In a major reshuffle in the police administration, the government has made AKM Shahidul Haque new Inspector General of Police, reports UNB. Shahidul Haque who was serving as the additional IGP (Admin) at the Police Headquarters replaced Hassan Mahmood Khandker...
A speedy trial tribunal in the city on Tuesday awarded death sentence to six people and life term imprisonment to two others in a case for killing an employee of the telecom section of Rajarbagh Police Lines eight years ago,...
BNP on Tuesday night termed the filing of a fresh case against the top leaders of the party and its alliance partners a 'plot to destroy democracy', reports UNB. "This is totally a false and fabricated case. We condemn and...
FE Report Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will use body cameras for the first time as part of tightening its security measures in the capital to avert any untoward situation or subversive act during the New Year celebration. Policemen, on a...
FE Report The central bank has expressed the fear that the proposed pay-hike for public servants might trigger inflationary pressure on the economy in the year 2015 that begins tomorrow (Thursday). In an update on macro-economic indicators released Tuesday, the...
FE Report | 2014-12-31 00:00:00
Girl students have outshone boys in primary school certificate (PSC) while the latter superseded their counterpart in the junior-grade stage, according to results of this year's exams published Tuesday across the country. The combined pass rate at the Primary Terminal...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-12-31 00:00:00
The Bangladesh stock market has passed yet another uneventful period during the outgoing calendar year 2014. Except for a few orchestrated brief flare-ups, the market has been dull and drab throughout 2014. The so-called reforms, most of which have remained...
Siddique Islam | 2014-12-31 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Taka (BDT) shed its value slightly against the US dollar in 2014 as the country had to make increased import payments in the last two months of the outgoing calendar year, bankers said. In the process of exchange-rate...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-12-31 00:00:00
The government is planning to bring the country's around 900 trade-bodies under its scanner to help increase their efficiency and ensure good governance on their part, officials said. "We are contemplating to work on the issue to ensure more operational...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-12-31 00:00:00
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has sought Tk 63.65 billion (US$816 million) from the government to double its regular stock of petroleum products to ensure the country's energy security under the National Energy Policy (NEP), a top official said Tuesday....
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 (ICT-1) condemned Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam to death on Tuesday for his crimes against humanity, including genocide, during the Liberation War in 1971, report agencies. The verdict drew angry reaction from the Jamaat that called...
DINAJPUR, Dec 30: Five people, including two women, were killed and 25 others injured as a bus overturned at Prembazar in Birganj upazila on Tuesday morning. Four of the deceased were identified as Laila, 18, Shamima, 30, Kurban Ali, 40,...
The nationwide daylong hartal (shutdown), called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami protesting the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1’s verdict awarding death sentence to its leader ATM Azharul Islam for his crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, began on Wednesday morning. Jamaat...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will hold an emergency press conference on Wednesday evening. The press conference will be held in the BNP chief’s political office in Dhaka’s Gulshan around 6:30pm. Party high-ups said through the press meet the former prime...
Police have prohibited any New Year party or concert in an open place in Dhaka city. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Benazir Ahmed told a press conference on Tuesday that they would use cameras to keep vigil on the New Year’s...
Only 13 registered parties, including Awami League, BNP and Jatiya Party-Ershad, provided the Election Commission with their updated information this year. The EC had set December 30, 2014, as timeline for political parties to provide it with updates. The deadline...
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has criticised the ruling party leaders for what he said the 'abusive' comments they are hurling against the opposition party leaders and workers. He said the unguarded remarks of ministers and Awami...
Dhaka University (DU) reopened this (Wednesday) morning after a 19-day winter vacation. Academic activities remained suspended during the vacation. However, offices remained closed from December 25 to 27. The resident students started returning to dormitories on the campus on Tuesday...
In an oblique reference to the back-to-back hartal being enforced across the country by a party, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid has said that the government will take all measures to ensure that text books reached all students despite obstructions...
Bangladesh's war crimes tribunal has suggested inclusion of the sacrifices of 'Biranganas' (war heroines) in curricula to widely spread the ‘real history’ of the liberation war to future generations. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1, led by Justice M Enayetur Rahim,...
Suspected hartal supporters have set fire to a truck at Gendaria in old part of Dhaka on Wednesday morning. Jamaat-e-Islami called back-to-back hartals (shutdown) for today (Dec 31) and Thursday (Januray 1, 2015) in protest against the death verdict of...
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has delayed the 35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary tests by a month. The prelims will be held on March 6 instead of February 6. Examinations Controller AEM Nesaruddin on Tuesday said complications over examination...
Three people, including a policeman, were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Mulibari on west side of Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge approach road in Sirajganj Sadar Upazila on Wednesday morning. Of the deceased, one was identified as...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) has approved 11 projects involving more than 70.17 billion (Tk 2,935 crore). The projects include construction of some 556 cyclone shelters to help save the lives of the people of 9...
A truck has rammed a police pickup van leaving three, including a cop, dead in Sirajganj Sadar Upazila. At least five people including two policemen were also injured in the accident in the early hours of Wednesday at Mulibari area...
Divers and ships will search for the wreckage and the all important black boxes of a doomed AirAsia plane on Wednesday after Indonesian rescuers found several bodies and debris floating in shallow waters off the coast of Borneo. Aviation experts...
The handful of Asian stock markets open for trading on the last day of 2014 mostly rose modestly, led by China which is nearing a 52 per cent gain for the year. KEEPING SCORE: China’s Shanghai Composite was up 0.7...
A devastating fire gutted at least 20 shops in Chitalmari Upazila in Bagerhat district on Tuesday night. Locals said the fire, which broke out at Chitalmari Bazar around 7:45pm, soon spread to more than adjacent 19 other shops. It originated...
A man has died after being run over by a vegetable-laden truck in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar. Tejgaon Police Sub-Inspector Khokan Mia said the accident took place in front of the Janata Tower in the early hours of Wednesday. The victim,...
Three people were arrested along with 30 powerful bombs, three pistols, one light gun, one rifle, three cocktails and some country-made sharp weapons in Chauddagram Upazila in Comilla district early Wednesday. The arrestees were identified as Abdul Latif and his...
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