Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Tuesday joined a post-budget iftar mahfil arranged by Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. On her arrival at the venue at 6:30 pm, the Prime Minister was received by Muhith. Later,...
A legal notice has been served on Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya. It has questioned the legal basis of his continuing as a minister and an MP after his acquittal from corruption charges was quashed in...
MEDAN: At least 116 people were killed Tuesday when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said. Buildings were left in ruins and cars reduced to flaming...
Khaleda Zia has criticised the proceedings of Parliament, saying no discussion is taking place there. “No discussion is taking place in Parliament Tuesday. It has become a musical gathering,” the former leader of the house, who is now out of...
Ahsan Mansur | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
For the private sector credit to expand significantly in the fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, in line with the 7.0% growth projection, the deposit base of the banking system must expand at a significantly higher rate. The 12% deposit growth recorded...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
Only three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 19 that Russia does not claim any "ephemeral superpower status" at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, European Union foreign ministers at a meeting at Luxemburg extended the damaging...
The reported involvement of law enforcers, i.e., a section of the police force in smuggling the menacing drug Yaba has caused a jolt that many in this country believe has more in store to unravel. That piece of news made...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
Okhil Chandra Sen, a traveller by a train, wrote a letter to the Divisional Railway Officer of Sahibganj on July 02, 1909. It was 106 years ago. Allow this writer to reproduce the letter verbatim (courtesy of Sheepa Hafiza, Director,...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-06-30 00:00:00
Watching the worn-out BRTC buses plying Dhaka streets makes one feel sad and morose, to say the least. The spectacle should not have come to this pass. Ever since the launch of the service in the then East Pakistan in...
Prices of essentials have soared again in the current month of Ramadan. This happens every year. The dishonest traders, among other things, resort to hoarding the essential items and push up their prices by creating an artificial crisis in the...
Recently the cricket star Nasir Hossain posted a photo with his sister on his facebook page. But some people who follow him on his page posted comments by abusing the brother and sister. Is it really freedom of speech? Star...
Leadership means a leader who has hosts of followers for his/her qualities of head and heart. Leadership has always been difficult to define as leadership and management are often interchangeable. Greater confusion is caused by other terminologies like power, authority,...
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...
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