Bangladesh has been placed ahead of the USA in the global ranking of investment destinations, among 110 countries of the planet. India has been ranked No 1 by the Daniel Altman's Baseline Profitability Index (BPI) 2015. China has secured the...
Police have arrested three persons, including a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), for possessing contraband Phensidyl syrup at Debhata upazila of Satkhira district. They are Zakir Hossain, 25, general secretary of Kaliganj upazila unit of BCL and son...
Bangladesh national team cricket player Nasir Hossain has removed a picture he had posted on his Facebook account after being annoyed by obscene comments of ‘fans’. He took the picture with his sister on their way to Syedpur from Dhaka...
The total amount of default loans of 56 banks operating in Bangladesh is over Tk546.57 billion. Finance Minister AMA Muhith revealed the figure in reply to a query from MP Nurunnabi Chowdhury in Parliament on Saturday. Muhith said the state-owned...
The city saw severe traffic congestions and waterlogging triggered by continued rains for the third consecutive day on Saturday, inflicting immense sufferings on the commuters during the holy month of fasting. The Met office recorded 27 mm of rain from...
The finance ministers of Euro zone on Saturday refused to extend Greece’s bailout programme past June 30 after Athens called a referendum on reform proposals by creditors. The finance ministers ‘rejected an extension of the aid programme’ at a meeting...
President Abdul Hamid attended on Saturday an iftar party hosted by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury also attended the iftar party held on the Supreme Court premises. Both the President...
Eurozone finance ministers have rejected a Greek request to extend a bailout programme beyond 30 June. A Eurogroup statement said Greece had broken off negotiations over a new bailout deal "unilaterally". Late on Friday, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras called a...
The Dhaka University senate passed the Tk 4.26 billion budget on Saturday for the fiscal 2015-16 in the annual senate session with keeping only one per cent allocation in research sector. DU treasurer Professor M Kamal Uddin placed the budget...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday urged political parties to get united to save the country and its people from the misrule of the current “unelected” government. “Many top leaders of different political parties are present here. I would like...
Bangladesh Sports Journalists Association (BSJA) launched its website (www.bsja.com.bd ) on Saturday. The website was formally launched during a Doa and Iftar Mahfil at the Shaheed Capt (retd) M Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium in the capital on Saturday, according...
The maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no. three. Due to vigorous monsoon, steep pressure gradient persists over North Bay, a Met Office weather bulletin said Saturday. Under...
Bangladesh has underscored the need for addressing some of the key outstanding challenges over maternal malnutrition, child marriage, unskilled birth attendance and gender disparity in tertiary education through IPU’s meaningful cooperation. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali discussed the issue when...
Water levels in 42 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 36 stations recorded falls. Among the 84 monitored water level stations, two river stations have been registered steady and three river stations...
The proposed national budget for the fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, has provided some lucrative benefits for the country's toy industry that the concerned quarters believe would give a boost to the sector in both manufacturing and marketing. The benefits, mostly...
Election Commission is correcting the National Identity Cards of three citizens to introduce ‘Justice’ as a title for the first time in line with a High Court decision. The applications by High Court Justices Naima Haider and Mirza Hussain Haider,...
Bangladesh is set to sign the Articles of Agreement (AoA) of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on June 29 in Beijing in which the country is expected to get less than one percent or 0.6729 per cent shares of...
BNP on Friday urged the government to immediately stand beside the flood victims of the greater Chittagong with emergency supplies. In a statement, the party said, "Over 20,000 people have been marooned in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Chittagong Hill Tracts...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday detained a passenger along with 31 gold bars weighing around 3.6 kg. Assistant Commissioner (Customs) Md Al Amin told UNB that the arrested passenger identified as Md Didar of Keraniganj, landed...
Police in a drive arrested three officials of a fake non-governmental organisation (NGO), including its head, from a hotel in Satkhira on Friday morning on charge of conning people out of Tk450 million. The arrestees were identified as Abdur Razzak,...
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police on seized fake stamps worth around Tk606.6 million raiding a printing press in the city's Lalkuthi area on Friday. A special CID team conducted the drive at the printing press located at 157 Lalkuthi...
At least 27 people, mostly foreigners, have been killed in an attack on a beach near two tourist hotels in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to the interior ministry. Officials say one gunman has been shot dead and...
The US Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States. In a landmark 5-4 decision, Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for the majority ruled that marriage is a constitutional right for all. "No union...
Bangladesh is the third most peaceful country in South Asia while Bhutan and Nepal secured the first and second positions in terms of peaceful country, said a new global report. The overall ranking of Bangladesh is 84 though its regional...
Abul Basher | 2015-06-26 00:00:00
This fiscal year is ending. There will be a lot of discussions on the progress made in this fiscal year. Economic commentators, politicians and journalists will debate on what we achieved and what we could not achieve in FY15. At...
Saleh Akram | 2015-06-26 00:00:00
Immigration is as old as the civilization itself. History tells us that the French, Dutch, Arabs and the British migrated to this part of the world at different times, looted our resources and made us subservient. Of them, the British...
As the figures speak for themselves, the changing dynamics of the mobile telephony and related technology bears out some strong positive developments in Bangladesh. Thus a recent study the USAID estimated the total value of monthly transactions in Bangladesh, made...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-06-26 00:00:00
It seems Bangladesh is more enthusiastic than others in facilitating transit and connectivity to India and via India to Nepal and Bhutan. For long, the two land-locked countries, Nepal and Bhutan, could not connect with Bangladesh through land route as...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-06-26 00:00:00
Economists and analysts have opined that the recent signing of the 22 agreements for multimodal connectivity and economic development with India during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Dhaka visit was done without a proper assessment by Bangladesh. They say New...
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