Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions with regions of Tangail and Mymensingh until 6:00 pm today (Wednesday), reports UNB. Weather may remain mainly...
Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna did not make any anti-state comment, claims its spokesman in Dhaka on Tuesday, reports UNB. "The students of our country always play an important role in political movement. So student movement should be raised...
A Dhaka court issued a warrant Tuesday for the arrest of five persons, including former Housing and Public Works Minister Mirza Abbas, in a graft case filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC), reports UNB. Dhaka's Senior Special Judge Imrul Kayes...
RANGPUR, Feb 24 (BSS): Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) here today strongly protested the continuous anti-people blockade, hartal, violence, anarchy and killings of innocent people in the name of political movements. They expressed concern over hurling petrol bombs and...
The Ganajagaran Mancha and residents of Pirojpur's Mathbaria have expressed their frustration over the first war crimes tribunal's decision to hand fugitive Jatiya Party leader Abdul Jabbar a life-term sentence for atrocities committed during the War of Liberation, reports bdnews24.com....
A suspected criminal was killed in a gunfight with law enforcers at Rudrapara village in Srinagar Upazila Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Shahin. On tipped off that a group of armed criminals was staying at the Rudrapara...
NATORE, Feb 24 (UNB): The district BNP has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in the district for Wednesday protesting warrants issued for the arrest of BNP senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman. BNP's district unit general secretary Aminul Haque announced the shutdown...
The Appellate Division has dismissed the trial proceedings of war criminal Ghulam Azam following his death in 2014, reports bdnews24.com. A four-member Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha gave the order Tuesday. Earlier, Jamaat-e-Islami ideologue Azam was...
BENAPOLE, Feb 24 (UNB): A Union Parishad chairman and also local Awami League leader was shot to death by miscreants at Baliadanga in Sadar Upazila of Jessore district Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Mosharraf Hossain, 48, chairman of...
Two crude bombs were blasted at the residence of Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta at Jigatala of the city on Monday night, reports UNB. Kamrul Haque, Assistant Personal Secretary (APS) of Suranjit, told the news agency that miscreants hurled the...
FE Report | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
The government and International Monetary Fund (IMF) will discuss issues relating to the finalisation of a deadline for implementation of VAT Act and release of the rest of ECF (Extended Credit Facility) loans, officials said. They said an IMF mission...
Jamaluddin Ahmed in the first of a two-part article on \'Bangladesh: Graduating to middle-income status\' | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
Middle Income Countries (MIC), by definition, are grouped according to income, which does not necessarily reflect a certain level of economic, political or social development. MIC is, therefore, a very broad and heterogeneous category. Even the division between lower-middle and...
Syed Jamaluddin | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee was in Dhaka on a three-day visit. Her entourage included ministers, eminent cultural, business and media personalities. Bangladesh invited Mamata to attend the International Mother Language Day programmes which commemorate the Language Movement...
The country's banking sector is reportedly facing a new problem called 'employee turnover'. This means frequent job switchover by skilled and experienced staff within the banking sector and also beyond it. The issue was discussed at a workshop held at...
Wasi Ahmed | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
Developing the much needed database on a broad spectrum of socio-economic conditions is a welcome initiative on the part of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Though belated, this drive, given its benefit across a whole range of activities by...
Selim Jahan | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
Transports constitute an important segment of economic activities anywhere in the world. The Bangladesh Railway, a key transportation agency of the country, has been serving a large number of people for a long period. In spite of being an important...
Kejriwal has halted the irresistible BJP and achieved a sweeping victory in Delhi polls. Many view it as a wakeup call for the BJP and I am sure the BJP will now give its political strategy a fresh thought. It...
Sadly, border killings by the Indian BSF continue despite efforts from both governments. This is creating an unnecessary pressure on our bilateral relations. High-ups in the Indian government repeatedly assured us, but we are yet to notice any tangible improvement...
The present crisis must be resolved. This is a crucial time for Bangladesh and we must be united when our peace and harmony are under threat. Dozens of buses, trucks and trains have been burned down. If the violence and...
Nironjan Roy concluding a two-part article on \'Large loan restructuring and Bangladesh Bank policy\' | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
The reason for high rate of non-performing loan lies in the approach followed by the banks to sanction loans. Appropriate amount and type of loans required for running business is seldom determined before sanctioning loan. The traditional way of approving...
Mohammad Omar Farooq | 2015-02-25 00:00:00
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith recently dubbed Islamic banking as "fraud". He, however, did not explain what he meant by "fraud" and why he thought so. Well, Islamic banking is not "fraud." Let's first acknowledge that the Qur'an has...
Pacer Shafiul Islam will join the Bangladesh's World Cup squad as a replacement for Al-Amin Hossain, who has been sent back home on disciplinary ground. The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 has approved the replacement,...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Feb 23: The mango growers of Rangpur division are in joyous mood as the blooming mango trees in different areas under the region have assumed an impressive eye-catching look with huge flowers predicting an excellent yield of the fleshy...
RANGPUR, Feb 23 (BSS): Speakers at a coordination meeting for preventing corruption have stressed for educating the young generations on values of honesty to inspire them in preventing corruption for building a corruption-free Bangladesh. The District Corruption Prevention Committee (DCPC)...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
JESSORE, Feb 23: A total of 1,875 tuberculosis patients are undergoing treatment at different places in Jessore district till the month of January, 2015. Of the total nine are patients of multi drug resistant TB, said Dr Emdadul Haque, keynote...
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