Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Sunday all recent violences and destructive activities of BNP and its allies are guided out of the intention to destroy the country and bar the nation from achieving the goal of war of liberation,...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Sunday there is no need for deploying the army now to tackle the current spell of nationwide violence, report agencies. He said the law enforcers like the Police, RAB (Rapid Action...
Voicing concern over the existing political deadlock, president of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Mujahidul Islam Selim said Sunday intolerance of two major political parties -- ruling Awami League (AL) and BNP-is taking the country towards the 1/11-like situation, reports...
Minister for Relief and Disaster Management Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Bir Bikram, appealed to the government to withdraw the security cordon around Khaleda Zia, reports BSS. Mr Maya, also general secretary of Dhaka city unit Awami League (AL), made the...
RANGPUR, Jan 18 (BSS): Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said Sunday there will be no compromise with those who are engaged in terrorist and subversive activities affecting public life. He said a vested quarter has become desperate and engaged their efforts...
KHULNA, Jan 18 (BSS): Police arrested 32 persons, including BNP-Jamaat men, on different charges across the country. In Khulna, 29 people, including BNP-Jamaat cadres, were arrested on different charges in the city last night. Among the arrested, 24 were nabbed...
Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sherif called Sunday for resisting trouble-makers and cohorts of Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, who are creating anarchy in the country, reports BSS. The minister made the call while laying the foundation stone of the Kaikunda of...
BHOLA, Jan 18 (UNB): BNP Bhola district unit called Sunday a daylong hartal here for today (Monday) protesting the arrest of its general secretary Muhammad Faruk Miah. The decision came at an emergency meeting held at the residence of unit...
RANGPUR, Jan 18 (BSS): State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Mashiur Rahman Ranga said burning and killing of the innocent people through hurling petrol bombs cannot be political ideology. "All sorts of terrorist and subversive activities, anarchy,...
SHERPUR, Jan 18 (UNB): A court here sent 68 local leaders and activists of Awami League (AL) and associate bodies to jail Sunday in two cases filed for vandalising the party office and attacking rival factions at Jhenaigati Upazila. Chief...
Yasir Wardad | 2015-01-19 00:00:00
Both the fertiliser and irrigation costs have increased significantly during the peak Boro cultivation period due to disruption in transportation caused by the ongoing blockade. The prices of both urea and non-urea fertilisers and diesel have shot up whose supply...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 18 (UNB): President Abdul Hamid on Sunday laid emphasis on improvement of quality of higher education as well as bolstering the knowledge of information and communication technology (ICT) among the country's young generation to remain competitive at the...
A day after taking over, Chief Justice (CJ) Surendra Kumar Sinha promised on Sunday to put in his sincere efforts to ensure the judiciary's full independence, reports UNB. Popularly known as SK Sinha who took over as the country's 21st...
FE Report | 2015-01-19 00:00:00
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated on Sunday a Sonali Bank (SB) general manager (GM) for allegedly accumulating illegal wealth worth Tk 50 million. ACC assistant director Masudur Rahman questioned Sonali Bank GM ATM Mizanur Rahman for two hours from...
Soumitra Chatterjee, one of the great film actors in India, turns 81 today (Monday). The acclaimed actor was born in Krishnanagar, a town in Nadia district of West Bengal, but his ancestral home is at Koya village, eight kilometres from...
Bench reconstituted for appeal hearing of Pilkhana case Newly appointed Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha reconstituted the special High Court bench on Sunday for hearing and disposal of the appeal in the much-talked-about the Pilkhana carnage case. Justice Md Shawkat...
TI Huq, founder partner of Rahman Rahman Huq, an accounting firm, died at his Karachi residence in Pakistan Friday at the age of 80, says a press release. Huq left behind his wife Shahana Huq and two daughters. Upon his...
A fire broke out at a steel mill at Konapara in the city's Demra area on Sunday morning, reports UNB. Officials at the Fire Service and Civil Defence control room said the fire broke out at 'Shah Ali Steel Mills'...
MUNSHIGANJ, Jan 18 (BSS): Police recovered today two floating bodies of two workers who remained untraced after a trawler capsized in the Meghna river a week ago.
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6pm today (Monday). Moderate to thick fog may occur over the country during midnight until noon, Met Office said. Night temperature may fall by 1-2...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday directed the police administration to hunt down the petrol bomb makers and throwers and those responsible for other arson attacks, reports UNB. The Prime Minister gave the directive to Inspector General of Police (IGP)...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-01-19 00:00:00
Inadequate fund allocations amid lower revenue income and foreign aid commitments are likely to affect the implementation of 96 development projects approved by the government in the first half of the current fiscal, officials said Saturday. Officials said the government...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-01-19 00:00:00
The data on income tax collection compiled by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) for 2013-14 show the receipts Tk 48.41 billion higher than the figure available with the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), creating confusion in fiscal planning. A...
Amid the 20-party's blockade programme, BNP and its associate bodies are going to celebrate the 79th birth anniversary of party founder late President Ziaur Rahman across the country today (Monday), reports UNB. Born on January 19, 1936 at Bagbari in...
Talha Bin Habib | 2015-01-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh has finalised the revised draft proposals on coastal shipping agreement with India, putting in place some new clauses relating to third-party insurance, officials said. Besides, another clause has also been incorporated in the draft proposal, under which Bangladesh ship...
FE Report | 2015-01-19 00:00:00
Entrepreneurs operating in the two textile sub-sectors will also now get funds from the central bank's green-banking refinance scheme. A single-digit interest rate is offered under the scheme in accordance with the government policy to support renewable energy and environment-friendly...
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