FE Report Prices of rice and summer vegetables declined while chilli price witnessed a rising trend on Friday compared to that of the previous week. Prices of most of other commodities remained static on the day. Thanks to the arrival...
FE Report The government has sent a member of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), Begum Jahanra Siddiqui, on forced retirement. Ms Siddiqui, member (VAT audit and intelligence), was scheduled to go on retirement in December next. The Internal Resources...
Gavin J Walker has recently been elected as the chairman of Singer Bangladesh, the company said in a statement. Walker joined the board of Singer Bangladesh as a director in 2005, according to the statement. He earlier served Singer Asia...
IFS, the global enterprise applications company recently launched IFS Applications™ 9, the new core version of its extended enterprise applications suite. IFS Applications 9 delivers customers true business agility by bringing them closer to their business and by providing them...
Misreporting is complicating the efforts to address early marriage challenge in Bangladesh, a new study by icddr,b reveals, reports UNB. The study, recently published in the journal Asian Population Studies, shows over half of all women in a survey under-reported...
BAGERHAT, May 8 (UNB): The fertiliser-carrying cargo vessel that capsized in the Bhola River at Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans West Zone on Tuesday noon could not be salvaged even after four days of the incident. Forest Department staff failed...
The government has taken an initiative to turn all textbooks of class VI to X into Interactive Digital Textbooks (IDTs) ones, the first of its kind in the country, making the topics attractive and enjoyable for students, officials said, reports...
Miscreants shot dead a youth near BTV Bhaban in Rampura area in Dhaka on Friday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Minto, 22, son of Ismail. The victim's family members said Mintu had recently started a small business after...
A class II student died after slipping down the staircase of a four-storey building in Shyampur area in Dhaka on Friday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Sajedur Rahman Sajid, 8, son of Abdur Rahman, a resident of Postagola...
JU Correspondent The second reunion of Shaheed Salam Barkat (SSB) hall of Jahangirnagar University (JU) will be held on its campus on May 15, 2015. Fazle Rabby, convener of the second reunion programme, confirmed this to this correspondent. All the...
President M Abdul Hamid Friday paid rich tributes to the memory of internationally reputed nuclear scientist Dr MA Wazed Miah, late husband of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on the occasion of his 6th death anniversary, reports BSS. In a message...
Rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Dhaka, Rajshahi and Sylhet divisions and one or two places over Rangpur, Barisal and Chittagong divisions with hails at places in...
DU VC condoles Professor Raisuddin's death Vice Chancellor of the University of Dhaka Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique on Friday expressed deep shock at the death of Professor and former Chairman of the department of Islamic Studies Dr AMN Raisuddin....
FE Report As stories of mass graves of aspiring migrants to Malaysia kept unfolding, a UN agency reports an estimated $100 million is transacted annually by human traffickers using bay boat trips bound for that country. In local currency, the...
Arafat Ara | 2015-05-09 00:00:00
The recent rise in illegal human trafficking has been attributed by experts and private recruiters to inadequate overseas job opportunities both at home and abroad, coupled with poor vigilance by law enforcers. In this situation, the government should review the...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-05-09 00:00:00
State-owned Teletalk has never paid dividends from its mobile-phone business to the national exchequer, creating strong dissatisfaction among finance officials, sources said. And people familiar with its financial matters are of the view that the mobile phone operator would even...
Asjadul Kibria, back from New Delhi | 2015-05-09 00:00:00
India is actively seeking to have a sub-regional framework at a faster pace for easy movement of people and products across borders in South and Southeast Asia. To set the milestone for the integration for greater mobility, a four-nation motor-...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-05-09 00:00:00
The government is likely to withdraw the zero tariff facility on import of rice with a view to protecting the farmers from losses due to the downward trend of rice and paddy prices, officials have said. The Bangladesh Tariff Commission...
COX'S BAZAR, May 8: Three suspected human traffickers were killed in a 'gunfight' with police in a shrimp enclosure in Teknaf Upazila early Friday. The deceased were identified as Dhalu Hossain, 55, of Shah Parir Dwip village, Jafar Alam, 35,...
Thousands of people residing in 162 adversely located enclave areas of India and Bangladesh went on a jubilant celebration on hearing the passage of a bill by the Indian parliament to implement the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) between the two...
The government has reopened the Mongla-Ghashiakhali Channel after about five years on a trial basis to divert traffic from a key Sundarbans river route. Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan on Thursday said ships would use the international route until June this...
SHAHZADPUR (Sirajganj), May 8 (UNB/ BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid on Friday the foundation stone of Rabindra University, an institution named after Nobel Laureate Biswakobi Rabindranath Tagore, marking the great poet's 154th birth anniversary. The Prime Minister laid the...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-05-09 00:00:00
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) is set to prepare an updated Dhaka Metropolitan Development Plan (DMDP) for next 20 years aimed at accommodating more people on comparatively lesser lands, officials said Friday. "The vertical expansion of the buildings with more open...
FE Report The authorities Friday suspended recruitment test for posts of senior officer and officer (cash) of Agrani Bank Limited following protest by a group of applicants over mismanagement in the examination. Talking to the FE, Kawser Hossain, an applicant,...
The focus was on the trio, described as "three daughters" of Bangladesh, in Thursday's parliamentary polls in the United Kingdom. Interestingly, the three became victorious in the topsy-turvy polls and the tightest race in Britain's recent history. The trio is...
SHAHZADPUR (Sirajganj), May 8 (UNB): Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina wondered on Friday how a section of people can support BNP and vote for them although Khaleda Zia and BNP-Jamaat burnt hundreds of people to death in the name of...
Ruling Awami League's affiliate student body, Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), will host the long due 28th National Council on July 25 and 26 to elect new leaders, reports bdnews24.com. BCL president HM Badiuzzaman Sohag, who has already been in office...
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