• Tanks mass at Syria’s Homs as US makes new bid at UN
  • Net investment negative in Jan
  • HC rejects BPL final match stay plea
  • Dhaka clinch BPL title
  • BB asks banks to submit list of deposits worth Tk 1cr or more
  • BCB set for radical constitutional changes
  • Traders to be tried under SPA: HC
  • NBR launches ADR at Ctg customs today
  • Muktis retain top spot
  • If necessary, more steps to revitalise bourse: PM
  • No decision on omnibus accounts’ inclusion in online trading
  • ‘If someone moves court, we need to think about him’
  • WB not willing to fund Pamda Bridge: Muhith
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Power outages vex Ctg dwellers

With the summer approaching, the Chittagong city dwellers have started feeling the bites of load shedding. They have complained that disruption in power supply is increasing every day, with outages for eight to 10 times a day. Full story

Curtain falls on Ekushey book fair

Visitors in their thousands throng the Amar Ekushey Book Fair ground on Bangla Academy premises in Dhaka on Wednesday on the concluding day of the month-long event. — New Age photo
The month-long Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises concluded on Wednesday, with a large crowd of book lovers thronging the fair ground. A total of record 3,669 new titles hit this year’s fair and the turnover Full story

Islami book fair ends without crowd

The month-long ‘Islami Book Fair’, which failed to draw attention of the book lovers allegedly for inadequate publicity by the organiser, wrapped up on Wednesday on the south premises of National Mosque Baitul Mukarram. Full story

Ctg Int’l Trade Fair yet to draw crowd

The month-long Chittagong International Trade Fair, organised by the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the railway ground in the city, was yet to draw crowd five days after its inauguration on Wednesday. Full story

Faber-Castell art competition starts today

Fast Corporation is going to organise a countrywide children art competition titled ‘Faber- Castell Art Competition-2012’ from today. Around three lakh children from 3,200 schools would participate in the art competition, organisers said at a news briefing at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel on Wednesday. Full story

Easy loan for women entrepreneurs demanded

Speakers at a programme in Sylhet Wednesday stressed the need for easy loan for female entrepreneurs to strengthen their role in improving the national economy. Full story

Convention on physics ends in SUST

Experts at a conference Wednesday urged the government to issue more grants for science studies in the country. The conference was held at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet. Full story

Thundershowers or rain likely

Rain or thundershowers is likely to occur at one or two places over Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna and Sylhet divisions and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country till 6:00pm today. Full story


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