NEW HAVEN, United States, Aug 21 (AFP): High seeds Tommy Robredo and Elena Dementieva posted victories here on Monday before rain halted play at the US Open tune-up for both the ATP and WTA players.The second-seeded Spaniard Robredo withstood a...
Bangladesh Army team emerged champions in the Services Kabaddi League beating Bangladesh Rifles by 26-24 points with one creditable lona in the final at Mirpur Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium Tuesday, reports UNB.Mohammad Rabiul of the Army team was adjudged the...
BFF Eleven faces Orissa at 4pm today (Wednesday) in the opening encounter of the women's football exhibition match at the Ansar and VDP Academy ground in Shafipur, reports UNB. "I am very pleased that the women play football without any...
Bangladesh takes on Cambodia today (Wednesday) in the five-nation 13th Nehru Cup Football tournament with a hope to restore some pride, reports UNB. The match kicks off at 7:30pm (BST). Indian satellite TV channel Zee Sports will telecast live the...
An exhibition soccer match between football players and Bangladesh Film Artistes Association will be held at Bangabandhu National Stadium at 4pm Thursday to help the country's flood victims, reports UNB.Former and current players of top football clubs in Dhaka and...
The Indian board has sacked Kapil Dev as chairman of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) with immediate effect. Ajay Shirke, the vice-chairman of the NCA, will take over as the acting chairman and a new appointment for the post will...
DU CorrespondentAngry students staged violent demonstration, clashed with police and damaged dozens of vehicles on Dhaka University (DU) campus and its adjoining areas for the second consecutive day Tuesday demanding withdrawal of army camp from the campus. The violence also...
FE Report Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U. Ahmed has urged the banks to encourage businessmen, particularly small and medium ones, for importing essential items including food grains to meet the growing demand in the local markets. "You can...
FE ReportThe government decided Sunday to withdraw the army camp from the trouble-torn Dhaka University campus by today (Wednesday). The withdrawal started from 8 pm Tuesday.A top-level meeting of the government, presided over by Chief Adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, also...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The immediate past political government tried to streamline the land registration system with the objectives of reducing the hassles that both buyers and sellers of land and immovable property have to face very often and bringing down...
After seven months of the state of emergency the country has passed through, the Emergency Power Rules (EPR) made under the Emergency Power Ordinance has come under challenge in the High Court, reports UNB.After preliminary hearing of a writ petition...
The third anniversary of the brutal grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in the city was marked Tuesday with a renewed demand for a fair investigation into the gruesome political killing. AL and its allies...
FE ReportImposition of increased income tax on interests/profits of savings certificates under the recent budget will discourage investments, particularly from small investors in savings certificates, the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) observed in an editorial comment in...
Shakhawat Hossain Land acquisition for the Padma Bridge construction is expected to start from next month. The Ministry of Communication (MoC) will seek Tk 3.2 billion from the finance ministry for the purpose, official source said.The MoC has started to...
Army chief General Moeen U Ahmed Tuesday paid a courtesy call on President Iajuddin Ahmed at Bangabhaban. General Moeen apprised the President of the army's participation in activities taken to support the flood victims and for their rehabilitation across the...
JHENIDAH, Aug 21: More than 300 farmers Tuesday demonstrated in front of the upazila nirbahi officer’s (UNO) office demanding fertiliser supply. Sadar Upazila UNO ASM Asaduzzaman admitted that farmers of Ganna union agitated in front of his office in the...
The executive engineer of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) M Abdul Aziz has been suspended, while its chief engineer Leyaqat Ali Sharif has been served with a show-cause notice for embezzlement of Tk 5.0 million from the KCC's transport fund. According...
M Azizur RahmanState-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has received lukewarm response to its tender for purchase of a rig for drilling gas wells."Only two foreign companies, both Chinese, submitted their bid documents to supply the rig...
Naim-Ul-KarimThe government has decided to extend a loan of Tk 1.07 billion to the Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC) to help the latter settle the money it owes to the retrenched officials, employees and workers of a number of textile...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has finalised the Fish and Fish Products Inspection and Quality Control Ordinance-2007 in fulfillment of one of several compliance issues.The Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock in an inter-ministerial meeting Sunday finalised the policy ahead of a...
AZM AnasThe caretaker government will begin talks with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in early next month to secure US$150 million in loan meant for policy reform in the governance sector, sources said.They said officials of the government and the...
FE Report A powerful Myanmar delegation is arriving in Dhaka in the first week of September to discuss ways to boost bilateral cooperation in trade, commerce, investment and tourism between the two countries, diplomatic sources said. They said General Maung...
FE ReportShare price indices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) declined Tuesday, led by banks, halting a two-day market rally.Market operators said majority of shares lost in trading because of profit-taking by investors.Share prices of 21 out of 25 banks...
The death toll from flood-related incidents like drowning, waterborne diseases and snakebites rose to 615 with 28 more deaths reported in the 24 hours until Tuesday morning, reports UNB.According to official statistics, 3,878 more people were affected by diarrhoea in...
FE ReportThe participation of Bangladesh in the first SAARC transport ministers' meeting in New Delhi later this month on opening up all strategic corridors for use by member nations is uncertain due to the floods in the country, diplomatic sources...
THE interim administration, according to a report published in this daily, has put off its decision to increase power and gas tariff and fuel oil prices in view of the deteriorating price situation and the devastation caused by monsoon flood....
Qazi Azad THIS is the same country that has had a raging debate a few years ago about the desirability of export of its gas to India, which is now considering seriously to import it. According to a report, published...
Eric GreenTHE international sports community is reaching out to many of the world's 20 million refugees and internally displaced people in an effort to meet some of their basic needs and provide hope for a better future.The Giving is Winning...
Alec RussellIn Dream of the Dog, a powerful new South African play about confronting the past, one of the characters, an ageing white racist farmer, is baffled when one of his former black labourers returns after the end of apartheid...
EIGHT people, including five schoolchildren, were killed and two critically injured in an accident at Kumira of Sitakunda in Chittagong on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway last Monday. It was certainly a great tragedy unfolded yet again on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. Road...
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