The Bangladesh Bank has ordered suspension of all financial transactions through mobile banking until 5pm Tuesday at the Election Commission’s ‘request’, a senior bank official says.
Year: 2015
Baltimore streets quiet after first night of curfew enforcement
The streets of Baltimore were largely quiet overnight, with only scattered arrests reported during a curfew imposed after the latest wave of rioting fueled by anger against US police killings of black men.
Rare elephant bird egg could fetch more than $70,000 at auction
Believed to be more than 400 years old and nearly 200 times the size of a chicken egg, an extremely rare elephant bird egg will be auctioned in London this week, with an estimated price tag of up to $76,000.
City elections held in healthy atmosphere, Bnp rejected: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said people of Bangladesh would never vote for a party like BNP and in future people of the whole country will reject them like yesterday’s city poll in Dhaka and Chittagong. “Why people will…
Duration of protocol on water transit for India extended
The Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade (PIWTT) between India and Bangladesh will be renewed after every five years instead of the current norm of three years. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan announced the decision at a press briefing at…
JU students for trial of sexual offenders
Students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) have demanded exemplary punishment against sexual harassment of a indigenous female student on the ‘Pahela Baishakh’ night. The demand was voiced from programme under the banner ‘Nipironer Birudhe Jahangirnagar’organised in front of the administration building…
Ban Ki-moon wants inquiry of electoral fraud
The secretary general of the United Nations Ban ki-moon want competent authorities to investigate all allegations of electoral fraud in the city corporation elections of Dhaka and Chittagong.
Official mourning declared for Nepal quake victims
Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday’s earthquake in which more than 5,000 people are now known to have died. Prime Minister Sushil Koirala says the government is doing all it can but is overwhelmed…
Account of election observers of city polls
A registered election observer from Mass Line Media Centre, a local NGO that has been engaged in observing elections since 2003, was forced to leave a polling centre at gunpoint, as ‘ruling party men’ engaged in acts of rigging. The…
AL-backed candidates elected in lack-lustre polls
Awami League-backed candidates Sayeed Khokon, Annisul Huq and AJM Nasir were unofficially elected mayors of three major city corporations in Dhaka and Chittagong in Tuesday’s elections amid boycott by pro-BNP contenders. Before the boycott was announced by the Bnp-backed candidates…
Joke with nation in name of election: Charmonai Pir
The Pir Shaheb of Charmonai, Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim on tuesday said that the backbone of the electoral process had been broken and a constitutional body like the Election Commission destroyed and turned into government’s plaything through vote rigging…
Swedish ambassador caught in crossfire
Swedish ambassador to Dhaka Johan Frisell inadvertently got a taste of the dark and rough side to politics in Bangladesh, as he found himself caught in the middle of a serious clash between two rival councilor candidates supporters. Independent candidate…
Afroza Abbas could not cast her vote
Afroza Abbas, wife of BNP-backed mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas for Dhaka South City Corporation, did not cast her vote as she had to rush to different polling stations after receiving complains that many polling agents of Abbas was being ousted…
Low voter turnout after boycott: Zonaid Saki rejects polls
With the voting period drawing to a close for the Dhaka North and Dhaka South city corporation elections, very low turnout has been reported from different areas of the capital. Though no major incident of violence has been reported at…
CEC goes silent amid charges city polls were rigged
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad has declined to comment on the environment of the city corporation polls amidst allegations of large-scale rigging. He was asked about the measures taken to check clashes in polling centres, stuffing of false votes…
Bumper production of Boro expected in Netrakona
Farmers of the district are expecting a bumper production of Boro as they are getting maximum output of the paddy in most of the areas during the current season.
Bumper chilly production likely in Bogra
Farmers of Bogra district are hopeful of achieving bumper production of Chilly in this season as the agricultural imputes are provided by local Department of Agriculture Extension. Besides, the favourable climate condition also helps to grow bumper chilly.
‘Conservation technologies for boosting maize production stressed’
Experts at a farmers’ filed day have stressed on adoption of the Conservation Agriculture (CA)-based technologies for boosting maize production at reduced cost to ensure food security under adverse climate.
Six armed dacoits arrested in Ctg
Police rounded up six armed dacoits from Jurargonj area under Mirsarai upazila of the district on Monday morning.
Cracks found at RU newly constructed Motihar hall Probe committee formed
Several cracks have been found at newly constructed Motihar hall at Rajshahi University (RU).
Fire at Barisal Bhatarkhal slum gutted thirteen houses, damaging properties worth Tk 30 lakhs
Fire at Bhatarkhal slum area of Kirtonkhola river side in Barisal city, gutted and damaged thirteen houses on Monday noon.
‘Trained Imams can help end social crimes and other anarchies’
Speakers said the trained imams have a vital role to play for freeing the society from all sorts of social and moral degradation tendencies, especially fundamentalism, terrorism and violence against women.
National Legal Aid Day celebrated in Gaibandha
National Legal Aid Day-2015 was celebrated in the district as elsewhere in the country on Tuesday with a call to stand beside the distressed to conduct their cases smoothly to get fair justice by the courts.
Cricket bat hit schoolboy dies in Rangpur
A schoolboy succumbed at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) today after being injured seriously by his friend while playing cricket in a ground here on Saturday last, police said.
India Bangladesh border quake 27 April
Magnitude mb 5.2 Region INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER REGION Date time 2015-04-27 12:35:51.5 UTC Location 26.97 N ; 88.19 E Depth 10 km Distances 154 km W of Thimphu, Bhutan / pop: 98,676 / local time: 18:35:51.5 2015-04-27 58 km SW of…
Grass cultivation makes 10,000 char families self-reliant
More than 10,000 extremely poor families have achieved self-reliance through commercial cultivation of sweet jumbo grass in the sandy char areas on the Brahmaputra basin in recent years.
‘Jigsaw puzzle’ dinosaur Chilesaurus boasted weird mix of traits
Scientists have unearthed fossils of a strange dinosaur in southern Chile that boasts such an unusual combination of traits that they are comparing it to a platypus, that oddball egg-laying, duckbilled mammal from Australia.
Modern day slavery too often goes unpunished in India, says report
A shortage of specialised legal care and protection means that victims of trafficking and bonded labour in India fail to get justice and perpetrators continue to buy and sell people with impunity, a report says.
Deflation? Oil’s 45 pct rebound could be markets’ next headache
Whisper it, but the next challenge for financial markets and policymakers may not be deflation, but the remarkable surge in oil prices from the six-year low touched in January.
Eight million people may be affected by Nepal earthquake, says UN
Up to eight million people have had their lives disrupted after a deadly earthquake shook Nepal, said the United Nations, adding there was an urgent need for relief materials ranging from tarpaulin sheets and clean water to soap and medicines.