Talha Bin Habib | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh is set to sign wheat import deal with Ukraine during the meeting between food officials and the delegation from Kiev in Dhaka today (Monday), officials said. To push the move forward a three-member Ukrainian delegation lead by Oleg Shchurin...
FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
The Ministry of Social Welfare (MoSW) has sought an additional allocation of Tk 5.03 billion in the budget of next fiscal year (FY), officials said. The MoSW has recently sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) in this...
For the first time, Bangladesh is going to take part in the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship 2015, an international talent hunt competition on MS office package. Registration for the competition started in the city on Saturday like many...
FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
Business leaders and HR experts have underlined the need for upgrading the university-level curricula with need-based education to meet the shortage of competent workforce in the country's corporate sector. The views came Saturday at a panel discussion of the Bangladesh...
The High Court (HC) ordered that the petitions seeking the transfer of Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases will come up for hearing maintaining the serial of the cause list, reports UNB. The court came up with the...
President Md Abdul Hamid said Sunday it will have to be ensured that the poor are not deprived of medical treatment due to lack of money, reports BSS. "Providing the poor people medical facilities must be given priority . ....
RAMU (Cox's Bazar), Mar 1 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday asked today the armed forces to always remain alert like other forces of the country to protect the sacred Constitution and maintain the continuation of democracy braving any threat....
FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
The state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) earned a profit of Tk.1.50 billion (150 crore) during the first half the current fiscal year. The earning of profit by the BPC is attributed to the drastic fall in fuel oil prices in...
A group of diplomats stationed in Dhaka called on Sunday for an end to the current violence recalling their previous statements on events in Bangladesh, and those by the UN, reports UNB. The diplomats, including ambassadors, high commissioners and charge...
Munima Sultana | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) has requested the Economic Relations Division (ERD) to arrange finance for conducting a feasibility study on the proposed tunnel beneath the mighty Jamuna River. A preliminary study has estimated the cost of the tunnel project...
A court in the city issued Sunday a warrant for the search of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan political office in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act, report agencies. Metropolitan Magistrate SM Masud came up with the search...
The body of slain blogger Avijit Roy was donated to Dhaka Medical College for medical research and education Sunday after people paid their last respects to him on the Dhaka University campus, report agencies. Avijit's family members took the decision...
FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
The ongoing nationwide blockade coupled with hartal (shutdown) enforced by the BNP-led 20-party Alliance crossed 55th day on Sunday with more arson attacks and blasts that left several people wounded. On the first day of the latest spell of 72-hour-long...
Members of police, who had been deployed in front of the BNP Chairperson's Gulshan Office for security, were allegedly withdrawn at around 9:0pm Sunday, according to private TV channels and online news portals. The reason for withdrawal of the cops...
JESSORE, Mar 1: A man, who was injured after being hit by a petrol bomb container during an attack on a bus in Abhaynagar upazila on Saturday night, died at a Khulna hospital on Sunday. Bijan Gain of Kulata Ponchugram...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in a statement on Sunday expressed deep concern over the killing of writer and blogger Avijit Roy. — FE Report
Muktijoddha Peshajibi Janata Oikya Mancha, a platform of the organisations believing in the spirit of Liberation War, led by Muktijoddha Sangsad Central Command Council, was formed on Sunday to 'raise their voice' against all kinds of violence, reports UNB. It...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 1 (bdnews24.com): Two judges in Chittagong were forced to leave the courtroom when lawyers supporting BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami raised a hullabaloo over attempts to resume proceedings, reports. Chittagong District and Sessions Judge Nurul Huda and Divisional Special Judge...
HABIGANJ, Mar 1 (UNB): Police arrested six people on Sunday in connection with Saturday's petrol bomb attack on a train in Madhabpur upazila that left three people, including a woman and her daughter, burn injured. The arrestees are Noman Hossain,...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 1 (UNB): A BNP activist received bullet injuries as police opened fire on him while he was trying to flee after hurling petrol bombs at two buses in Shirail bus terminal area of the city on Sunday morning....
FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
The university's regulator, UGC, urged Sunday the country's higher educational institutions to restore academic atmosphere on the campus and take classes and examinations accordingly. University Grants Commission (UGC) Chairman Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury made the appeal while exchanging views...
The Jatiya Sangsad unanimously passed Sunday the "Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI) Bill, 2014" aimed at setting up a research institute to extract sea resources and ensure their proper usages, reports BSS. State Minister for Science and Information and Commu-nication Technology...
FE Report | 2015-03-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh made significant progress in tobacco control during the last one decade by taking effective steps and involving media in the process, said a press release. The advocacy organisation, Progga, issued the press release with the success and challenges in...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister, also in charge of the Post, Teleco-mmunications and ICT Ministry in Parliament, Obaidul Quader said the government has undertaken various projects to expand the 3G (Third Generation) network up to the upazila level soon, reports...
Against the backdrop of outbreak of swine flu in neighbouring India, the government has taken all measures to check the spread of this deadly disease in Bangladesh, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said Sunday, reports BSS. Replying to a question raised...
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