Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
The process of settling trade-related disputes between Bangladesh and China through mediation is expected to begin from June next. A mediation centre would help exporters and importers of both the countries to lodge complaints to a panel of arbitrators, local...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
The BNP-led coalition in movement gave a daylong break Tuesday in its latest spell of hartal as people celebrated the country's cricket triumph. However, available reports said, the 20-party alliance's unbroken countrywide blockade passed its 64th consecutive day amid stray...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
The government has reduced the price of A-1 jet fuel by up to 23.80 per cent -- much to the expectation of airliners. But there's no move yet to readjust the rates of other petroleum fuels with rock-bottom oil prices,...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
Customs duty for local alloy steel manufacturers has been cut to a half to help the domestic industry run in a competitive way, official sources said. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has lowered the CD to 5.0 per cent...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has directed the authorities concerned to take necessary steps to clear the stockpiled cars off the country's sea and land-ports, officials said. They said the country's two seaports - Chittagong and Mongla - and Benapole...
A court in the city allowed Tuesday the FBI personnel to take different samples for conducting forensic test in their lab, reports BSS. US Federal Bureau of Investigation collected the samples from the murder site of Avijit Roy. "The Chief...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
The General Economic Division (GED) will apprise the Prime Minister about the drafted National Social Protection Strategy today (Wednesday) under which all poor and vulnerable people are proposed to be brought under the government's cash and food benefit schemes. GED...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
A 10-day festival, Francophonie Week-2015 Bangladesh, begins in Dhaka and Chittagong on Thursday aiming to promote its core values such as peace, democracy, respect for human rights and sustainable development. The event will be celebrated from March 12 to March...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
Speakers at a programme on Tuesday underlined the need for ensuring justice on taxation and adopting a pro-poor policy to help reduce poverty in the society. Susashoner Jonno Procharavijan-SUPRO (campaign for good governance), in association with Oxfam, arranged the 8th...
Our Correspondent | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Mar 10: Terming the Korean EPZ the Neo-East India Company a local public interest forum headed by the Anwara Upazila chairman demanded removal of the KEPZ managing director within next five days. They said that the erstwhile management of...
Norway's pension fund may withdraw investment from a coal plant in Bangladesh to be built with Indian partner on the edge of Sundarbans mangrove forest, citing threat of severe environmental damage, according to a report by The Guardian published on...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to file two cases against five people, including three officials of Sonali Bank, for allegedly swindling out over Tk 265 million from the bank. The anti-corruption watchdog took the decision at its regular meeting...
Our Correspondent | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
MAGURA, Mar 10: Lawmaker of Magura-1 constituency and newly made president of Magura district unit Awami League (AL) Prof Dr Prof Muhammad Serajul Akbar died of cardiac arrest on Monday night at NICVD (National Institute of Cardio Vascular Diseases). He...
The government postponed today's (Wednesday's) Dakhil examination under the Madrasah Education Board due to the BNP-led alliance's extension of hartal by 48 hours on Tuesday, reports UNB. "The fresh date for the examination would be announced later," Subodh Chandra Dhali,...
FE Report | 2015-03-11 00:00:00
Former and working women journalists have observed that women are continuing to prove their ability in media amid professional challenges in the patriarchal society as stereotype thoughts about women still exist. Despite all the odds, women are now working in...
Customs intelligence officials seized eight gold bars weighing about 932 grams from Postal Freight Unit at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the city Tuesday, report agencies. The gold-bars had been kept hidden in the battery chamber of a...
BAF winter exercise ends The 6-day Annual Winter Exercise 'WINTEX-2015' of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) concluded on Monday. The exercise was held allover Bangladesh, including all Air Force bases, stations and units. Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Wednesday), reports UNB. Day temperature may remain nearly unchanged and night temperature may fall slightly over northern part and it may remain...
Environmentalist groups demanded on Tuesday formation of a judicial inquiry commission to probe the past three years of "misdeeds and corruption" by Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), reports UNB. The demand came at a press conference arranged by the...
The Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court (SC) again asked Tuesday both the defence and prosecution lawyers to submit by March 31 the concise statement before it on the pending appeal filed by condemned war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami...
KHULNA, Mar 10 (UNB): Sammilita Chikitshak Parishad, a panel of physicians backed by BNP-Jamaat, on Tuesday announced that they would boycott tomorrow's (Thursday) election of the Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), citing threats issued by the ruling party-blessed panel. At a...
Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya said Bangladesh's victory against England at the World Cup has helped Khaleda Zia to open up a bit, reports bdnews24.com. The BNP 'relaxed' its shutdown on Tuesday after Bangladesh reached the...
SYLHET, Mar 10 (UNB): Lawyers staged on Tuesday demonstrations after boycotting the court proceedings following the denial of bail to three pro-Awami League lawyers in the Jubo League leader Abdul Ali killing case. On March 3, the three lawyers --...
COMILLA, Mar 10 (UNB): Two cases were filed against some 97 BNP-Jamaat activists in connection with torching of vehicles in Comilla city and Burichang upazila of the district Tuesday. A case was filed against 17 identified and 30 unidentified BNP-Jamaat...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance will bring out mass processions across the country tomorrow (Thursday) amid its ongoing blockade and hartal programmes to press home its demands, including immediate national election under a neutral administration, reports UNB. In a statement, BNP...
RANGAMATI, Mar 10 (BSS): Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, better known as Santu Larma, has been re-elected as president of Parbatya Chattragram Jana Sangahati Samity (PCJSS). The newly formed central committee was declared through a press release on Tuesday after concluding of...
Two persons were injured in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jubo League (JL), two front organisations of the ruling Awami League, at Bidyut Bhaban near Bangladesh Secretariat in the city around 11:30 am on...
Sitting MPs, who are physicians by profession, will stage a sit-in programme in front of the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office today (Wednesday) to protest the ongoing violence, reports UNB. The hour-long programme titled 'Sit-in for Peace' will begin...
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