Foreign Minister Abul Hasan Mahmood Ali Friday put emphasis on forging mutually beneficial relations between Bangladesh and Serbia, with particular focus on economic cooperation and people-to-people contacts. He said Bangladesh and the former Yugoslavia enjoyed excellent bilateral relations as the...
Ziaur Rahman | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
The government is set to introduce National Enterprise Architecture (NEA) to bring uniformity in operation of the IT system for its different ministries, organisations and directorates through a software solution, officials said. The World Bank-financed Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment...
With the amended tobacco control law defining all indoor workplaces as 'public place', smoking is not possible even in private office buildings. More than 45 per cent people either smoke or chew tobacco in Bangladesh, making it one of the...
Customs intelligence officials arrested a man and recovered smartphone sets worth Tk 1.0 million from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong on Friday, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Muhammad Yeasin. Customs sources said a flight of Air Arabia...
A recent study shows that food consumption habits are worsening across the developing countries, including Bangladesh, raising the likelihood of a double burden of obesity and malnutrition in poorer countries, reports UNB. Bangladesh is pegged to become a middle-income country...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina expressed her deep shock and profound sorrow on Friday at the demise of former prime minister of Nepal Surya Bahadur Thapa, reports UNB. In a condolence message sent to her Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala, the...
Degree pass and certificate course examinations of 2013 under the National University (NU) will begin today (Saturday) at 2:00 pm, reports BSS. Some 532,117 examinees from 1683 colleges will appear in the examination at 683 centres, a NU press release...
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have returned five Bangladeshis who have finished serving various prison terms in India for illegal trespass, reports bdnews24.com. The five, including three women and one child, were handed over to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and...
Canadian International School (CIS) arranged the 10th year of celebration of Pohela Boishakh programme on its Gulshan campus in the city recently, said a press release. The students of CIS welcomed the Bangla new year with the performance of folk...
JESSORE, Apr 17 (UNB): Police recovered bullet-hit bodies of two people from Arpara under Sadar Uapzila on Friday. The deceased were identified as Joynal Tarafdar (40), son of Abbas Tarafdar, and Litu Tarafdar (35), son of Afzal Tarafdar of Hashimpur...
Discussion on Mujibnagar Day held at IDEB A discussion meeting on historic Mujibnagar Day was held at the Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB) on Friday. The meeting, organised by the IDEB, was chaired by Chairman of the IDEB Bhaban...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions until 6:00 pm today (Saturday),...
Acupressure, an alternative medical treatment, would be introduced in educational institutions of the country for the physical fitness of the students, reports BSS. Under a year-long project, seminars, workshops and training programmes would be conducted in selected institutions across the...
FE Report The US called upon the government to ensure a free, fair and non-violent city corporations elections slated for April 28. Welcoming the city corporations polls, the US State Department reminded the Bangladesh political parties that the country is...
Pointing out a string of security lapses during President Md Abdul Hamid's visit to India in December last, Dhaka has complained to New Delhi that he was taken to the Taj Mahal in a regular battery-operated public vehicle-called 'golf cart'...
Afroza Abbas, wife of BNP-blessed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mirza Abbas, accused on Friday the ruling party men of intimidating and assaulting their activists, and demanded that her husband be allowed to carry out his electioneering,...
JU Correspondent | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
The authority of Jahangirnagar University (JU) temporarily expelled its eight students on Friday for their alleged involvement in sexual harassment of an indigenous female student on Pohela Boishakh night. The expelled students are - Nishat Imtaiz Bizoy of Journalism and...
CHITTAGONG, April 17 (BSS): Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Friday free and fair city corporation polls are possible without deployment of army. He said the government would render all-out cooperation to the Election Commission (EC) to...
FE Report The Netherlands government has expressed interest to explore the possibility of deepening bilateral cooperation with Bangladesh in the UN peacekeeping operations. The Netherland's Foreign Minister Bert Koenders expressed it during a meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has paid tribute at the portrait of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marking the Mujibnagar Day at Dhanmondi in the city, reports bdnews24.com. Members of her cabinet accompanied her in the programme...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Public-sector borrowing from the country's banking system in the current fiscal year has hit a new low, primarily due to the slump in world oil prices and a slow pace of domestic development works. Sources said the government until recently...
FE Report | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Bangladesh beat Pakistan by 79 runs in the first of the three one-day internationals (ODIs), played at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium, Dhaka, Friday. This was the second and landmark win against Pakistan in any ODI after 1999. Playing before a...
Jubair Hasan | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has initiated the process of reaching a final agreement with the Malaysian authorities to implement its largest apartment project at Uttara residential model town, project insiders said. They said the city development authority has already prepared...
FE Report | 2015-04-18 00:00:00
Another 136 Bangladeshi nationals, including five women and 4 children, were evacuated from the civil war-torn Yemen to Djibouti on Friday by an Indian naval ship (INS). They are expected to leave Djibouti on April 20 for Dhaka. With this...
S M Mahfuzur Rahman | 2015-04-17 00:00:00
The Financial Express has recently published a brief but important news saying: Bangladesh has plans to explore export markets for its products to three countries of North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria and is likely to send a high power...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-04-17 00:00:00
Since President Barack Obama had dramatically announced normalisation of relations with Cuba on December 17, 2014 following secret negotiations brokered by Pope Francis there has been a spate of criticism from Republican lawmakers and neocon intellectuals. The decision to normalise...
Asjadul Kibria | 2015-04-17 00:00:00
Proactive policy is always important to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), especially in developing countries. But a well-crafted policy alone cannot ensure desired level of FDI. Bangladesh is probably such an example. Despite having a good FDI policy, the inflow...
Now that the country is experiencing a sense of respite, thanks to the relatively peaceful political environment, it is only likely that the manufacturing and exporting sectors will try to regain the lost momentum in production and marketing. The country's...
Nilratan Halder | 2015-04-17 00:00:00
Of the 19 million or so children under the age five, six million have suffered stunted growth in the country. The figure revealed in a roundtable held in the capital on Monday constitutes no less than 41 per cent of...
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