Customs officials at Shahjalal International Airport have detained a passenger for trying to smuggle in Tk 3.5 million worth of gold bars concealed in his rectum. Customs Department Joint Commissioner SM Sohel Rahman told bdnews24.com on Friday, “This is the...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Friday said his ministry is going to start necessary works soon for taking a project aiming to improve the lifestyle of enclave dwellers. A high-powered committee will supervise the process of work on the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday highlighted the importance of breastfeeding and homemade foods for infants at mothers' workplaces. "If a mother can feed her infant at workplace her baby would be healthy and the mother will also be tension-free...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
PABNA, July 29: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken up a massive plan to cultivate different Robi crops in nine upazilas of the district during the current season. DAE office sources said, a total of 1, 47,072 hectares of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
BOGRA, July 29: Price of essential commodities like ladies finger, egg-plant, bitter-gourd, pointed-gourd, pulse, cucumber and vegetable marked rise in the local kitchen markets due to frequent heavy rainfall in Bogra district including 12 upazilas for last few days. The...
RANGPUR, July 29 (BSS): Mayor of the Rangpur city, valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu, launched on Wednesday carpeting works of two roads at different places in the city. He launched the road carpeting works by cutting ribbon at...
Our Correspondent | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
SYLHET, July 29: Speakers at a view exchange meeting in Sylhet stressed on ensuring proper attention and sincere efforts for legal aid services to the poor, especially the distressed rural women. BRAC organised the event styled 'Awareness and Legal Aid...
A Correspondent | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, July 29: Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) is working to ensure the legal rights of the unprivileged communities of the country. BLAST also provides legal aid, advice and representation to the people incapable of operating litigations due...
Cyclone ‘Komen’ weakened as it made a landfall hitting the Chittagong coast near Swandip around 9pm on Thursday. After the landfall, ‘Komen’ may move west-northeastwards and weaken gradually by giving precipitation, according to the latest special bulletin of the Meteorological...
sayedmofidulbabu@gmail.com | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
RANGPUR, July 29: Erosion by the river Ghaghot rendered over 60 families homeless at Monglakuti Ujanpara area at Koikuri union under Pirgachha upazila in the district during last one week. Due to erosion crop fields, vegetable gardens and other farmlands...
BENAPOLE, July 29 (UNB): Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 710 pieces of rare species tortoises from Boalia Bazar under Benapole port police station on Wednesday noon. Lieutenant Colonel Jahangir Hossain, commanding officer of BGB-26, said being tipped...
PABNA, July 29 (UNB): A police constable drowned in a pond on the Faridpur Police Station complex in the district on Tuesday evening. The deceased was identified as Yasin Ali (48), son of Afzal Hossain, a resident of Shahajadpur upazila...
Training for Hajj pilgrims held in Rangpur A day-long introductory meeting and training course for the Hajj pilgrims was held at Zila Parishad Community Centre auditorium here in the city on Tuesday. Rangpur Hajj Training Centre and Haji Kallyan Sangstha...
Jasim Uddin Haroon, back from Keraniganj | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
The Pangaon container terminal built at a cost of Tk 1.50 billion in Keraniganj off the city is slowly coming to life nowadays, long after its inauguration in 2013, as many are opting for this alternative shipment route. Stakeholders like...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
The Ministry of Railway has sent project proposal to the Planning Commission (PC) to conduct a study on the prospects of bringing the Barisal region under railway network, according to sources. The Barisal region, crisscrossed by rivers and canals, yet...
The appellate division of the Supreme Court (SC) upheld Wednesday the death penalty of condemned war crime convict Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, reports UNB. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the court, led by chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha,...
Ahsan H. Mansur and Muhammad Shafiullah | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
In fiscal Year 2014/15 (FY15), Bangladesh's foreign exchange (forex) reserves crossed the US$25 billion mark, setting a new record for the emerging South Asian nation. With current level of reserves, Bangladesh will be able to afford seven months of imports....
Siddique Islam | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
The central bank is set to unveil its monetary policy for the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal year (2015-16) today (Thursday), officials said. Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Dr Atiur Rahman is expected to announce the monetary policy statement...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
It is a good piece of news that the government has, of late, responded positively to the demand for safe environment in the ship-breaking industry. The cabinet approved draft Bangladesh Ship Recycling Act, 2015 this week with the provisions for...
All the passport users, both at home and abroad, have been requested to swap their handwritten passports with the new machine readable ones by November 24. The deadline was fixed at an inter-ministerial meeting, held at the Civil Aviation and...
FE Report | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
Although water flow in some major rivers came down below their danger marks, the flood situation in thirteen districts in the country's south and south-eastern parts worsened over the last 48 hours till 6:00 pm on Wednesday. Offices of the...
Pankaj Dastider | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Jul 29: The Chittagong City Corporation has sought Tk 1.12 billion (Tk 112 crore) from the government to repair the roads left dilapidated by five days of rains and water-logging in the city. A senior official of the CCC...
Munima Sultana | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
Four South Asian countries will meet in Dhaka in September next to finalise draft protocols on motor vehicles agreement (MVA) signed in June by Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN), officials said. The two-day joint secretary-level meeting beginning on September...
FE Report | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
Deputy Commissioners (DCs) proposed Wednesday that the government take initiative for reactivating the inoperative or closed mills in different districts for the country's economic uplift, officials said. Asked about the proposal of the field-level administrative officials, Industries Minister Amir Hossain...
FE Report | 2015-07-30 00:00:00
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) mayor Annisul Huq Wednesday announced a Tk 16.02 billion (1602 crore) budget for the FY 2015-16, the first one in his five-year term, with main focus on turning Dhaka city into a green, automated and...
Claiming that its standing committee member Salauddin Quader Chowdhury did not get justice, BNP said on Wednesday the party was disappointed surprised and shocked as the Supreme Court (SC) upheld his death penalty, reports UNB. "We're upset, surprised and saddened...
The Ganajagaran Mancha has demanded hanging of BNP leader Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury without much delay, reports bdnews24.com. The Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday the death penalty for Chowdhury by the International Crimes Tribunal. Chowdhury has often been described as the...
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