Nishat Majumder and her fellow mountaineer MA Mohit remained stranded in Lukla for the third consecutive day yesterday due to bad weather while Wasfia Nazreen has been staying at Namche Bazar since Tuesday. “We have been stranded here for the last three days as flight services between Kathmandu to Lukla remain suspended due to
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Empowering local people to ensure natural assets
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Enforce house rent act
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Marketers of greed reign supreme
Star finds many multilevel companies not making headlines, silently swindling fortune-seekers before vanishing abruptly Shady multilevel marketing (MLM) companies are cheating people across the country by offering them double return on deposits in less than a year, high monthly returns and huge profits from product sales. These companies rent top-class office rooms and create eye-catching ... Read more
Container Train Derails
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Rab too going at snail’s pace
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Girl abused in police club
Cops assault prying journos, lawyers Two sub-inspectors assaulted and harassed a teenaged girl, her father and mother on the very premises of Dhaka magistrate court yesterday. The two cops in the nearby Police Club assaulted the 15-year-old allegedly for protesting against the police claim of her father’s motorbike
Bid to save sister costs him his life
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4 Destiny top shots quizzed
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Wasfia reaches Namche Bazar
Nishat, Mohit stranded for bad weather Bangladeshi adventurer Wasfia Nazreen reached Namche Bazar safely yesterday while Nishat Majumder and MA Mohit remained stranded in Lukla for the second day yesterday due to bad weather. “Now I am very close to Namche Bazar and hope to reach there within half an hour. I will stay here ... Read more
Uninterrupted power for industries at Tk 15 a unit
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has fixed up the rate of electricity for “Q” categories (for industry) at Taka 13.88 to TK 14.99 per unit on Monday. The ‘Q’ category consumers will get uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours and initially the distributing agencies will provide connection only to the industries. “We create the new ... Read more
Doctor tricked into abduction
Police rescue him with serious injuries Criminals abducted a Mitford Hospital doctor after taking him out of his chamber in Old Dhaka on the pretence that they needed him to see a critical patient on Sunday. They had demanded Tk 20 lakh in ransom for release of the doctor, Sunirmal Roy, an assistant professor of ... Read more
bdnews24.com journalists attacked in office
A gang of criminals attacked the journalists of bdnews24.com in front of its Amtoli office in the city’s Mohakhali, leaving several, two of them critically, injured. The incident took place on the fifth floor of the Building-99 near the Government Ban Bhaban (Forest Building) around 9pm on Monday. bdnews24.com Sub-Editor
Wasfia comes down safely to base camp
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Malaysia submits concept proposal
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Unipay2u director held for swindling
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Libya sends back 200 workers
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Bahrain fire kills 10 Bangladeshis
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Cyber crimes take their toll
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AC Shahidul suspended in face of protests
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