Abdullah-Al-Rezwan (Fuad) and Nahiyan Nasir | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
If you go to Kolkata and observe closely, you will find quite a few billboards on mutual funds. This is nothing unique. In fact, you are more likely to experience the same thing in most major cities around the world....
Zeenat Khan | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
ZEENAT KHAN (ZK): It has been over a month that you took office as Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor. On June 11, I read an opinion piece in one of the Bangladesh newspapers. The author maintained that your promise for...
BAGERHAT, June 29 (UNB): The formal reopening of the Mongla-Ghashiakhali channel of the Kumarkhali River has been delayed till August this year as some more dredging works in the main channel as well as its adjoining canals still remain to...
RAJSHAHI, June 29 (BSS): Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has launched red card distribution activities for providing cost-free primary health services to the poor and distressed people. Nizam-Ul Azim, acting mayor of RCC, introduced the scheme formally by giving cards to...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
SYLHET, June 29: Roads & Highways department has taken a programme worth Tk 1.0 billion (one hundred crore) for reconstruction of 85 kilometre on different important roads in the Sylhet division soon. Twenty seven culverts and 6 bridges on 7...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Jun 29: A superlative variety of mango, locally known as Haribhanga has become much popular in Rangpur district. Cultivation of this juicy and fleshy mango has now turned into a blessing, a way to change socio-economic condition of thousands...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, June 29: Construction work on Chapail Bridge over an erosion prone river Madhumati on Gopalganj-Narail-Khulna highway is going on in full swing for opening in November this year. Chapail Bridge over the Madhumati river is 588.65 metre long, 7.30...
KISHOREGANJ, June 29 (UNB): The indefinite transport strike enforced by the district's Transport Owners' Association enters its second day on Monday. The transport owners enforced the strike on Sunday morning demanding punishment of the leaders of the Road Transport Workers'...
NARSHINGDI, June 29 (UNB): Bangladesh Primary Teachers' Association general secretary Anwar Hossain was injured in an attack by miscreants in Chinispur area of the district town early Monday. Police said a gang of miscreants numbering 10-12 stormed into Anwar's residence...
RU Correspondent | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, June 29: The leaders and activists of the Socialist Student Front (SSF), a student wing of Bangladesher Socialist Party, demanded abolition of all night course programmes in Rajshahi University (RU) immediately. They also protested strongly of what they...
PABNA, June 29 (UNB): Police arrested an alleged robber along with a revolver from Beniapotti area in Sadar upazila early Monday. The arrested was identified as Murad Hossain (22), son of Iqbal Hossain, a resident of Shalgaria area of the...
SYLHET, June 29 (UNB): Police recovered the floating body of a young man from a pond in Raikdara area of Osmaninagar upazila on Sunday evening. The deceased could not be identified immediately. Locals spotted the body of the young man...
Mobile court fines milk factory in Pabna A mobile court fined a factory Tk 0.5 million (Tk 5 lakh) for producing adulterated cow milk at Paschim Sonatola village of Santhiya upazila on Sunday afternoon. The mobile court, led by upazila...
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision to change ODI rules regarding field restrictions has brought relief to Bangladesh bowlers as it did to bowlers around the rest of the world, reports bdnews24.com. At its annual conference in Barbados, the ICC...
Bangladesh's concern over the participation of West Indies in an ODI tri-series with Zimbabwe and Pakistan has boiled over, with the BCB director Jalal Yunus saying that the system of organising bilateral series had "gone bad" since the ICC stopped...
Came from behind, Dhaka Mohammedan SC Ltd earned a facile 3-1 goals victory over Chittagong Abahani Ltd in the Manyavar Bangladesh Premier Football League at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong on Monday, reports UNB. After the day's win, Mohammedan...
COLOMBO, June 29: Sri Lanka negotiated a 153-run target, the threat of rain and a brief batting stutter to eventually ease to a seven-wicket win over Pakistan in the second Test at the P Sara Oval, levelling the series with...
Came from behind, Dhaka Mohammedan SC Ltd earned a facile 3-1 goals victory over Chittagong Abahani Ltd in the Manyavar Bangladesh Premier Football League at the MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong on Monday, reports UNB. After the day's win, Mohammedan...
A Swiss foundation would tie up with Bangladesh Bank (BB) to help explore the opportunities of collaborating on exploring global green fund for sustainable infrastructure focusing on textile and leather sectors, reports BSS. The Basel-based Global Infrastructure Basel (GIB) Foundation...
CHUADANGA, June 29 (BSS): The procurement drive of Boro rice is going on satisfactorily in all four upazilas of the district. The four upazilas are: Chuadanga Sadar, Alamdanga, Damurhuda and Jibannagar. District Food Controller Office sources said a total of...
RAJSHAHI, June 29 (BSS): Large-scale sesame farming on the fallow lands can be the effective means of mitigating the existing drought condition alongside the adverse impact of climate change in the vast Barind tract, agricultural scientists and extension officials said....
MYMENSINGH, June 29 (BSS): Bangladesh Police Service Association has taken up a programme to release fish fry in open water bodies in the district to increase fish output to meet the demand of protein. Under the programme, Gouripur and Ishwarganj...
Syful Islam | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has sought to be sole carrier of entire petroleum products imported by the Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) under freight on board (FoB) system instead of the present cost and freight (C&F) system, officials said. However,...
Monira Munni | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
An inordinate delay in conducting detailed engineering assessments (DEA) and giving approval to corrective action plans (CAP) has created roadblocks to timely execution of remediation for non-compliant garment factories which have been identified under a government-ILO joint drive, sources said....
Badrul Ahsan | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is set to provide US$300 million as soft loan for development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country, a high official of central bank said. A high-profile meeting recently among officials from ADB,...
New ED of BB Md. Humayun Kabir, General Manager, Currency Management Department of Bangladesh Bank has recently been promoted to the post of Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank. Mr. Kabir started his career as officer Class-1 of the Central Bank...
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