SYLHET, Apr 15 (BSS): Cellular phone operator Robi launched electricity bill payment service facility for Power Development Board (PDB) in Sylhet. The operator came up with the official announcement of the services at a ceremony at a hotel here where...
FE Report | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
The BNP-formed 'Election Coordination Committee' (ECC) for the upcoming Dhaka North and South City Corporation elections will sit at the party's central office at Nayapaltan on Friday (tomorrow), party sources said. The party has decided to start campaigns for the...
FE Report | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh needed to focus more on building strong institutions and ensuring user-friendly bureaucratic interaction as well as good governance and rule of law for further improving its business environment, the US envoy in Dhaka said on Wednesday. US Ambassador Marcia...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
The government has revised downward its non-tax revenue (NTR) earning target for the current fiscal year (2014-15), 18 per cent below the original one, as its major sources failed to generate enough. Officials said the NTR receipts projection has now...
FE Report | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
At least eleven people were killed as a two-storey tin-shed house, home of some 30 people, collapsed into the wetlands at its base in the capital's Rampura Boubazar area Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Nizam Khan, 45, his wife...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
Country's farmers need to know what varieties of crops or vegetables they should cultivate in order to get maximum return through export of their produces. Mostly they remain in the dark over the exact demands for their produces abroad. Very...
Siddique Islam | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
The central bank estimates that the country's overall inward remittance will cross US$15 billion-mark by the end of the current fiscal year (FY), 2014-15, as various moves have been taken to increase its flow. "We expect that the flow of...
Slamming those who say the execution of condemned war criminals is a violation of human rights, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday vowed to execute the remaining war crimes trial verdicts saying that Bangladesh war criminals committed much more heinous...
RANGPUR, Apr 15: Authorities on Wednesday declared Rangpur Medical College closed for an indefinite period following a clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists that left 10 of them injured. The clash broke out between two factions...
A contract was signed Wednesday to upgrade Comilla South Substation's capacity to facilitate import of 100 MW electricity from Tripura. Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) signed the contract with Energypac Engineering Ltd, a loca firm. According to the contract,...
FE Report | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal came up Wednesday with a new GDP (gross domestic product) growth projection for the current fiscal ranging between 6.5 per cent and 7.0 per cent. His projection was much higher than the World Bank's (WB)...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
The authorities have finally decided to set up a garrison for a composite army brigade in 140 acres of land beside the Padma Multipurpose Bridge site and the project proposal awaits government approval. Officials said Monday the Bangladesh Army administration...
Badrul Ahsan | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
The import cost of urea fertiliser continues to surge over the years following growing dependence on external sources, caused by a drastic fall in domestic production. Officials at the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) said the situation is gradually worsening...
FE Report | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
A division bench of the High Court (HC) Wednesday passed a split order on bail pleas of BNP-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mirza Abbas in two cases. Presiding judge of the HC bench Justice Quamrul Islam...
In the wake of allegations of bringing out processions by the city polls contestants, Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz warned that anyone taking out any procession violating the election code of conduct would face tougher actions, reports UNB. "We've already directed...
Several student organisations have come together to protest against sexual assaults on women celebrating the Bengali new year at Dhaka University, reports bdnews24.com. They accused the police of 'doing nothing' while the women were being preyed on at the crowded...
BNP international affairs secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon on Wednesday termed 'evil tactic and misleading' the 'campaign of issuance of red alert against their senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman by the Interpol', reports UNB. Addressing a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan...
Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has said the people of Bangladesh have completely discarded violent street agitation, road blockade and strike and hated systematic killing by the BNP-Jamaat alliance, reports UNB. She also said the people in Dhaka and Chittagong...
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB)-backed mayoral candidate for Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mahi B Chowdhury met BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night and urged her to vote him, reports UNB. Mahi had been at Khaleda's Gulshan residence around 10:00...
The Appellate Division (AD) of Supreme Court (SC) will hear appeals by war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury against their death sentences on April 28, reports bdnews24.com. The four-member bench led by Chief Justice SK Sinha...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 set on Wednesday April 20 to pass an order whether to initiate contempt of court proceedings against advocate Tajul Islam and five leaders of Jamaat and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, reports BSS. The...
Publicity and Publication affairs secretary of the ruling Awami League Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Wednesday BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has got no right to seek vote from people, reports BSS. "Over the past three months, Khaleda Zia tried to...
Eight leaders and 1000 supporters of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami joined Bangladesh Awami League at a public meeting at Hesakhal Union in Nangalkot Upazila of Comilla district on Tuesday, reports UNB. Planning Minister and Comilla District Awami League Convener AHM Mustafa...
LAXMIPUR, Apr 15 (UNB): A local Jubo League (JL) activist sustained bullet injuries as miscreants shot at him at Nurullapur village in Sadar upazila early Wednesday. The victim was identified as Ibrahim Hossain, son of Mohsin Miah, a resident of...
The investigating officer (IO), probing the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Savar, has been granted more time to submit his report to the court, reports bdnews24.com. Chief Judicial Magistrate court in Dhaka granted Assistant Superintendent of Police...
FE Report | 2015-04-16 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Co-mmission (ACC) approved a case on Wednesday against five persons, including three policemen, for their involvement in embezzling 165 gold bars seized from smugglers in March last year. The ACC approved the case following Deputy Director Mirza Zahidul...
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