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An incisive spell of 3 for 28 from offspinner Sunette Loubser, followed by a patient fifty from opener Lizelle Lee powered South Africa Women to a six-wicket win over Bangladesh Women in Benoni.
Bangladesh’s nutrition activists raised their voice on Saturday to press for ‘multi-sectoral’ efforts to purge widespread malnutrition.
A devastating fire gutted 58 tin-shed houses near Rony Market in the city’s Kamrangirchar area on Saturday afternoon.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in a drive arrested 38 people from Sea Park Hotel near the sea beach here on Saturday.
A parliamentary panel has recommended special birth control measures for Rohingya refugee families in Bangladesh who want bigger family members to secure more rations.
Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) on Saturday provided two refrigerators to its two remittance clients for receiving foreign remittance from the Bank through Express Money.
BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday said people will resist with their full force the government’s move to hold a stage-managed election under a partisan administration.
National Committee to Protect Oil Gas Mineral Resources Power and Ports on Saturday issued an ultimatum to the government asking it to roll back the controversial 1320 MW coal-fired Rampal power plant project by Monday.
Oh! Calcutta, a Bengali cuisine restaurant here launched ‘The River Water Hilsa Festival’, a month-long fair, on Saturday promising to offer varieties of delicious dishes of hilsa.
The preparations for the 10th parliamentary elections is yet to gather pace as the Election Commission (EC) has not been able to pull together the necessary polls materials and set up polling centres across the country.
Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) is alert but not concerned over the report that Myanmar has deployed three regular army battalions along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Ready-made garment workers have sought the Prime Minister’s intervention to enhance their minimum monthly wage to Tk 8,000.
Former chairman of Bangladesh Krishi Bank Khondokar Ibrahim Khaled on Saturday said the stock market has failed to regain investors’ confidence as most of the recommendations of his committee that investigated the share market scam remained unimplemented.
The government has collected around Tk 8 billion in taxes from across Bangladesh in the six days of the week-long Income Tax Fair 2013.
Bangladesh’s permanent representative at the UN has contradicted media reports of United Nations inviting Bangladeshi opposition party leaders to resolve the country’s current political stalemate.
Construction work of the upgraded 50-bed Nageswari Upazila Health Complex at Taka 9,93,15,416 has begun at Nageswari upazila town in Kurigram after upgradation from its previous 30-bed capacity.
Three children, including two siblings, drowned in a pond at Faridpur in Charghat upazila Saturday noon.
Affected farmers get layers, feed, cages A total of 40 affected farmers of Sadullapur upazila got layers, feed and cages from the government on Friday to recover their losses caused by bird flu attack.
An electrical worker died after he fell from an electric pole at Bhartokhala in Dakkhin Surma area on Friday.
At least 10 people were injured as two rival groups of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) locked into a clash on the Bangladesh Agriculture University (BAU) campus on Friday.
Fifty-five activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir have been sued on charge of attacking police in two separate incidents in the city on Thursday, second day of the 48-hour Jamaat-enforced hartal.
Police arrested seven alleged criminals when they were about to commit a robbery incident at Shikdar Matha Road in Raipur upazila early Friday.
One person was killed and four others were injured in two separate road accidents in Paba upazila and the city on Friday.
Jute growers in Bogra, to their utter disappointment and shocks, are being denied actual prices of their produce in the local markets.
A young man was killed when a goods-laden truck hit his bicycle at Tuzulpur Bazar on the Satkhira-Jessore Highway in sadar upazila on Friday.
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