SATKHIRA, Dec 12 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive rescued 19 Bangladeshi people while they were being trafficked to India through Gazipur border here Friday morning. The rescued people hail from Gazipur, Sunamganj, Mymensingh and Thakungoan...
Shyama Prosad Adhikari has been made chief engineer of the Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED), reports UNB. He replaced Md Wahidur Rahman as the one-year contractual tenure of the former ended Thursday, said a press release. Engineer Shayma Proshad...
Twenty injured in Sunamganj clash SUNAMGANJ, Dec 12: As many as 20 people, including several women, were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers in Chhatak this morning. The clash took place following an altercation between the villagers...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The government has drawn up an action plan to meet the required criteria for export of shrimp and other fishes, especially to the European market, officials have said. The government's latest move came ahead of the visit of a European...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
JESSORE, Dec 12: A student of Jessore University of Science and Technology (JUST) and two others were killed on the spot as a truck hit a vehicle locally known as Nasiman at Churamankathi on the outskirts of Jessore town on...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Launching of coastal shipping service between Bangladesh and India has become uncertain due to the lack of fit vessels, sources said. Until now no Bangladeshi vessel is found fit for the service. Officials could not confirm when a trial-run of...
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court sealed off a poultry feed factory at Hazaribagh Beribadh in the city Friday on charge of producing the fodder using poisonous tannery waste, reports UNB. Two of the factory employees were also punished...
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (AFP): Facing intense pressure to avoid a government shutdown, the US House of Representatives narrowly passed a $1.1 trillion federal spending bill Thursday, sending it to the Senate after it was ushered through barely two hours before...
FE Report | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The country will experience further chilling weather from the next week, and there will be one or two mild cold-waves at the end of the current month. But the density of fog will disappear within the next two to three...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Country' largest private independent power plant (IPP) situated at Meghnaghat has been laid shut for long while the government is forced to buy quick-rental electricity at much higher rates, officials said. The government exchequer has to pay a minimum 20...
FE Report | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
The latest oil spill has started taking its toll on fisheries, aquatic mammals and also on the world's biggest mangrove forest Sundarbans although locals started mopping up spreading oil from the Shela River and other adjacent canals Friday, officials said....
FE Report | 2014-12-13 00:00:00
Political settlement and strengthening pivotal institutions were underscored Friday by policy analysts from home and abroad to help Bangladesh achieve its cherished economic development. Speaking in a session on the second day of a three-day conference, they stressed the urgency...
FE Report Deputy Chief of training of the national flag-carrier Bangladesh Biman has resigned from the senior executive post on personal grounds, competent sources said. Capt Shamim Nazrul's name came on the list of the accused made by the DB...
LIMA, Dec 12 (Agencies): Climate talks in Lima have entered their final day with long-running issues still dividing the parties, despite an impassioned appeal from US Secretary of State John Kerry. Mr Kerry told the negotiators that the world was...
The ruling Awami League (AL) will observe January 5 as the Day of Victory for Democracy, reports BSS. The party has decided to observe the day in all the upazila and district headquarters with elaborate programmes including bringing out of...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia goes to Narayanganj today (Saturday) to address a public rally at Kanchpur Balurmath from where she is likely to announce her party-led 20-party's fresh action programme to force the current regime to quit. The local unit...
The CBI Friday arrested West Bengal Transport Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra in connection with the multi-crore rupee Saradha chit fund scam, reports bdnews24.com. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) also arrested Naresh Balodia, the legal advisor of...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu said Friday the government must take stern action against the troublemakers who will try to curb people's fundamental rights in any way, reports BSS. "It is the responsibility of the government to ensure citizens' fundamental...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 12, (BSS): Leader of the Opposition in Parliament Begum Raushan Ershad, MP, said the true history is that the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had proclaimed the independence. She said no debate can arise out...
FARIDPUR, Dec 12 (UNB): Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of BNP, called a half-day hartal in the district for Saturday protesting the arrest of its four leaders. The shutdown that will begin at 6am and end at 12...
KUSTHIA, Dec 12 (BSS): Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu refuted Friday BNP's allegation of repression on them (BNP men) saying that their leaders and activists are enjoying all sorts of privileges and opportunities under the purview of democracy. "It's absolutely...
DINAJPUR, Dec 12 (UNB): A triangular clash in the presence of BNP's central leaders over sitting on the podium at a joint workers' meeting of the party and its associate bodies left at least seven people injured in the district...
Weather is likely to remain dry with partly cloudy sky over the country today (Saturday). Moderate to thick fog may occur over the country during midnight until morning, Met Office said. Night temperature may rise slightly and day temperature may...
Police arrested seven alleged extortionists from the city's Badda area Friday evening following a firing that left two of the gangsters injured. Two policemen were also injured in the incident. Police had information that a gang of 7-8 extortionists went...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday threw an "open challenge" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to arrest her following the arrest of minister Madan Mitra in connection with the Saradha fund scandal, a situation she likened...
GAZIPUR, Dec 12: A man was killed and three others were injured as a train smashed a human hauler at an unmanned level-crossing in Kaliakoir upazila on Friday. Dadan Miah, sub-inspector of Joydevpur Police Station, said the accident took place...
At least 7 people were killed and 14 others injured in road accidents in Jessore and Rajshahi districts, and Dhaka city on Friday. In capital, two people, including a schoolboy, were killed and another was injured in separate accidents in...
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