The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Women and Children Affairs Ministry Thursday asked the ministry concerned to oversee the current progress of the women ICT freelancing and entrepreneur development programme, reports BSS. The recommendation was made at a meeting of...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith now looks to keep the deficit in the next budget at 5.0 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by putting its outlay at Tk 2.95 trillion (295,000 crore). The finance minister instructed the Finance...
WANG KELIAN (Malaysia), May 28 (AFP): Malaysia said Thursday it believes 139 bodies are buried in marked graves at remote camps used by people-smugglers on the Thai border, wrapped in white cloth after Muslim rites. The abandoned sites were discovered...
Sadiq Ahmed | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Owing to rapid sustained gross domestic product (GDP) growth of around 6.0% per year over the past 15 years, per capita gross national income (GNI) in Bangladesh soared from around US$429 in 2000 to an estimated US$ 1330 in 2015. ...
Syful Islam | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh will raise the issues relating to non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and para-tariff barriers (PTBs) again during the ensuing visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, officials have said. "The response from Indian officials on removal of NTBs and PTBs is...
FE Report | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
The central bank has asked the commercial banks not to force their employees, particularly female staff, to stay at office after 6.00pm to ensure a congenial working condition for them. The commercial banks will have to pay overtime allowance and...
Paschimbanga Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will accompany Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Bangladesh visit. Modi is due to arrive in Dhaka on June 6 on a two-day state visit. Quoting a minister of Paschimbanga state government, the PTI...
The High Court has concluded the final hearing on a writ petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the legality of the Niko graft case against her. An HC bench comprising Justice Md Nuruzzaman Noni and Justice Zafar Ahmed...
Dhaka Customs officials seized on Thursday 15,000 mobile phone sets worth Tk 300 million (Tk 30 crore) from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Based on a tip-off a team of Dhaka Customs seized the mobile phone sets around 5:00 pm. The...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reiterated Thursday her firm resolves to provide everything necessary to continue the process of modernising the Bangladesh Army, reports UNB. She also expressed the hope that senior army officials would work sincerely to discharge their respective...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
The government is likely to slap advance income tax (AIT) on import of some essential items, including rice, wheat, sugar and petroleum oil, from the upcoming fiscal year (FY), 2015-16. However, import of these essential commodities may enjoy a reduced...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
The second line of credit (LoC) from India is likely to be confirmed during the Dhaka visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, scheduled for June 6-7. Ministry of Finance (MoF) officials said on Thursday they were expecting Indian confirmation...
FE Report | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Two newly-elected mayors of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) announced on Thursday their plans to launch a drive to evict illegal occupants from footpaths of the capital. They will take support of the government's different agencies for stopping illegal occupation...
Two garment factories in the country became Thursday the first to be declared safe under a scheme set up to prevent a repeat of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, reports AFP. The owners of the plants on the...
FE Report | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
About 83 migrants' rights organisations demanded regional and national steps to address the root causes of refugee and migrant outflows. The rights groups representing more than 600 non-governmental and civil society organisations in the Asia Pacific region also called for...
The government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) jointly reviewed Thursday the ADB-assisted projects of Bangladesh to further improve development results, reports UNB. Additional Secretary to the Economic Relations Division (ERD) Mohammed Abu Taher and ADB Country Director for Bangladesh...
Sabbir Hasan, who reportedly drowned at sea a year ago while vacationing at Saint Martin's Island, has been spotted among migrants rescued from human smugglers in Indonesia, his family claims, reports bdnews24.com. A year on, Sabbir's elder sister Nadia Hasan...
FE Report | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Media personalities underlined strong political commitment of all parties and strict monitoring for promoting integrity to ensure accountable and participatory governance at every level. They also suggested measures from the top level of the state to ensure effective functioning of...
FE Report | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said on Thursday Bangladesh will get its due share of Teesta river water from India. He made the remarks while speaking as the chief at a convention of Dhaka North unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL)...
Munima Sultana | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Over 10 years of official efforts to upgrade the country's important highways to four-lane ones have hardly made any headway, leaving long-route journeys ever more risky for frequent tragedies. By official count, only four per cent road infrastructures are now...
FE report | 2015-05-29 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed on Thursday seven cases against seven primary school teachers in Banshkhali upazila of Chittagong accusing of them of doing jobs by producing fake academic certificates. Deputy Assistant Director of Chittagong Coordinated Office Md. Wahiduzzaman filed...
An unidentified young man was reportedly killed in a gunfight with members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the city's Motijheel area early Thursday, reports UNB. Assistant sub-inspector of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp Sentu Chandra...
A court in Dhaka placed two youths, arrested in connection with the rape of an indigenous woman in a microbus in the city, on a 10-day remand each on Thursday, reports UNB. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey passed the...
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers recalling the contribution of the peacekeepers working with different peacekeeping missions will be observed today (Friday) in Bangladesh along with other countries across the world in a befitting manner, says an ISPR press...
Professor of the department of Chemistry of the University of Dhaka (DU) Md Yousuf Ali Mollah and Professor of the department of Chemical Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Engineer Dil Afroza Begum joined the University Grants...
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