The nation will celebrate the Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla calendar, today (Tuesday) amid fanfare, festivity and gaiety, reports UNB. True to their centuries old tradition, people from all walks of life will throng different popular and historic...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
The government has now made a concrete move to install a 91-kilometre pipeline to carry re-gasified imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal to Anowara in Chittagong to facilitate its transmission to the users'...
FE Report | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmed warned Monday that unethical practices at the polling centres on the election day of the three city corporations would not be tolerated. "Any sorts of unethical interference will not be tolerated at the...
The High Court (HC) asked Monday the police not to arrest or harass BNP-backed Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayoral candidate Mirza Abbas until order on his interim bail petitions in two cases, reports UNB. An HC bench comprising Justice...
A Bangladeshi member of an United Nations peacekeeping mission was killed in a road accident in Central African Republic on April 9, said an Inter Service Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) press release Monday. The deceased was identified as Md Nazrul...
The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations of April 26, 27 and 28 which have been postponed due to the city corporation elections will be held on May 2, 4 and 16 respectively. The examinations of May 2...
Accusing Khaleda Zia of carrying out destructive activities for about 92 days, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directed Monday the law enforcement agencies to hunt down the culprits who were behind the killing of innocent people in arson attacks across the...
A Dhaka court has sentenced seven high officials of the now defunct Oriental Bank to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for being involved in a financial scam, report agencies. The court of Dhaka's Second Special Judge Hosne Ara Begum also fined...
Two student activists have been shot dead amid the countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal Monday, enforced by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for protesting the execution of death sentence of its leader M Kamaruzzaman, report agencies. There were also reports of protesters firebombing vehicles around...
FE Report | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
The Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has proposed the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to cut corporate tax rates gradually and scrap the highest slab of individual tax at 30 per cent in the budget for the...
Our Correspondent | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Apr 13: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested four suspected militants and seized huge cache of arms and ammunition from different areas of the port city in overnight raids. The arms and ammunition include five AK-22 rifles, five foreign pistols,...
FE Report | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
The central bank purchased US$45 million more from three commercial banks Monday to keep the inter-bank foreign exchange (forex) market stable against any volatility, officials said "We've bought the US currency from the banks directly at market rate to protect...
The Indian government is reportedly considering the option of keeping Assam out of the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) for now and settling the West Bengal and Meghalaya segments of the Indo-Bangladesh border, according to a report by The Economic Times...
BNP accused on Monday Election Commission (EC) of failing to play due role and alleged that it had done little to ensure a level-playing field for all the candidates in the three city polls billed for April 28, reports UNB. ...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will go to her party's Nayapaltan central office today (Tuesday) to attend a programme to be arranged by her party's cultural wing to celebrate the Pahela Baishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year 1422, reports...
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad urged on Monday the Election Commission to play a strong and neutral role in the upcoming city corporations elections billed for April 28, reports UNB. Ershad, also the special envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh...
Law minister Anisul Haque received a death threat through social networking site Facebook, reports UNB. Abdullah Al Shaheen, a senior information officer of the Law ministry, said on Monday Kawsar Ahmed Sajeeb, a Bahrain expatriate and a resident of Kosba...
A Dhaka court placed on Monday detained Zikrullah, Ariful Islam and Saiful on a three-day remand in the blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu killing case, reports UNB. Metropolitan Magistrate Shahriar Mahmud passed the order after Inspector of Detective Branch (DB) of...
CHITTAGONG, April 13 (BSS): Returning Officer (RO) of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) polls Abdul Baten said on Monday the present situation of Chittagong city does not require deployment of Army ahead of the city polls. The RO, however, directed the...
Prof Khondoker Bazlul Hoque and former law minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed have been made members of Awami League advisory council, reports UNB. Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appointed them as per the party constitution, said a press...
A Dhaka court deferred on Monday until June 15 the hearing against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and 15 other people in the Barapukuria coalmine graft case, reports UNB. Judge Hosna Ara Begum of Dhaka's Special Judge's Court-2 fixed the date...
FE Report | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
Six million children in the country have become stunted due to malnutrition resulting from inadequate complementary feeding and open defecation, experts and officials said on Monday. As a result, their heights and weights are lesser than normal growth, statistics said....
FE Report | 2015-04-14 00:00:00
The cabinet approved on Monday the draft Handicrafts and Artistic Work Policy-2015 aiming to give the sector a boost that will help generate new jobs and reduce poverty. The approval was given at the regular weekly cabinet meeting held at...
German team meets BUET VC A three-member German delegation of Rhine Waal University led by Dr Marie Louise Klotz, president of Rhine Wall University, met Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Vice-Chancellor Prof Khaleda Ekram at the latter's office...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Khulna, Barisal, Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Rajshahi divisions until 6:00 pm today (Tuesday), reports UNB. Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary...
Muhammad Zamir | 2015-04-13 00:00:00
The talks at Lausanne's Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel between Iran and the P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - continued beyond the original, self-imposed deadline of March 31 and eventually concluded on April 02 with a...
Sayed Kamaluddin | 2015-04-13 00:00:00
Corruption, deception, conspiracy and forgery are being applied zealously by a section of people - both officials and student leaders - in the major educational institutions of the country to make extra money. Two such cases, amongst many others remaining...
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