TOKYO, Apr 10: The dollar held firm against other currencies on Friday, after an upbeat US jobs report added to the chances the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates, even as global peers stick to easy money policies. The greenback...
RAJSHAHI, Apr 10 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion have urged the branch level bankers and others concerned to put in their best efforts to resist money laundering and other malpractices in banks for the sake of uprooting various social crimes...
RANGPUR, Apr 10 (BSS) : Speakers at two separate inaugural ceremonies on Thursday stressed for producing skilled male and female human resources on information and communication technology (ICT) to accelerate national uplift. The ceremonies were arranged for launching two fortnight-long...
KHULNA, Apr 10 (BSS) : Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has said that government is working in full swing to revamp Mongla Port, second largest port in the country. He was presiding over the 10th meeting of Mongla Port Advisory Committee...
FARIDPUR, Apr 10 (BSS): Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain urged upon the business people on Thursday evening to follow the business ethics to ensure respite for the consumers. The minister was speaking here at local...
FE Report Absence of basic amenities like water, sanitation and waste disposal makes the urban health status in slum areas worse than the rural population, a Brac study revealed Friday. The research report titled 'Bangladesh Health Watch Report 2014-- Urban...
Wildlife crimes in the country are on the alarming rise as the authorities concerned are unable to ensure punishment to the offenders, what experts and officials attribute to the weakness of the existing Wildlife Protection Act, reports UNB. Among the...
Bangladesh has so far evacuated 272 Bangladesh nationals, including five women and five children, with the assistance of an Indian ship, reports UNB. The Indian High Commission in Dhaka has confirmed it through social media platform in separate messages. "The...
Three people, including a woman and her son, were killed in separate road accidents in the city's Jatrabari and Demra areas on Friday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Shakila Israt Jhumu, 28, her son Hamim, 5, and Farida...
President Abdul Hamid visited Friday afternoon the site of the proposed Itna-Mithamoin-Ostogram road in Kishoreganj, reports UNB. The President who is now on a four-day visit to his home district Kishoreganj visited the alignment of the road recently approved by...
SIRAJGANJ, Apr 10 (BSS): Awami League presidium member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said here Friday under the bold and farsighted leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh has established itself a dignified country in the world....
FE Report The Journalism Alumni Forum of Rajshahi University (JAFRU), a platform of former students of Mass Communication and Journalism Department of the varsity, demanded on Friday proper investigation into the killing of former student Waheeda Seefat and exemplary punishment...
BAGERHAT, Apr 10 (UNB): Forest guards arrested eight members of a deer poaching gang along with two kg of venison from the Nandabala area of the Sundarbans under Mongla Upazila early Friday. The arrestees were identified as Mohsin Sheikh, 45,...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Sylhet division and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country next 24 hours till 6pm...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
A large number of country's well-structured firms are being forced to withdraw their investments in bonds without yields, leaving savers in hot water, competent sources said. A circular issued lately by the internal resource division (IRD) blocked the floodgates as...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
Concessional foreign aid in the pipeline swelled to US$18.79 billion and remained unused until February last. The government agencies have allegedly failed to use the same for a number of factors including inefficiencies of local officials and slow disbursement of...
Kamrun Nahar | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
All preparations have been completed for the much-debated supply, installation and commissioning of a multimode surveillance system comprising radar and other equipment at the city's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA). The cost of the public-private partnership (PPP) project is estimated...
FE Report | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
Preparations were, apparently, afoot on Friday night to execute the death sentence on Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, according to private television channels and online news portals. Security was tightened in front of the Dhaka Central Jail from Friday evening, hours after two...
FE Report | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
The Election Commission (EC) distributed election symbols on Friday among the mayoral candidates of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC). Awami League-backed mayoral candidate for DNCC Annisul Huq got the 'table-watch' symbol and BNP backed...
Our Correspondent | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Apr 10: Returning Officer Md Abdul Baten has allotted symbols for candidates running for mayor, ward councillor and woman ward councillor in reserved seats in the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) election to be held on April 28. The returning...
FE Report The first group of 11 Bangladeshi nationals, stranded in Yemen, arrived in the country from Djibouti by an Emirates flight on Friday. The returnees were received by additional foreign secretary Mizanur Rahman at the airport. Other senior officials...
GAZIPUR: The public sufferings at Mawna point on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway are going to be over as the newly-constructed Mawna Flyover opens to traffic today (Saturday). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to open the much-awaited 450-metre flyover at 4.20...
LONDON, Apr 10: The World Health Organization says the year-long Ebola outbreak in West Africa still qualifies as an international emergency even though the number of cases has plummeted. Last August, the U.N. health agency declared the epidemic of the ...
NEW DELHI, April10 : At least 12 persons were killed and over 50 others injured in a road accident in Burdawan district in West Bengal this morning. Of the injured, 18 are stated in critical conditions. The accident occurred when...
Khairul Islam | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
Telecom operators have made a set of proposals for inclusion in the proposed National Telecom Policy (NTP)-2015, sources said. The proposals include ones that suggest reduction of taxes, relaxation of licencing and fix a few regulatory issues. The operators have...
Munima Sultana | 2015-04-11 00:00:00
A fresh move has been made to build the long- dreamt Bangladesh-Myanmar friendship road after the neighbouring country agreed in principle to explore the possibility of routing the continental highway through Bandarban area, official sources said. The trans-border communications route...
The government plans to straighten about 200 risky bends on roads and highways this year to prevent accidents, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan has said, reports bdnews24.com He said this Friday, a day after a bus accident on the Dhaka-Barisal Highway...
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