GAIBANDHA, Dec 7 (BSS): Adviser for Industries Geeteara Safiya Chowdhury has asked the authorities of local sugar mills to increase their production in the country to reduce the dependence on imported sugar. In this respect, she has suggested the farmers...
DU CorrespondentThe Dhaka University (DU) authorities handed over three fake candidates to the police Friday, as they tried to appear at the admission test for Ka unit of the university as proxy for others.The fake examinees are a BUET student...
Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh (WTB) took the intellectually challenged (disabled) children of the Sena Shohayok School of Dhaka Cantonment to Dhaka Zoo Friday for the whole day, reports UNB.This was arranged to launch a programme titled `Dreamnight at the Zoo'...
BAGERHAT, Dec 7 (UNB): About 40,000 people in four unions of Shoronkhola Upazila beside the Baleswar river embankment are passing their days in great uncertainty.Several portions of the 20-kilometre (km) embankment on the river had been washed away by tidal...
BAGERHAT, Dec 7 (UNB) : The Army has set up an evening library at Tafalbari village to facilitate the study of the students of cyclone-ravaged Shoronkhola Upazila ahead of the SSC examination.The library was opened Thursday in two rooms of...
Gonotantrik Bam Morcha (Democratic Left Alliance) has demanded immediate release of four Rajshahi University teachers, who were sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment for violating the Emergency Power Rules, reports UNB.Leaders of the alliance, in a press release Friday, said...
BAGERHAT, Dec 7 (UNB): After 21 days of cyclone Sidr, two more decomposed bodies were recovered today (Friday) from Shoronkhola Upazila, raising the death toll to 793 in the district.According to locals, the body of a baby was found at...
BANDARBAN, Dec 7 (UNB): A seminar will be held at Bandarban Indigenous Cultural Institute auditorium tomorrow (Saturday) to encourage entrepreneurs to invest in different sectors in the district.Organised by the CHT Affairs Ministry, the seminar will discuss the economic potentiality...
FE Report Prices of finer varieties of rice and baby food of some brands registered an upward trend at the retail level in the city markets over the last one week compared to their previous prices, market sources said. During...
FE ReportAiming to ensure modem banking support to the people of the country, Mutual Trust Bank Limited has opened the 28th branch of the bank at Denayetpur, Raipur in Laxmipur district recently.MTBL Vice Chairman and ACI Group Managing Director Arif...
FE ReportThe seventh national awards giving ceremony of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) will be held today (Saturday) at 7:00 pm at a city hotel.Finance Adviser AB Mirza Azizul Islam will be present as the chief guest...
Sarwar ZahanThe inter-bank call money rate ended slightly low last week despite strong demand for and withdrawal of cash through auctions of reverse repurchase agreement (repo), treasury bills, Bangladesh Bank (BB) bills and Bangladesh government treasury (BGT) bonds, fund managers...
FE ReportThe Asset Management Company Limited (AMCL), a subsidiary of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), has declared net asset values (NAV) of its two unit funds.The total NAV of ICB AMCL Unit Fund stood at Tk 481,503,359.08 on the basis...
Commercial Bank of CeylonDecember 02 - December 06, 2007The local call money market was almost stable in the past week. The average interbank call money rate drifted between 6.50 per cent and 6.65 per cent against 6.50 per cent and...
Mohammedan Sporting Club (MSC) clinched the "best-of-three football" title beating arch rivals Abahani Limited by 4-2 goals in tiebreaker in the third match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium Friday, reports UNB.The match rolled into tiebreaker after the stipulated time ended...
Visiting Bangladesh Under-19 team upset Pakistan Under-19 team by two wickets in the 5th one-day match to clinch the five match series 3-2 Friday at the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) ground in Karachi, reports UNB.Batting first, Pakistan U-19 team...
A record opening stand of 167 was not enough for Zimbabwe as Ruanko Morten helped the West Indies to a five-wicket win and a series-clinching 3-1 lead, reports BBC. Zimbabwe got off to the best of starts thanks to openers...
Runners up Rajshahi Division smell win against Barisal Division in the 7th round four-day match of the Ispahani Mirzapore Tea 9th National Cricket League as they require another 49 runs with 9 wickets in hand on the final day today...
Youth and Sports Adviser Tapan Chowdhury announced the names of 10 sports personalities for the National Sports Award for the year 2007, reports UNB. The Adviser announced the names at a press conference at his Ministry Thursday. The awardees included...
Grandmaster Abdullah Al Rakib jointly share the second slot with 12 players securing five points after the 6th round of the Commonwealth Chess Championship in New Delhi Thursday, reports UNB.Another two Bangladeshi GMs Niaz Murshed and Reefat Bin Sattar earned...
BANGALORE, Dec 7 (BBC): India's Sachin Tendulkar is a doubt for the final Test against Pakistan, which starts in Bangalore Saturday, because of a knee injury. Gautam Gambhir is standing by, although captain Anil Kumble said of Tendulkar: "His condition...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7 (Reuters): Pakistani opposition parties have failed to reach agreement on demands to set the government to ensure their participation in next month's election, making a united opposition boycott increasingly unlikely. Former prime ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir...
BRUSSELS, Dec 07 (AP): Armed with the full support of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) allies, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to convince a skeptical Russia that it should back US plans to step up pressure on Iran...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec 7 (Reuters): NASA postponed Friday's launch of space shuttle Atlantis to resolve a fuel sensor problem and officials said it would be Saturday at the earliest before they tried again. It was the second time Atlantis'...
LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters): Many teachers do not know enough about poetry, leaving their pupils with only limited experience of classic poems and verses from other cultures, school inspectorate Ofsted said Friday. Government-led initiatives to raise standards of basic literacy...
WASHINGTON, Dec 07 (AP): The Central Intellegence Agency (CIA) destroyed videotapes it made in 2002 of two top terror suspects because it was afraid that keeping them 'posed a security risk', Director Michael Hayden has told agency employees. Hayden's revelation...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec 7 (Reuters): The United Nations praised Thursday a step by a US Senate committee to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the world's top carbon emitter even as Washington reaffirmed opposition to mandatory caps. "That's a very...
BAGHDAD, Dec 07 (AP): A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt Friday outside the offices of an anti-al-Qaeda group that has joined forces with the US, killing at least 15 people, police said. It was Iraq's second suicide attack...
TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters): An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 jolted a tiny island about 500 km (310 miles) south of Tokyo Friday, a Japanese government agency said. The quake, at 9:48 am (0048 GMT), was felt in...
ROME, Dec 7 (Reuters): Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi narrowly won a vote of confidence in the upper house of parliament on Thursday over a security package that would allow the expulsion of EU citizens deemed to be a danger...
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