Veteran swimmer Dolly Akhter set a national record in the Prime Bank 25th National Swimming Championship but her side Bangladesh Ansar relinquished the top position on the second day at the National Swimming Complex in Mirpur Moday. Dolly, who bagged two gold on Sunday, got the chance to participate in 50m backstroke for the absence of […]
Auto Re-rolling and Steel Mills’ Association, Bangladesh Steel Mill Owners’ Association, and Bangladesh Re-rolling Mills’ Association leaders are furious over the transit issue. They say, they have been exporting their products to seven north eastern states of India in spite of tariff and non tariff and non tariff barrier in Indian market. But the government’s […]
Michael Phelps stormed to victory in the 400m Individual Medley final on Saturday as the 14-times Olympic champion won the first final of five events he has entered at the two-day Berlin World Cup meet. The 26-year-old clocked 4 mins 01.49 secs, the fastest time in the world so far this year, to win the final […]
Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau (BEPB) and Bangladesh High Commission in Kolkata, India — in association with Bangladesh Gyan o Srijonshil Prokashak Samiti — recently organised a five-day book fair. The fair was held at Gaganendranath Art Pradarshanshala in Nandan, Kolkata. Paschim Banga Minister for Education, Bratya Basu, inaugurated the fair. Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladesh Deputy High […]
Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited (BPBL) organised an award giving ceremony for the students of architecture (2010), in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on October 22. The event was held at BUET auditorium, says a press release. Professor Habibur Rahman, Pro-Vice Chancellor of BUET, was present as the […]
Muammar Gaddafi’s website, Seven Days News, said yesterday that it has published the last will of the deceased former leader of Libya. The document was reportedly handed to three of his relatives, one of whom was killed, the second arrested and the third managed to escape the fighting in Sirte. Here is the English translation: […]
Hundreds of students of Prime University yesterday took to the streets and vandalised vehicles and furniture on its Mirpur campus in the city over setting up of a permanent campus immediately. The agitators halted vehicular movement on the road for half an hour at Section 1 of Mirpur around 12:00pm, causing a huge tailback, said […]
A community that once lived off hunting in Jhenidah switched to business from making bamboo items. The men and women in the community make a range of items from bamboo sticks to sell in different markets in the district. There are at least 35 families residing in the government allotted lands of Mukta Abashan […]
Famed as an exclusive outlet for shirts, the shop named ‘Shirt Gallery’ has brought special fabrics for upcoming Eid festival. The shop, which has branches on New Elephant Road and Gulshan Pink City in Dhaka, provides dress shirts, official shirts, party shirts fitting shirts, casual shirts and so on. It has a collection of fabrics […]
The civil suit management system in 61 districts will come under digitized system aiming at protecting public property in a better way and saving from grabbing by people who often use loopholes in the legal and monitoring process. The land ministry last week signed an agreement with a private firm, Pranon Private Limited, to develop and […]
Muggers stabbed a college student to death and injured his friend in a bid to snatch their motorbike near Dhaka Metropolitan Police Headquarters in city’s Ramna last night. The dead, Milton Barua, was a second year intermediate student of Siddheswari Degree College, and the injured, Mohammad Raihan, was a student of Dhaka Polytechnic Institute at […]
Japanese auto giant Nissan is aiming to sell 1.5 million electric vehicles around the world by 2016, the company said today, as it looks to capitalise on growing demand for green products. Japan’s second-largest automaker behind Toyota said it wants to be the world’s largest player in so-called “zero-emission vehicles”, including a new fuel cell […]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world community to develop global and regional partnership in health technology to ensure greater access to medicine at affordable prices. “Making health services accessible and affordable is a global challenge… our needs and challenges require matching mobilization of resources beyond public sources,” she said in a keynote address […]
DHAKA: Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has given approval 13 highest bidders to set up 13 alternative cattle markets in the city before Eid-ul-Azha, assumed to be celebrated on November 7 subjecting to moon sighting. DCC Chief Estate Officer M Golam Rahman Miah told BSS on Saturday that technical evaluation committee has given approval 13 highest […]
