NILPHAMARI, Feb 14 (BSS): The authorities here declared today two unions under Nilphamari Sadar Upazila free of early marriage, dowry and narcotics. The unions are Laxmichapa and Palashbari. Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor formally made the announcement at a function...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stones of Vulta Flyover and third Shitalakkhya Bridge through videoconferencing from her official residence Ganabhaban on Saturday, reports UNB. "The ongoing violence has seriously been affecting the low-income group people as well as...
GAZIPUR, Feb 14 (bdnews24.com): The bodies of a garment worker couple have been recovered from their rented house in Gazipur. Police suspect the man committed suicide after strangling his wife to death. Monirul Islam, 40, and Moyna Begum, 30, hailing...
The body of journalist Aminul Haque Badsha, former Press Secretary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman arrives in the city from London today (Sunday), reports BSS. A Bangladesh Biman flight carrying the body of Badsha is scheduled...
A human chain organised by Sushashoner Jonyo Nagorik (SUJON) was held in front of the National Museum at Shahbagh in the city Saturday demanding peace, harmony and reconciliation in the wake of ongoing violence against humanity in the country, said...
Rain or thundershowers is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Barisal divisions and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country today (Sunday). Light fog is likely...
DU signs deal with AFC Agro Biotech With a view to producing leather enzymes (soaking and bating stages in tanneries) at biotech factory in Khulna, the Dhaka University (DU) signed an agreement with AFC Agro Biotech Ltd at the DU...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The government is set to invite international oil companies (IOCs) for hydrocarbon exploration in the Bay of Bengal next year, said officials. State-run Petrobangla has already placed a proposal to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) under the ministry...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Stakeholders in the country's textile and garment sector threatened on Saturday a tougher move, if the ongoing political stalemate does not come to a peaceful end immediately. "Don't force us to take to the streets with all of our workers...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The BNP-led 20-party alliance called afresh another long spell of 72-hour nationwide shutdown from 6am Sunday while an indefinite transport blockade goes on dealing a blow to normal life and livelihood. On the 40th day of the blockade on Saturday,...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The Matarbari 1,200-megawatt power plant project is going to get a big boost as the government would construct a 44-kilometre four-lane road from Cox's Bazar to Maheshkhali Island investing Tk 6.07 billion, officials said Saturday. Power Division officials said the...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
Country's premier trade-promotion-organisation MCCI aired fears Saturday about serious decline in export earnings, remittances, foreign aid and investment, and fiscal revenues unless the prolonged political unrest is addressed in right earnest. Based on its calculations on these fundamentals of the...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) will soon develop a new Export Development Fund (EDF) worth about US$ 500 million to support environment-friendly industrial and development projects. BB Governor Dr Atiur Rahman disclosed this while addressing a seminar on 'Access to Finance...
FE Report | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The international credit rating agency Moody's has hinted at downgrading Bangladesh's country credit rating due to the ongoing political violence. Moody's current credit rating for Bangladesh is 'Ba3' which generally means a stable economic situation. Such ratings provide international investors...
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations, slated for today (Sunday), have been shifted to Friday (February 20) due to unavoidable circumstances. — FE Report
Masum Billah | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
The eclectic approach is the label given to a teacher's use of techniques and activities from a range of language teaching approaches and methodologies. The teacher decides what methodology or approach to use depending on the aims of the lesson...
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset. —Harvey S. Firestone The function of leadership...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Feb 14: Sales of flowers at the flower shops in Rajshahi remained dull even during the advent of Bangla month of Falgoon and the Valentine's Day. Sources informed, aspiring for a brisk business of flowers during Pahela Falgoon of...
JOYPURHAT, Feb 14 (UNB): A helper of a truck was killed when a truck plunged into a roadside pond on the Khetlal-Kalai road at Achar intersection in Kalai upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Ilias of Shahjahanpur...
NAOGAON, Feb 14 (UNB): A man was beaten to death allegedly by his stepbrother over a land-related dispute at Tilon village in Mohadevpur upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abu Taher, 65, son of late Khadem Ali...
NARSINGDI, Feb 14 (UNB): Two people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a launch and an engine-run boat in the Meghna River near Srinagar village in Sadar upazila on Friday night. The deceased were identified...
Our Correspondent | 2015-02-15 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Feb 14: New technology has been explored to make new dependable fuel as substitute to LPG, kerosene and firewood. The new found fuels are charcoal and briquette. Now the use of charcoal and briquette is gaining popularity in household...
BARGUNA, Feb 14 (BSS): One dacoit was shot dead in gun fight and six others arrested by Amtali police from Gulisakhali village under Amtali Thana of the district Friday midnight. The dead was identified as Mozammel,45. Amtali police said, a...
BENAPOLE, Feb 14 (UNB): At least ten Bangladeshi people including two children returned home through Benapole check post on Friday after serving nine months in an Indian jail. Indian police handed them over to Benapole immigration police in the evening....
RANGPUR, Feb 14 (BSS): Bangladesh has been marching successfully towards achieving self-reliance on electricity through continuous success in increasing its power generation capacity. Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Home Affairs Tipu Munshi MP said this...
RAJSHAHI, Feb 14 (BSS): More than 4,000 slum poor and extreme poor families were brought under health and nutrition component of an anti-poverty scheme aiming at bringing them out from the vicious circle of malnutrition in Naogaon district town. The...
FARIDPUR, Feb 14 (BSS): Overseas Employment & Expatriate Welfare Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain said the present government has taken up several steps in the health sector for improving the overall health services in the country. He was addressing the...
Youth commits suicide in Habiganj A youth committed suicide felling himself under a speedy train after having quarrel with his wife at Teliapara in Madhabpur Upazila in Habiganj Friday afternoon. Abul Hashem Khandker, Sub-Inspector of Railway Police, quoting local people,...
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