BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday said her meeting with visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was very fruitful. “The meeting with Modi was very fruitful,” she told reporters when they asked her about the meeting at Sonargaon Hotel in...
Bangladesh business leaders on Sunday proposed India to form a Bangladesh-India Joint Private Sector Working Group to further ease Indian investment to Bangladesh and boost Bangladesh exports to the neighbouring country. Newly elected FBCCI President Abdul Matlub Ahmed along with...
Officials of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department seized a container suspecting to be liquified cocaine, worth more than Tk1 billion, at the Chittagong Port early Sunday. Custom sources told BSS that the importer, Khan Jahan Ali Enterprise Limited, brought in...
Three persons were killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Asad Gate, Shanir Akhra and Shahbagh areas in the last 11 hours ending at 8:00am on Sunday. Two of the victims were identified as Hazi Ramzan Ali, 75, a resident...
A Dhaka court on Sunday issued warrant of arrest against 28 BNP men, including its Standing Committee Member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia and Joint Secretary General Aman Ullah Aman, in an arson attack case of January last. Dhaka Metropolitan Session...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said India will always stand by Bangladesh. Speaking at the end of his two-day Dhaka visit on Sunday, he lauded Bangladesh for making progress despite obstacles. Modi started his speech in Bangla at the Bangabandhu...
Bangladesh and India on Sunday issued a joint declaration with a renewed pledge to work closely in elevating regional, sub-regional cooperation and in the UN and other multilateral organisations, including WTO, for the benefit of the people in the region....
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was given a hearty send off as he left Dhaka for home Sunday night, wrapping up his two-day state visit to Bangladesh. The Indian Premier paid his maiden visit to Bangladesh from June 6-7 after...
Discussants at BBC Bangla Sanglap on Sunday observed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit has created the opportunity to fulfill the expectations of the people of Bangladesh. They expressed the hope at the 120th episode of BBC Bangla Sanglap,...
GERMANY: Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations backed a tough line toward Moscow at the start of a summit in the Bavarian Alps, with U.S. President Barack Obama urging the gathering to stand up to Russian aggression...
Nironjan Roy | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
In 2008 when financial turmoil erupted in the developed world over the sub-prime mortgage, a series of financial debacles including failure of some banks shook the United States. This financial crisis contaminated Europe and many other parts of the world...
Nikhil Seth | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
2015 marks the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations. It is also the year when countries will come together to adopt the next generation of goals for our people and their only home - planet Earth. 2015 will also see...
A number of priority programmes in the education sector set to be implemented during the outgoing fiscal year (FY) are encountering difficulties, posing uncertainty over their implementation at all in the future. Some of the programmes, though looked ambitious to...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
Stability of socio-political situation was identified as the main challenge to implement the national budget for the fiscal year (FY), 2015-16. For any country to prosper, political stability is a pre-condition for its forward march. The proposed budget of Tk...
Muhammad Zakiul Islam | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
Admittedly, the first daunting task of an irregular and amateur writer is to decide on a topic. The topic must be of current interest and must bear relevance especially when it is appearing on the pages of a daily which...
This writer was involved in maintenance engineering for over twenty years in many large manufacturing plants till early 1980s. From close observations over the years, he feels that the sad and repulsive culture of 'bribery and corruption' has taken roots...
Crowd Funding has grown in popularity over the last couple of years. In 2013, the crowd funding industry grew to be over $5.1 billion worldwide and it is becoming more and more of a contender for serious business finance too....
The state-operated bus service BRTC is in shambles and most of the buses are in bad shape. These buses are not properly maintained and that is why people do not normally prefer to travel in a BRTC buses. The buses...
Saleh Akram | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
Over the last few years Bangladesh has been relying heavily on import duties for its revenue income. Understandably, the development partners had been pressing to reduce dependence on import duties and concentrate more on income tax and VAT for revenue....
Rashidul Bari | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
Here is an exercise on Grameen Bank's sustainability through the Game Theory of Nobel laureate mathematician John Nash, who, along with his wife Dr. Daniel Kabet, died in a car accident on May 23 last. In Grameen's context, sustainability refers...
RAJSHAHI, June 6 (BSS): People of the metropolis in a post-rally meeting have called for immediate implementation of the Ganges Barrage Project and North Rajshahi Irrigation Project to protect country's south-western region, including the Sundarbans. They viewed that proposed Ganges...
From A Correspondent | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
SYLHET, June 6: Meeting the unemployment is the major challenge for achieving the Vision 2021 of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The government has been working for the jobless and poor through strengthening the microcredit programme countrywide, said the State...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, June 6: Cultivation of ginger has started in Nilphamari district and it is going on speedily. Sources said ginger farmers of the district give proper importance on the cultivation of the spice as 50 per cent of the total...
RAJSHAHI, June 6 (BSS): Gender-sensitive media reporting can help establish rights of the schoolgirls through reducing violence and repression against them, speakers at a discussion said here Saturday. They said the working journalists need to play a major role filing...
JESSORE, June 6 (UNB): A sub-inspector of police allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his own pistol in Manirampur Upazila early Saturday. Khabir Uddin Ahmed (55), officer-in-charge of Manirampur Police Station, said Khan Ali Akbar of Monirampur Police Station...
GAZIPUR, June 6 (UNB): A Saudi expatriate was beaten to death allegedly by his uncle at Rathura Belun village in Kaliganj Upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Zillur Rahman (35), a resident of the village. Witnesses said Zillur,...
BAGERHAT, June 6 (UNB): Two people, including a college girl, were killed and four others injured when a bus hit an engine-run rickshaw van and a motorcycle in Bishwa Road More area on the Khulna-Mawa highway in Fakirhat Upazila on...
FARIDPUR, June 6 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar held Friday in the conference room of Deputy Commissioner (DC) stressed the need for management of human wastes in more scientific way to conserve our degrading environment due to several global and...
RU Correspondent | 2015-06-07 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, June 6: To get admission in the public universities is becoming more difficult day-by-day. The examination procedures of secondary and higher-secondary level is not in harmony with the examinations procedure of universities. As a result, despite a lot...
50 maunds Jatka seized in Barisal Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) in a drive seized 50 maunds Jatka fish from two launches in the Sripur river under Mehendiganj upazila here on Friday night. On a tip off, a team...
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