Applications for the next year’s Chevening scholarships are now online, the British High Commission says, adding four Bangladeshis are due to head for UK for this year’s programmes. A degree that is equivalent to at least an upper second-class honours in the UK, achieving the minimum Chevening English language requirement, and completing two years work […]
Results for 22 subjects of 2010 Honours examinations under the National University are out. National University’s examination controller Mohammad Badruzzaman said results were released on Sunday 10:00am. Results are available at university website (www.nubd.info or www.nuadmission.info). Results of six more subjects will be available within this week, Badruzzaman said. Fourth year (Honours) theoretical tests for […]
At least seven passengers have been killed when a minibus collided head on with a bus and plunged into the Turag River in Ashulia. Twenty other passengers of the minibus too were injured in the accident that occurred around 8:30am on Tuesday near the Dhaur Toll Plaza at Beribandh, police and witnesses said. Fire-fighters’ rescue […]
1 / 1 Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday night, weeks after meeting the Awami League’s key ally Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad. The meeting, which began at 8:45pm at Khaleda’s Gulshan office, lasted at least 50 minutes. But neither side spoke to the media […]
With 44 percent of the girls aged between 15 and 19 too short for their age, Bangladesh is home to the world’s largest number of stunted adolescent girls after Guatemala, medical journal The Lancet says. Short height exposes them to the risk of complicated pregnancy and childbirth and poor fetal growth. The findings were made […]
Islami Chhatra Shibir has called a nationwide daylong general strike for Wednesday demanding release of its President Delwar Hussen and other leaders from jail. The Jamaat-e-Islami student wing’s Secretary General Abdul Jabbar made the announcement in a statement on Monday. It said the shutdown was called to press for release of central leaders and the […]
Actress Mita Noor committed suicide, the forensic expert who autopsied her body primarily suspects. Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Forensic Department’s Assistant Professor Md Sohel Mahmud on Monday afternoon told bdnews24.com, “Initially it seems to be a case of suicide.” Early in the morning, the 42-year-old TV star was found dead, hanging from a […]
1 / 1 President Barack Obama said on Sunday the United States would help propel Africa along a path of prosperity and peace, and urged the continent to follow the example of Nelson Mandela. In South Africa on the second leg of a three-nation Africa trip, the US leader and his family visited the bleak […]
Rail link to Chittagong was restored three hours after suspension of train service on the route following breakdown of a mail train in Comilla on Comilla Railway Station Assistant Engineer Hamidul Haque told bdnews24.com that a Chittagong-bound mail train malfunctioned near Burichang Upazila’s Sadar Rasulpur station around 5:30am. The train stopped mid-way and blocked the […]
TV star Mita Nur was found dead, hanging from a ceiling fan in her flat at Dhaka’s posh Gulshan locality on Monday, police said. Gulshan police station OC Rafiqul Islam told bdnews24.com that they recovered Mita’s dead body around 6:45am from her flat on Gulshan Avenue Road no 4. “Her body was found hanging from […]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has criticised BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for writing an article in The Washington Times, a US newspaper, in which she had apparently advocated the cancellation of Bangladesh’s preferential trade partner status. Khaleda Zia had earlier in the day denied having written any such article, but Hasina insisted she indeed was the […]
Launching Ceremony of BASIS –BRAC Bank Co-branded Credit Card was held on Saturday, the 30th July 2011 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka. Dr. Atiur Rahman, Governor, Bangladesh Bank was present at the ceremony as Chief Guest. Mr. Mahboob Zaman, President, BASIS presided over the meeting. Mr. Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Managing Director, BRAC Bank was […]
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