The ruling Awami League termed on Friday the statement of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia as 'full of blatant lies', reports BSS. Speaking at a press conference at the political office of Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina at Dhanmondi in...
Detectives arrested the editor of Bansherkella, a facebook page run by Jamaat-Shibir, from Comilla district on Thursday night, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as KM Ziauddin Fahad. Facebook page Bansherkella is allegedly being used to spread instigating comments and...
The United Nations has reiterated its call for political dialogue and de-escalation of tensions in Bangladesh for reaching a solution to current political crisis, reports UNB. "I don't have an update beyond reiterating what we've said here for political dialogue...
The Parliamentary Caucus on Children Rights has called upon the government to provide compensation to child victims of the recent violence, reports UNB. The group came up with the call at its 2nd meeting held at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban on...
JHALAKATI, Mar 13 (UNB): A case was filed against 18 BNP leaders and activists in connection with setting fire to a local land office in Sadar upazila on Thursday. Badal Khalifa, sub-inspector (SI) of Jhalakati Sadar thana, filed the case...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 13 (BSS): A university student was killed when the Dhaka-bound Chottala Express train knocked him at Kumira area under Sitakunda upazila of the district Friday morning. The victim was identified as Sazadul Islam (25), a sixth semester student...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Robert W Gibson on Friday expressed deep shock at the loss of lives and injuries following the collapse of the roof of an under-construction cement factory in Mongla Port area on Thursday, reports UNB. "I'm...
Police recovered the body of an unidentified 90-year-old from a bus stop opposite Rokeya Hall in Dhaka University (DU) on Friday, reports bdnews24.com. A K Saidul Haque Bhuiyan, inspector of Shahbagh thana, said the body was found around 8:00 am...
NAOGAON, Mar 13 (UNB): Five people were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a bus on Naogaon-Rajshahi highway in Mahadevpur upazila on Friday night, reports UNB. The deceased could not be identified immediately....
BAGERHAT, Mar 13 (UNB): The local administration called off the rescue operation Friday noon after recovery of seven bodies from the collapsed building at Mongla port area. Brigadier General Mohammad Selim, acting chairman of Sena Kalyan Sangstha and Sheikh Mohammad...
Senior Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta urged on Friday BNP to take part in the upcoming elections of three city corporations--Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong, reports UNB. "It had been BNP's demand that the elections be held to city...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The Ministry of Home Affairs needed a significant additional budgetary allocation as the cost of law enforcement amidst political troubles far outstripped its original budget size. Competent sources believe such non-development budget overrun this fiscal year is due to a...
FE Report | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia Friday announced a set of conditions for ending the current political turmoil through a time-bound dialogue but said the ongoing countrywide 'peaceful movement' will continue unto a logical end. She renewed the spell of movement...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The country's businesses will have to obtain fresh Business Identification Numbers (BINs) from January, 2016 as a part of process of implementation of new Value Added Tax (VAT) and Supplementary Duty (SD) Act-2012. The BINs would be provided to the...
Siddique Islam | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
Nearly 90 per cent of the loans and advances of scheduled banks are concentrated in Dhaka and Chittagong divisions, showing an unequal distribution of resources of banks. Around 70 per cent loans and advances of scheduled banks were invested in...
Syful Islam | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has been asked to submit to a parliamentary panel a report on Bangladeshi citizens' wealth stashed abroad as part of a current move to prevent money laundering and terror financing. Officials said the parliamentary...
An octogenarian and a teenage boy were killed in separate road accidents in the city on Friday. Lal Chan, 80, died after being hit by a train at Moghbazar level crossing at 6:00 pm while he was returning home from...
The export earnings from the US, the largest export destination for Bangladesh goods, maintained its negative growth during the first seven months (July-January) of the current fiscal (2014-15) with a 2.85 per cent fall, mostly due to the poor performance...
The country received $294.98 million in remittance in the first six days of the current month of March. The remittance earning was $256.78 million in the same period of February. Bangladesh Bank statistics show the four state-owned commercial banks-Agrani, Janata,...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The cost of building the Padma multipurpose bridge is going to shoot up by nearly 45 per cent from the estimated amount of Tk 205 billion mainly for forced delays in start of the project works. As long as over...
FE Report | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
At least two passengers were injured, as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at a long-route bus in Savar off the capital on early Friday, the 67th day of BNP-led alliance-enforced non-stop transport blockade. The injured are Abdur Rahim, 50, and...
Badrul Ahsan | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The government has taken a set of initiatives to turn the trade gap between Bangladesh and Nepal in favour of the country from the prevailing negative territory, officials said. The initiatives include persuading the government of Nepal to exclude Bangladeshi...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
The government is going to procure a hopper dredger, for the first time, for keeping the draft at the deep water of the Mongla Port harbour navigable with the financial support of China, officials said Friday. The Ministry of Shipping...
FE Report The central bank has relaxed loan provisioning rules on mutual fund (MF) units aiming to bring dynamism in the country's capital market, officials said. Under the relaxation, the banks are allowed to keep provisioning considering both market value...
FE Report Sushasoner Jonney Procharavijan (SUPRO) placed on Friday a set of recommendations including implementing a fair, transparent and inclusive tax collection method to bring untaxed public in the government's tax net. SUPRO, a network of over 600 grassroots level...
Our Correspondent | 2015-03-14 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Mar 13: China Foreign Trade Centre's (FTC) International Communication Department general manager (GM) Alan Liu met Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) president Mahbubul Alam at the CCCI World Trade Centre (WTC) office on Thursday. The CCCI president...
Police in New Jersey have detained and sued 27, including three Bangladeshis, when they were demonstrating in front of the headquarters of a garments retailer. They were demanding compensation it had promised for those harmed in Rana Plaza collapse in...
Brokerage houses and merchant banks could not settle their transactions for share trading for more than 6 hours from around 3:0pm on Thursday following a technical glitch in the CDBL (Central Depository Bangaldesh Limited) server, a senior CDBL official said,...
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