The government appointed M Allama Siddiki, currently serving as Director General (Administration) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Bangladesh next Ambassador to Turkey on Thursday, reports UNB. Siddiki will concurrently serve as Bangladesh Ambassador to Bulgaria, Azerbaijan and Armenia....
Customs officials of Chittagong's Shah Amanat International Airport have recovered four gold bars from a passenger coming in from Dubai, reports bdnews24.com. Assistant Director of Customs Intelligence Department Malekin Naser Akand told the news agency that Abdul Mannan, 30, came...
100 DU students get departmental scholarship A total of 100 meritorious students of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems of the University of Dhaka (DU) have been awarded departmental scholarship for their academic performances. Vice Chancellor (VC) of DU...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barsial, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur division with hails at different places until...
Thailand's energy minister Narongchai Akrasanee has expressed keen interest in investing in base-load power generation in Bangladesh by constructing coal-fired, gas-fired or oil-fired power plants and also in power transmission systems. The Thai minister conveyed it when Bangladesh ambassador to...
For taking the courier service facility to the grassroots, an agreement between entrepreneurs of Union Digital Centre and Sundarban Digital Express (SDE), a sister concern of Sundarban Courier Service, was signed in the city Thursday, reports BSS. With this agreement,...
Industries minister Amir Hossain Amu Thursay urged the tannery factory owners to relocate their industrial units to the tannery industrial estate in Savar within the stipulated time, reports BSS. "They would be forced through legal process to relocate their factories,...
PANCHAGARH, Apr 23 (BSS): About 7,000 families, especially of rural areas, in five upazilas of the district have been brought under solar power supply network by Grameen Shakti, a non-government organisation. Use of solar power will change lifestyle and socio-economic...
Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed left the city Thursday morning for New Delhi to join the First Indian Global Exhibition on Service - 2015, reports BSS. The minister would address on the main topic of the exhibition today (Friday), said a...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
Perhaps very few of us know that five Finance Minister/Advisors out of the nine that Bangladesh had so far belonged to a particular batch. They are M Sayeduzzaman, M Saifur Rahman, Wahidul Huq, Maj. Gen (retd) A Munim and AMA...
Mohammed Norul Alam Raju | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
Two years ago, on April 24, 2013, an eight-storied building named Rana Plaza collapsed in Savar. After 21 days of the collapse when the search operation was declared closed, the death toll rose to 1,131. Approximately 2,515 injured people were...
Amidst the euphoria over record remittance earning, the amount Bangladesh has to pay to foreign nationals working here often makes hardly any news. The president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) made a disclosure at a workshop in...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-04-24 00:00:00
The beginning of a depressing but highly representative song of the time sung by an artiste of Paschimbango is 'E kon sakal ja rater cheyo andhakar' (What a dreadful morning is this/one that's darker than night). After the systematic molestation...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), an international body to facilitate rule-based multilateral trading system across the world. Despite very slow progress in implementing a comprehensive obligatory rules and regulations for global trade, the...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
The heat of presidential election in the United States of America has just begun with the announcement of presidential candidates by the Republicans while Hillary Clinton, immediate past Secretary of State under President Obama, announced her candidacy in Iowa on...
The incident of bank robbery on the outskirts of the capital at Ashulia is by all means upsetting enough to send shivers down the spine of all sections of the people. In what appears as an unprecedented event of hacking...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh like some other least developed countries (LDCs) is still restricting holding of assets by its citizens. A Bangladeshi can hold some assets, but not all. For example, the country does not allow gold holding as an investment vehicle or...
S. A. Mansoor | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
The expanding transport sector (land, water and air) are a major source of environment pollution. It is time the world looked for cleaner and less environment-polluting options for mass transport. Two interesting options are now being developed in the USA....
We watched on television that millions of Brazilians took to streets throughout the country to protest against government corruption. In this context, we recall that our policy-makers and politicians often claim that corruption has been contained to a great extent...
In the financial year 2013-14, the government announced income tax waiver on share dividend earned by a person up to Tk 20,000 to give incentive to small share investors and to support share market as it is one of the...
Md. Shahidullah Azim | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
Success stories are always full of sweet and sour events, happy and sad memories since achievements do not come on a silver platter. What could be a better example of this fact other than our ready-made garment (RMG) industry? The...
Rana Dutta | 2015-04-23 00:00:00
In the era of continued higher demand for energy, innovations are a normal feature. So are the options that remain open before the people. Choosing the LED lamp over other lighting sources not only leads to energy saving, the lamp...
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