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...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Feb 23: Speakers at a training programme recently held on Health and Nutrition of Mother and Child at Jhenidah Sadar Upazila Auditorium organised by Comprehensive Village Development Programme (CVDP) laid emphasis on development of mother and child health on...
RU Correspondent | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, February 23: Law enforces detained three leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), Rajshahi University (RU) following the procession Sunday at the campus. The detained leaders are university Sohrawardi Hall convener Shamsuddin Chowdhury Sanin, Law department convener Abul Kalam...
RANGPUR, Feb 23 (BSS): Speakers at the inaugural ceremony have stressed for speeding up of the socioeconomic uplift in rural areas through strengthening unity and organisational activities of the local communities. They were addressing the inaugural ceremony organised by SKS...
Man stabbed dead in Bogra A man was stabbed to death by his friend allegedly over extramarital affairs with the friend's wife at Ghatmagura village in Dupchanchia upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rahim, 35, son of...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 23 (BSS): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a listed cadre of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student-wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, with a firearm and ammunitions in the city last night, RAB sources here said Monday. The arrested person...
GAIBANDHA, Feb 23 (BSS): A three-day "Science and Technology Fair-2015" began at the Independence Square on Sunday amid much enthusiasm. District administration has arranged the fair with the theme 'Technology Can Alleviate Poverty' marking the National Science and Technology Week....
Shihab Sarkar | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
We all know water mass comprises two-thirds of the Earth's surface. How will you feel if you see this volume of water eventually becomes vast pools of thick, fetid liquid with marine lives dying away one after another? This gloomy...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
To begin with, the United Kingdom (UK) was reluctant to join the European Union (EU), known as European Economic Co-operation (EEC) in its earlier incarnation. The original nomenclature was of course, the European Coal and Steel Union, the brainchild of...
River training unlike dredging and capital training has ever remained illusive in this part of the world. But under a mega project, the Brahmaputra-Jamuna channel is likely to see the beginning of such works within a few years, if not...
Abdul Bayes | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
Rural households in Bangladesh move up and down the poverty line owing mostly to different types of shocks. For the first few decades after independence, natural shocks captured news headlines but of late man-made shocks have overtaken natural shocks. For...
M Jalal Hussain | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
The minimum requirement of all human beings irrespective of age, race or gender, is to live in a place wherever he or she does, in peace and tranquility. With technology playing a dominant role these days in bequeathing prosperity to...
It was heartening to note that the United Nations has urged the Bangladesh government and the opposition to resolve their differences through dialogue. Our development partners also are of the same opinion. Democracy and rule of law are important preconditions...
Death in waterways has become a regular phenomenon in our country. More than 54 people (according to last report) died when the ill-fated motor launch MV Mostafa, was knocked down by a cargo vessel and capsized in the Padma River....
I would like to draw the attention of the postal department, Dhaka for investigation into the incidents of repeated loss of my pension documents in the postal department over last couple of years. I) United Nations Joint Staff Pension (UNJSPF),...
Nironjan Roy | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has issued 'Large Loan Restructuring Policy' (BRPD Circular No. 04 on January 29, 2015) allowing all scheduled banks to restructure large loans sanctioned in favour of their borrowers. This is a very timely initiative for which...
Saleh Akram | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
Bill Gates recommended three elements to build a poverty-free world by 2035, which are: digital revolution, vaccine and innovation of improved seeds. Of these, digital revolution will develop IT-based economies around the world and will play the lead role in...
MUMBAI, Feb 23 (Reuters): India's tea exports in 2014 fell 8.1 per cent from a year earlier to 201.23 million kg due to poor demand from Bangladesh and Iran, the state-run Tea Board said in a statement. The country's exports...
Dhaka Abahani topped the Group C after they played out to a goalless draw with Chittagong Abahani in the last Group C encounter held Sunday evening at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, reports BSS. Dhaka Abahani's Hungarian forward Szabolos Czorba hit...
The Prime Bank Cup and Prime Bank Challenge Cup Golf Tournament-2015 ended at the Kurmitola Golf Club Banquet Hall in the city recently, said a press release. Major General Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Adjutant General of Bangladesh Army, inaugurated the tournaments...
In a battle of two lowly teams, Barisal Division, riding on a Mosaddek Hossain ton, scored 417 for 6 in 90 overs in the first innings against Chittagong Division on the first day of the 5th round of the Walton...
Shihab's 14 goals, including four brilliant hat-tricks, saw Armanitola School in goal glut in the First Security Islami Bank National School Hockey competition crushing Bornomala Adarsha High School by 17-0 goals held Monday at the Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
The government has backtracked on its move to exempt small savers having bank balance below Tk 0.5 million from paying tax as the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has estimated a considerable amount of revenue loss. The NBR has estimated...
FE Report | 2015-02-24 00:00:00
Unipec Singapore Ltd has offered the best bid to import 170,000 barrels of heavy naphtha from state-run Bangladesh petroleum Corporation (BPC), a senior BPC official told the FE Monday. He said the BPC is set to award its March loading...
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