The Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested two people and recovered three gold bars and gold ornaments weighing 400 grams at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital Saturday morning, reports UNB. Eighty-three cartons of foreign cigarettes and 100 pieces...
Laying emphasis on creating awareness against child and forced marriage, Canadian High Commissioner in Dhaka Benoit Pierre Laramee has said child, early and forced marriage simply puts the lives and futures of girls at risk, reports UNB. "It's a violation...
Sector Commanders' Forum Chairman AKM Shofi Ullah urged Saturday the country's new generation to know the real history of the Liberation War and stop its distortion, reports BSS. "The people of Bangladesh can do anything. You can make a secular,...
Awami League presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim met on Saturday Indian President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, India, reports UNB. During the meeting, the Indian President hoped that the foundation of Bangladesh's democracy will be...
Workshop on impact of eucalyptus plantation held A workshop on 'Impact of Eucalyptus Plantation in Bangladesh' was held at the Bangladesh Forest Research Institute (BFRI) auditorium Saturday. BFRI organised the workshop. Additional Secretary of Ministry of Forest and Environment Khondokar...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Rangpur, Sylhet and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Khulna and Barisal divisions in next 24 hours till...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
The government has moved to waive import duty on books, making locals involved in book business worried that cheaper imports would throw them into deeper trouble. Import costs of a great array of reading materials in book forms will be...
FE Report The BNP urged the Election Commission (EC) on Friday to ensure a level-playing field and deployment of the army seven days before the city corporation elections scheduled to be held on April 28. It (BNP) would not retreat...
All the mayoral candidates for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) polls on Friday promised to resolve the city dwellers' all the problems remaining within the jurisdiction of a mayor, reports UNB. They came up with the lofty promises taking part...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed alleged on Friday that BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia had violated the electoral code of conduct by participating in a campaign on behalf of her party-backed candidates in the city corporation polls, reports BSS. "Begum Khaleda...
Fugitive Iraqi militant leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former right-hand man to Saddam Hussein, has been killed, Iraqi officials say. They say he died in fighting with government troops in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. Al-Douri, 72, led the Naqshbandi...
DINAJPUR, Apr 17: A five-member probe committee has been formed to investigate Thursday's clash that left two BCL activists dead on the Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) campus. University registrar Nazibur Rahman informed this correspondent a five-member...
The Election Commission has relieved the 11 class-four employees of a college who were appointed as polling officers for the upcoming city corporation balloting. Dhaka North City Corporation Returning Officer Md Shah Alam on Friday also issued a show-cause notice...
Syful Islam | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
The government may conduct all its transactions online instead of the present paper cheque system to make it faster and secured, officials said. A committee, headed by Controller General of Accounts (CGA) Abul Kashem, recently suggested that accounts offices under...
Rezaul Karim Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BBA) along with some state-run agencies owe nearly Tk 20 billion to Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) while debts of the BPC to state-owned banks and agencies stand at Tk 34 billion, sources said. BBA and...
UN Security Council members were moved to tears Thursday as the first eyewitness to the latest suspected chlorine attacks on civilians in Syria emerged from the country to give a graphic eyewitness account of dying children, reports AP. A Syrian...
Pankaj Dastider CHITTAGONG, Apr 17: The Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has taken up two housing projects apart from constructing two other residential-cum-commercial complexes in the port city. Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain visited the project sites on...
BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom), Apr 17 (AFP): Expensive housing, an overloaded transport system and a lack of space are driving thousands of Londoners out of the hectic British capital to other, calmer cities such as Birmingham. The shortage of affordable housing...
COMILLA, Apr 17 (UNB): Muggers snatched Tk 426 thousand (4.26 lakh) from a garment factory official after beating him mercilessly at Miabazar on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chauddagram upazila on Thursday. Sohrab Hossain Likhon, general manager of CD Acrylic Garments...
PABNA, Apr 17 (BSS): Unidentified assailants slaughtered overnight an Awami League leader of Ishwardi upazila unit at his Laxmikunda residence, police said on Friday. "We recovered Rajab Ali Mandal's bloodstained body from his house" said assistant superintendent of police Mohammad...
At a time when Bangladesh has attached significant importance to its 'Look East' policy, the country's relations with its immediate neighbour Myanmar on its south-eastern border certainly leave much to be desired. No wonder, an international symposium in Dhaka early...
Abu Ahmed | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Corporate income tax is one of the major sources of income for governments worldwide. Once corporate income tax rates were much higher than what they are now. In fact, the world now sees a competition as to which government can...
Rahman Jahangir | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Is Bangladesh ready to turn vast human resources into skilled workforce adding to increased productivity in mills and factories or in any other economic ventures? Efforts in this regard have so far been lop-sided, only limited to decisions and speeches....
All candidates of the city corporation elections, except the ruling party-backed ones, are demanding the deployment of the army during the election as they believe it will ensure a free and fair polling. If the army is deployed, the voters...
On the first day of Baishakh, a blood donation camp was arranged by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society near my house, which was sponsored by the United Commercial Bank Ltd. and Farazi Hospital. I went there to donate my blood....
Owing to declining ground water level in Dhaka, the Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has set up a modern water treatment plant (WTP) at Saidabad to treat surface water from Shitalakhya River. The water of the plant is supplied...
Syed Mahbubur Rashid | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Transport accidents in Bangladesh have assumed a dangerous shape. It will not be an exaggeration to say that Bangladesh has become a failed state as far as the transport discipline is concerned. Hardly a day passes, when at least a...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
A few days ago the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) said that a discomforting environment is prevailing in the country and such an environment impacts the economy as investors fear they would not be able to work freely and independently....
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