TOKYO, Mar 20 (AFP) : The euro ticked higher Friday after Greece promised to provide its creditors with a new list of reforms to secure crucial bailout cash and avoid an exit from the eurozone. The single currency bought $1.0688...
Salahuddin Ahmed's wife Hasina Ahmed said Friday she is waiting for the prime minister's intervention to trace her husband, report agencies. She told journalists at her Gulshan residence, "I have urged the prime minister and am now waiting for her...
The 2nd death anniversary of former president Zillur Rahman was observed on Friday, reports UNB. Ruling Awami League, its associate bodies and different socio-cultural organisations placed wreaths at his grave at Banani on the occasion. AL presidium member Sahara Khatun,...
Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad has expressed the hope that his party will prove its popularity through winning the upcoming city corporation elections, reports UNB. "City corporation elections both in Dhaka and Chittagong are a great opportunity for us....
KUSHTIA, Mar 20 (BSS): Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said on Friday BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia cannot avoid the responsibility of arson attacks across the country as all the arrested arsonists are her party workers. "There is no question of...
Says Mahbubur Rahman | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
BNP standing committee member Lt Gen (retd) Mahbubur Rahman said on Friday the party will soon announce its decision about the elections to Dhaka and Chittagong city corporations, reports UNB. "BNP is yet to decide whether it'll join the city...
Slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy's father has expressed disappointment over the progress of the investigation into the killing of his son, reports bdnews24.com. He has also once again pointed his finger of suspicion for the murder towards BUET teacher Farseem Mannan...
LAXMIPUR, Mar 20 (UNB): An Awami League (AL) activist was hacked to death by some miscreants in Sherpur area in Laxmipur sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Golam Maula, son of Abdul Mannan, a resident of Sobahanpur...
JESSORE, Mar 20 (BSS): Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque said on Friday incidents of sabotage have been on the decrease due to police actions. "The incidents of anarchy across the country will be zero in the days...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained a BNP activist from the city's Jatrabari area with 20 molotov cocktails and 20 crude bombs, reports bdnews24.com. The elite law enforcement agency's spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan said the 16-year old Rezaur Rahman Fahim...
Kamrun Nahar | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
The bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (DCC) are yet to take any decision to deal with longstanding issues of hawkers who are being used both by the administration and local musclemen, but their rights have not been established. Neither the two...
The government plans to establish ICT training and resource centres in 125 upazilas and create 0.1 million IT literate teachers at secondary schools and madrasas within next two years to spread e-learning across the country, official sources said, reports BSS....
FE Report Bangladesh has taken a step to enrich Bengali language on the internet, inserting thousands of locally used popular words in the Google Translator. Under the initiatives, around 0.4 million Bengali words will be included in the global platform...
Despite a major reduction in child under-nutrition over the last two decades, there has been a considerable increase in obesity among children in Bangladesh, creating a dual burden of poor nutrition, says a new study, reports UNB. It shows that...
Bangladesh Press Council (BPC) plans to introduce enrolment certificates for journalists to ensure the entry of 'competent people into the profession and bring about qualitative change' in the mass media, says its Chairman Justice Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed, reports UNB. "No...
A milad and doa mahfil was held at the residence of former President Zillur Rahman at Ivy Tower at Gulshan in the city on Friday on the occasion of his second death anniversary. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the milad...
International Day of Forests will be observed today (Saturday) across the country as elsewhere in the globe with the theme "Forests, Climate, Change", reports BSS. To mark the day, the Ministry of Environment and Forests has chalked out weeklong programmes....
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in next 24 hours till 6pm today (Saturday), reports UNB. Day temperature may rise slightly and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, Met...
Journalist's father passes away Izahar Uddin Master, father of Law Reporter's Forum (LRF) President M Badi-Uz-Zaman, passed away at a city hospital on Friday morning. He was 79. He left behind four sons, one daughter and a lot of well-wishers...
Syful Islam | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
Four state-owned banks (SoBs) are facing an immense capital shortage and thus experiencing difficulties in running day-to-day banking affairs and foreign trade properly, officials have said. Until December last the aggregate capital shortage of the banks reached Tk 101 billion...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
The rate of jobless young people recorded a marginal rise over a period of three years to reach 8.1 per cent of the total in 2013. A slew of factors that include shrinkage of spaces in the slow-going economy are...
Siddique Islam | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
Credits from all the banks fell slightly in ratio with the deposits, as of the third week of February, which indicates a sluggish trend in the country's banking businesses owing to uncertainties. Sources in the banking circles attributed the tipping...
FE Report | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
Customs authorities seized $38,000 from an Indian High Commission official in Bangladesh when he allegedly tried to take out the greenbacks illegally by using diplomatic immunity, officials said. Armed police and customs officials at the airport challenged Sandipan Bhattacharya at...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
Dhaka is likely to propose to New Delhi the inclusion of a new provision in the bilateral trade agreement to allow access to third countries and levying of transit fees. Officials said the move seeks to expand scope of the...
BRAHMANBARIA, Mar 20: A fire broke out at the Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited here on Friday afternoon. M Sazzadur Rahman, director (Technical) of the power station, said the fire erupted at a transformer of the substation around 3pm. On...
Bangladesh is finally introducing pneumococcal vaccine today (Saturday) in its routine vaccination programme to prevent pneumonia, a leading baby killer. Health Minister Mohammed Nasim will launch the new vaccine at a function in Dhaka. — UNB
BOGRA Mar 20: A fire broke out at a filling station near the Nazir Akhter College under Sonatola upazila of Bogra district on Friday causing losses to the tune of Tk 500 thousand (5 lakh). At least two people were...
FE Report | 2015-03-21 00:00:00
The 74th day of the ongoing nationwide blockade, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance, passed off almost peacefully on Friday barring few stray incidents. At least five people suffered burn injuries as blockaders allegedly hurled petrol bomb at a fish-laden...
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