Archive for April 3rd, 2016

West Indies beat England to win World Twenty20

West Indies won the toss and elected to field first against England in the World Twenty20 final at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Cricket, Sports

Pahela Baishakh events to be closed by 5pm

The minister for home affairs, Asaduzzaman Khan, said on Sunday that all events in celebration of the Bangla New Year in Dhaka and other places in…

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Missing Drik official’s body found in Narayanganj

Relatives on Sunday afternoon identified the body of missing Drik Gallery official Irfanul Islam after police recovered it from Jalkuri of…

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Measures taken to prevent question paper leaks

Measures taken to prevent question paper leaks

Coaching centres, photocopy shops and Facebook have been brought under scanner to prevent question paper leakage in the Higher Secondary Certificate…

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West Indies Captain Stafanie Taylor and her teammate Hayley Matthews greets each other to built up their partnership during ICC T20 Women World cup final match against Australia at Eden Garden in Kolkata on Sunday. — AP photo

West Indies women stun Australia to take World T20 title

Hayley Matthews and Stafanie Taylor both struck half-centuries as West Indies beat three-times defending champions Australia by eight wickets to…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Cricket, Sports
Nagorno-Karabakh fighting: Azerbaijan ‘calls truce’

Nagorno-Karabakh fighting: Azerbaijan ‘calls truce’

Azerbaijan has announced a ‘unilateral ceasefire’ in fighting with Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region…

No tannery at Hazaribagh anymore: Amu

No tannery at Hazaribagh anymore: Amu

The minister for industries Amir Hossain Amu on Sunday said the leather industries must be shifted to their new location in Savar…

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Marketing students protest fellow’s death in police firing

Marketing students protest fellow’s death in police firing

Students of the marketing department at Dhaka University staged a road blockade in front of the National Press Club in the city…

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Finance minister AMA Muhith-- File photo

Muhith rules out appointing proposed banking commission

The minister for finance, AMA Muhith, on Sunday ruled out appointment of a proposed commission on the country’s banking sector…

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Tonu murder: students to besiege home ministry on Apr 7

Tonu murder: students to besiege home ministry on Apr 7

The Progressive Students’ Alliance and Samrajyabad Birodhi Chhatra Oikya on Sunday announced a four day ultimatum to the government to arrest the rapist and killers of Tonu…

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Writ filed for arrest of Tonu’s killers in 24 hrs

Writ filed for arrest of Tonu’s killers in 24 hrs

A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Sunday seeking its directive on the government to arrest the killers of Sohagi Jahan Tonu…

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Khaleda Zia. — New Age file photo

Khaleda to surrender before court on Tuesday

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday will surrender before a trial court in Dhaka and seek bail…

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HSC, equivalent exams get underway

HSC, equivalent exams get underway

The Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations started simultaneously across the country on Sunday…

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Jamaat-e-Islami amir Motiur Rahman Nizami. -- AP photo

SC to hear Nizami’s review petition next week

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Sunday said that the hearing of the review petition filed by death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · National, Politics
Alexis Tsipras-- Reuters photo

Greece demands IMF explanation over leaked debt transcript

Greece demanded an explanation from the International Monetary Fund on Saturday after an apparent leaked transcript suggested the IMF may threaten to pull out of the country’s bailout…

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British doctor alleges he doped 150 sportsmen

United Kingdom Anti-Doping (UKAD) said it was ‘deeply concerned and shocked’ by a Sunday Times report in which a British doctor alleged he had prescribed banned…

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Chief Justice SK Sinha

No debate producing flawed laws: CJ

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said Saturday that bills containing lacunae were being passed by Parliament without thorough debates and scrutiny. He said that the debates are not held as the MPs were reluctant to give time for it…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

Tonu rape, murder : Students’ strike today

Members of the Criminal Investigation Department recorded the statements of the family members of murdered college student Sohagi Jahan Tonu at their office in Comilla on Saturday, 13 days following the gruesome incident…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

Philrem, casinos should also return stolen BB money: PH senators

Other casinos, junket operators and remittance firm Philrem Services Corp should also surrender any portion of the $81 million stolen from Bangladesh that is still with them, after junket operator Kim Wong returned $4.6 million, said Philippines senators on Friday…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

RMG worker raped on running bus

An apparel worker was allegedly raped on a running bus by the driver and his two staff on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway and dropped at Sholakuri of Madhupur upazila in Tangail on Friday morning…

April 3, 2016 · 0 comments · Front Page, National, TOP STORIES

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