Bus owners and workers enforced an indefinite strike in six southern districts yesterday, demanding ban on plying of shallow engine-driven vehicles on highways. Vehicular movements remained off on the 30 routes in Khulna, Bagerhat Barisal, Jhalakathi, Pirojpur and Satkhira districts, causing untold suffering to commuters. Khulna District Bus-Minibus Owners’ Association, Rupsha-Bagerhat Bus-Minibus Owners’ Association, Khulna [...]
SHANGHAI, June 24 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – China re-affirmed its goal of building a full-fledged space station by 2020 on Sunday, following a successful manual docking between a manned spacecraft and an experimental orbiting lab module. “Mastery of rendezvous and docking technology is a decisive step towards realizing the goals of the second stage in the development [...]
WASHINGTON, July 1 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Voter support for President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul rose after the US Supreme Court upheld it but most people still oppose the law, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Sunday. The online survey showed increased backing from Republicans and, crucially, the political independents whose support will be essential to winning [...]
Dhaka, June 28 (bdnews24.com) – The Department of English and Humanities BRAC Univ recalls Dickens of BRAC University on Thursday organised a day-long conference titled ‘Remapping Dickens for the Contemporary World’ to celebrate the bicentenary of birth of the author. Various academic papers on different dynamics of the author and his works were presented in [...]
Dhaka, Jun 23 (bdnews24.com) – Sensing bad days ahead, a number of ministers and rulMinisters, MPs planning to flee: Hannan Shahing party MPs are collecting visas to flee the country, a Member of the BNP’s National Standing Committee said on Saturday. “I’ve heard that ministers and MPs have started collecting multiple visas to go abroad [...]
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 29 (bdnews24.com)—The BNP on Friday asked the Awami League-led government to test its popularity in the general election under a non-party government. Its Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had doubted whether the BNP would even bag ten seats in the coming election. “Then, why do they [...]
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur’s Welsh winger Gareth Bale is set to miss out on a place in the Great Britain Olympic football team after suffering a back injury in training. Bale, who turns 23 in July, is keen not to aggravate the problem further with the Olympic football tournament coming just before the start of the [...]
Anowar Hossain scored a brace as Sheikh Russell KC finished their Grameenphone Bangladesh Premier League campaign in the fifth position with a 3-2 win overs Team BJMC at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Sunday. However Russell who concluded the season with 32 points from 20 matches had little to celebrate as it arrived as their [...]
Kuala Lumpur: Indian colts lost wickets in a heap towards the end of the innings as the U-19 Asia Cup final against Pakistan ended in a thrilling tie and both countries shared honours at the Kinrara Academy Oval, in Kuala Lumpur. While Pakistan scored 282 for nine off 50 overs, India could only level scores [...]