Bangladesh Bar Council is set to hold its election today (Wednesday) and all necessary preparations have been taken in this regard, reports BSS. The contestants are passing very busy time campaigning and seeking votes in traditional ways like handing out...
The parliamentary standing committee on public assurances recommended on Tuesday increasing the highest length of bridges to be built under the ministry for disaster management and relief to 18 metres from existing 12 metres, reports BSS. The recommendation was made...
Visiting UK Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne announced Tuesday up to 3 million pounds to help Bangladesh's flood victims, reports UNB. He came up with the announcement at a press conference held at British High Commission Staff...
FE Report | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
VLCC Personal Care (Bangladesh) has begun its sales activities through Pr-oyash Distribution Com-pany Limited (PDCL) as its local distributor. Managing Director of PDCL Ashraf Ahmed launched the sales activities after signing an agreement on Monday. PDCL adviser Mesbaur Rahman, CEO...
The 12th World Down Syndrome Congress ended in the Indian city of Chennai recently with adoption of seven key resolutions for people with Down syndrome and other disabilities, reports BSS. The resolutions included educational equality, employment opportunities, establishing special support/knowledge...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Aug 25: A worker was killed in a generator blast at a ship breaking yard at Shitalpur of Sitakunda today. Md Ilyas (30) of MK Corporation received severe injuries as the generator he was working with, blasted at around...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested four persons and rescued 46 victims from the capital's DOHS area under Pallabi thana last night, reports UNB. The arrested were identified as warrant officer of Bangladesh Air Force M Siddiqur...
DU to observe Poet Nazrul's death anniv tomorrow Dhaka University (DU) has chalked out an elaborate programme to observe the 39th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam tomorrow (Thursday). The day's programme will begin with Quran khawani after...
Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a many places over Rangpur, Chittagoang and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi, Khulna, Barsial and Dhaka divisions with moderately...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
It is one thing to become the second largest economy of the world; it is quite another to maintain that position. The chastising truth has come to bear on China in a way that is quite unexpected .For years this...
FE Report | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh will build a 23-kilometre road from Gundam in Myanmar towards Kunming to connect with China to establish cross-border transport link among the three countries, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Tuesday. "We will build 23-km road out of 170 kms...
COX'S BAZAR, Aug 25 (UNB): Some 125 Bangladeshi human trafficking victims were brought back home from Myanmar on Tuesday. They were rescued by Myanmar authorities on May 21 and May 29. A flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and...
Visiting UK Minister Desmond Swayne said in the city Tuesday extrajudicial killings cannot be tolerated in any democratic country and called for bringing the 'perpetrators' to justice, reports UNB. The UK Minister of State for International Development is now on...
Grameen Bank, founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, has been ranked 12th on the magazine Fortune's first Change the World list, says a press release of the Yunus Centre in Dhaka. Fortune announced its inaugural Change the World list, a...
The government on Tuesday signed two separate Letters of Exchange (LEs) with China to get Tk 6.75 billion (675 croe) in grant from the Chinese government to implement a Tk 7.96 billion (796-crore) project - the Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre,...
A Dhaka court Tuesday sentenced seven former officials of Oriental Bank to life imprisonment in a graft case, report agencies. Fifth Special Judges Court judge Md Akhtaruzzaman issued the verdict on Tuesday. The convicts are former vice-chairman Shah Mohammad Harun,...
Ziaur Rahman | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
A good number of export-oriented industries are allegedly failing to draw funds from the Export Development Fund (EDF) formed to help entrepreneurs, especially new exporters, diversify into higher value-added products. Trade sources said industries from a few sectors are enjoying...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
On July 27, 2009 night Dhaka city had experienced 330-milimetre (mm) rainfall in just seven hours, a record in 60 years. With one of the world's worst drainage systems, the entire city went under knee to waist deep water and...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
Against a backdrop of soaring prices of most essential commodities, the government will sit with its officials concerned and stakeholders soon in a bid to devise strategies for keeping the prices stable in local markets. The meeting is scheduled to...
FE Report | 2015-08-26 00:00:00
The Planning Ministry will exclude all the stuck-up projects and simplify the format of project proposals for timely and proper execution of the government's development programme. Besides, the ministry also directed all the government agencies to recruit their respective project...
Three alleged kidnappers were killed in a lynch-mob attack at Chaturhat under Sathia in Pabna on Tuesday noon. Two of the deceased were identified as Aslam Uddin, hailing from Dinajpur, and Alauddin of Natore. Three people along with a woman...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 25: A fisherman was killed and at least three others were injured as a train hit a lorry at the Barabkundu rail crossing under Sitakunda upazila early on Tuesday. Railway sources said train communication on Chittagong-Dhaka route was...
Chittagong's rail communication with rest parts of the country was restored on Tuesday after 6 hours of halt following derailment of a train in Barabkunda under Sitakunda Upazila of the district that killed one. The rail communications of Chittagong with...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday urged the buyers of the developed countries to raise the prices of Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) which will ultimately help the garment workers to get higher wages. She said the minimum wages of RMG...
Chittagong’s rail communications with the rest of Bangladesh, including Dhaka city, halted for the second time in a day as an inter-city train derailed in Comilla’s Brahmanpara on Tuesday. The station master of Shashidal Railway Station in Brahmanpara said the...
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