Our Correspondent | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Feb 22: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel have seized a good quantity of ammunition and arms in an overnight raid at a remote village of Banskhali upazila in the district. Five people have been arrested along with the arms...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
Speakers at a discussion on Sunday stressed the need for enhancing capacity of the SME Foundation, cluster-based financing and an industry and entrepreneur-friendly policy to help the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) flourish. The industrial policy should be formed in...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
Labour inspectors should play their role in such a way that the interest of both workers and owners is protected, State Minister for Labour Mujibul Hoque Chunnu said on Sunday. "It is the duty of the inspectors to look after...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated Sunday a general manger of Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) in connection with alleged recruitment irregularities, reports UNB. ACC assistant director Saiful Islam grilled general manger Arefina Begum for two hours from 10:00 am...
Universities observe Amar Ekushey Bangladesh Open University (BOU), ASA University Bangladesh (ASAUB), Daffodil International University (DIU), North South University (NSU), Southeast University (SEU), East West University (EWU) Club for Performing Arts (ECPA) and Northern University Bangladesh (NUB) observed Amar Ekushey...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged Sunday the BNP-Jamaat alliance is now planning to make grenade attacks on innocent people as their petrol bombs have failed to yield anything for them, reports UNB. "I recently heard one Jamaat leader saying that...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
A transport worker succumbed to his injuries at the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Sunday, the 48th day of the ongoing non-stop blockade coupled with hartal, marked with arson attacks, blasts and arrests. On the...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
A study has revealed a very positive relation between inward remittances and the per capita gross domestic product (GDP). "If there is 1.0 per cent rise in the remittance inflow, the per capita GDP will grow by 0.12 percentage point...
Bangladesh has been nominated again as coordinator of the least developed countries (LDCs) in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), says a press release. A meeting of the LDC Consultative Group on February 19 gave Bangladesh the nomination for 2015 to...
Two high-rise buildings--one at Gulshan-2 and another at New Eskaton Road--caught fire in the city Sunday morning. In the Gulshan incident the fire broke out on the 7th floor of 'IK Tower' at about 8:38 am. On information, five fire...
MANIKGANJ, Feb 22 (Agencies): Death toll from the launch capsize in the Padma river in Shibalaya upazila here Sunday rose to 41 until filing the report at 9.30pm. Fire Service station officer KM Tarik confirmed the figure. The deceased included...
Zaidi Sattar | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
While the streets of Bangladesh are tense and the political stalemate remains unresolved, any thought of new directions in economic strategy might seem quite out of place. Yet, if history is any guide, this cannot be everlasting. A decade or...
Amar Ekushey and International Mother Language Day was observed across the country Saturday amid paying homage to the Language Movement martyrs, who laid down their lives for establishing Bangla as the mother tongue on February 21, 1952, reports BSS. President...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
Paschimbanga Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said Bangladesh and her state are the gateway to South Asia and there are enormous economic potentials in the area remaining unexplored. She has also stressed the need for improving the existing infrastructure and...
Kamrun Nahar | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
The authorities concerned could not restore the system of birth and death registration and issuance of certificates across the country even after 20 days of collapse of the central server. The project director earlier from the on Thursday said that...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
The capital base of the country's banking sector increased significantly in the final quarter of the calendar year 2014 despite shortfalls witnessed by six banks, mostly state-run ones. The total eligible capital, generally known as actual capital of the country's...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
The government has planned to save the country's agricultural land from being used for non-agricultural purposes. To push the initiative forward the ministry of land (MoL) formed a committee that would draft a law by incorporating new issues in it...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
A high powered delegation headed by the expatriate welfare minister will leave Dhaka for Qatar Monday to explore the Middle Eastern job market for Bangladeshi workers. Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE) minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said this Sunday at...
US Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to visit Bangladesh soon to take forward the Dhaka-Washington ties to a newer height, according to the ministry of foreign affairs, reports UNB. On February 19, Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali had a...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
The central bank of Bangladesh asked all commercial banks on Sunday to scrutinise the mode of transactions strictly in their bid to check for terror financing both at home and aboard. The instruction came at a meeting of the central...
FE Report | 2015-02-23 00:00:00
Chairman of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) AR Khan has termed a gas deal with multinational Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd as 'unfair' after an initial scrutiny. "The gas deal with Lafarge is unfair and it should not have been...
Claiming that the government has failed to get any sympathy and recognition from the international community, BNP said on Sunday the fall of the regime is now only a matter of time, reports UNB. "The current illegal government which begged...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her upcoming official visit to New Zealand, reports bdnews24.com. Her visit, scheduled from March 11 to March 14, would have been the first ever by a head of government between the two countries....
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Sunday the government has decided to launch Dhaka-Guwahati bus service on trial basis from May 2, reports UNB. The decision was taken in an inter-ministerial meeting held at Road Transport and...
Cultural activists along with relatives of some of those who died during the BNP-led 20-party's ongoing movement hung a list of the 54 victims in front of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's office on Sunday, reports UNB. They also kept some...
The International Crimes Tribunal has issued arrest warrants for three in Kishoreganj for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, reports bdnews24.com. The tribunal led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim issued the warrants on Sunday based on a prosecution...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Barisal, Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions with hail at places and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy...
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