FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Farmers have urged the government to support them producing crops alternative to tobacco farming, formulate and implement policies for thwarting tobacco cultivation. They made these demands at a press conference on "Voice of Victims: Non-profitable Tobacco Farming, Allurement to Harmful...
FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Qatar expressed willingness to recruit nearly 50,000 Bangladeshis for meeting growing demand of foreign workers for hosting World Cup Football 2022. Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment (EWOE) Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said this to journalists Thursday after a meeting with...
JU Correspondent | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
The female students of Jahangirnagar University (JU) protested harassment in halls and the strict rule of returning to dormitories within 10:00 pm imposed by the university authorities. On Wednesday around 11:00 am, over three hundred female students from different dormitories...
FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
A female employee of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) was seriously injured when a bus hit her at Azimpur area in the city Thursday. Samita Rani (55) sustained injuries as a passenger bus of Dhaka-Dhamrai route rammed her legs from...
Indian High Commission (HC) in Bangladesh Thursday advised all the applicants who are approached by agents to help obtain Indian visas to immediately report their activities to the local police or law enforcement authorities, reports UNB. "We advise all applicants...
A prison guard died from electrocution at Dhaka Central Jail Thursday, reports UNB. Bearing jail guard badge No 12450, the deceased Ratan Khan (35), son of Ali Azam, hailed from Jamalpur. Nayon, another guard at the jail, said Ratan came...
Dhaka University (DU) will go on a 19-day winter vacation from today (Friday), reports UNB. The offices will also remain closed from December 25 to 27, campus sources said. The classes will resume on December 31.
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 11 (UNB): Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) seized 11,950 pieces of Yaba tablet from Shahpori Jelepara under Teknaf Upazila here Thursday. Acting on secret information, a team of BCG Shahpori station conducted a drive in the...
Kazi Golam Rasul, trial judge of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case, died of old-age complications here this morning. He was 73, reports BSS. He breathed his last at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of...
BAPA to organise citizen-gathering on sunken oil tanker Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA) will organise a citizen-gathering in front of the National Press Club in the city at 10:00 am today (Friday) demanding to make the waters of Shela river free...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Friday), reports UNB. Moderate to thick fog may occur over the country until morning, Met Office said. Night and day temperatures may remain nearly...
Siddique Islam | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has injected around Tk 4.20 billion (US$54 million) to meet its capital shortfall in line with the Basel-II framework, officials said. The total capital shortfall of the foreign commercial bank stood at more than Tk...
Bank branches need to be increased in accordance with the density of population of the country, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said, reports bdnews24.com. "There are 8,500 branches of various banks in the country at the moment. Some...
FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Chittagong Customs House will launch its Port Control Unit (PCU) next month in a bid to check smuggling, criminal activities, drug trafficking by using modern technology and a risk management method. The PCU will be launched at the joint initiative...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
The government is going to halve duty and other tariffs on coal import in the face of a vacuum created due to Indian ban on coal export to Bangladesh, official sources said. The step is being taken to encourage coal...
LIMA, (Peru) Dec 11 (UNB): Environment and Forest Minister Anwar Hossain called upon the global community, particularly the developed countries, to take the lead in enabling the most climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh to carry forward the activities on adaptation...
FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) approved on Thursday submission of a charge-sheet against seven people including an official of the ministry of finance (MoF) on charges of laundering Tk 13.1 million through electronic fund transfer (EFT). The accused are MoF...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 11: Dense fog resulted in flight disruption prompting the passengers to demonstrate in the Chittagong Shah Amanat International airport on Thursday. Several hundred stranded passengers of different flights brought out procession inside the airport in the morning as...
FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Bangladesh has the image of a developmental welfare state, as reflected in the country's Constitution and in numerous other official documents, but the country has to contend with a serious problem of dysfunctional governance, former caretaker government adviser Prof Wahiduddin...
Germany is going to provide assistance worth 60 million euros to Bangladesh for improving power transmission in the country's western region. The German government through KfW Development Bank will lend its support for the first time in the country's power...
An initiative has been launched to create women freelancers and entrepreneurs in the country. In this connection, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Access to Information (a2i) Programme of Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)...
LIMA, Dec 10 (AFP): Rich countries have pledged more than US$10 billion in climate aid for poor economies, a psychological threshold at UN global warming talks in Lima, according to a tally compiled by the news agency Tuesday. Finance is...
European Union (EU) has expressed its willingness to train the sailors and crew of Bangladesh to make them efficient. EU Delegation chief Pierre Mayaudon expressed the willingness during a meeting with Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan in the city on Wednesday,...
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