Five mayoral aspirants have so far bought nomination papers to contest the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) polls slated for December 22.
Day: November 20, 2016
BAU Cricket Tournament held
The final match and prize giving ceremony of inter-section level three of agriculture faculty cricket tournament was held at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh on Saturday afternoon.
Santals may get back their lands through court: DC
The Santal people may get back their lands only through the court decision and under due course of law, said deputy commissioner (DC) of Gaibandha district.
BNP pushes for dialogue over EC formation
Dhaka – BNP on Sunday urged the government to engage in talks with opposition parties over the formation of new Election Commission (EC) taking their chairperson’s 13-point proposal positively. “People want to get rid of repressive acts, unjust and the…
Asian Hockey: Holders Bangladesh to play Chinese Taipei Monday
Dhaka, Nov 20 (UNB)- Bangladesh National Hockey team will play Chinese Taipei in their 2nd Group A match of the eight-nation 5th Men’ s Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Cup Tournament on Monday at the King’ s Park Hockey ground in…
Niko graft case: SC bench hearing Khaleda’s petition seeking stay
Dhaka – The Supreme Court on Sunday started hearing a leave to appeal petition filed by BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, seeking a stay in the trial proceedings of the Niko corruption case against her. A five-member bench of the…
BPL Football: Brothers Union earn 2-1 victory against Arambagh KS
Dhaka – Brothers Union Club toppled Arambagh KS beating them by 2-1 goals in the JB Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)Football at the MA Aziz Stadium in the port city of Chittagong on Sunday.With the day’s victory, Gopibagh outfit Brothers Union…
Climate talks set 2018 deadline to agree rules
Nearly 200 nations agreed around midnight on Friday to work out the rules for a landmark 2015 global deal to tackle climate change within two years in a new sign of international support for a pact opposed by US President-elect…
New Zealand beats Pakistan by 8 wickets in 1st test
Dhaka – Captain Kane Williamson scored 61 as New Zealand reached a target of 105 runs to beat Pakistan by nine wickets in the first cricket test on Sunday and take a 1-0 lead in the two-test series.Leading by 67…
BNP celebrates Tarique’s birthday
Dhaka – BNP and its associate bodies celebrated the 52nd birthday of their party senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman with various programmes. Tarique, living in London for ‘treatment’ since 2008, was born on November 20, 1965. Flanked by party leaders and…
Merkel wants to run for fourth term as German chancellor
Angela Merkel told top members of her party on Sunday that she wants to run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, senior party sources told Reuters, after months of speculation about one of the world’s…
Father confesses to killing baby girl in Sylhet
Dhaka – A man confessed before a court here on Sunday that he had killed his six-month old daughter at Ghungadia village in the upazila in Beanibazar .Sylhet Metropolitan Magistrate Farzana Shakila recorded the statement of Ujjal Ahmed, father of…
Schoolboy ‘commits suicide’ in Jhenidah
Dhaka – A schoolboy reportedly committed suicide by taking pesticide at Bahirgachi village in Kaliganj upazila on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Milon Hossain, 12, a class VII student Bahirgachi Secondary School and son of Badrul Mia of the…
Abducted youth rescued by Rab in Feni
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive rescued a young man from a primary school at Sonapur in Chhagalnaiya upazila early Sunday, nearly four hours after his alleged abduction by miscreants,UNB news agency reported.
Stocks extend gaining streak to open week
Stocks extended the gaining streak on Sunday to open week in positive mode when all the market indicators closed the session in green. The stock market also finished last three sessions of previous week upward.The DSEX index of Dhaka Stock…
One held with pistol in C’nawabganj
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged arms trader along with one foreign pistol,one magazine and six rounds of bullets from Kalinagar village in Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabgan on Saturday.The arrestee was identified as M Anwar,…
2 ‘robbers’ bullet-injured in Bogra ‘gunfight’
Dhaka – Two alleged robbers were injured in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Kornipara Bazar in Kahalu upazila in Bogra early Sunday.The injured bandits were identified as Abdul Alim, 26, and Fulbar, 38.Tipped off that a gang of robbers were…
Bangladesh set to celebrate Armed Forces Day Monday
The country is set to celebrate the Armed Forces Day tomorrow marking the founding of army, navy and air force during the 1971 Liberation War.”On this day during the Great War of Liberation in 1971, the Bangladesh Armed Forces comprising…
119 dead as train derails in north India; some still trapped
Pukhrayan – At least 119 people were killed when an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday, with rescuers working into the night to pull people out of the mangled coaches, police said. The death…
District council polls ‘worthless’, says JP chief Ershad
The first election to district councils was held during HM Ershad’s regime, but he no longer seems to think it matters.Speaking at a programme in Dhaka on Sunday, the Jatiya Party chairman said his party will not take part in…
Bride-to-be searches for father after Indian train disaster
The whole world came crashing down around 20-year-old bride-to-be Ruby Gupta after the Indore-Patna Express derailed today as she is yet to trace her father, reports Times of India.Ruby, who was left with a fractured arm, was on her way…
UN expert warns of worsening rights situation in Rakhine
A UN expert has called on the Myanmar government to take immediate action to tackle the deteriorating human rights situation in northern Rakhine state.The Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, criticised the authorities for placing…
Sanjay to start shooting for Munna Bhai 3 in 2018
Sanjay Dutt hasn’t made any official announcement of his upcoming projects yet. The only thing he’s working on is helping Ranbir Kapoor get all the nuances right for playing Dutt in the upcoming biopic directed by Rajkumar Hirani. The next…
Russian spaceship delivers three astronauts to space station
Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, carrying a European, a Russian and an American astronaut for a six-month mission at the orbiting outpost. “Capture confirmed,” said a NASA commentator as the spacecraft docked at the…
Tintin drawing sells for record 1.55 mn euros in Paris
An original drawing from the popular Tintin adventure “Explorers on the Moon” sold for a record 1.55 million euros at a Paris auction on Saturday, auction house Artcurial announced. The 50 cm X 35 cm drawing in Chinese ink by…
JU becomes guest birds’ makeshift
The scenic and swampy Jahangirnagar University campus on the outskirts of the capital reappeared as a major seasonal abode of foreign guest birds as winter gradually sets in. Hundreds of migratory birds belonging to over 70 species flocked at the…
Enhancing financial management capacities of LGIs stressed
Enhancing capacities of the local government institutions (LGIs) in financial management could ensure a proper utilisation of resources to further accelerate rural development ensuring transparency. The observations came at a training course on ‘Financial management and procurement’ organised for the…
Four nations map course to carbon-free economies
When it comes to purging fossil fuels from the global economy by mid-century—our only hope of staving off catastrophic climate change—it turns out that you can’t get there from here without a good map. That’s the thinking behind detailed, long-term…
Pakistan shots down Indian drone over Kashmir LOC
Pakistan says it has shot down an unmanned Indian drone near the Line of Control. Lt Gen Asim Bajwa, chief of Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media wing, tweeted that an ‘Indian quadcopter’ was shot down at 4:45pm Pakistan time,…
Seminar on career excellence held at RU
A seminar on ‘Chartered Acountancy: Career excellence’ a career oriented program organized by the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Bangladesh (ICAB) in association with the department of Accounting and Information Systems (AIS) of Rajshahi University (RU) was held at the…