Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
Initially it was the leaders of the country's apparel sector. Of late two key ministers have joined them in the act of bashing the two international platforms -- the Accord and the Alliance, formed following the collapse of the Rana...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told Parliament Tuesday that the country's literacy rate was now 70 per cent. "According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, the literacy rate now stands at 70 per cent in the country," he said, replying...
LONDON, June 16: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and people of Bangladesh on Tuesday on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, now on a visit to London, got the...
Siddique Islam | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
The capital base of the country's banking sector fell slightly in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015 mainly due to implementation of Basel-III standard, officials said. The overall capital-to-risk weighted assets ratio (CRAR) of all banks stood at 10.73 per...
LONDON, June 16 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh is following Westminster democracy and has been working hard to strengthen its all democratic institutions. "Though we've been trying to follow Westminster type of democracy, it's a difficult job....
FE Report | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Tuesday Bangladesh is now giving priority to river water conservation for its best use although once the country was not so serious in this regard. "Sweet water across the world is very limited. We have...
FE Report | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
Private sector's contribution to cultivated biological resources (CBR) is 0.81 per cent of the GDP (gross domestic product), which is 3.63 per cent of the total investments, according to a government survey. Its report was formally released in the capital...
The Bangladesh Border Guards (BGB) has identified another 37 Bangladesh nationals among the 208 people rescued from boats by the Myanmar Navy, report agencies. BGB's Cox's Bazar sector commander Colonel MM Anisur Rahman Tuesday said the Bangladesh nationals will be...
BNP standing committee member ASM Hannan Shah alleged on Tuesday that the government was now trying to control the media with a coercive policy, reports UNB. "Once newspapers used to be shutdown by making law, but now the government is...
The outlawed Islamic outfit 'Ansarullah Bangla Team' has once again issued death threat to 25 renowned personalities, including Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu and Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, reports UNB. The outlawed group issued...
The hearing of an appeal against the war crimes tribunal's verdict by BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury has started, reports bdnews24.com. A four-member appeals bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha heard the matter on Tuesday. This is the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
SYLHET, June 16: No bus or truck plied the streets in Sylhet Monday as the transport people enforced an indefinite strike in the district, causing immense sufferings to the commoners. Besides, no bus or truck from the capital and other...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Jun 16: Head of China Communist Party delegation Guo Yezhou said on Tuesday Bangladesh is a tested friend of China and the Chinese businesses are eager to invest in the country. "Bangladesh is important to China. Both the countries...
SATKHIRA, June 16 (UNB): Police arrested the district Jamaat Ameer and former lawmaker Maulana Abdul Khalek Mandol alias Kosai Khalek with a foreign pistol and bullets from a secret meeting at a madrasa in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. Sub-inspector (SI)...
Leaders of Nagorik Jubo Oikya demanded on Tuesday immediate and unconditional release of Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, reports UNB. The demand was raised at a human-chain in front of the National Press Club. Jubo Oikya central committee member...
Doctors at the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a test found the evidence of rape of a female police constable, reports UNB. Sources at DMCH's One Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) told the news agency that the...
Former BNP MP Syeda Ashifa Ashrafi Papiya was sent to jail on Tuesday in connection with nine cases filed for vandalism and arson attacks, reports UNB. Three Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrates --Maruf Hossain, Mahbubur Rahman and Mostafizur Rahaman --passed the orders...
A Dhaka court rejected on Tuesday the bail petition of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League MP Pinu Khan, in a case filed for reportedly shooting two people to death with his firearms in the city's New Eskaton area,...
The summer monsoon in South Asia, including Bangladesh, is weakening significantly due to increasing temperatures in the Indian Ocean and relatively subdued warming over land in the central Indian sub-continent, according to a new study published in Nature Communications, reports...
FE Report | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
The Dhaka education board has served show-cause notices on two educational institutions asking them to explain why their registrations would not be cancelled for their involvement in irregularities during college admission. These errant academic institutions are Milesium College, Uttara and...
FE Report | 2015-06-17 00:00:00
Leaders of Pure Drinking Water Manufacturing Association (PDWMA) urged the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) Tuesday to check marketing of unsafe drinking water in the country. The request was made at a meeting of BSTI officials, PDWMA leaders and...
High Commissioners designate of Ghana, Malta and Uganda and ambassador designate of Croatia in Bangladesh separately presented their credentials to President Md Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Tuesday, reports BSS. The all non-resident envoys are - Samuel Panyin Yalley of...
Experts reiterated the need for concerted policies to conserve biodiversity in the country, said a press release. They warned that if appropriate conservation measures are not taken, many species, particularly in the haor basin will go extinct in near future,...
The Parliamentary Stan-ding Committee on Shipping Ministry formed a three-member sub-committee on Tuesday to give a report in one month on pending cases involving agencies under the ministry, reports BSS. The sub-committee was formed at the 15th meeting of the...
Four workers were killed and five others injured in separate road accidents in Sylhet and Gazipur on Tuesday morning, reports UNB. In Sylhet, two workers were killed when a sand-laden truck plunged into a road side ditch as its driver...
One hundred thirty four including 13 female cadets of the Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA) formally passed out through a colorful ceremony at Bhataiary BMA Parade Ground in Chittagong on Tuesday, said an ISPR Press Release. Among the commissioned officers in...
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