The maiden elections to the reserved seats in 377 Upazila Parishads were held on Monday. As many as 2536 candidates contested for 1245 reserved seats exclusively for the women in the elections, the Election Commission Secretariat sources said. The polls...
Muhammad Zamir | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
The two-day state visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Dhaka from June 06-07, 2015 will be remembered by all for the hopes that have been raised by him in the context of our bilateral relations. India and Bangladesh...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
A new hope for accelerated industrialisation along with concomitant new investments as well as rise in exports and employment has been generated in Bangladesh in recent times due to some pragmatic initiatives taken by the government. These include establishment of...
The governors of eight South Asian central banks in Dhaka last week deliberated on ways to strike more financial inclusion as a tool of furthering the pace of growth in the region. This has provided a unique opportunity for all...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
The size of the national budget has grown over time and the one for the next financial year (2015-16) is expected to be worth nearly Tk 3.0 trillion. However, the Bangladesh's budgetary expenditure on health is still smaller compared to...
Neil Ray | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
The Indian government has decided to issue an instruction for that country's physicians to write the names of prescribed medicines in capital letters. This is in response to complaints made by different quarters for long against illegibly written medical prescriptions...
We were simply shocked to read about two innocent people getting killed when a son of an MP opened fire indiscriminately. The killer was drunk and two poor men were the victims without any fault of theirs. Power itself is...
We are accustomed to seeing VVIP's visits to different parts of the city and the miseries that follow. The traffic authorities do nothing other than blocking the roads for an unusually long period of time in the area where a...
The prestigious TIME Asia Rankings of Universities 2015 has been published a few days ago and it was disappointing to see that none of our universities are in the top 100 list. The highlight of this year's ranking is that...
Raghuram Rajan in the second of a three-part presentation on the post-recession global economy | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
THE DEFLATION FEAR: Finally, a big factor persuading authorities in industrial countries to push for higher growth is the fear of deflation. The canonical example here is Japan, where many are persuaded that the key mistake it made was to...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
RANGPUR, June 14: Erosion by the river Teesta rendered over 40 families homeless at Paikan and Chilkhal area under Gangachara upazila in the district during last few days. Due to erosion caused by heavy rainfall and onrush of water, crop...
FARIDPUR, June 14 (BSS): A two-day training course for the local journalists on 'Child and Woman affairs reporting in media' arranged by Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) ended here Saturday at circuit house lounge. The aim of the training course...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, June 14: Though the government has banned the selling of guide books, the students of class 5 to 10 of all upazilas and district sadar were being forced to buy them. Thus, the students are becoming meritless and the...
GAIBANDHA, June 14 (BSS): Overall flood situation in chars and the river basin of the four Upazilas in the district deteriorated further as the river Brahmaputra marked rise in last 24 hours till Sunday 9 am. The officials of Bangladesh...
FARIDPUR, June 14 (BSS): Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain said here Sunday that the present government has attached highest importance to education so that our young generation can become worthy citizens to contribute to bring...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
SYLHET, June 14: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said food production has gone up and there has been no deficit in foodgrain production in the country for the last 6 years due to the different effective initiatives taken by...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
PABNA, June 14: At last Sujanagar police arrested Baser Mallik, the accused human trafficker of Sujanagar upazila on Saturday night from Khoyran village of the upazila on charge of trafficking five youths of Sujanagar upazila three months ago. The detained...
RAJSHAHI, June 14 (BSS): Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has implemented a big project aiming at enhancing the accessibility of the rural people to the markets and economic opportunities in the region with ultimate goal of uplifting their living and...
Tk 39,000 realised as fine in Gaibandha A mobile court in separate drives realised Tk 39,000 as fine from different hotels and restaurants in the town for selling stale, adulterated and date-expired food items to the customers Sunday. The court,...
CHANDPUR, June 14 (BSS): A father was killed allegedly by his son over family feud at Bishnupur village under Sadar upazila last night. The victim was Siddiqur Rahman (70), of the same area. Police said mentally abnormal son Fazlul Haque...
GAZIPUR, June 14 (UNB): A young man was hacked to death by some muggers in Tongi Station Road area on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Rinku, son of Abdul Quaiyum of Gopalpur in Tongi. Police sources said a...
FATULLAH, June 14 (UNB): Bangladesh and visiting India played out draw on the fifth day of the rain-hampered, stop-and-start solitary Test match of the Za'n Zee Ice Cream Cricket Series at the Khan Saheb Osman Ali Stadium at Fatullah Sunday....
Bangladesh Army clinched the Dimond Melamine Federation Cup Rugby tournament crushing Kanchon Rugby Warriors by 53-0 point in the final on the Paltan Maidan ground in the city Sunday, reports UNB. Obaidur Rahman was adjudged man of the final while...
FE Report | 2015-06-15 00:00:00
All indices and turnover value Sunday declined sharply on the premier bourse amid selling pressure observed by major sectors of the listed securities, market insiders said. From the very beginning of day's trading session, which started at 10.30 am, the...
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