ABN Amro has warned that the ever-rising costs of borrowing could spark a global scale housing slump. The investment bank says that families have burdened themselves with unsustainably large mortgages which could leave them vulnerable to spiking increases in bond...
England were denied victory in the first Test at Lord's when bad light and rain closed in with India nine wickets down. Five minutes before tea Mahendra Singh Dhoni, with a valiant 76 to his name, and Sreesanth were offered...
A late goal by Narayan Pal guided Chittagong Abahani to a lone goal victory over Farashganj SC in the second phase match of the B League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Tuesday, reports UNB.With this result, Chittagong...
Holders BJMC again emerged champions of the BASIC Bank 18th National Women's Handball Champ-ionship beating last year's runners-up Bangladesh Ansar & VDP by 14-11 goals in the final at the Outer Stadium Handball court Tuesday, reports UNB.The champions led the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 24 (AFP): Iraq's Brazilian coach Jorvan Vieira has refused to say whether he will sign a new contract after defying the odds to guide his team to the Asian Cup semi-finals.Vieira, 53, inked a two-month deal with...
TOKYO, Jul 24 (AFP): Italian Serie A club Catania Tuesday cancelled their tour of Japan, blaming a powerful earthquake that caused a small nuclear radiation leak.Concerns over the nuclear issue "were felt strongly at various levels of the club," said...
BREMEN (German), Jul 24 (AFP): Ivory Coast international Boubacar Sanogo has waved goodbye to Hamburg's boo boys and signed a four-year contract at Werder Bremen, the club announced Tuesday.The 24-year-old striker endured a torrid year at Hamburg, where he was...
Bangladesh Under-19 cricket team will face India in their last league match of the tri-nation Under-19 Cricket Tournament tomorrow (Thursday) at the Police Park ground in Colombo, reports UNB.The junior Tigers with three points are two points ahead of Sri...
MANCHESTER (England), Jul 24 (AFP): Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra expects Sven Goran Eriksson to sign at least two Thailand stars as he continues rebuilding the Premiership team.Former Thai prime minster Shinawatra took total control of City on Monday after...
FRANKFURT, Jul 24 (AP): German Olympic officials have ruled out a bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics and backed Munich as a possible candidate for the 2018 Winter Games.Hamburg and Berlin had expressed interest in bidding for 2016 but the...
LOS ANGELES, Jul 24 (AFP): Laila Ali, the daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, has married retired American football star Curtis Conway in Los Angeles, entertainment press reported Monday.Ali, who like her father is a world champion boxer, tied the...
Health Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman Tuesday said the recent mass sickness of school students across the country is nothing but a kind of temporary "psychogenic illness," reports UNB."This is not a dangerous physical disease as it neither has any death...
FE ReportEducation, Charitable and Humanitarian Organisation (ECHO) provided over Tk 0.44 million to some 55 underprivileged but meritorious students in three categories in Dhaka region.The organisation handed over the aforesaid amount to the students at a stipend distribution ceremony in...
BAGERHAT, July 24 (UNB): Armed pirates kidnapped four fishermen along with a trawler and looted Hilsa fish from Kotkar Kader canal near the Sundarbans Tuesday morning, leaving five people injured.Witnesses said a gang of pirates swooped on the trawlers and...
Naim-Ul-KarimA multi-million dollar project for water resource and environment management in Dhaka aiming at protecting the capital city from greenhouse effects and water logging is under active consideration of the government, sources said.They said the feasibility study on the proposed...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, July 24: The package of recommendations in the Master Plan of Chittagong City, has not yet been implemented excepting a few due to lack of co-ordination between Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) even after...
LAXMIPUR, July 24 (UNB): Two people have been awarded death sentence by the Additional District and Sessions Judge in the sensational Khokon murder case in the district.The convicts are Nurul Amin, son of Mansur Ahmed of Tumchar village and Abul...
FARIDPUR, July 24 (UNB): Pirates looted valuables worth over Tk 2.0 million from the passengers of a trawler in the Padma river near Char Vhadrashan Upazila Monday, leaving five passengers injured. Police said when a Dohar bound trawler from Gopalpur...
Secretary general of KPSP and member of International AIDS Society (Geneva, Switzerland) Md Imran Hasan recently left Dhaka for Australia. Md Imran Hasan will participate the 4th ISA Conference on HIV Pathogenesis Treatment and Prevention at Sydney.International AIDS Society (Geneva,...
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's sister Sheikh Rehana Tuesday came down hard on the emergency government for implicating her in an extortion case. United Kingdom resident Rehana told the bdnews24.com by phone from London: "The caretaker government is not...
The overall law and order situation in the country improved compared to any period of the previous governments though there were a few killings in the city in recent times.Adviser for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, and Information Mainul Hosein...
President Iajuddin Ahmed urged all concerned to take appropriate measures for building skilled human resources so that the country can efficiently face the challenges of the 21st century.The President said this while addressing the inaugural session of the seventh international...
Some student protesters Tuesday brought out a procession near Kuwait Moitree Hall of the Dhaka University and burned an effigy of Adviser for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, and Information Mainul Hosein, reports UNB.Campus sources said the protesters staged the...
The caretaker government constituted a 15-member ad-hoc Bar Council, a statutory body regulating country's lawyers, pending its election, reports UNB.An official announcement on the formation of the Bar Council Tuesday said, "The Attorney General of Bangladesh will act as its...
Shakhawat Hossain The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is in a dilemma whether or not to pay heed to hundreds of appeals for extension of time for declaring undisclosed income by paying normal rate of tax, in addition to five...
The police Tuesday submitted a charge sheet to the CMM Court against Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and her cousin and former minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim in an extortion case, report UNB/bdnews24.com. Managing Director of...
Detained ex-premier and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina Monday said she is not scared of 'death' after surviving the August 15, 1975 carnage and the August 21, 2004 grisly grenade attack on her, reports UNB."By the grace of Almighty Allah,...
Siddique Islam The government is considering a move to allow some enterprises located in the export processing zones (EPZs) to sell a maximum of 10 per cent of their products in the local market, on fulfilment of some criteria. The...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has taken a fresh move, seeking removal of non-tariff and para-tariff barriers on export of Bangladeshi products to India. A Bangladesh team left for New Delhi Tuesday to negotiate with Indian officials on elimination of such...
M Azizur RahmanA District Judge's court issued an injunction Sunday on the oil company Chevron Bangladesh, for preventing it from approaching the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to settle its dispute with Petrobangla over payment of gas.The...
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