Woman held, Phensidyl recovered in Pabna
Members of the Detective Branch of police recovered 375 bottles of Indian Phensidyl from a house and arrested a woman in this connection in Gobinda area of Pabna town on Tuesday afternoon…
Archive for April, 2015
BGB holds 30 Myanmar citizens
The Border Guard Bangladesh detained 30 Myanmar citizens, including women and children, at Tumbrow and Gungdum frontier on Wednesday morning…
Reserve crosses $24b as idle dollars keep mounting
The country’s foreign exchange reserves crossed $24-billion mark for the first time on Wednesday as the Bangladesh Bank’s purchasing of US dollars from the local banks surpassed $2.80 billion in this financial year amid slow business…
Youth found dead in Gazipur
The police recovered the hanging body a man at village Baliwadi of Kaliakoir upazila in Gazipur on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Masfir Baksi, son of Nazim Uddin of the area…
Tigers in trouble after poor show
Lackluster batting and even poorer efforts during the fielding on second day of the first Test match let Bangladesh suffer and took away the advantage they gained on the first day against Pakistan at Khulna on Wednesday…
Juba League leader shot dead
An activist of a local unit of Juba League was shot dead and another one injured by their rivals at Amishapara Bazar in Sonaimuri of Noakhali on Tuesday night…
BB to launch $350m loan scheme for manufacturers
Bangladesh Bank is likely to introduce a refinance and pre-finance scheme worth $350 million in September this year, under which clients will get loans in dollars from banks and non-bank financial institutions on long-term basis to set up new manufacturing units or expand the existing ones…
GDP growth debate blunts Muhith’s projection
A number of encouraging indicators including plummeting fuel oil prices, low bank interest and inflation rate helped the finance ministry to revise the GDP growth for 2015 fiscal year at 6.8 per cent…
54 held for ‘subversive activities’ in Satkhira
Police arrested 54 people, including five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, from different parts of the district during a drive continuing for 24 hours till Wednesday morning on charges of subversive activities…
Fans furious at black-market ticket sell
Crisis of tickets at fair price frustrated large number of cricket fans who demonstrated on Wednesday outside Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, the international venue where the first Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan is being held…
RMG exporters seek reduced income, export tax rates for 5 more years
Leaders of the export-oriented readymade garment industry on Wednesday demanded an extension of income tax benefit at reduced rate at 10 per cent for another 5 years for apparel item exporters…
Srinivasan faces the axe from ICC
The BCCI’s new regime under Jagmohan Dalmiya’s leadership is exploring the option of an early Special General Meeting in its bid to oust N Srinivasan as the Board’s representative in ICC…
Hafeez continues prolific Test form
Pakistan opener Mohammad Hafeez continued his rich vein of form in Test cricket by hitting his third hundred in consecutive Test in Khulna on Wednesday…
Boko Haram kills 46 soldiers, 28 others
The Niger government said Tuesday it had lost 46 soldiers and 28 civilians in a Boko Haram attack on a Lake Chad island at the weekend, the country’s heaviest losses yet since it joined a regional offensive against the militants…
Teachers, students continue protests
Teachers and students of Jagannath and Jahangirnagar universities on Wednesday separately demanded exemplary punishment of some Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders and activists for their alleged involvement in sexual harassment of a teacher and a student…
Baltimore rioting quietens down after curfew
Riot police in the US city of Baltimore enforced a curfew into the early hours of Wednesday and called it a success, emptying streets scarred by a spasm of rioting and looting…
HC questions govt directives to hold GB’s board meetings excluding 9 directors
The High Court on Wednesday directed the government to explain in 10 days the legality of its notification that had asked the Grameen Bank to hold the board of directors’ meetings with two directors and the chairman citing the reason…
GP to launch ‘affordable’ SMS service for roaming customers
Grameenphone is going to launch an economic SMS service for its outbound roaming customers from April 30, 2015.
This new service will allow the roaming customers of GP to send SMS to any Bangladeshi mobile number from abroad at only Tk 2 excluding VAT…
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