Kamrun Nahar | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has taken a move to construct 72 secondary transfer stations (STSs) in 36 wards under the corporation for environment-friendly waste management and relieve city residents of the toxic stench of garbage, officials said. The procedure...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Aug 5: The 74th death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore will be observed tomorrow (Thursday), the 22nd day of the Bengali month of Sraban in Kushtia. Jatiya Rabindra Sangeet Sammelon Parishad, Kushtia branch, will remember Tagore through arranging programmes at...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said the government colleges should be brought under the aegis of public universities as affiliated institutes, reports UNB. This would help reduce the pressure of coping with immense student populations for the public universities, the...
A sexagenarian woman was strangulated to death allegedly by her younger brother following a dispute over repayment of loan money in the city's Bangshal area on Wednesday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Asma Akter (60), wife of Jahangir...
The eleventh death anniversary of eminent journalist and writer Santosh Gupta will be observed today (Thursday), said a press release. He died on this day in 2004 due to brain hemorrhage at the age of 80. To mark the day,...
Barely two months after a Garo woman was gang-raped in a moving microbus while returning home from her workplace in the city, a 12-year-old indigenous schoolgirl was reportedly raped by a young man in the city's Bhatara area on Tuesday,...
Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 3 million shrimp fry and detained five people after raiding Katakhali of Hatiya in Noakhali district early Wednesday, reports UNB. Sources at the Coast Guard headquarters said acting on a tip-off, an operational team from Coast...
Two judges of the High Court (HC) division of the Supreme Court (HC), Justice Md Shahinur Islam and Justice Kashefa Hussain took oath on Wednesday, reports UNB. Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha administered the oath to the judges at Judge's...
The James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), BRAC University, celebrated its 10th anniversary in the city recently, said a press release. Since its inception, JPGSPH has strived towards becoming a leading public health teaching and research institute in...
346 doctors get promotion The government today promoted 346 doctors to the post of associate professor of public medical colleges. Of the promoted physicians, 214 have been posed to different medical colleges located outside Dhaka. Posting order of the promoted...
Banisa Begum, a 50-year-old housewife who has been suffering from acute heart disease, has appealed for financial assistance for her heart surgery. The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) physicians found 100 per cent block in her two arteries and...
Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Rangpur divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Barisal and Khulna divisions with...
Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Rural and urban infrastructures in south and southeastern districts bore the brunt of the ongoing floods, caused by onrush of hill waters coupled with rain under the influence of latest cyclonic storm 'Komen', which extensively damaged highways, roads and river...
Yet in another shocking incident, police recovered the body of a minor boy who was allegedly tortured to death at Amkhola village in Taltoli upazila of Barguna on Tuesday evening, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Rabiul Awal (10),...
FE Report | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Transport workers withdrew their blockade programme on Wednesday evening, on the fifth day of their agitation launched to press home the demand for lifting toll system on the Buriganga Bridge-1. The protestors suspended the blockade programme following assurance of local...
Our Correspondent | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Aug 05: The fruit importers have launched movement in protest against raising assessment rate on imported fruits. The movement started on July 27 last by not taking delivery of the cargo from the port which has resulted in the...
FE Report | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
The government decided on Wednesday to import 30-50 megawatt (MW) more power from India to mitigate local demand for electricity, officials said. The decision was made at a meeting of the cabinet committee on public purchase at the Cabinet Division...
The Hajj flights to Saudi Arabia will start on Aug 16, said Minister for Religious Affairs Principal Motiur Rahman in the city on Wednesday, reports BSS. "A total of 101,758 pilgrims will perform Hajj from Bangladesh this year," he said...
KHULNA, Aug 5 (UNB): An alleged forest robber was killed in a 'gunfight' with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Alki area of the Sundarbans in Koyra upazila on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Farhad, 33, second-in-command...
Police in Chandpur have arrested a couple for beating to death their three-year-old child to drive off the ‘jinn’ who they said possessed her, reports bdnews24.com. Emran Hossain, 40, and Amena Begum, 35, were implicated and sent to jail following...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority is set to re-introduce 5.0 per cent advance income tax on coal import in a bid to help offset possible revenue shortfall from the target fixed in the new budget. Officials said the National Board of Revenue...
FE Report | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith criticised Wednesday government officials for slow progress in their getting accustomed to innovations and said steps have been taken to eliminate irregularities from different tiers of the bureaucracy. He was particularly critical of the 'self-willed' practices...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
In spite of the government's claims about having made some significant advancement, Bangladesh is still lagging far behind, in development of information and communications technology (ICT), than many other developing countries. Its ranking was at 145 among 166 states at...
Monira Munni | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Things are almost settled that the country's apex apparel body -- BGMEA (Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association) -- would have its next leadership through a process of selection notwithstanding the fact there is a subtle opposition to the move,...
FE Report | 2015-08-06 00:00:00
Transparency Interna-tional Bangladesh (TIB) has found an unholy alliance among the government employees, the ruling party's student wing activists, owners of coaching centres and a number of private stakeholders in the act of leaking out question-papers of public examinations in...
India has agreed to extend its first line of credit for development of the railways sector in Bangladesh. Of the US$ 1.0 billion line of credit, agreed between the countries in January 2010, $ 200 million has been fully disbursed...
© 2026 - All Rights with The Financial Express
