Jubair Hasan | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
Day in, day out-a section of unscrupulous owners are busy refurbishing their rundown vessels to give them cosmetic new looks to cash in on a mad rush of homebound people ahead of Eid. Such hasty preparation forebodes risky ride to...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
All income tax files under universal self-assessment will come under scrutiny from the current fiscal year (FY) after the tax authority incorporated a new provision in the Income Tax Ordinance of the budget. The provision titled 'Scrutiny assessment' will empower...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is in a "hurry" taking up quick-sail projects for upazila-level infrastructure development under MPs' jurisdiction across the country, officials said Saturday. Allegations have it that projects are being taken up under political considerations owing to...
FE Report | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
Hundreds of people are still looking for bus tickets as they failed to buy them on Friday when the sales of advance tickets started to facilitate the journey of homebound passengers on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Many ticket aspirants alleged...
A teenage boy, who was abducted by a gang in the city's Bangshal area on Thursday, was rescued by members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Saturday morning. The Rab members also arrested eight suspected abductors by conducting simultaneous drives...
COMILLA, Jul 4: An Awami League leader, who was allegedly hacked by a group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists in Monohorganj upazila on June 29 last over an altercation, succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Tongi of...
Siddique Islam | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
In the wake of currencies losing their value worldwide, Bangladesh's central bank bought up US dollars worth 3.76 billion from the commercial banks directly in the just-concluded fiscal year to keep the country's money market stable. However, official figures show...
FE Report | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
The second phase of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), a trade capacity-building programme for the least developed countries (LDCs) under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), was launched in Geneva on July 1. Under the new tagline 'Trade for LDC Development',...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday the government was drawing up a master plan to build an Olympic Stadium and a Sports Complex on the bank of the Padma River, reports UNB. The Prime Minister was addressing a function...
BNP claimed on Saturday that foreign donors had expressed their no-confidence in the present government's election management by withdrawing funds for an Election Commission (EC) project, reports UNB. Addressing a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan central office, BNP spokesman...
MYMENSINGH, July 4 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a man, accused of killing a man and three sons in Nandail Upazila under Mymensingh on Friday night, from near a pond in Bashati village of the upazila on Saturday. The...
KUSHTIA, July 4 (UNB): Fourteen truckloads of 'substandard' wheat imported from Brazil could not be stored at the Kumarkhali godown on Saturday due to obstruction by a local MP. Witnesses said when the wheat, brought from Khulna divisional food godown,...
SAVAR, July 4 (UNB): The authorities of a garment factory here sacked 67 of its workers on Saturday morning over vandalism and arson attack in the name of movement. The authorities of FCI (BD) Garments Limited in the Dhaka Export...
Former Election Commissioner Sohul Hossain said on Saturday the goodwill and sincerity of the Election Commission (EC) is enough to arrange polls in a free and fair manner, reports UNB. "If the Commission wants, the polls must be held in...
Claiming that their party joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi is seriously ill, BNP demanded on Saturday the government immediately release him on bail considering his deteriorating health condition, reports UNB. In a statement, party spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon said: "Imprisoned...
Senior Awami League (AL) leader and former minister Suranjit Sengupta said on Saturday Bangladesh will emerge as a mid-income country within few years if it could contain terrorism, militancy and corruption, reports BSS. "Bangladesh is passing through a golden period...
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said on Saturday the judiciary can be subjected to fair criticism if and when occasion demands like any other public institution, reports UNB. "It's important in a country governed by a rule of law that...
Claiming that their party joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi is seriously ill, BNP demanded on Saturday the government immediately release him on bail considering his deteriorating health condition, reports UNB. In a statement, party spokesman Asaduzzaman Ripon said: "Imprisoned...
FE Report | 2015-07-05 00:00:00
Planning minister AHM Mostafa Kamal Friday inaugurated electricity connection to 3,183 rural consumers at his constituency Comilla-11 (Sadar South of Nangolkot) which was deprived of electricity until now. Electricity connection was provided to 20 villages of Adra, Baksganj, Mokra, Doulkhar...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina hosted an Iftar for judges, diplomats and government officials at her official residence Ganobhaban on Saturday, reports BSS. The PM went round different tables set for the guests, exchanged pleasantries with them and enquired about...
PABNA, July 4 (BSS): Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif said here today the Awami League (AL) government is determined to make Bangladesh a poverty-free country. "Different pragmatic measures taken by the government has helped boost the country's economy by increasing...
A UK family of Bangladeshi origin who went missing had joined so-called Islamic State (IS) and are 'safer than ever', according to a statement said to be made on their behalf, reports UNB. The statement, purportedly sent by a member...
JHENIDAH, June 4 (UNB): A student of Dhaka University (DU) was killed and four persons injured in a road accident in Gulshan intersection under Kaliganj Upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Aminul Islam, son of Jainal Bepari of...
Several subcommittees have been formed for smooth holding of the 28th national conference of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on July 25-26, reports BSS. The two-day biennial conference of BCL, spearheading education, peace and progress in the country, will be held...
SYLHET, July 4 (BSS): The conference of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Sylhet city unit was held on Saturday on the Central Shaheed Minar premises here. The central committee president of BCL, student wing of ruling Awami League (AL), Baduizzaman Sohag,...
A member of Bangladesh Ansar, who had allegedly shot dead one of his colleagues at a Khagrhachhari camp, has been arrested, police say, reports bdnews24.com. Rafiqul Islam was arrested in Dighinala on Saturday, said OC Shahadat Hossain Titu.
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