A truck driver was killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision between two trucks at Pukuria on the Dhaka-Barisal highway in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur district on Friday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately....
Oil markets were weaker on Friday as fresh signs that OPEC will continue to value market share over prices outweighed expectations of a lift when the United States kept interest rates at historic lows. US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude...
Local people caught an assistant sub-inspector and a constable of Pirganj Police Station while allegedly taking bribe from a motorcyclist at Gogor in Ranishankoil upazila of Thakurgaon district on Thursday, The policemen were identified as Nur Alam, assistant sub-inspector of...
Pakistan's army now says the Taliban killed 16 people inside a mosque during a brazen morning attack on an air base in the country's northwest. The information was sketchy but the military says the attackers managed to break into a...
World Bank South Asia vice-president Annette Dixon arrives in Dhaka Saturday to help further strengthen the long-lasting partnership between Bangladesh and the World Bank Group. Her two-day visit will focus on the Country Partnership Framework that the World Bank is...
Facebook is now selling video ads that the target audience is sure to see. The world's biggest online social network said Thursday that advertisers can now buy ads that will be seen — from top to bottom — on a...
Police arrested two alleged arms dealers and recovered a loaded pistol and magazine from Bashabo area in Dhaka city on Friday. The arrestees were identified as Sheikh M Raju and M Sohel, said a press release. Acting on a tip...
India's West Bengal government has declassified 64 files on revolutionary leader Subhash Chandra Bose. The files, which were in the possession of Kolkata police, will be put on public display, but their contents are not yet known. Mr Bose had...
Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has been put on leave and released from his duties until further notice. A Fifa statement said it had "been made aware of a series of allegations involving the secretary general". Newspaper allegations on Thursday ...
Police in overnight special drives arrested 120 people, including two activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, from different upazilas of Chittagong district Friday. The law enforcers also seized 71 litres of liquor and 2500 yaba tablets during the night long drives. Mohammad Naimul...
Bangladesh Railway (BR) will sell advance tickets of September 24 Saturday for the home-bound passengers before the Eid-ul-Azha. Advance tickets of September 23 were sold from Kamalapur (Dhaka) and Chittagong railway stations today, BR sources said. The selling of Eid...
Two Bangladesh nationals were killed in mortar attacks from Yemen around Samtah General Hospital in Jizan Region of Saudi Arabia early Friday. State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam confirmed the death of the two Bangladesh nationals in the...
A mother and her baby daughter were killed on the spot and two others injured when a speeding truck knocked down their auto-rickshaw at Kharkhori crossing under Matiher Police station in Rajshahi city Friday noon. The deceased were identified as...
A Bangladeshi national was killed and four others sustained bullet injuries as members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire on them at bordering Paschim Ram Krishnapur village in Joypurhat on Friday. The deceased was identified as Sayem, a...
Elahi Newaz Khan Saju and Khairul Alam Bakul have been elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists (DUJ) respectively for 2015-16 period. They were elected by voice vote at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the DUJ...
National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR) on Friday demanded testing the standard of 11 dredgers recently procured by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) to dredge rivers. The committee also stressed the need for reforming the tender...
Six policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector, of Pirganj Police Station were closed to the District Police Lines in Thakurgoan on Friday over extortion charges. The ASI was identified as Nur Alam, a news agency report said. Police super of Thakurgoan...
Though a peaceful political situation prevails in the country, the Australian government on Friday issued an updated travel alert advising Australians to exercise a high degree of caution in Bangladesh. “There is an ongoing threat of terrorism in Bangladesh, including...
Nasir Hossain’s brilliant all-round performance with an unbeaten century and five for helped Bangladesh ‘A’ cricket team to notch a 65-run victory over India ‘A’ team in the 2nd one-day match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday, leveling...
TANGAIL: Two people were killed and 50 others injured as police allegedly opened fire and charged baton on a demonstration in Kalihati upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Faruque Hossain, 30, of Kushtia village in the upazila,...
Migrants flooding into Croatia are being moved to the Hungary border, with PM Zoran Milanovic saying his country cannot become a "migrant hotspot". Up to 20 buses carried migrants to the border on Friday, although Hungary says it is building...
Taliban militants have killed at least 29 people in an attack on an air force base in the northern city of Peshawar, Pakistani officials say. The gunmen, dressed in police uniforms, stormed the Badaber air base on Friday morning, Maj...
Price of raw jute this year is higher than that of the past years. This, no doubt, is good news for the growers who in the wake of price slump in the past were in a dilemma whether to concentrate...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-09-18 00:00:00
The public exchequer everywhere tries to develop a super sense like terriers in order to find potential source of revenue collection. Nothing wrong with it as long as the attempt does not infringe with wider and more important interests of...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain | 2015-09-18 00:00:00
The sad image of a three-year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi whose lifeless body was washed up to a Turkish beach has sent shockwaves across the western world but not in rich Gulf countries. It is a misnomer to describe...
The initiative by the government to register all mobile SIMS is a laudable move. It is well known that most of the unregistered mobile SIMS are being used in various illegal and anti-social activities creating unrest in society and accelerating...
Income tax fair is indeed an innovative and encouraging initiative on the part of the National Board of Revenue (NBR). It is being acclaimed by tax payers of all categories. It will also help the tax payers to be fully...
Bangladesh is overpopulated if considered in terms of the land area it occupies. No wonder that population is still the number one problem of the country. At the time of independence, Bangladesh had a population of 70 millions which has...
Aga Khan | 2015-09-18 00:00:00
Today, all across the world, we continue to hear increasingly about "a crisis of confidence" in governments. While the pace of history accelerates, democratic governments often deadlock. Scholars now count a growing percentage of countries as failed democracies. The Fund...
Imtiaz A. Hussain | 2015-09-18 00:00:00
Three dimensions of the VAT controversy shed future light: taxing education; the booming private university sector; and the country's development imperative. A cross-sectional analysis shows, though the 7.5 per cent VAT proposal was a logical consequence of the country's neo-liberal...
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