FE Report | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Despite the indefinite countrywide blockade, Amar Ekushey Book Fair saw huge crowd on Friday, the first weekly holiday of this month. The BNP-led 20-party alliance has been enforcing the nationwide blockade coupled with frequent general strikes since January 6 to...
A record number of winter birds flocked Tanguar Haor this winter in one decade as the winged visitors found the overall environment quality at the water body better enjoyable, reports UNB. A new survey conducted by IUCN Bangladesh has counted...
Four persons were killed and four others injured in three districts Thursday night and Friday, report BSS In Narayanganj two students, including an SSC candidate, were killed and two others injured in two separate road accidents in the district Thursday...
Approximately 46 children die every day due to drowning in Bangladesh with yearly death toll around 17,000, a UNICEF study says. A report in the Health Ministry's bulletin of 2013 also says that cases of drowning of children between the...
RU Correspondent RAJSHHAI UNIVERSITY, February 6: The first day of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations under Rajshahi Education Board and Madrasa Board passed peacefully in Rajshahi district on Friday amid the ongoing indefinite blockade enforced by BNP-led 20-Party...
The 18th death anniversary of journalist and banker Khairul Kabir will be observed today (Saturday). Khairul Kabir was the founder editor of The Daily Sangbad and the founder and first life- member of the Jatiya Press Club. He died of...
LAXMIPUR, Feb 6 (UNB): A mobile court in Chandraganj Bazar area of Sadar Upazila sentenced Friday nine fishermen to one year's imprisonment for catching jatka. The convicts are Kamal Hossain, Nur Nobi, Dalim Hossain, Nizam Uddin, Yunus, Jewel, Sajib of...
A total of 14 personalities have won Poet Fazal Shahabuddin Award 2015 for their resounding contributions to respective areas. SAARC Young Writers Forum recently announced the name of the award winners to mark the 79th birth anniversary and the first...
2 held with fake currency notes in Satkhira Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people along with fake currency notes worth Tk 0.1 million from Sadar Hospital area of the district Thursday night. The arrestees were identified...
Weather is likely to remain dry with partly cloudy sky over the country today (Saturday). Light to moderate fog may occur over the river basins of the country during midnight until morning, Met Office said. Night temperature may fall by...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority plans to introduce a new 'third-party information system' to crosscheck taxpayers' furnished information against their financial transactions. The mechanism being devised by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) is meant for checking tax evasion, officials said. Under...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
The growth of broad -money in the economy declined substantially to 13.35 per cent by official count, as of December last, over the corresponding period a year earlier for diversion by various means. Such a situation came clear in the...
FE Report | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Some 1.48 million students finally sat for their Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations Friday across the country amid tight security measures because of the ongoing countrywide transport blockade. The examinations on Bangla first paper scheduled earlier for February...
FE Report | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has called a 72-hour countrywide hartal from 6:00 am tomorrow (Sunday) to protest against the arrest and killing of its leaders and activists in crossfire. The announcement on fresh shutdown was made in a statement of...
FE Report The US government has voiced its grave concern over the ongoing spate of violence in Bangladesh as Washington sees no 'justification' for such actions in a democratic country. "The United States is gravely concerned by the ongoing unrest...
Arafat Ara | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
A Saudi delegation is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Sunday) to discuss the modalities of recruiting Bangladeshi workers, said officials. The delegation, headed by a deputy minister of labour of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), will visit Bangladesh...
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, BG-047, with 241 passengers and crew aboard made an emergency landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on Friday. Few minutes after taking off, one of the two engines of the 777-200ER aircraft en route...
Sona Masjid land port in Chapainawabganj is experiencing a massive congestion of goods imported from India as they cannot be unloaded due to shortage of trucks amid the BNP's countrywide non-stop transport blockade. The disruption in unloading goods has already...
Customs officials of Bangladesh and India have agreed to share intelligence information to prevent smuggling of goods, narcotics, and psychotropic drugs. In their 10th Joint Group of Customs (JGC) meeting in New Delhi Thursday, they also took several decisions "to...
Blasting again BNP-Jamaat nexus for continuing burning people to death and unleashing rampage by enforcing hartals and blockades, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday said the BNP-Jamaat combine is committing the same crime the Islamic State (IS) is doing in the...
Indian policy makers want to bypass the areas in Assam and Manipur intentionally as they are often hit by ethnic riots or disturbed by insurgent activities, reports bdnews24.com. According to the new proposal, Dhaka should be connected to Jawahar Nagar...
Twenty-nine out of 53 Bangladesh missions abroad have failed to achieve their respective export targets for the first half (July-Dec) of the current fiscal (2014-15), reports UNB. The key Bangladesh missions like the ones in Washington, Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid,...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Shore reservation along the India-Bangladesh river borders, the priority projects of the government, is limping with a severe fund crisis. Tk 3.71 billion has been allocated for completing the projects under the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in the budget...
"We, poor people, do not belong to any political party … Yet we are suffering immensely from the conflict of two parties," The Economist, the London-based prestigious international news magazine, wrote in its latest issue quoting a bus arson victim...
Jubair Hasan | 2015-02-07 00:00:00
Cashing in on the ongoing volatile political situation, contraband drug smuggling syndicates are now doing brisk business in the country, narcotics intelligence officials said. Expressing concern over the growing inflow of Yaba tablets into the country, they said illegal drug...
Upon advice from the UNSCR panel of experts, the government has denied permission to a Panama flag-carrying cargo vessel MV Zhong DE1 to enter Chittagong port, reports UNB. "In conformity with the provisions of the United Nations Security Council Resolution...
FE Report The government's strong escort promise proved not enough to convince the bus owners to run their vehicles on a large scale on the northern routes of the country. According to transport owners, following the escort facility promised the...
Investing to provide drinking water for 750 million people in poor nations who lack clean supplies makes clear economic sense with bigger than expected health benefits, World Bank(WB) estimates showed Friday, reports Reuters. A parallel drive to improve sanitation, especially...
BNP senior leader Hafizuddin Ahmed said on Friday the 20-party would consider calling off their ongoing countrywide non-stop transport blockade only, when the government quits and announces the schedule for a midterm election, reports UNB. Addressing a press conference at...
A purported member of an extremist outfit has been killed in an accidental blast while he was allegedly making bombs in Pabna. The blast took place in a fishery at Ataikula on Friday afternoon, police said, reports bdnews24.com. Ataikula police...
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