A female police constable who was gang-raped allegedly by her ex-husband and his five associates in Khilgoan area of Dhaka city was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for medical test on Saturday. Inspector Mozammel Haque, in-charge of Dhaka...
A Dhaka court has sent Bakhtiar Alam Rony, a son of ruling Awami League MP Pinu Khan to jail custody after remand in a case over shooting two dead in Dhaka. Metropolitan Magistrate Asaduzzaman Noor sent him to the jail...
Bangladesh faced batting jolt as they lost their three top orders batsmen in the first session of the fourth day's play as they scored 111 for 3 in 30.1 overs at lunch in the one- off Test at the Khan...
The US House of Representatives sidetracked a high-profile White House-backed trade bill, a blow to a pending Asian trade deal and a humiliating defeat for President Barack Obama inflicted by members of his own party. The 302-126 vote on Friday...
Some muggers have allegedly snatched away Tk6.5 million (Tk6500,000) from a businessman and his two employees in Gaibandha. Police arrested three persons early on Saturday over the incident that took place at Jhilpara on Gobindaganj-Ghorhaghat road on Friday night, Gobindaganj...
Business leaders have sought active role from the new leadership of FBCCI to attract more investment and protect the country’s interest in taking any decision. They came up with the call at a reception accorded to FBCCI President Abdul Matlub...
Police have picked up 11 activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, and Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat, from different places of Chittagong in several sabotage cases. Besides, the law enforcers, in overnight special drives from Friday night to...
Tamim Iqbal, 26, became Bangladesh's highest Test run-scorer after scoring 7 runs on the 4th morning against India in Narayanganj on Saturday. The left-handed opener surpassed Habibul Bashar’s 3,026 runs, 8 years after the latter retired from Test cricket. In...
Two unidentified people, including a woman, have been killed as trains hit them in separate incidents in the city’s Nakhalpara and Airport Railway Station areas. Sources at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said a 40-year-old woman was hit by...
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) observed on Saturday that achieving the revenue collection target in the proposed budget for FY 2015-16 will be the biggest challenge for the government. The civil society think tank came up with the observation at...
The social visit of a young woman to her relative’s house in the city’s Rampura area proved fatal to her as she was gang-raped by miscreants soon after her arrival Friday. The matter came to light Saturday when the victim...
A man suspected of attacking setting off bombs outside the Dallas Police headquarters and spraying the building with gunfire in the early hours of Saturday was shot and possibly killed by snipers a few hours later, police said. Dallas Police...
The Teesta River is flowing above danger level due to incessant rainfall and the surge of upstream water from the hills. Parts of low-lying areas close to river banks in Nirphamari’s Dimla and Jaldhaka Upazilas have been submerged Saturday afternoon....
Bangladesh's budget allocation for water, sanitation and hygiene sector has been declining over the years, posing a knock-on effect on the health and education outputs, activists say. At a post-budget reaction, organisations that work in this sector, collectively known as...
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government, political leaders and members of the civic society to initiate effective and long term steps to uproot corruption from the society. The call came during the annual meeting of TIB at...
President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all concerned to ensure safe shipping in the country. In separate messages, on the eve of "Maritime Safety Week 2015", they hoped that the observance of the week...
Non-availability of long-term credit at an affordable cost for large manufacturing units has long been reported to be a major hurdle to spurring investment in the private sector. Private investments have been sluggish for quite sometime, though the private sector...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Once it took nearly 40-45 minutes for ferries with buses and cars with hundreds of passengers to cross the mighty Gumti River at Daudkandi point. But later the time was shortened to five to seven minutes after the bridge was...
Nargis Sultana | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Smartphone was considered a luxury item which only a few could afford earlier but now it is a necessity. People view their smartphones as an extension of themselves, taking them everywhere they go?--?even the most unorthodox places?--?from shower to showbiz,...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Historically, the Rakhine state was originally known as Arakan province before the British occupied Burma, now known as Myanmar, in 1824 and continued to rule it until 1948. As a part of divide-and-rule policy, British colonialists turned various ethnic groups...
Muhammad Quamrul Islam | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith while presenting the 2015-16 budget on June 04, 2015 said many foreigners are employed in our local industrial establishments. A section of them is illegal. He sounded a note of warning and said the...
Md Mazharul Hasan | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Payment settlement is the end result of any transaction. It is simple when the transaction is dealt with within the same jurisdiction. But if it happens beyond the jurisdiction, the necessity of correspondent banking comes to the fore. Correspondent banking...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
A minibus turned turtle. And it did at a very busy spot of a busy road. Kawran Bazaar is the venue of this dramatic achievement by two competing drivers --just two members of a highly accomplished breed of men who,...
There's an old saying out there that says, 'out of sight, out of mind', but that's not always true. Take Mahbubul Alam, as an example. The first anniversary of the death of this former Independent editor and doyen of the...
Ejaz Ahsan | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank has taken a praiseworthy initiative by instructing the commercial banks to develop one woman entrepreneur each. We know that small scale business concerns face a lot of problems for developing the business concerns. Especially the initial formation stage...
Rabeya Ferdous | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Relaxation therapy is a process that focuses on using a combination of breathing and muscle relaxation in order to deal with stress. Its alternative names are: Meditation, Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR), Mindfulness Meditation, Autogenic Training, Deep Breathing, Paced Respiration, Self-Controlled...
Mohammad Ali | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
Teacher education plays a very significance role in developing the total education system. With the increase in sources of information and the rapid access to information teachers have to cope with the current world both for themselves and their students....
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
It was 20 years ago when two leading think tanks of Bangladesh and India first organised a dialogue on Bangladesh-India trade and economic cooperation. Known as 'track two initiative', the dialogue presented a long list of proposals and suggestions to...
Syed Ashraf Ali | 2015-06-13 00:00:00
General perception regarding capital flight is that capital flies by way of under-invoicing of exports and over-invoicing of imports. It is what one learns from the book on elementary economics. These were true in the old days of rigid exchange...
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