House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman U.S.Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) and Committee's Ranking Member Eliot Engel have said they have not issued any press statement on Bangladesh but they are monitoring the political situation, reports UNB. "Though the Committee and many...
Accusing the government of acting like an illegal gun-holder in running the country, BNP spokesman Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday reiterated his party's call to continue the blockade programme, reports UNB. Addressing a press briefing at a Banani office, Rizvi...
Awami League leader Suranjit Sengupta on Friday urged the government to ban blockade programme by enacting a law, reports UNB. "There's a limit to patience … I urge the government to immediately declare the blockade programme illegal, unconstitutional and undemocratic,"...
The government has prepared a draft bill about the Digital University proposing to name it after Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS. The draft bill also propose a provision to appoint Vice-chancellor (VC) through the president,...
FARIDPUR, Jan 9 (UNB): Local Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal on Friday called a daylong hartal in the district for Saturday protesting the 'confinement' of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to her office. The shutdown is also meant for protesting the use of...
GOPALGANJ, Jan 9 (BSS): Road Transports and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said here today the movement of BNP means terrorism and acts of subversion. "BNP's movement is not alike the movement of 1969 and the mass upsurge of 1969. The...
Around 2,752 vehicles reached their destinations across the country, including the capital, safely under the protection of law enforcers since early Thursday to Friday noon during the BNP-led 20-party alliance's countrywide blockade, reports UNB. Vehicles, including buses, covered vans and...
JHENIDAH, Jan 9 (BSS): The government will enact online policy soon as the present government believes in transparency of the mass media. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said this while he was speaking at a views exchange meeting with journalists...
THAKURGAON, Jan 9 (BSS): Language veteran, valiant Freedom Fighter (FF) and former Member of Constituent Assembly (MCA) Fazlul Karim died of old-age complications at his residence here this morning. He was 89. He left behind his wife, two sons, a...
Rezaul Karim | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has issued a plan of actions aiming to safeguard of the Sundarbans, officials said. Under the move, the office has sent 14-point suggestions for urgent execution of the plan and directed the ministries, departments and...
Bangladesh has emerged as first in contributing to the UN peacekeeping missions throughout 2014 across the globe, reports BSS. A total of 9,400 peacekeepers of Bangladesh are now deployed in 10 different missions around the world. "This has been accomplished...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 9 (BSS): Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH) has taken decision of intensifying its security arrangement alongside improving standard of services. To this end, the hospital authority will install close circuit camera in eight important points very soon....
In separate incidents, two housewives have been murdered allegedly by their husbands in Jhenidah and Joypurhat districts, reports UNB. In Jhenidah, a man allegedly chopped his wife to death over a family feud at Lalpur village of Maheshpur upazila on...
SYLHET, Jan 9 (UNB): A court here on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to three years' jail in a case filed for cheque dishonour. The convict was identified as Mahsin Chowdhury, son of Sona Mia of Abi Abdullah...
FARIDPUR, Jan 9 (UNB): Two people were killed in a collision between a bus and a human-hauler (locally known as easy-bike) on Faridpur-Barisal highway in Bhabukodia area of Bhanga upazila on Friday afternoon. The deceased could not be identified immediately....
RAJSHAHI, Jan 9 (BSS): Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has closed its two cops including an SI on charge of assaulting an on-duty journalist on Rajshahi College campus today. The cops are: SI SM Jahangir Hossain and Constable Bulbul, who were...
GAIBANDHA, Jan 9 (UNB): A worker of local power office was killed when an electric pole fell on him as the rickshaw van carrying it crashed down in Kalitala Bridge area of Gobindaganj upazila on Thursday. The deceased was identified...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 9 (BSS): An ethnic youth was slaughtered by unidentified miscreants at Moyenpur village under Tanore upazila of the district last night. The deceased was identified as Bablu Hembrom, 26, son of Moheswar Hembrom. Bablu Hembrom recently had completed...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6pm today (Saturday). Moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur else where over the country during midnight...
SHUJON's press confce on 'Current Situation' today A press conference on 'Current Situation Needs Dialogue and Compromise' orgnised by SHUJON will be held at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the city at 12:00 noon today (Saturday). — Press release Int'l confce...
M Azizur Rahman | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
US-based ConocoPhillips along with its Norwegian partner Statoil is set to shelve the decision to sign PSCs for three new deepwater blocks in the Bay of Bengal citing non viability of the fiscal terms of the contracts, industry insiders said....
Renewed political tensions and violence in Bangladesh in the first week of January may negatively affect foreign investor confidence, raising risks to growth over the long term, says Fitch Ratings. If violence were to persist and directly disrupt economic activity,...
The 44th Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will be observed in the city, as elsewhere in the country, with elaborate programmes today, reports BSS. On January 10 in 1972, Bangabandhu, the undisputed leader of...
COLOMBO, Jan 9 (AFP): Maithripala Sirisena was sworn in as Sri Lankan president Friday after a shock victory over veteran strongman Mahinda Rajapakse in an election dominated by charges of corruption and growing authoritarianism. Sirisena took the oath of office...
FE Report Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman urged the politicians to spare the economy from disruptive political activities to let it achieve desired growth for the common good, as Bangladesh remained blockade-bound for days. He stressed the imperative for...
A YEAR is said to be an eternity in politics. In Bangladesh, it seems the batting of an eye. On January 5th colourful, sand-laden lorries reappeared on the streets of the capital, Dhaka. It was the first anniversary of a...
The fourth day of the nationwide nonstop blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance was marked by stray incidents Friday, report agencies. On the day the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office gate was unlocked once again like the previous...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2015-01-10 00:00:00
In a major policy shift, the government is now considering Matarbari for setting up a deep seaport, instead of Sonadia island in Cox's Bazar district, officials said Friday. The Prime Minister at the first-track project monitoring committee meeting Wednesday asked...
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