Dhaka, Jan 27 – The High Court on Sunday imposed status quo on the earth filling and encroachment in the canals, rivers, ponds and other water bodies and khash land near Purbachal by 22 real estate and housing companies including…
Day: January 27, 2019
AL nominee for Mayor Atiqul Islam takes Nomination papers
Dhaka, Jan 27 – The Awami League nominated candidate Atiqul Islam on Sunday collected nomination form to contest the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-elections scheduled to be held on February 28.Still, now 21 candidates have collected their…
Gaibandha-3 election held peacefully: JSD candidate boycott
Dhaka, Jan 27 – The parliamentary polls to Gaibandha-3 constituency were peacefully held on Sunday.A total of five candidates except for Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) participated the polls.However, the candidate of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) SM Khademul Islam Khudi boycotted…
ACC chief finds most teachers absent in Ctg schools
Dhaka, Jan 27 – Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud on Sunday(Sunday) made a sudden visit to six primary and high schools in the port city Chattogram and found most of the teachers were absent.After the visit in a view…
Luis I Kahn’s Parliament Bhaban master plan given archive
Dhaka, Jan 27 (UNB) – Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Sunday handed the copies of the master plan of Jatiya Sangsad Complex and its surrounding related areas, designed by famous American architect Louis I Kahn, to the National Archives…
‘Amazing’ Djokovic tops Nadal for record 7th Australian Open
Melbourne,(AP/UNB) – Novak Djokovic was so good, so relentless, so pretty much perfect, that Rafael Nadal never stood a chance. Djokovic reduced one of the greats of the game to merely another outclassed opponent – just a guy, really –…
Hockey: Shantinagar Club return to winning run beat Farashganj SC
Dhaka – Shantinagar Club returned to the winning run in the Green Delta Insurance First Division Hockey League beating old Dhaka outfit Farashganj Sporting Club by 7-3 goals at the Maulana Bhashani National Stadium here on Sunday.Akash struck three, Limon…
Man held for defaming Bangabandhu, PM in Sylhet
Sylhet, Jan 27 (UNB) – Law enforcers on Sunday arrested a man for ‘making derogatory comments’ about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and spreading their distorted pictures through Facebook. The arrestee is Abul Kalam, 52, son…
Dynamites, Riders, Victorians eye playoff berths
Dhaka – The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) resumes on Monday after a one-day recess with Comilla Victorians playing lowly Khulna Titans in the first match of the day at 1:30pm at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram. In the…
Dhaka seeks Beijing’s strong support on Rohingya issue
Dhaka, Jan 27 (UNB) – Bangladesh has sought China’s “strong support” so that Myanmar moves in the right direction for resolving Rohingya crisis as Myanmar is not working to create conditions for the return for Rohingyas to their place of…
Need to bowl intelligently to get wickets in Chattogram: Rubel
Dhaka – Bowlers are now going through their most challenging part of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) in Chattogram as the wicket of the venue, Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, is most gracious for the batsmen. However, the right-arm pacer of…
3rd round of BPL Football begins Monday
Dhaka – The 3rd round of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football 2018-19 begins on Monday at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here. Former champions Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club will play Rahmatganj Muslim Friends Society at 3:30pm while holders Dhaka Abahani…
Dhaka North City Mayor poll: JP selling nomination papers
Dhaka, Jan 27 (UNB) – Jatiya Party on Sunday started selling nomination forms to those who want to contest the February-28 by-election to Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) with the party support. Jatiya Party presidium member and its Dhaka North…
BNP spells another deception behind Bangabhaban invitation
Dhaka, Jan 27 (UNB) – BNP senior leader Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan on Sunday alleged the main motive behind Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ‘tea party’ for the leaders of Jatiya Oikyafront and other political parties is to get recognition of…
Sidharth Malhotra to play double role
Sidharth Malhotra has a good line-up of films for the year ahead with Jabariya Jodi, Marjaavaan and Vikram Batra biopic in his kitty. The actor has had his share ups and downs over the years but the one thing that…
Khushi reveals one weird thing about sister Janhvi
Boney Kapoor and late Sridevi’s two beautiful daughters Janhvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor are creating quite in a stir in B-town. Be it their fashion sense, their camaraderie with their half brother and sister Arjun and Anshula Kapoor or their…
In wartime Yemen, children find solace in music
The sound of music fills the halls at a school in Yemen’s Taez, where little Nazira al-Jaafari sits at a keyboard as a teacher takes her through the notes. “I love music,” said Jaafari, a pupil at the Al-Nawras school…
State of emergency declared in US measles outbreak
A state of emergency was declared on Friday in the western US state of Washington following a measles outbreak that has affected more than two dozen people, the majority of them children. The disease was declared eliminated in the US…
Michael Jackson’s estate slams abuse documentary
Park City, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) —Michael Jackson’s estate is blasting a documentary that tells the stories of two men who accuse Michael Jackson of sexually molesting them when they were young boys, calling the film “tabloid character assassination.” A statement…
Oscar-winning ‘Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ composer Legrand dies
Paris, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the ’60s romance “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” and who worked with some of biggest singers…
40 dead, many feared buried in mud after Brazil dam collapse
Brazil, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — Hope that loved ones had survived a tsunami of iron ore mine waste from a dam collapse in Brazil was turning to anguish and anger over the increasing likelihood that many of the hundreds of people…
Hezbollah leader warns Israel over attacks in Syria
Beirut, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — The head of the militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon warned Israel late Saturday over its continued attacks in Syria, saying a miscalculation could drag the region into a war. Hassan Nasrallah made the comment during…
North AL president Nurul Alam Chowdhury dies
Chattogram, Jan 27 (UNB) – President of North District Awami League unit of the port city Nurul Alam Chowdhury passed away early Sunday. He was 74. Nurul Alam, also a freedom fighter, was admitted to Park View Hospital in the…
Couple’s throat-slit body found in Nilphamari
Police recovered the bodies of a young couple with slashed throat from a house in Khatamadhupur of Saidpur upazila in Nilphamari on Sunday morning, reports UNB.The deceased are Nazrul, 32, and his wife Amena, 22, of the area. Locals spotted…
19 dead as bombs target cathedral in southern Philippines
Philippines, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — Two bombs exploded outside a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, killing at least 19 people and wounding nearly 50 during a Sunday Mass, officials said. The first…
Arms snatched from Police Sub-Inspector in N’ganj
Narayanganj, Jan 26 – Some youths attacked an on-duty policeman and snatched his revolver at Cholapara village in Rupganj Upazila on Saturday night. Witnesses said two groups of villagers locked into a fight following a football match among themselves in…
Rizvi tells Quader: Vulture’s prayer brings no cattle death
Dhaka, Jan 26 – BNP on Saturday slammed Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader for his comment that BNP will get split due to its internal conflict, saying the ‘cow does not die if it is cursed by a vulture’.…
AL picks Atiqul for Dhaka North City Corpn by-election
Dhaka, Jan 26 – Awami League on Saturday picked former BGMEA president Atiqul Islam to contest the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayoral by-election. The ruling party also nominated Syed Zakia Nur Lipi, sister of former AL general secretary Syed…