To celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens and Robert Browning, the Department of English, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), organised a two-day national conference on the two noted English writers of the Victorian Era. Towhid Samad, chairman, Board of Trustees of the university, inaugurated the conference as the chief guest on the university [...]
Chittagong, Jun 29 (bdnews24.com)—Power Development Board (PDB) Chairman ASM Alamgir Kabir is optimistic that power supply will not be interrupted during Ramadan. “We’ll try to ensure that power is supplied without any disruption in the coming Ramadan. We’re trying to reduce load-shedding,” he said after inaugurating Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Centre at Khulshi in [...]
New York, June 29 (bdnews24.com) – Awami League MP Tanjim Ahmed, also known as Sohel Taj, has said that he will not tender a new resignation letter. The Speaker had not accepted his resignation saying that it did not adhere to the rules set out in the constitution and those followed in Parliament. Son of [...]
Dhaka, Jun 30 (bdnews24.com) – The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Saturday held the government responsible for the cancellation of the World Bank’s fund to build the Padma bridge. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s Advisor Osman Farruk said Bangladesh would have got low-interest loans from various international donors in the project but the government’s mishandling [...]
Foreign ministers of world powers gather in Geneva on Saturday to try and forge a common strategy to end the bloodshed in Syria, but differences between Russia and the West may thwart them. Kofi Annan, the former U.N. chief who is special international envoy on Syria, has been hoping for consensus on a plan for [...]
A magnitude 6.3 quake struck a remote region of western China, close to the Kazakhstan border early on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, injuring around 10 people. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.5, struck at 5:07 a.m. local time on Saturday (2107 GMT on Friday), and was centered 87 miles southwest [...]
A little-known leftist militant group claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack on Microsoft’s Greek headquarters earlier this week. Hooded attackers rammed a van packed with gas canisters into the Microsoft building in Athens on Wednesday and then set the vehicle on fire, causing damage but no injuries. At least two people wielding pistols and [...]
Defending Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic avoided another Czech Republic Centre Court ambush when he reached the last 16 with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 win over veteran Radek Stepanek on Friday. Top seed Djokovic, playing on the same court where Rafael Nadal had been stunned by world 100 Czech Lukas Rosol on Thursday, overcame dropping [...]
Cesc Fabregas says that Spain will need to pay special attention to Mario Balotelli if they are to get the better of Italy in Sunday’s Euro 2012 final in Kiev. Balotelli produced the finest performance of his blossoming international career on Thursday by claiming an excellent brace to give Italy a 2-1 win over Germany [...]
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday urged universities to write new textbooks to open up the minds of students to new ideas and systems of doing businesses as the existing economic model was not working, as seen in the developed world. He said profit maximisation could not be the only goal of a business. They [...]