Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-08-13 00:00:00
The long-awaited meeting of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC) did take place this week. Participated by the public sector road agencies and civil society members, the meeting agreed to fix maximum speed limit for buses at 80 kilometres (kms)...
FE Report | 2015-08-13 00:00:00
Iran has shown interest to export petroleum products to Bangladesh's growing market as the western sanction against the country is set to be removed. Iran's Ambassador to Bangladesh Dr Abbas Vaezi Dehnavi conveyed the message to Bangladeshi State Minister for...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Thursday) will formally inaugurate the Hajj programme 2015 at the Hajj Camp at Ashkona in the city. The Prime Minster will also exchange greetings with the Hajj pilgrims and Hajj passengers for this year at...
Mashiur Rahman | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
Sub-regional co-operation involving Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan should be viewed in a broader historical perspective. The period 2010-2015 has been the turning point with the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Delhi (January 2010), and visits of Prime...
Most people, not even the lawmakers concerned, are unlikely to dispute the findings of an updated study by the TIB (Transparency International, Bangladesh), about the ineffectiveness of the parliamentary committees. The lawmakers and the government, however, might express reservations about...
Wasi Ahmed | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh's export growth has hit a 13-year low at 3.35 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, in the just concluded fiscal year (FY) 2014-15. Looking at it simplistically is sure to stir a sense of frustration, especially when one...
Md. Saifullah Azad | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
Currently the financial services industry is passing through a critical phase. Financial crises and numerous product mis-selling scandals have caused erosion in customer confidence. This industry needs to find a way out for rebuilding the lost trust. Many experts are...
All commercial banks have reduced interest rate on fixed deposits but have not reduced interest rate on industrial loans. The interest rate should have been adjusted as it has been lowered for the depositors. High interest rate is hurting our...
This year we have seen disappointing results in HSC exams and many believe it was due to the students spending inordinately long time on the internet. The possibility cannot be ruled out altogether. The parents and teachers have a role...
The prices of essentials have gone up very recently due to some unknown reasons. Prices of groceries along with vegetables, fish and meat have gone up. Prices of vegetables have increased by Tk15 to Tk 20 per kg, fish and...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
Many people believe money can buy everything including happiness. But there is still no rational explanation as to how it does. Can money change the inner feelings of human beings or can it bring more tastes to the moneyed people,...
Md. Harunur Rashid | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is emphasising on 'Essential of Occupational Health and Safety' (EOHS) to ensure a healthy and safe environment in all the workplaces throughout Bangladesh - particularly for workers in the export-based readymade garment (RMG) sector. In...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
BOGRA, Aug 11: Around 5,000 families, both in rural and urban areas have changed their fortune through nursery farming purposing earning money and keeping environment fresh for living at their homestead and land with the assistance of different government departments...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Aug 11: Cultivation of teasel gourd (Kakrol) has made the farmers ecstatic at different upazilas of Rangpur district as they are making handsome profit through its cultivation on their lands during the current season. Inspired by good profit in...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
PABNA, Aug 11: All the bookshops in nine upazilas and the district town bookshops are selling unauthorised guidebooks and notebooks, defying ban on the practice. The students of primary level to secondary level schools are being forced to buy the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Aug 11: Due to lack of sufficient collection of animals, birds and reptiles, visitors are losing their interest to visit Rajshahi Central Zoo. It is learnt, former Home Minister and martyred national leader AHM Kamruzzaman established Rajshahi Central Zoo...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
MAGURA, Aug 11: Low price is frustrating guava growers in Magura. During a visit to Katcha bazar of Magura town guava was seen being sold at Tk 80 to 100 per maund as against Tk 300 to 350 last year....
A Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Aug 11: Business leaders in Rajshahi demanded for revocation of the increased fees for trade licence that has been imposed by Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) this year. The leaders raised their demands at a view sharing meeting with Rajshahi...
RANGPUR, Aug 11 (BSS): Over 1,000 students of Mithapukur Model High School at Mithapukur upazila town have vowed for launching a vigorous and meaningful social movement to eradicate child marriage and sexual harassment. They took the vow at a workshop...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Aug 11: A total 26 hectares of land of vegetables and 03 hectares of green chilly worth about Tk 6 million have been damaged due to heavy rainfall in the district recently. According to Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE),...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-12 00:00:00
BRAHMANBARIA, August 11: Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) arranged an art competition for children at the premises of Executive Engineer's office on the occasion of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's death anniversary in Brahmanbaria Monday. Forty-five children participated in the...
Son kills father in Mymensingh An drug addict son today killed his father at Borodangri village under Ishwarganj upazila of the district Tuesday. The victim was Alam Uddin Fakir, 55, a farmer of Borodangri. Officer-in-Charge of Ishwarganj Thana Borhan Uddin...
SYLHET, Aug 11 (UNB): Hosts Bangladesh smartly reached the semi-final of the six-nation SAFF U-16 Championship with one match to spare eliminating Sri Lanka by 4-0 goals in their first Group A match at the Sylhet Stadium Tuesday, reports UNB....
Sheikh Russel KC finished runners-up in the Manyavar Bangladesh Premier Division Football League with one match to spare after playing a goalless draw with lowly Chittagong Abahani Ltd at MA Aziz Stadium in the port city of Chittagong Tuesday, reports...
Maldives U-16 team will play their crucial second and last group B match against Afghanistan U-16 team in the SAFF U-16 Football schedule to be held today (Wednesday) at the Sylhet District Stadium, reports BSS. The match kicks off at...
Bangladesh have been grouped with host Nepal and Bhutan in Group A in the First SAFF U-19 Championship to be held from August 20-29 in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, reports BSS. At the tie-sheet draw held at the ALL...
The Amateur Rating Chess Championship began Tuesday at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room in the city, reports BSS. Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Youth and Sports Ministry Zahid Ahsan Russel, MP, formally inaugurated the seven-day meet as the chief...
PANCHAGARH, Aug 11 (BSS): Jute growers of the district are happy, as they are getting fair prices of their produces. Some jute growers and traders said over the last few years, farmers became disappointed due to low price of jute...
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