Bangladesh U-12 National Football Team completed their assignment in the Asian Youth U-12 Football Fiesta after playing a goalless draw with Training Centre of East Timor in their 4th and last match in South Korea on Sunday noon. Earlier in...
Bangladesh U-12 National Football Team completed their assignment in the Asian Youth U-12 Football Fiesta after playing a goalless draw with Training Centre of East Timor in their 4th and last match in South Korea on Sunday noon. Earlier in...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday said the pass rate in the HSC and its equivalent examinations came down due to hartal and blockade programmes enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance during the examinations. “The students had to face...
Two days after the murder of Niladri Chatterjee Niloy, the inspector general of police (IGP) has advised the bloggers not to write blogs that may hurt religious sentiments. AKM Shahidul Hoque’s call comes at a time when police are drawing...
A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Abdul Awal Mintoo in a violence case. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Masud Sheikh passed the order after he surrendered before the court seeking bail, a news...
Six men, arrested on poaching charges, have been killed in an alleged shootout with police in the Sundarbans. The ‘shootout’ took place at Koyra on Sunday afternoon, police say. But police failed to arrest anyone during their raid at Mandarbarhi...
Transparency International, Bangladesh has said parliamentary standing committees are ‘failing’ to serve their purpose, blaming it on ‘mono-centric control’ of the house. “There is lack of political will to make them effective,” the Berlin-based anti-graft campaign’s Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman said...
An emotional memorial service has been held in the Japanese city of Nagasaki where US forces dropped an atomic bomb during World War Two, 70 years ago. Speeches at the ceremony criticised the attending Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for his...
The High Court has been told that Tarique Rahman’s passport was renewed in London ‘on orders from the top’ in 2008, a good one and a half years before it was to expire. The foreign ministry revealed it in its...
Expatriate Bangladeshis have sent home about $1.39 billion last month, the third highest amount remitted in a month, the Bangladesh Bank says. The amount, however, is about $53 million less than June. Bangladesh received $1.493 billion, its highest remittance in...
Shah M Ahsan Habib | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) launched on July 30 the Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for the period of July-December 2015. It follows the expected approach of supporting government's development goals, maintaining reasonable level of inflation and ensuring financial stability. This approach...
Last Friday's gruesome killing of yet another blogger Niloy Chatterjee at his apartment in the capital serves, once again, as a crude pointer to the challenge that the violent extremists pose to the country. The utter failure of the law...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
The production cost of electricity is falling with the fall in international oil prices, but the government is not reducing its prices. On the contrary, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has indicated a fresh raise in the electricity prices....
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
With the apparent boom in private sector university education in the country the rush for study overseas has ebbed considerably. But students going abroad to pursue their higher studies has continued. Many would like to call the situation highly ominous,...
Gruesome murder of writer and blogger Niloy is indeed a tragic incident and goes to prove that our society is becoming increasingly intolerant towards different opinions. Niloy is another name added to the list of bloggers murdered over the last...
Dhaka City Corporation was bifurcated with a promise to provide better amenities for the citizens, but the situation remains unchanged. We know as residents of Dhaka city, the DCC is responsible to clear garbage, keep footpaths clear, maintain roads in...
An increasing number of people is now living in Bashundhara residential area who have to commute to Gulshan and Banani on all working days. The connecting road that starts from the foot bridge and passes in the front of DOHS...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
The only child of his parents, Rakib, who used to work at a motorcycle garage at Tutpara Central Road in Khulna city, was tortured to death on August 03, 2015 allegedly by his employers. Locals caught the two torturers -...
Gabriel Wildau in Shanghai | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
China's "national team" has probably spent about $144bn to bolster the country's fragile stock market, Goldman Sachs has estimated, raising questions about how much firepower remains if stocks resume their recent sharp descent. The government has not disclosed either the...
Nicholas Biswas | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
As stipulated in article 27 of our constitution, all citizens are equal in the eye of law and they are entitled to equal protection by law. According to article 28 (1), the state shall not discriminate against any citizen on...
The results of Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations will be published today (Sunday). A total of 1,073,884 students under 10 education boards, including madrasa and technical boards, took this year's exams. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid will hand over...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Aug 8: There has been an allegation of irregularities in implementation of projects under Annual Development Programme (ADP) under Tanore upazila of the district. According to sources, in collusion with Union Parishad Chairmen and Members, a section of corrupt...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
SYLHET, Aug 8: Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha (SK Sinha) said environment pollution is the most serious problem of the country now. Housing projects are being developed indiscriminately on the greenery, haors, hillocks and water bodies all over the country,...
A Correspondent | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Aug 8: The Varendra Research Museum, run by Rajshahi University (RU), here has over 10,000 old world artifacts but can showcase only one-third of them because of a tug-of-war for space. The Varendra Research Museum collection consists of stone...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
GAIBANDHA, Aug 8: Speakers at a function here Friday said outsourcing has created new opportunities for the people, particularly the youths of Bangladesh, as they are earning income through online. Outsourcing in Bangladesh is a growing market where anyone can...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Aug 8: The demand for Shatranji (handcrafted rug), a heritage of Rangpur, is on the increase on account of its high quality, intricate designs and enchanting beauty. The traditional manually woven carpet has conquered the hearts of the people...
RANGPUR, Aug 8 (BSS): Speakers at the 'farmers' field day' have said that the lowest-cost and easiest ribbon retting technology helps in rotting jute plants amid water scarcity and droughts to get upgraded quality of the fibre with increased yield...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 8 (BSS): Expressing their concern over the unabated and indiscriminate tobacco uses, particularly towards the smoking, the speakers at a meeting unequivocally called for concerted efforts to build a tobacco-free society. They urged the authorities concerned to take...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-09 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Aug 8: A drought-like situation prevailing in Nilphamari district for over a fortnight which is hampering continuation of transplanted Aman cultivation that created anxiety among the farmers. Transplantation of Aman seedlings would continue till the end of the Bengali...
Copies of Bangabandhu's letters distributed among Kawkhali students Photocopies of two rare letters of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were distributed among students of Koundia Secondary School under Kawkhali upazila of the district on Thursday in observance...
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