Pool A, on paper, looks easily the more difficult of the two groups at the ICC World Cup 2015, with Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Scotland set to battle it out for those four places in...
FE Report | 2015-02-16 00:00:00
Experts at a roundtable demanded on Sunday removal of illegal feed mills from Hazaribagh area that are involved in making poultry and fish feed from tannery wastes causing cadmium and chromium pollution. The participants said to cope with the rising...
A five-member sub-committee has been formed Saturday to finalise Public Private Partnership (PPP) Bill-2015, reports BSS. The sub-committee was formed at the 12th meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs held at...
Yasir Wardad | 2015-02-16 00:00:00
The government's decision to increase the price of jute batching oil (JBO) comes as a big blow to the jute sector already hit hard by drastic fall in export orders. Terming the 62 per cent hike as unrealistic, the jute...
Sk Sadi Shahriar | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Businesses have been instrumental in creating employment, wealth, products and services. Yet pressure on businesses to play a role in social issues involving employees, shareholders, society, environment, government and consumers is continuously increasing. It has become so important that many...
The Tigers played their warm-up matches on a wrong note, particularly the one they played against the non-Test playing nation Ireland. It has surely dented the morale of the Tigers badly. In earlier matches, they went down against Pakistan which...
The current wave of extra-judicial killings in the country has broken all previous records and unless fully stopped immediately, it is going to go down in our history as a black chapter of human tragedy. It is really shocking and...
It was reported in the media that the government was scrutinising a proposal for opening 12 more border haats with neighboring India to boost bilateral trade between the two countries. There are a few border haats operating at different points...
Liton Chandro Sarkar, in the first of a two-part article on global competitiveness | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
There is no reason why Bangladesh cannot achieve a higher growth rate than its current one. The country is still in the low-income group, and is aspiring to enter the low end of middle-income group by 2021. Bangladesh's economic competitiveness...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has urged all the Muslims, including Islamic scholars, to resist the evil politics of BNP-Jamaat as they are undermining Islam through their heinous acts of burning people to death, report agencies. She also called upon...
Expressing grave concern over the country's current political situation, President of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury said on Saturday the Prime Minister (PM) must take initiatives to end the crisis, reports UNB. "Bangladesh is now burning… in this...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Civil society leaders Saturday stressed the need for holding national dialogue to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the country, saying that otherwise it will be horrible to the whole nation. They also called upon both the Awami League-led 14-party...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Former election commissioner Brigadier General (retd) Sakhawat Hossain said on Saturday Independence and sovereignty of the country might be in danger, if the initiatives taken by eminent citizens to resolve the ongoing political crisis fail. "There will be a disastrous...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 14 (UNB/bdnews24.com): Train services of Rajshahi with Chapainawabganj were cut off as a train derailed after miscreants removed fishplates from the railway track at Latitnagar station in Godagari uapzila here early Saturday. Abdul Karim, superintendent of Rajshahi station,...
RANGPUR, Feb 14 (bdnews24.com): Bangladeshis have become fed up with bickering of two parties-the ruling Awami League and the BNP, said Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad. He claimed people were happier under his regime. "One of the parties (the BNP)...
Food and fresh water supply to BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office for her party leaders, office staff and security personnel remained disrupted for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday due to reported obstruction by law enforcers, reports UNB. Plainclothes...
A ruling Awami League leader has questioned BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's leadership on why she is avoiding public appearance for more than a month after launching a violent anti-government agitation, reports bdnews24.com. Publicity secretary Hasan Mahmood claims Khaleda had failed...
Awami League (AL) MP from Chittagong-11 constituency MA Latif together with some people staged a demonstration with 14 dummies of dead bodies near BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office protesting the ongoing transport blockade, hartal and violence, reports UNB. Nearly...
BOGRA, Feb 14 (UNB): The BNP-led 20-party alliance called on Saturday a 48-hour hartal in the district from Sunday in protest against blocking food supply to Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office. VP Saiful Islam, president of the district unit BNP, announced...
BAGERHAT, Feb 14 (agencies): Speakers at a discussion Saturday urged the government to observe 'Sundarbans Day' nationally for raising awareness among people about the importance of protecting the world's largest mangrove forest. At the discussion organised by Bagerhat Press Club,...
After getting prestigious recognition as the International Mother Language Day from the UNESCO and the United Nations, the Amar Ekushey (February 21st) has now got recognition in the USA, reports BSS. New York State Governor Andrew M Cuomo has recently...
In an effort to expand rail connectivity in the country's southwestern region, the government is planning to set up a new 190-km rail line from Dhaka to Jessore through the Padma River, reports UNB. According to officials, the government thinks...
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