At least 10 people are feared dead and 20 others injured in a fatal road accident in Rajapur Upazila in Jhalakati district on Tuesday afternoon. Being informed police rushed to the spot. Local people said the law enforcers with the...
A devastating fire that broke out in a cotton factory in Sarail Upazila in Brahmanbaria district on Monday morning has been doused. Fire service sources said the fire broke out at Hasan Cotton Mil in Dewan Mokararam Ali market in...
Police arrested a suspected terrorist from in front of Jessore Medical College Hospital in Jessore town on Monday night. The arrested was identified as Abu Sayeed Bipul, son of late Abu Zafar, a resident of Ghop area in the district...
Police in separate drives arrested five suspected activists of the banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Fulbari Upazila in Mymensingh district on Monday. The arrestees were identified as Abdul Barek Munshi Bari, 45, teacher of Jorbaria Balika Dakhil...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Tuesday put some restrictions on the country's all but specialised banks to appoint and terminate the chief executive officers (CEOs). In a directive to all banks sans the specialised ones, the central bank said that the...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said Bangladesh will follow the development experience of South Korea in industries and infrastructural sectors to turn the country into a middle income country by 2021, according to a news agency.
Bhutan would supply stone for construction of the much-awaited Padma Bridge at Mawa-Janjira point, Bhutanese Ambassador in Dhaka Pema Choden said in Dhaka on Tuesday, according to a news agency.
Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the birth day of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed in the country on January 4, 2015 (Sunday). A meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee decided this as the moon of Rabiul Awal month of Hijri 1436...
The local administration has launched a drive to execute the Prime Minister’s order for removing illegal embankments and mounds built on the mouths of over 50 canals along the Mongla-Ghashiakhali channel in the Kumarkhali River. The drive kicked off on...
The importers of rice and wheat from now on will have to use 100 per cent jute sacks for packing their goods for transportation, said a Bangladesh Bank (BB) circular on Tuesday, according to a news agency.
A bogie of an inter-city train caught fire at Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Tuesday. Sources at the Fire Service Central Control Room said the compartment of ‘Parabat Express’ kept at the platform-3 went up in flames at...
Pro-Awami League (AL) and BNP-backed teachers have agreed to share the 15 executive committee posts of Jahangirnagar University Teachers Association (JUTA) through negotiations. AL-backed-Progressive Teachers’ Forum bagged nine posts including that of the president, while the pro-BNP Nationalist Teachers’ Forum...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved a mega project for Bangladesh Railway (BR) to set up two dual gauge double rail tracks from Akhaura to Laksam aiming to develop rail communication. The approval came...
A local Jubo League (JL) leader was chopped to death by unidentified miscreants in Manikpur Natun Bazar area of Chakaria upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abu Bakar, 33, vice-president of Surajpur-Manikpur union unit of...
BJP and its ally All Jharkhand Students Union have won a clear majority in the state assembly election, according to a news agency.
Syed Jamaluddin | 2014-12-23 00:00:00
Prices of petroleum products have fallen substantially in the international market but the consumers at home are not getting the benefit. The present government increased prices of petroleum products five times in the past on the pretext of rising oil...
Saleque Sufi | 2014-12-23 00:00:00
There might have been another bout of power grid collapse due to gas supply crisis if the production glitch at Bibiyana gas field had continued for a couple of hours more. Fortunately, the situation could be tackled within a few...
A substantial hike in compensation packages for all categories of public servants has been recommended by the Eighth Pay and Services Commission. The government employees would certainly be happy if the proposed pay-hike, as has already been indicated by the...
Abu Ahmed | 2014-12-23 00:00:00
It is observed that investors, especially who invest through the secondary market, are not happy with pricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) being done by the Bangladesh Securities Exchange Commission (BSEC), the regulator, itself. Their concern and complaint are that...
Ridwan Quaium | 2014-12-23 00:00:00
Although two years ago only a few hundred cyclists joined the Victory Day ride (bicycle rally) in Dhaka organised by BDCyclists, one of the prominent cycling groups in the country, this year the group claims that about seven thousand cyclists...
Submission of the Pay Commission Report to the Finance Minister on December 21, 2014 was an auspicious occasion for the government employees. Judging from purchasing power point of view, the government employees are indeed underpaid at present. It is difficult...
A two day-long meeting on social protection for marginal workers was held in the city's BRAC Inn aimed at understanding the marginalised workers in the region. Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health, and Environment Foundation (OSHE), the Hong-Kong based Asia Monitor Resource...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry on Monday recommended to make more publicity for attracting tourists. The meeting was held at the Sangsad Bhaban with its chairman Muhammad Faruk Khan in the chair, said a press...
An 88-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi, veteran of Tunisia's political establishment, won the country's presidency, according to official results issued on Monday, capping a four-year-long democratic transition, according to a news agency.
Steve Holland of Reuters in Washington | 2014-12-22 00:00:00
Potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton knows a political gift when she sees one. She was quick to embrace the step this week when President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat no longer having to face an electorate, relaxed U.S....
Chris Taylor of Reuters in New York | 2014-12-22 00:00:00
There are plenty of delicate subjects during the holiday season, but one of the touchiest could be regifting. Plenty of us do it, but avoid talking about it for fear of offending friends and family. Susan Choi and Pete Wells...
David Alire Garcia and Dave Graham of Reuters in Mexico City | 2014-12-22 00:00:00
The allure of investing in Mexico's historic oil sector opening has been dimmed by the plummeting price of crude, putting pressure on the government to offer bigger incentives to private investors in the first major round of contracts up for...
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