Election Commission (EC) served on Saturday show-cause notices on 10 more probable aspirants of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) for their alleged involvement in breaching the electoral code of conduct ahead of city corporation polls, reports BSS. "The commission issued...
NARAYANGANJ, Mar 28 (UNB): A court here placed on Saturday Abul Bashar, a local Awami League (AL) leader and aide of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the seven-murder cases, on a seven-day remand in connection with the multiple killings....
Ganasanghati Andolan's Chief Coordinator Zonayed Saki has collected nomination papers to contest for the post of Dhaka North City Corporation mayor. He collected the papers from the returning officer's office at Agargaon on Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. Leaders of the organisation...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 28 (BSS): Chittagong district police in a series of drives picked up 10 leaders and activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir from three upazilas of the district on Friday night. Naimul Hasan, additional superintendent of police...
33 more war crimes suspects under scanner of tribunal Investigation into 21 cases against 33 persons is going on for their crimes against humanity during the War of Liberation. Senior coordinator Sanaul Haque of the tribunal's investigation agency informed BSS...
The proposed Ganges Barrage Project will be a blessing for Bangladesh since it is a low riparian area now faces water-related problems for long, according to experts, reports UNB. Noted water expert Prof Ainun Nishat said the Ganges Barrage Project...
Our Correspondent | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Mar 28: The Port Users' Forum discussed on Saturday different charges claimed by the ICDs (inland container depots), shipping agents and main line operators on import containers. MA Latif MP, representatives of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) and the...
FE Report | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
The UKAID-funded 'Alleviating Poverty in North East Bangladesh' (APONE) project ends this month (March), providing farmers with technical knowledge and financial assistance in greater Mymensingh and Sherpur districts. The project has encouraged the farmers to be in groups and collectively...
FE Report | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
Speakers at a programme said on Saturday inclusion of right to information (RTI) in textbooks of ninth and tenth grades aiming to apprise the mass people of the RTI Act would create greater awareness. They also noted that six years...
The Dakhil examination of March 11 under the Madrasah Education Board, which was postponed due to the BNP-led alliance hartal, will be held on April 3, reports UNB. Subodh Chandra Dhali, deputy chief information officer of the Education Ministry, told...
The 132nd assembly of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) kicked off Saturday at Hanoi, Vietnam, focusing on goals for sustainable development and global issues, reports BSS. Deputy Speaker of the National Parliament M Fazle Rabbi Mian, Abul Kalam Azad, MP, and...
A 140-member contingent of Bangladesh Police left Dhaka for Darfur, Sudan early Saturday to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, reports UNB. Sources at the Police Headquarters said the team, led by Superintendent of Police Sarwar Morshed Shamim, left...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Khulna, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions until 6:00 pm today (Sunday), reports UNB. Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy...
Press confce on MIB-song fest today A press conference will be held on MIB-song festival at the Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city today (Saturday). Audio Association Music Industries Owners Association (MIB) will organise the song festival on the premises...
Mohammad Amjad Hossain from Virginia, USA | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in 2009 immediately after Barack Obama took office as president of the United States, the relations between the US and Israel did not go well in view of the US President's...
Md. Shamsul Arefin | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
The government is spending heavily on construction of flyovers in the capital with a view to easing traffic congestions. But the most crucial issue is whether the flyovers would yield the results they are aimed at. Because it has already...
The situation about the use of remittance money in Bangladesh has hardly changed over the years. The major part of the remittances worth billions of US dollar, sent home by expatriate Bangladeshis every year, is spent mainly on consumption. A...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR), which enforced a substantial raise in fares only two and a half years ago, is mulling a fresh hike in both passenger and freight fares. The BR has failed to decrease its losses significantly even after...
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-03-29 00:00:00
The incidents of setting land offices on fire during the blockade-hartal called by the 20-party alliance point to a distressing turn of the situation. It is the offices in small towns in the country that have fallen victim to arson...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2015-03-28 00:00:00
Tea was once one of the principal cash crops of the country and students used to write essays on tea in the language courses of schools. But now, that does not happen, as instead of being a major export commodity,...
Muhammad Mustafa | 2015-03-28 00:00:00
The adulteration or contamination of food is an alarming problem in Bangladesh. It affects the life of each and every person irrespective of gender, age or economic status. It poses serious threat to the development of the growing children -...
Undue pressure on the Planning Commission (PC) to take up projects at the fag end of a fiscal year (FY) is no new phenomenon in the country. This year, this practice, mostly politically motivated, has reportedly assumed a stupendous surge...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-03-28 00:00:00
Leaving aside land and livestock, rural people also depend on some non-land fixed assets to eke out their living. These assets constitute an important component of their capital stock to generate current income. These include power tiller, shallow tube well,...
S. A. Mansoor | 2015-03-28 00:00:00
A fascinating news item, based on a UK news report, appeared in a local daily in its last page on March 25. Without any doubt whatsoever, it could very well be the most exciting news of the 21st century. The...
The summer is yet to set in with full force, but we are already experiencing load shedding after every few hours. There is hardly any respite even during the night. Children, elderly people and patients suffer most due to power...
The number of diabetic patients is about one million in our country and it is increasing with every passing day. We need to create awareness among the people to arrest further escalation of this disease. Sedentary lifestyle and unbalanced diet...
It is obligatory that we construct a bridge on Padma, which will provide us with multiple advantages. We shall collect about Tk.73.40 billion per year as toll and thus would be able to realise the cost of construction, i.e., Tk.314.14...
In the heading of the lead article on Page - 6 of the March 26 issue of FE, 'eco-friendly' was wrongly spelled as 'echo-friendly'. The heading should read: 'Renewable wind energy towards an eco-friendly Bangladesh.'
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