Outgoing Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Benazir Ahemd termed his tenure as full of challenges, saying, "Hefajaat-e-Islami's rally in the capital's Motijheel on May 5 in 2013 was a big challenge for me," reports BSS. Benazir, who is soon going...
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has accepted an invitation from Sheikh Hasina's government to participate in the International Mother Language Day celebrations in Dhaka on February 21, reports bdnews24.com. Bangladesh deputy high commissioner Zokey Ahad said on Tuesday that...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Jan 6: Former chairman of United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL) Alhaj Jafar Ahmed has been shifted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore from United Hospital in Dhaka. Jafar Ahmed, also founder of Satkania Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury College, has long...
Our Correspondent | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Jan 6: Researcher of Liberation War, veteran freedom fighter and senior executive director of the PHP Group of Industries AKM Nasimul Kamal died in the early hours of Tuesday. He was critically injured in a road accident in the...
At least two people were killed and another person was fatally injured when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from behind in the city's Uttara area Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased could not be identified yet. The Tongi-bound bus crashed...
COMILLA, Jan 6: Four women pedestrians were killed and four others critically injured in a road accident in Punnomoti Noapara village under Burichong upazila of the district on Monday night. Police said the accident took place when an empty truck...
Bangladesh Launch Labour Association and Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation enforced Tuesday an indefinite wildcat launch strike on three local routes of Barisal district in protest against the attack on a launch, reports UNB. The launch movement remained suspended on the...
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is going to have a liaison office-cum-staff quarters in the capital's Motijheel area, which is expected to bring dynamism in its activities, reports UNB. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of...
CHANDPUR, Jan 6 (UNB): A priest, who was injured in an attack by some pickets at Ghosherhat in Sadar upazila on Monday night, died on way to Dhaka for better treatment Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Alak Chakrabarty (40),...
New schedule for Maitree Express from July 5 A new schedule for Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka 'Maitree Express' will come into effect on July 5 next. The special train 'Maitree Express' will run thrice a week. It will run from Kolkata to Dhaka...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country today (Wednesday). Mild cold wave may sweep at places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore, Kushtia, Tangail and Mymensingh, Met Office...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Not too long ago, before the advent of the superstores much of the media attention was devoted to the never ending pivotal issues for the farmer: not getting fair, indeed any realistic price for produce. Those were the days when...
The government has reopened the Shela River route inside the Sundarbans to traffic giving in to the demand of vessel operators, reports bdnews24.com. An inter-ministry meeting, chaired by Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, on Tuesday decided to keep the route open...
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The newly-formed, state-owned Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Ltd (CPGCBL) will ink deal with joint venture of foreign companies involving Japan, Germany and Australia today (Wednesday) to implement a 1,200 megawatts (MW) coal-fired power plant project at a cost of...
Munima Sultana | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The basic design of the capital's metro rail project is expected to get approval of the fast track monitoring committee meeting today (Wednesday), paving the way for its speedy implementation. Officials said the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transport Development (DMRTD) project...
A court in the city on Tuesday sent Ekushey Television Ltd (ETV) chairman Abdus Salam, who was arrested in a case filed with the Cantonment Police Station under the Pornography Control Act 2012, to jail, report agencies. The Detective Branch...
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
The three-day biennial conference of the Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA) will begin in the city on Thursday (January 8). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the country's largest congregation of economists at the Institution of Engineers. President of the association...
The point-to-point inflation rate has inched down in December for the seventh month in a row, reports bdnews24.com. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday the rate was 6.11 per cent in December against 6.21 in the previous month....
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Trade experts made a fervent call for building the country's trade-related capacity, getting the rules of origin further relaxed and strengthening the infrastructural backbone of the economy to help an optimum expansion of the export market. The suggestions came from...
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
BNP acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's overnight stay inside the National Press Club within police ring eventually ended in his arrest on Tuesday afternoon amid a melee kicked up by pro-government protesters. A spot account of the scenes said...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Two important issues concerning inflow and outflow of remittance were brought to the fore last Sunday. A Bengali business daily, quoting an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report, said remittances worth in between $4.3 billion and $5.7 billion are being sent...
The United States has called on the bickering parties in Bangladesh to shun violence that has left four people killed and scores injured, reports bdnews24.com. "We are concerned about reports of violence and urge all sides to refrain from acts...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Tax authorities will install 'data forensic laboratory' next month to detect tax evasion through paperless accounts system of the corporate taxpayers. The lab is set to start its operation from February at the Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) with advance devices...
FE Report | 2015-01-07 00:00:00
Financial Times-owned magazine The Banker has selected Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman as the recipient of the 'Best Central Bank Governor' Award 2015 from the Asia Pacific region for his contribution to the successful maintenance of macroeconomic stability in...
Though the police restriction around BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan political office had been relaxed a bit on Monday night, it was tightened again at daybreak on Tuesday. BNP media wing member Shamsuddin Didar said police deployment had again been...
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