Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
Government expenditure on advances to officials for car purchases and their upkeep has been on the rise in recent years. And mass promotions in the bureaucracy played a pivotal part in the cost escalation, sources said. Many argue this has...
Syful Islam | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
The government has fixed new freight rates for Pangaon-Chittagong route for each 20-feet container - US$220 for loaded ones and $110 for empty ones - to attract private ship owners to ply their vessels on this alternative shipping route, officials...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has moved to increase its regular stock of petroleum products by 22 per cent to around 1.33 million tonnes for crude and refined oil combined to cope with the country's mounting oil requirements, officials said....
Rezaul Karim | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
The government has taken a move to allow a few more public sector banks to receive different taxes and registration fees with a view to ensuring smooth collection of its revenues, officials said. Presently, no scheduled banks in the country...
RANGPUR, Sept 4 (BSS): The flood situation deteriorated further following continuous onrush of water from upper catchments in 24 hours until 6:00 am on Friday marooning over 350 thousand (3.5 lakh) people in the Brahmaputra basin. According to sources with...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 4: Two persons including a 'saint' were hacked to death at the Mazar (shrine) of Hazrat Baizid Bostami in the port city. The victims were identified as Rahmat Ullah alias Nengta Fakir (52) of the shrine and Abdul...
DAMASCUS, Sept 4: Jihadists of the Islamic State group have blown up three of the famed tower tombs of Syria's ancient desert city of Palmyra, antiquities department chief Maamoun Abdelkarim told the news agency on Friday. "They blew up three...
The tobacco factories and companies will have to put pictorial warning signs on their tobacco products by March 19 to make the people aware of adverse impacts of tobacco on human health, an official of the Health Ministry has said. ...
Ziaur Rahman | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
The government has undertaken a number of projects worth about Tk 6.61 billion to develop the country's land ports considering their importance in regional connectivity initiatives, especially after renewal of the Indo-Bangladesh trade agreement. Development of the land ports, officials...
RAJBARI, Sept 4 (UNB): Two suspected criminals were killed in a 'gunfight' between their cohorts and police at East Patra in Pangsha upazila early on Friday. The deceased were identified as Omar Kha, 35, a ringleader of an inter-district robber...
Munima Sultana | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges (MoTB) has moved to ink deals with two more Chinese companies despite having an agreement with one for constructing costly Dhaka-Chittagong expressway which, officials said, is a breach of normal practice. Although in...
A US-Bangla Airlines plane has overshot the runway while landing amid rain at the Syedpur Airport, halting operations at the domestic airport for seven hours, reports bdnews24.com. The mishap took place at around 7:45am on Friday but there were no...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-09-05 00:00:00
The Planning Commission (PC) would brief the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about the draft 7th Five Year Plan (FYP) sometime this month before finalising it, officials said Friday. The General Economic Division (GED) of the PC has drafted the 7th...
FE Report Three persons were killed in different incidents and one teenage girl committed suicide on Friday in the capital. The school-going girl committed suicide on the day in Mugdapara area. The deceased, Munni Akter (14), hanged herself with the...
FARIDPUR, Sept 4 (-UNB) : An arrested person accused in a land-related case died in police custody in Nagarkanda upazila early on Friday. The deceased was identified as Nur Mohammad Munshi, 35, a resident of Dakkhin Beel area of Nalia...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has taken a move to increase its capacity for accepting large transactions to be credited to the national exchequer electronically, following the introduction of the e-payment facility more than three years back. "If this...
US stock indexes dropped more than 1 per cent on Friday after a mixed August jobs report did little to quell investor uncertainty about whether the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates this month. The Dow Jones industrial average ended...
Police arrested an alleged terrorist in possession of a pistol from Kali Bridge area in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur district on Friday afternoon. The arrestee was identified as Shariful Islam, son of Abdul Malek, a resident of the village. Mohammad...
An alleged terrorist was hacked to death by his rivals at Bhagalpur village in Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Dimbal, 20, son of Momin Pramanik, a resident of the area. SM Shahjalal,...
Migrants are arriving in Austria after Hungary's surprise move to provide buses for them. For days, Hungary had blocked migrants from travelling by train to Western Europe, saying it was obliged to register them, sparking angry scenes. Austria says it...
An elderly man was killed as a Nasimon (human hauler) ran over him in front of Badya Mosque on the Kalaroa-Sarashkathi road in Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Ismael Dafader, 65, a resident...
A listed criminal was killed in what law enforcers termed gunfight between police and his cohorts at Shamserpara under Chandgaon thana of Chittagong city on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Arman Ali alias Arman Hazari, 26, son of...
Export and import activities between Bangladesh and India through Benapole land port remained suspended on Saturday due to Janmashtami, one of the major religious festivals of the Hindu community marking the birth of Lord Krishna. Kartik Chakrabarty, general secretary of...
US job growth slowed in August, but the unemployment rate dropped to a near 7-1/2-year low and wages accelerated, keeping alive prospects of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike later this month. Nonfarm payrolls increased 173,000 last month after an...
Police in separate drives arrested four alleged drug peddlers, including a woman, along with 1,000 pieces of Yaba tablet and three kilograms of hemp from Tumchar and Palli Bidyut area in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur district on Friday. The arrestees...
A housewife died from electrocution at Hatbila village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Renu Begum, 31, wife of Badshah Haldar of the village. Sources said Renu came in contact with a...
Police arrested three people along with 2,890 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a trawler at Nawapara in the Sandhya River in Nesarabad upazila of Pirojpur district on Friday evening. The arrestees were identified as Faruk, Abdur Rashid and Nurul...
Detectives arrested six leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from Singhagram in Lakhai upazila of Habiganj district on Friday. Lakhai upazila unit Shibir president Shariat Ullah, 25, was among the arrestees. Sudwip Roy, sub-inspector...
Customs Intelligence officials discovered a big gold haul at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Friday night. Customs sources said they seized a large numbers of gold bars, weighing around 16.2 kilogram (kg), from a lavatory near the...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested seven members of an organised kidnapping gang from Shahjalal International Airport area in Dhaka city on Friday night. Six of the arrestees were identified as Jashim, Shahidul, Sohrab Hawladar, Manir Matabbar, Sanaul Bepari and...
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