Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma arrived here on Friday night on a three-day visit, said a senior Foreign Ministry official. Acting Foreign Secretary and Secretary at the Maritime Affairs Unit Rear Admiral (retd) M Khurshed Alam received him at Hazrat Shahjalal...
Students of Rajshahi University (RU) blocked Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in front of the RU in Motihar on Friday to press home their 6-point-demand. The demands include providing compensation for their fellow Mehedi Hasan Emon who was killed in a road accident...
Private universities in Bangladesh are operated by board of trustees and value added tax (VAT) is not generally applicable to the trustees. Now, National Board of Revenue said university authorities will have to pay VAT and it’s their decision. But...
Nironjan Roy | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
In mid-August, 2015, stock markets all over the world witnessed an upheaval taking all investors and analysts aback. During the period from August 11 to August 24, all major stock exchanges, including New York Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, US...
Imtiaz A. Hussain | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh's Coal Power Generation Company and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) agreed last week to build the 4.7 billion USD 1,320 megawatt (MW) Matabari energy-producing plant by August 2022. Vaunted as the country's largest investment project, it will process 4.0...
The rise in the country's import payments for capital machinery should have signaled positively for energising its stagnating investment scenario. To be precise, import payments registered a 52 per cent growth in July-August this fiscal year (FY) compared with that...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh is, unfortunately, one of the few countries which are suspended by the Obama administration from getting US Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) facility. The suspension came in 2013, just a few months before the facility was supposed to be...
Farria Naeem | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
One main reason behind the sluggish upward trajectory in terms of adoption of genetically modified organism (GMO) is the powerful anti-GMO campaign which continues appeal to public sentiments of fear and foreboding. The debates on the adoption of genetically modified...
The government recently imposed VAT on private university managements on fees collected from the students. Apparently, there is nothing wrong with this. But as has always been the case, any tax imposed on a commodity is ultimately paid by the...
Eid-ul-Azha is just round the corner and many families have already started preparations for their trips to village homes to celebrate Eid with near and dear ones. I am also one of them, but the road leading to my village...
Winter in this part of the world is the best season. Clear blue sky and bright sunshine characterise the season when there is hardly any load shedding or sweltering heat or water scarcity, etc. But no matter what season we...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
Had it not been for his unique style of story telling that made him outstanding, Edgar Allan Poe would have remained a B-grade thriller writer. An author obsessed with the darker and morbid aspects of human mind was not expected...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Sept 10: Plantation of eucalyptus trees is increasing alarmingly at different upazilas in Rangpur district in recent years, posing severe threat to environment. Eucalyptus, originating in Australia, is highly detrimental to our environment mostly because its rate of transpiration...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
GAIBANDHA, Sept 10: Diarrhoea has taken a serious turn at different places of the district town and its surrounding areas Thursday affecting a large number of people including women and children. Over 100 diarrhoea patients have got admitted to the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
BOGRA, Sep 10: Due to frequent flood, the academic progress of nearly 5500 students of Shariakandi, Sonatola, Gabtoly and Dhunot upazila of Bogra district is being acutely hampered. As a result a good number of students have been deprived of...
RU Correspondent | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Sept 10: A student of Rajshahi University (RU) died at a hospital in Sirajganj after he received critical injuries in a road mishap in the district. The victim was identified as Md. Mehedi Hasan Emon, son of Abdus...
A Correspondent | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
NAOGAON, Sept 10: The month-long dispute between Motor Workers' Unions of Naogaon and Bogra districts has been resolved following a negotiation. Vehicular movement along the Naogaon-Bogra route resumed from today (Thursday). Shipping Minister and also the president of Bangladesh Transport...
GAIBANDHA, Sep 10 (BSS): Overall flood situation in the district except five unions of Sadar and Fulchhari upazilas improved further with the fall of water level in all the major rivers here in the last 24 hours until this morning....
RANGPUR, Sept 10 (BSS): Enhanced participation of the extremely poor, small and marginalised farmers and fishermen in food security governance and policy-making process and issues can improve their livelihoods to ensure food security. The views were expressed in a linkage...
GAIBANDHA, Sept 10 (BSS): Police recovered the bodies of two cattle traders from Katakhali Bridge area on the Rangpur-Bogra Highway under Gobindaganj upazila here this morning. One of the deceased was identified as Shajalal, 50, son of Paran Ali Bhuiyan,...
MYMENSINGH, Sept 10 (UNB): A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her drug addict son at Bharamadhyapara village in Gafargaon upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Josna Khatun, 50, wife of Abul Hashem, a resident of the...
Seven houses gutted in Bandarban At least seven dwelling houses were gutted in a fire at Prodhan Bazaar area of the town on Wednesday. Being informed, fire fighters from Bandarban rushed to the place and doused the fire with the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
SYLHET, Sept.10: Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) will open a new department named 'Mechanical engineering' in the 2015-2016 academic session, sources informed Wednesday. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has already approved the proposal for 5 posts for the...
England clinched the title of the first edition of the ICRC International T20 Cricket Tournament for people with physical disabilities beating Pakistan by 19 runs in the final at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Pratishthan (BKSP) ground-3 in Gazipur Thursday, reports...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) announced Thursday Fabio Lopez, a goalkeeper-turned coach from Italy, as the Bangladesh National Football team's new head coach for next four months, reports UNB. Lopez was named for the hot seat in place of Dutch Lodewijk...
Archer Mohammad Tamimul Islam clinched the first-ever gold medal for Bangladesh in the 5th Commonwealth Youth Games in the boys' individual recurve event of Archery held in Samoa Thursday, reports UNB. Tamimul Islam brought the laurel for the country on...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) announced Thursday Fabio Lopez, a goalkeeper-turned coach from Italy, as the Bangladesh National Football team's new head coach for next four months, reports UNB. Lopez was named for the hot seat in place of Dutch Lodewijk...
The Tangail International Rating Chess tournament will begin on the Press Club Auditorium premises in Tangail today (Friday), reports BSS. It is an open event for all chess players. The event will be held in 8 round Swiss league system....
FE Report | 2015-09-11 00:00:00
Dhaka stocks Thursday ended the session with a meager rise over mixed performance of the listed securities after the consecutive fall observed in previous two sessions. The market started the day's session with a flying note and continued for around...
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