Newly appointed Army Chief Lt General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq on Sunday placed a wreath at the Shikha Anirban at Dhaka Cantonment paying tributes to the soldiers martyred during the Liberation War in 1971. A smartly turned out contingent...
Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) has suspended a teacher following allegation of rape. University spokesman Hayatuzzaman Mukul said that a suspension letter had been sent to Syed Mahfuz Al Hasan, a teacher in the food and nutrition department,...
The High Court has ordered a halt within 24 hours to the setting up of a parking lot by tearing down a part of the boundary wall of Lalbagh Kella (fort). The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice...
A convicted prisoner, who had been serving jail term at the district jail in a drug case, died at Narayanganj General Hospital on Saturday evening. The deceased was identified as Sohag Miah, 48, son of Abdul Hai, a resident of...
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. A Malaysian delegation will visit Bangladesh to complete the process after...
A fire on a music stage spread into a crowd of spectators at a Saturday night party at a Taiwan water park, injuring more than 500 people, including eight in critical condition. The fire was sparked by an accidental explosion...
One of the four garment workers burned in a gas stove fire in Chittagong’s EPZ area last Wednesday has died in a local hospital. Mohammad Nayan, 17, died at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH)’s burn unit on Saturday evening....
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have arrested five members of a currency counterfeiting ring that was planning to release Tk10.48 million into circulation ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. RAB spokesman Mufti Mahmud Khan said on Sunday that they were arrested from...
A man died on Sunday morning as he fell from a jackfruit tree at Janata under Dimla upazila of Nilphamari district. The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain, 26, son of Samser Ali of South Haroar area of the district...
A housewife was electrocuted at Mostofapur village under Madaripur Sadar upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased was identified as Jannatul Begum, 33, wife of Esrafil Khan of the same village. Locals said Jannatul died on the spot as she came...
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. Nasrul Hamid told Parliament this in reply to a question from...
Bangladesh on Sunday signed two loan agreements with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for implementing a project titled ‘South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Railway Connectivity: Akhaura-Laksam Double Track’. The deals are US$ 400 million ordinary capital resources (OCR) and...
The government has made special allocations for flood-affected people of Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong and Bandarban districts to distribute food grains and cash assistance. On Sunday, the Disaster Management and Relief Ministry allocated 230 metric tonnes of rice and Tk1.7 million...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday said he was surprised to find some ‘wrong’ statements in the budget speech of Finance Minister AMA Muhith on education sector and criticised him for making less allocation for the sector for the...
The European Central Bank is expected to end emergency lending to Greece's banks on Sunday, the BBC understands. Well-placed sources told BBC economics editor Robert Peston a decision to end the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) would be made by the...
The 36th National Science and Technology Week and Science Fair kicked off at National Science and Technology Museum -2015 on Sunday to create an opportunity for young scientists to display their inventions at national level. State Minister for Science and...
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday demanded increased allocation for the health sector to ensure better healthcare for all. He made the demand while participating in the general discussion on the proposed budget for the 2015-16 fiscal, a news agency...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has revised the provisioning requirements for banks against their investment in mutual funds (MFs). The central bank in a circular on Sunday said that banks from now on would not have to keep provision for losses against...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
Two separate news items on postal-based finance have appeared in two different newspapers in two countries -- Bangladesh and India-- within a week. The Bangladeshi newspaper depicts a sad picture of the country's postal financing. It reports that despite being...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
Even 20 to 25 years back, the now-popular Iftar culture was almost unknown to the city youth hubs like the university campuses. In the bygone days in Dhaka, the ending of a day's Ramadan fast used to be confined to...
Eid ul Fitr is only a few weeks away and soon the city dwellers will be on a shopping spree and it will create an extra traffic pressure on the roads. I usually prefer to shop at night when the...
A recent study shows that most of the vehicle drivers do not have valid driving licenses. Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) and the traffic police department indicated the fact as most dangerous and distressing. According to a Financial Express report,...
Md Jamal Hossain | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
Every year we become flabbergasted by the number of students who get Grade Point Average (GPA)-5 in secondary and Higher secondary exams. And the number is ever increasing. At the same time, Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of university students...
Ferdaus Ara Begum | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
Economic status of women is now accepted as an indicator of the stage of development in a country. Women entrepreneurs are coming up with different ventures but are facing several problems, particularly in the field of access to finance. Happily,...
Abdul Hannan | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
The demographic structure has been changing rapidly not only in developed countries but also in developing countries. Like other developing countries, Bangladesh is passing the second stage of demographic transition where the population growth rate is higher than birth rate....
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s recent visit to Bangladesh generated much heat and less light. In fact, his visit created a kind of euphoria and the political parties and the media seemed to have been mesmerised. Even the Bangladesh Nationalist...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
In the midst of the American Civil War (1861-65), President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation on January 01, 1863: "All persons held as slaves within any states in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 1877 - 21 April 1938), widely known as Allama Iqbal, was an academic, poet, barrister, philosopher, and politician in British India who is widely regarded as having inspired the Pakistan Movement. He is considered one of...
Md Abdur Rashid | 2015-06-27 00:00:00
The humongous proliferation of illicit drugs among the young generation deteriorates the future of Bangladesh. The drugs are attenuating the recreational instincts of the youth. The unplanned and semi-developed character of urbanisation and industrialisation is maximising the crisis. The nation...
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