Sheikh Hasina has upbraided some elements in Bangladesh's civil society for suggesting a greater ‘balance of power’ between the president and prime minister by effecting a constitutional amendment. "Some of these people were bootlickers of military rulers, some enjoyed positions...
US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat on Wednesday said the US will restore Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) for Bangladesh if it fully implements specific measures listed in the GSP Action Plan for it. She made the remark...
The online admission process for the first year honours programmes of Dhaka University for the 2015-16 session will begin on August 24 and continue till September 10. The decision was taken in a meeting of the academic council with DU...
Exports this July are down 12 per cent over the same month last year -- and 16 per cent below target set by the Export Promotion Board (EPD). EPB Vice-Chairman Subhashis Basu told news agency this was because of the...
Indian police have arrested 10 people who tried to illegally sell a 17C edition of the Holy Quran. The 604-page Quran is written in black italics on golden paper and has gems embedded on the cover. Experts estimate it to...
Awami League MP from Cox's Bazar Abdur Rahman Badi is now accused of assaulting an engineer. The said incident occurred during the monthly meeting of Ukhia Upazila Parishad Wednesday, according to witnesses. The Parishad’s Assistant Engineer Mostafa Minhaz alleged MP...
President Abdul Hamid on Wednesday visited the Cu Chi tunnels, the locations of several military campaigns during the Vietnam War and the Viet Cong’s base of operations for the Tet Offensive in 1968. The President, his wife Rasheda Khanom and...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is going to the United Kingdom (UK) within two or three days for medical treatment, reports UNB. "The Chairperson is going to the UK for medical treatment. She is likely to leave either today (Tuesday) or...
FE Report | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
The National Road Safety Council, public sector road agencies and civil society members have agreed to fix speed limit for buses at 80 kilometres per hour in the maximum and reinforce overload control on all national highways to avert road...
A tribunal in the city convicted Monday 17 members of banned JMB and sentenced them to 10 years imprisonment each, report UNB The members of the Islamic outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were imprisoned in a case filed in connection...
Monira Munni | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
More than 250 textile and garment factories failed to go into production and expansion mainly due to non-availability of gas for the last couple of years, industry insiders alleged. According to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), some...
Syful Islam | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
The government is set to approve procurement of a fleet of 20 dredgers to help maintain adequate navigability in inland river routes, many of which begin to dry up just after monsoon. Officials said the Executive Committee of the National...
Two people have drowned in Bhola and Chuadanga districts after allegedly being chased by policemen, reports UNB. In Bhola, a farmer -- Abu Jamil (50) son of Mohammad Shahjahan -- met his watery burial in a pond after being hit...
The government has decided to conduct a census on Rohingya population in Bangladesh to determine their exact figure and resolve the long-pending issue in a systematic and transparent way stopping their further influx into Bangladesh, reports UNB. Various figures are...
Siddique Islam | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
Higher trade deficit sent the country's current-account balance into a negative territory again in the just-concluded fiscal year (FY) after boasting surplus in the preceding two years. The current-account deficit stood at US$1.65 billion in the FY2014-15 in a slide...
FE Report | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to be relieved of the responsibility to deal with cheating and forgery cases under an amended law, the draft of which was approved on Monday by the cabinet. On amendment of the law, the...
FE Report | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
Leaving out Bangladesh despite Dhaka's arduous efforts for the trade concession, the United States has extended until 2017 its generalized system of preferences (GSP) facility for 122 countries that include all other SAARC members. According to the official website of...
FE Report | 2015-08-11 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) suspended assistant commissioner of taxes (ACT) Md Zahidul Islam on Monday over an allegation of corruption. NBR chairman Nojibur Rahman issued an order suspending the tax official of the Income Tax Zone-5. In the...
Customs officials arrested two women along with 64 gold bars weighing 7.5kg from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Monday. They were identified as Josna Akter and Zarin Begum. The two came here from Chittagong by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines...
COX'S BAZAR, Aug 10: Another group of 159 Bangladeshi trafficking victims was brought back home from Myanmar Monday after a flag meeting between their border guards. They were rescued by Myanmar authorities on May 29. The flag meeting between Border...
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has come up with the permission to use calculator in 10 compulsory subjects in the written examination of the 35th BCS. The subjects include: mathematical logic, mathematics, applied mathematics, physics, applied physics, statistics, accounting, computer...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 has fixed August 30 for passing the order on contempt of court charges brought against Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury for his derogatory remarks about the tribunal. A 3-member bench of ICT-2, headed by Justice...
Awami League's publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has been nominated as an academic board member and teaching fellow at European Institute of International and Development Studies. He received a letter regarding this matter from the Brussels-based institute during...
Two ‘Razakars’ (collaborator of Pakistani occupation forces in 1971) – Sheikh Sirajul Haque aka ‘Siraj Master’ and Khan Akram Hossain – are waiting to hear the verdict of the first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh on Tuesday. They were indicted...
A six-year-old child has been killed when an auto-rickshaw, carrying the body of an infant, was hit by an oil tanker in Khilgaon area in Dhaka city, police say. Police initially said two children died in Monday evening’s accident but...
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