Rezaul Karim | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
The government's move to set up an operation and maintenance (O&M) company for the country's existing power plants has seen no tangible progress since a directive was made by the Prime Minister one and a half years back. The progress...
FE Report | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has expressed his willingness to bring necessary changes in the proposed Financial Reporting Bill 2015 by accommodating suggestions and opinions of the stakeholders. The finance minister made the assurance at a meeting with key stakeholders, sources...
FE Report | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
The three-wheelers, from now on, will be allowed on highways only for two hours in the morning for refueling compressed natural gas (CNG), the Ministry for Road Transport and Bridges said Thursday. Citing a statement of Road Transport and Bridges...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-08-07 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has offered Bhutan duty-free benefit on export of boulder to Bangladesh following recommendation of the ministry of commerce. The facility has been provided with a view to using the large rock for construction of...
The government-formed committee disbursed on Thursday outstanding wages for the month of April, 2015 among nearly 1,550 workers and officials of two closed garment units of the Swan Group at the BGMEA headquarters in the city. The disbursement came after...
NAOGAON, Aug 6: A Bangladeshi national was beaten to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Nitpur border in Porsha upazila early Thursday. The deceased was identified as Jaria Murmu, 40, a resident of Nitpur village of the...
Police arrested 119 people from a fresher reception at a madrasah in Khulna city on Thursday. The arrested include Khulna city Shibir president Mim Miraj Hossain and madrasah teacher Maulana Moniruzzaman. The rest are students of the educational institution. Witnesses...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Coast Guard personnel in separate drives sized 0.11 million Yaba tablets and arrested nine people from different parts of Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on Thursday. Lieutenant Colonel Abu Jar Al Zahid, commanding officer...
At least six people were injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Sashampur on Dhaka-Mawa highway in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj district on Friday. Hasan, sergeant of Hashara police camp, said a Mawa-bound bus of ‘Apon Paribahan’...
A woman was killed in wall collapse in Harindhara area in Savar upazila of Dhaka on Thursday. The deceased identified as Piara Begum, 30, hailed from Sadarpur village in Chapainawabganj district. Police said Piara used to work as a cook...
US stocks slumped on Thursday as a spate of poor earnings reports from media companies dragged the sector index to its worst two-day loss since the financial crisis. Walt Disney's shares fell 5.3 per cent to $104.67. Viacom fell 23.6...
An alleged robber ringleader was killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Burumaria village in Pangsha upazila in Rajbari district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abdus Sobhan, 49, ringleader of a notorious robbers' gang, who...
Two hermaphrodite people (hijras) were killed and three others injured when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Begumganj-Feni road at Dokanghar in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district on Friday. The identities of the deceased could not be known...
The European Commission will provide emergency support to thousands of people affected by floods and mudslides in Bangladesh and Myanmar. Bangladesh will get € (euro) 0.5million and Myanmar €1million, it said in a statement. Christos Stylianides, EU Commissioner for Humanitarian...
President Abdul Hamid left Dhaka for Vietnam with a stopover in Thailand on Friday at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang. A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the President and his wife Rashida Khanom took off...
Amid the growing concern over deaths of children in torture across the country, a minor boy was seriously injured and beaten by some local people over a trifling matter at Charjagabandhu village in Kamalnagar upazila of Laxmipur district. The incident...
A suspected robber was killed in a lynch-mob attack in Muhithkhola Bazaar area under Sonaimuri upazila in Noakhali district on Thursday night. Police and local people identified the deceased as Manik, 35, son of Golam Rahman of Begumganj upazila of...
A suspected robber was killed in a lynch-mob attack in Muhithkhola Bazaar area under Sonaimuri upazila in Noakhali district on Thursday night. Police and local people identified the deceased as Manik, 35, son of Golam Rahman of Begumganj upazila of...
A physician of Dhaka Medical Collage Hospital (DMCH) went missing from Farmgate area of Dhaka city on Thursday noon. Family sources said Dr. Bokhtiar Kamal, a dermatologist of DMCH, remained missing since he went out of his Green Super Market’s...
Asian markets followed Wall Street lower as investors looked ahead to US jobs data and a meeting of Japan's central bank. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.9 per cent to 3,731.75 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.9 per cent...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu was freed from Kashimpur jail on bail on Friday. Nasir Hossain, jailer of Unit-2 of the jail, said the BNP leader walked out of the jail around 12:15 am. Only family members were...
The Sensex and the Nifty were trading near flat due to profit-taking by funds and retail investors amid mixed Asian cues. At 12.08 pm, the 30-share BSE index Sensex was trading up by 7.1 points or 0.03 per cent at...
A schoolteacher was killed in a road accident at Harinchara Bazar area on the Hatikumrul-Bonpara highway in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj district on Thursday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Afsar Ali, 39, a teacher of Pustigasha Banani Girls High...
Bangladesh is sending lifesaving medicines, worth about Tk10 million, for the flood-hit people of Myanmar. The medicines, weighing about one tonnes, will be sent to Myanmar through a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight at 12.30 pm on Saturday, sources at the...
European shares fell in early deals on Friday, weighed down by Germany's top share index after a surprising fall in industrial output. Germany's DAX fell 0.5 per cent, underperforming a 0.4 per cent drop on the broader FTSEurofirst 300, after...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has condemned Thursday’s suicide-bomb attack on a Saudi mosque, and expressed her solidarity with the Kingdom to fight against terrorism in any form. A suicide bomber killed at least 17 people and injured many more in...
Unknown assailants have murdered a Ganajagran Mancha activist and blogger inside his house in Dhaka. Khilgaon police OC Mustafizur Rahman told bdnews24.com that Niloy Chowdhury was slaughtered in his flat on the fourth floor of a building at North Goran...
A man was killed and at least 19 others went missing as a bus plunged into a pond at Shologhar on Dhaka-Maowa Highway in Sreenagar upazila in Munshiganj Friday noon. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately,...
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