Results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations-2015 under 10 education boards will be published on May 30. A press release of Inter-education Board Coordination Subcommittee signed by its President Professor Abu Bakar Siddique said in the city Tuesday. ...
A housewife has been found killed in her house at Nikunja of Khilkhet in Dhaka. Police could not immediately say how Nima Islam, 39, was killed. Assistant commissioner of police Qudrat-e-Khuda said lawyer Rakibul Islam's wife Nima was alone in...
Syful Islam | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
The unloading of oil imported by Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) faces setback for severe shipping congestion as vessels of private-sector power plants have been given permission to call at the corporation's jetties at Chittagong seaport sans its consent, officials said....
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed was released from a specialised hospital in Shillong Tuesday afternoon, reports UNB. He is likely to be produced before an Indian court on intrusion charge today (Wednesday). Shillong Police Superintendent Vivek Syiem told BBC Bangla that...
FE Report | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank will take all possible measures to liberalise country's foreign-exchange rules and regulations for attracting foreign investors to a number of proposed economic zones. The decision was taken at a meeting between the central bank and the Bangladesh Economic...
A Bangladeshi peacekeeper was killed and another injured as miscreants opened fire at a jeep of Bangladeshi Transport Contingent under the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali's capital Bamako on Monday, reports UNB. The deceases was identified as Shri Nilkanto Hajong,...
FE Report | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Like the commercial banks the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) will have to submit their cash transaction report (CTR) to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) from June 01, officials said. Under the new provision, the NBFIs have to report all single transactions...
FE Report | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
The government has revised the Indian credit-supported Khulna-Mongla railway project with a 121 per cent increase in its cost to Tk 38.01 billion. The project approved by the Ecnec in December, 2010 had an estimated cost of Tk 17.21 billion....
Amid growing menace of human trafficking to some South Asian countries through risky sea routes, the government is preparing a new 'work plan' to stop the crime as it may deal a severe blow to Bangladesh's international labour market, reports...
Observing that there are some black provisions in some laws as those were enacted from colonial point of view, Chief Justice SK Sinha said Tuesday these provisions should be removed, reports UNB. "Our Evidence Act is good to a great...
FE Report | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
Speakers at a programme called upon the government Tuesday to invest more for children and mothers' nutrition through their different safety net programmes. They also noted that the investment in safety net programmes by the Bangladesh government is still quite...
The matter relating to ban on the politics of the war criminals is under process now, a minister said, reports BSS. "Immediately after completion of the cases in the court, the politics of Jamaat and the war criminals will be...
Mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation Annisul Huq said on Tuesday two-thirds of the billboards in his city areas are illegal and promised to remove those soon, reports UNB. "We'll conduct a drive soon to pull down all those illegal...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested six people, including the owner of a travel agency, on charges of human trafficking from DIT road of Malibagh in the city on Tuesday, reports UNB. Sources at the RAB headquarters said, acting on a...
The Supreme Court (SC) will hear the state's arguments on the appeal filed by Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid against death penalty today (Wednesday), reports UNB. International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 sentenced the Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general to death on July 17, 2013...
The High Court (HC) granted on Tuesday bail to former minister Abdul Latif Siddique in seven separate cases filed for his disparaging remarks on hajj and Tablig Jamaat, reports UNB. An HC bench comprising Justice Nizamul Haque and Justice Farid...
The High Court (HC) has granted anticipatory bail to BNP Standing Committee Member Rafiqul Islam Miah in the seven criminal cases, reports bdnews24.com. The HC bench of justice Reza Ul Haq and justice Md Khasruzzaman gave the order on Tuesday....
Our Correspondent | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, May 26: Chittagong City Corporation Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin urged the CCC officials to achieve the revenue earning target of the current fiscal by June, the last month of the current fiscal year. He expressed his total disappointment over...
Food Minister Quamrul Islam said on Tuesday the government will soon launch mobile court drives to ensure safe food for all, reports UNB. The Home Ministry will issue a notification in this regard within a couple of days, he said...
The government will provide round-the-clock security for members of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's family, reports bdnews24.com. A circular issued Monday says they will be entitled to dedicated transport with fuel cost borne by the state. Cost of their utilities like...
Existence of the Sundarbans is at stake for frequent looting of its resources, reports UNB from Satkhira. It is not only a land of beauty but also a great source of livelihood for the people of the country's south-western part....
A tribunal in the city convicted Tuesday a teacher of Holy Crescent School and College and sentenced him to life term imprisonment for violating a five-year-old schoolgirl in the city, report agencies. The convict was identified as Mohammad Minhaz Uddin,...
Noted cultural personality and film actor Sheikh Abul Kashem Mithun died in a hospital in Kolkata at 2.00am on Monday at the age of 57, reports BSS. Film Development Corporation (FDC) sources said he had been suffering from high blood...
FE Report | 2015-05-27 00:00:00
The High Court Tuesday ordered a national Bangla daily to pay Tk 0.1 million in compensation to a female worker of Apex Footwear for running a 'false' report on her miscarriage at the factory's toilet in Gazipur. The authorities of...
Pakistan HC meets DU VC Pakistan High Commissioner in Bangladesh Shuja Alam called on the University of Dhaka (DU) Vice Chancellor (VC) Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter's office Tuesday. Cultural Secretary of the Pakistan High Commission Galib...
Rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rangpur, Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi and Khulna divisions in next 24 hours...
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