Friday, 5 July 2013

NBR freezes Ashraful’s bank accounts

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has frozen the bank accounts of cricketer Mohammad Ashraful who is at the heart of a spot-fixing scandal in Bangladesh. NBR’s Income Tax Policy Department member Syed Md Aminul Karim confirmed the revenue board’s action on Thursday. The former Bangladesh captain...

11 missing as cargo ship ‘sinks’ off Phuket

Thai news agency The Phuket News has said quoting The Royal Thai Navy on Thursday that Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope did not sink but was lying on its side, with 11 crew members still missing. The crewmen went missing after MV Hope ‘sank’ off the coast of Phuket early on Thursday amid hostile weather,...

Final preparations for Gazipur poll

Election Commission on Friday started the final preparations for the maiden Gazipur City Corporation elections by sending poll materials to voting stations.  Returning Official Matiar Rahman said the commission started distributing ballots, boxes and other materials from four centre s of Nagar...

CNG strike called off, magistrate suspended

The nationwide CNG-refuelling-station strike called off around midday on Friday after an Executive Magistrate of a mobile court Abdul Hai, against whom refuelling station owners called the strike, was suspended. Petrol Pump and CNG Filling Station Owners’ Association Executive Committee member Abdullah...

3 more Bangladeshis missing

Three more Bangladeshi went missing along with eight others after a fishing trawler capsized in Phuket coast of Thailand. Ship owners’ P&I Club representative Captain Mahiuddin Abdul Kader said the Thai flag MV Pilin was headed for Chittagong port. Though he said that a Bangladeshi had recently...