Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday expressed her firm optimism to launch Bangladesh's first-ever satellite into space by 2017 to bring a revolutionary change in the telecom and information technology sector, reports BSS. "We have taken necessary measures to launch the...
The road link between Bangladesh, India, Bhutan and Nepal will be established soon, as the regional connectivity has become essential for boasting up trade and economic, reports BSS. Ministers concerned from the respective countries will meet in Thimpu, the capital...
Amid the culture of political intolerance, a divided civil society is losing its credibility due to lack of steadfastness to stick to only public issues keeping themselves above the fray of politics, according to eminent citizens, reports UNB. While talking...
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Some 66 trafficked victims who were held hostage abroad are yet to get proper legal support and compensation, said the victims on Monday. They also said although they filed cases against the traffickers with their respective police stations, no criminal...
Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) executive committee and Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury Monday inaugurated the four-day conference at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city, reports BSS. "CPA is an active network...
COX'S BAZAR, May 18 (UNB): Members of the Coast Guard and the Border Guard Bangladesh in their separate drives in the district on Sunday rescued 13 people who were reportedly thrown into the sea from Malaysia-bound ships and salvaged by...
BHOLA, May 18 (UNB): Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a young man from the Kheyaghat area in Sadar Upazila on Sunday evening on charge of posting cartoon of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook. The arrested...
Bangladesh will join World Education Forum (WEF), the most important global conference on education, organised by UNESCO at Incheon city in South Korea today (Tuesday), reports BSS. The moot will end on May 21. A seven -member delegation headed by...
The 20th death anniversary of Alhaj Kazi Kabir Uddin, one of the pioneers of journalism in Chittagong, will be observed at his ancestral home at Salimpur in Chittagong today (Tuesday), says a press release. On the occasion, Qurankhwani and Milad...
Shahiduddin Ahmed, SAVP and in-charge of Dilkusha branch of Janata Insurance Company Ltd., died in the city Sunday, says a press release. He was 59. He left behind his wife, two daughters, one son and a host of relatives and...
A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mobile court on Monday sentenced six brokers to three months' simple jail on charges of cheating and harassing people in the name of making passports in the city's Agargaon Passport office, reports UNB. Acting on...
Krishan Kanta Sarder, Manager of Marketing and Communications of New Age has expired Monday at his residence (18 May, 2015), says a press release. He was 52 and suffering from Kidney and Liver complications. He left behind his wife, one...
Rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6pm today (Tuesday), reports UNB. Mild heat...
IFIC Bank's scholarship giving programme today The research grants and scholarship giving programme-2015 of IFIC Bank Trust Fund will be held at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of the University of Dhaka (DU) today (Tuesday). Vice Chancellor of...
BNP sought the government's sincere cooperation on Monday in bringing its leader Salahuddin Ahmed back home safely or sending him abroad for better treatment, reports UNB. "Salahuddin Ahmed was found in India after nearly two months of his disappearance. At...
Former chief election commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said on Monday introduction of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) can help check vote rigging, reports UNB. "There were widespread allegations of vote rigging in the three city polls held recently. Had the...
Awami League (AL) Advisory Council Member Suranjit Sengupta said on Monday BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed would have to go through legal procedures to return home as none is above the law, reports BSS. "A number of stories are being cooked...
Protesters demanded on Monday immediate action to rescue Bangladeshi fortune seekers who are left 'floating' off the coasts of Thailand and Malaysia, reports UNB. They called upon the government to take stern action against human traffickers for their heinous crimes....
CHITTAGONG, May 18 (BSS): The newly-elected mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) AJM Nasir Uddin said on Monday he will not tolerate negligence in duties by the CCC officials. He said nothing can stand on the way to development of...
NETRAKONA, May 18 (UNB): A court sentenced on Monday three people to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2005. The lifers are Habibur Rahman (32), Alal (35) and Habibur Rahman (35). All of them were tried in absentia....
SYLHET, May 18 (UNB): Police recovered the slaughtered body of a local leader of Tablig Jamaat from his house in Chardighipar area of the city on Monday morning. The victim was identified as Ibrahim Abu Khalil(55), son of Sad Uddin...
Fazle Hasan Abed | 2015-05-18 00:00:00
As this was the first year of the BRAC University Faculty and Staff Award System, I recognise that we would need to strengthen the process of selection for it, to depend not only on the statements of candidates themselves and...
Sadiq Ahmed in a paper presented at a seminar titled \'Fiscal Policy for 2015-16 Budget in the Context of the Seventh Plan\' organised by the Policy Research Institute (PRI) on May 09, 2015 in Dhaka. The Financial Express was the media-partner of the even | 2015-05-18 00:00:00
The inability to implement the budgeted ADP (Annual Development Programme) is partly due to resource constraint but also a reflection of implementation constraints in line ministries. Similarly, the growing foreign aid pipeline is partly due to harmonisation issues relating to...
The opening of the Centre of Excellence for Bangladesh Apparel Industries (CEBAI) last month was a defining moment in the country's readymade garments industry so far as its productivity and creation of skilled and semi-skilled workers through market-responsive training are...
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