali Wireless Transmission Region, has been missing since August 10, 2006. Enamul, elder brother of Zulfikar Ali Manik, reporter of the Daily Star, had...
The 30th death anniversary of Matiur Rahman, former Chief Reporter of the Bangladesh Times and the Weekly Holiday, will be observed in the city today (Friday), reports BSS. He died of cancer at the age of 37.Before Liberation, Matiur Rahman...
All employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited Thursday donated their one day's salary worth Tk 1 million to the Chief Adviser's relief fund for the flood victims.
A doa mahfil on Khatem-e Yunus will be held at the centre of Merajul Mominat at 1/13 Iqbal Road in the city's Mohammadpur area today (Friday). Merajul Mominat, a religious organisation for women, organised the mahfil to celebrate its 28th...
President Iajuddin Ahmed stressed the need for enhancing the visit, training and technical cooperation programmes concerning the armed forces of Bangladesh and China to the mutual benefit, reports UNB.He made the suggestion when a 12-member visiting delegation led by General...
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