Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
President Barack Obama won the battle when the majority-Republican Senate had passed a bill giving the president fast-track authority and providing aid to workers who might lose their jobs because of TPP. It means that Congress has approved the project...
Mohammad Najmul Islam | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
The recent verdict of the International Tribunal for the Law of Sea demarcating 19,467 sq.km of international water of the Bay of Bengal to Bangladesh has given the country an undisputed excess to rich natural resources of the ocean. And...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
RANGPUR, June 28: Weavers of Benarashi palli at Gangachara upazila in Rangpur district are now busy with manufacturing Benarashi sarees, as the holy Eid-ul-Fitr is knocking at the door. They are working day and night to make different varieties of...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
PABNA, June 28: Majority haats and bazaars including nine pourashava markets in nine upazilas of the district are in deplorable condition causing serious inconvenience to the buyers and the sellers. According to sources there are 195 haats and bazars in...
RAJSHAHI, June 28 (BSS): More than 50,000 women especially from the poor and disadvantaged communities have become money-rotators ending their long-lasting poverty and hunger in the city. Currently, all of them have become self-reliant through multifarious income-generating activities like paper...
KHULNA, June 28 (UNB): A schoolteacher died from electrocution at Patkelpota in Paikgachha upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Nurul Huda (55), headmaster of Patkelpota Government Primary School and a resident of Daramari village in Mirpur upazila...
GAIBANDHA, June 28 (BSS): Speakers at a function here recently underlined the importance of promoting water, sanitation and hygiene strategies and practices comprehensively to reduce water and sanitation related diseases. "Importance should be given to improve water quality and hygiene...
GAIBANDHA, June 28 (BSS): Speakers at a function underscored the need for gearing up community policing activities by involving the common people to prevent all sorts of social crimes to ensure a peaceful society. They came up with the comment...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
SYLHET, June 28: The country's first container based TB culture lab is being set up in the divisional city of Sylhet. With a view to providing sophisticated and faster treatment for the TB patients or suspects, the modern facility will...
COMILLA, June 28 (UNB): Two siblings were killed and three other people injured when a covered van hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Bennai on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Abdul Karim...
BARF distributes saplings in Rangamati Bangladesh Agriculture Research Foundation (BARF) distributed saplings of trees, fruits and medicinal plants among helpless marginal male and female farmers at Ghagra on Rangamari-Chittagong highway under Kawkhali upazila of the district Sunday. BARF distributed saplings...
Defending champion Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club notched a 9-1 goals victory over lowly Farashganj Sporting Club in the second phase first match of the Manyavar Bangladesh Premier League at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city Sunday, reports UNB. With...
Tigers' fans are earnestly waiting for the South African cricketers who will arrive tomorrow (Tuesday) to play two Tests, three one-day internationals (ODIs) and two Twenty20 matches, reports BSS. Bangladesh cricketers are on cloud nine with thumping 3-0 ODI win...
The gas reserves in Bangladesh is enough to last until 2031, if the current rate of extraction is maintained, says the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, reports agencies. Nasrul Hamid was replying to a question in parliament....
NETRAKONA, June 28 (BSS): Non-iodized salt, being sold freely in the rural markets in the district, is posing serious threat to public health. Reports reaching here from rural areas of the district said a section of salt traders are selling...
CHITTAGONG, June 28 (BSS): The state-owned Meghna Petroleum Limited (MPL) is going to set up country's first-ever 'oil museum' in the commercial capital, Chittagong with basic objective to make the people familiar with different kinds of oil and their long...
FE Report | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
Sales of umbrella and raincoat are booming on the back of a lengthier monsoon across the country, including the city. Traders at New Market, Farmgate and Chawkbazar in the city told the FE correspondent that umbrella of various colours and...
Motorcycle manufacturers and exporters called upon the government to adopt a policy to encourage the emerging manufacturing and exporting sector, says a press statement. Hailing the government for proposing increased duty on motorcycle imported on both CKD and CBU basis,...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the industries ministry to prepare a position paper explaining the rationale for a proposed Bangladesh Industrial Development Authority (BIDA), officials said. The ministry of industries (MoI) has also been directed to submit the...
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday said an agreement for sending Bangladeshi workers to Malaysia through private recruiting agencies will be signed soon, reports UNB. A Malaysian delegation will visit Bangladesh to complete the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-29 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Junes 28: Unloading of cargoes from vessels at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port resumed on Sunday after a recess of almost six days. Container handling at the port jetties remained almost normal but delivery of cargoes from the...
Treasury bench members Sunday appreciated the proposed budget for 2015-16 fiscal year describing it as pro-people, investment and business-friendly that would help implement Vision 2021 of the government by ensuring economic emancipation for common people, reports BSS. Taking part in...
The Disaster Management and Relief Ministry Sunday allocated special fund for the flood affected people of Cox's bazar, Chittagong and Bandarban areas, reports BSS. The ministry allocated 230 tonnes of rice and Tk 1.7 million for Cox's Bazar, 150 tonnes...
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