FE Report | 2015-02-28 00:00:00
A Jubo Dal man was shot dead in Dinajpur district and a victim of an arson attack on a truck in Bogra died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday, the 53rd day of the countrywide indefinite transport blockade....
Munima Sultana | 2015-02-28 00:00:00
Fifteen firms from 12 countries have shown interest in the management support consultancy (MSC) work of the Padma Bridge project. It is the final part of the tender for assisting the project office in taking different decisions during implementation of...
FE Report | 2015-02-28 00:00:00
Police are yet to arrest anyone in connection with the killing of writer-cum-blogger Avijit Roy even 24 hours after the gruesome incident that took place in TSC area of Dhaka University Thursday night. Unidentified miscreants launched an attack on the...
FE Report | 2015-02-28 00:00:00
The human rights sub-committee of European Parliament (EP) has expressed grave concern over the prevailing political stalemate in Bangladesh, and blamed the 'rigid stance' of the two major political parties for the situation. A delegation of the sub-committee also observed...
Syful Islam | 2015-02-28 00:00:00
A government core group has placed 29-point recommendations aiming to support export-oriented textile sector by making existing rules pragmatic and providing attractive incentives, officials said. The body, comprising public officials and stakeholders, submitted the report recently to the ministry of...
Talha Bin Habib The government has taken an initiative to create a fund of Tk 10 billion for providing loan at a single digit rate to the financially insolvent people in rural areas for nurturing milk producing cows, officials said....
Kamrun Nahar | 2015-02-27 00:00:00
A probe committee has unearthed serious irregularities in purchasing 12 breeding bulls from Australia for the state-owned dairy farm Milkvita. Four out of the 12 bulls died within four months causing an estimated loss of Tk 6.0 million. The bulls...
Professor of the Department of Botany of Dhaka University (DU) Dr. Sheikh Shamimul Alam received "Wada Memorial Award" of Japan for his global standard research articles on plants chromosome, says a press release.
Chairperson of the National Advisory Committee on Autism in Bangladesh Saima Wazed Hossain, daughter of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and eminent nuclear scientist late Dr MA Wazed Miah, was honoured with Distinguished Alumni Award-2015 by Barry University in Miami, Florida,...
JU Correspondent | 2015-02-27 00:00:00
A day-long bird fair will be held in front of the Zahir Raihan Auditorium on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus today (Friday) with the slogan 'Pakh pakhali desher rotno asun sobai kori jotno' amid festivity and fanfare. The Department of Zoology...
Japanese prof calls on DU VC Professor of the Tokoha University, Japan, Dr Yusuke Yamane, called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter's office of the university Wednesday. Prof Dr. Ashraf Mahmud Dewan of...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the region of Comilla until 6:00 pm today (Friday), reports UNB. Weather may remain mainly...
MANIKGANJ, Feb 26 (UNB): The body of another Padma launch capsize victim was recovered on Thursday, raising the death toll from the tragic incident to 80. Mahmudul Haque, officer-in-charge of Dohar police station, said the body of a man, who...
FE Report | 2015-02-27 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Thursday called upon the government to announce a date for the parliamentary election to test its popularity. "If people are with the Awami League why the Prime Minister (PM) is afraid of holding polls…. announce...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said Thursday there are no kings and queens in a democracy. Nobody is above the law and that includes Khaleda and Tarique, reports BSS. Those who want to keep them above the law are trying...
Ismail Hossain | 2015-02-27 00:00:00
If the ongoing political deadlock lingers on in the country, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth will slow down to around 4.0 per cent in the current fiscal year (FY), says the international consulting firm Oxford Analytica. The firm also...
Counsel for death-row convict Muhammad Kam-aruzzaman received Thursday the certified copy of the full text of the Appellate Division (AD) judgment, reports BSS. Advocate Shishir Mo-hammad Monir, counsel for Kamaruzzaman, confirmed this to the news agency. The Appellate Div-ision of...
The newly appointed Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ma Mingqiang Thursday paid a courtesy call on Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad at the latter's Baridhara residence in the city, reports BSS. During the meeting, they discussed the existing bilateral relations between...
Police in a drive arrested 13 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir for 'sabotage plan' from different places of the city in the early hours of Thursday, reports UNB. Deputy Commissioner (Media) of DMP Masudur Rahman said 10 leaders...
FE Report | 2015-02-27 00:00:00
Jute millers have recently urged the government not to cut cash incentive on export of jute products. They also have demanded that the authority increase the cash incentive up to 20 per cent (for hessian, sack, CBC makers) and 10...
FE Report | 2015-02-27 00:00:00
C&A Foundation, a philanthropic organisation of the leading global apparel company C&A, will provide the Save the Children with financial support of up to 3.0 million euros annually to support millions of mothers who are coping with humanitarian crises. They...
Experts have put maximum emphasis on the ecosystems-based approach to further intensify the food production to contribute more to the national economy side by side meeting the nutritional demands of own people in Bangladesh, reports BSS. In this respect, they...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has significantly expanded its CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) activities by pledging financial support to 30 projects, reports BSS. The figure is more than double the projects the central bank funded last year. The central bank on...
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