Candidates of the three city corporation elections, slated for April 28, started their election campaigns on Monday midnight, three days before allocation of election symbols, reports UNB. "Official election campaign started on Tuesday. I urge the candidates to abide by...
Mayoral aspirant for Dhaka South City Corporation Sayeed Khokon said on Tuesday if he was elected, he would dedicate his life, like his father, for improving city amenities and turn Dhaka into a world class city, reports BSS. He said...
Voicing concern that their party men cannot freely go to their central office as police kept on arresting them, BNP sought Tuesday a positive response from the government to smoothly carry out their official activities in the Nayapaltan headquarters, reports...
A Dhaka court has scrapped Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna's bail plea in two cases of sedition and inciting the army, reports bdnews24.com. The Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court dismissed the plea after a hearing on Tuesday. Police have questioned...
BNP leader Abdul Awal Mintoo's wife Nasrin Awal along with her son Tabith Mohammed Awal, a Dhaka North mayor aspirant has visited the party's chief Khaleda Zia, reports bdnews24.com. Talks have been ongoing about the party endorsing the youngster after...
Missing BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed's wife Hasina Ahmed again submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday seeking her directives to law enforcers to produce her husband before public, reports UNB. She submitted the memorandum around...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Ministry recommended on Tuesday quick disposal of the August 21 grenade attack case of 2004 after ending the process of recording deposition of witnesses, reports BSS. The recommendation was made...
BRAHMANBARIA, Apr 7 (UNB): Police recovered the bodies of two unidentified men from Sarail and Nabinagar upazilas of the district on Tuesday morning. Local people spotted the throat-slit body of a middle-aged man in a canal at Gogod village in...
JESSORE, Apr 7 (UNB): A former Awami League leader was gunned down by some unidentified miscreants in Khalda road area of the district town on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Monjur Hossain (40), a resident of Hamidpur village...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Noakhali and Comilla until 6:00 pm today (Wednesday), reports UNB....
FE Report | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
Health rights campaigners Tuesday demanded of the government to fully enforce the two key laws against food contamination to save people from killer diseases spawned in the stomach. As the global community observed the World Health Day on the day...
FE Report | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
The Parliamentary standing committee on public accounts(PA) recommended Tuesday realisation of Tk 774.62 million compensation from roads and highways (RHD) department within 30 days through book transfer method on account of dispossessing 97.295 acres of railway land and removal of...
The government reshuffled several key positions of the police department including officials at the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and Superintendent of Police (SP) levels, reports BSS. According to a home ministry circular on Tuesday, the government transferred three DIGs and...
Chowdhury Mohammad Wasiuddin, managing director and CEO (CC) of Padma Islami Life Insurance Limited, obtained PhD degree from Chittagong University (CU), said a press release. He was awarded the degree for his research title "An Evaluative Study of the Per-formance...
Symposium on BD's engagement with India, Myanmar Sunday An international symposium on 'Bangladesh's Engagement with India and Myanmar' will begin in the city on Sunday. Dhaka University (DU) and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), India will...
FE Report | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
A powerful trade body voiced the business community's urge for the government to frame an appropriate responsive budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2015-16 to help them recoup the losses they have suffered due to the ongoing political violence. While...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
The Tk 10 billion (1,000 crore) local film industry has come to such a pass that its very survival is now at stake due to multifarious problems including video piracy. According to data available with the Bangladesh Cinema Hall Owners...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
Should the government have any role in the 'supply' of shares to the stock market? A Dhaka University teacher feels it should have. The teacher, according to a report published in the Financial Express last Monday, while taking part in...
FE Report | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
The Editors' Council has expressed deep concern over the growing incidents of repression and harassment against local correspondents of national dailies by police, influential politicians and local goons. The Council in a statement, issued on Tuesday by its General Secretary...
Siddique Islam | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
Private sector credit growth rebounded in February 2015 over the previous month despite political uncertainty, officials said. The growth in private sector credit flow rose to 13.61 per cent in February from 13.33 per cent in January. It was 13.50...
LALMONIRHAT, Apr 7 : Five members of a family were killed and four others injured when a bus rammed into a human-hauler at Selimnagar on the Rangpur-Kurigram highway in Sadar upazila Tuesday. Officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station Mahfuzur Rahman...
The nose wheel of a training aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force collapsed while landing on the runway of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Tuesday. The training aircraft, FT 7 BG1, took off from the runway at...
A day after a wholesale promotion in the civil administration, the government on Tuesday promoted 134 police officers, including 21 Superintendents of Police (SPs). Sources at the Police Headquarters said 113 Senior Assistant Superintendents of Police (ASPs) have been elevated...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-04-08 00:00:00
The government has moved afresh to establish a private-sector-controlled fuel supply company (FSC) for import and supply of furnace oil to the country's oil-fired power plants, flouting the already established supply chain of the BPC and the private sector, industry...
The Supreme Court's order dismissing death-row convict Mohammad Kamaruzzaman's review appeal has not reached the prison authorities, stalling the process of execution, reports bdnews24.com. The Jamaat-e-Islami leader's plea to revise his death sentence was scrapped on Monday morning by an...
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