A Chittagong court on Sunday placed apparel businessman Enamul Haque on a five-day remand on charge of providing financial support to the militant organization Shaheed Hamza Brigade. Banshkhali senior judicial magistrate Sazzad Hossain passed the order against a seven-day remand...
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) will be arriving in Dhaka Monday for a two-day visit to strengthen bilateral trade relations between Bangladesh and the United Kingdom (UK). The delegates include CBI's International Director Simon Moore and CBI India Country...
Our Correspondent | 2015-09-06 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Sept 6: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is going to undertake new programmes under Poverty Alleviation through Urban Participation (UPPR) project in Rajshahi City Corporation areas. Dr. Collen Butcher-Gollah, an Australian international consultant, is visiting Rajshahi for preparing strategy...
A Chittagong court on Sunday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment each in a case filed for gang raping a girl in Boalkhali Upzila in 1998. The lifers were identified as M Jasim, son of late Abdul Jabbar of...
Around 120 million people in Bangladesh currently have access to electricity, says State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. Replying to a question in Parliament by MP Md Shamsul Haque Tuku, the minister on Sunday said 74...
The Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) on Sunday passed 'Foreign Exchange Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2015. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith piloted the bill, aimed at updating the existing law for regulating purchase and sale of foreign currencies and securities. "In the...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Women and Children Affairs Ministry on Sunday recommended recruiting women judges and magistrates for ensuring justice for the repressed, helpless and raped women. The committee also suggested the ministry to take all-out masseurs so that...
Three people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the west side of Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge link road in Kamarkhand upazila in Sirajganj on Sunday. The accident left 27 others injured, many of them...
The Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) on Sunday passed Financial Reporting Bill, 2015. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith piloted the bill in the House, which was later passed in voice votes. Moving the Financial Reporting Bill, 2015, the minister said it...
The Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) on Sunday cleared the "Port (Amendment) Bill, 2015". Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan placed the Port (Amendment) Bill, 2015 in the House for bringing further amendment to the existing law. Later, the bill was sent to concerned...
A crockery-trader has been shot in the leg in Shyampur area in Kadamtali in Dhaka and the criminals have made off with around Tk500,000 in his possession. Kadamtali police OC Wazed Ahmed confirmed the shooting in front of Bombay Factory...
Three players of Bangladesh national cricket team – Tamim Iqbal, Taskin Ahmed and Anamul Haque – attended the Bangladesh Internet Week in the city on Sunday evening. The Bangladesh Internet Week is being held in Dhaka’s Banani playground. The event...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina goes to Khulna Sunday (tomorrow) on a daylong visit on the occasion of commissioning and induction of new ships in Bangladesh Navy (BN). It will be her first visit to Khulna after the Awami League government...
Two school going girls drowned in the river Tirnoi under Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Lima Akhtar, 14, daughter of Pajiruddin and Tazmina Akhtar, 14, daughter of Naimuddin, of Shahatpur village of the...
Law enforcers recovered 110 gold bars in Bagharpara in Jessore district early Saturday. Being tipped off, a team of Bagharpara Police Station recovered the gold bars, each weighing over one tola, hidden under the back seat of a private car...
Karmasangsthan Bank has disbursed loan worth Taka 557.30 million and realized outstanding loan of Taka 592.20 million in Rajshahi division during the last 2014-15 fiscal year. Besides, the bank disbursed loan of Taka 82.50 million and recovered Taka 85.50 million...
Crude futures fell about 2 per cent on Friday as traders shrugged off a drop in the number of US rigs drilling for oil and focused instead on a supply glut and declining stock prices on Wall Street. Trading volumes...
Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami and his son while they were holding a ‘clandestine meeting’ at BRAC More in Palashbari upazila of Gaibandha district on Friday night. The arrestees were identified as former upazila chairman and Palashbari upazila...
President Abdul Hamid on Saturday urged people of all religions to further strengthen the existing fraternity and friendly bonding with a view to applying it for achieving national advancement and prosperity. "Bangladesh is a country of communal harmony. All religious...
Detective branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested a man with arms in front of Dhigali union Parisad office under sadar upazila of Laxmipur district on Friday. The arrestee was identified as M Shafik Hossain, 22, son of Abdul...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna and Barisal divisions with moderately heavy falls...
Hillary Clinton has said she wished she had made a "different choice" and not used a private email account while serving as US secretary of state. "I'm sorry this has been confusing," she told the cable news channel MSNBC. Her...
Lionel Messi scored less than a minute after coming on as a substitute and added another goal in Argentina’s 7-0 victory over Bolivia on Friday night in Houston. The Barcelona star entered in the 65th minute and scored on a...
Superstar Salman Khan is in the metropolitan city Gurgaon to meet his ocean of fan following. Bollywood's 'Dabangg' will be at a mall in the Millennium City for the promotion of his forthcoming production venture 'Hero'. Salman will be accompanied...
Four workers of a ship breaking yard suffered burn injuries following a gas cylinder explosion at Shital Enterprise in Kumira of Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong district on Saturday. The victims were identified as Al Amin, Nazim, Moksed and Shahjahan. All...
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested two suspected drug peddlers along with 1000 pieces of contraband yaba tablets from Chawlkbazar area of Dhaka city on Friday. DB men arrested two persons, Zulhas Hawlader and Mosharraf Hossain, and seized 1000 pieces...
The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) on Saturday threatened to move the court challenging a hike in gas and power prices. Addressing a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), CAB’s adviser Prof Dr Shamsul Alam said they have been...
Senior journalists Nurul Huda and Aminul Haque were elected president and secretary respectively of the Dhaka Sangbadik Griho Sangsthan Samabay Samity (DSGSSL) for the next three years. The election was held at the Samity office at Mirpur Journalists Housing in...
Bangladesh-origin British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq and along with her two other colleagues has written a letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron seeking a concrete and urgent action to end refugee crisis. “We’re calling on the British government to internationally...
Ramil Burden, Vice President, Developing Countries Asia and External Affairs Africa of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Laurie Lee, CEO of CARE International, UK arrive in Bangladesh this week to see development projects. They will visit Sunamganj district on Tuesday and Wednesday...
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