Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said Saturday the government would upgrade diploma medical doctors' service into second class, reports BSS. "I will discuss with the Prime Minister about your service status for improving diploma medical service into second...
KHULNA, Dec 27 (UNB): The ringleader of a forest robber gang was killed in a 'gunfight' between his cohorts and police at Sutakhali in Dacope upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem, leader of the forest...
JU Correspondent | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Jahangirnagar University Debate Organisation (JUDO), a leading debate organisation of the university, has announced its new executive committee for the session 2015. Sabbir Ahmed, a Master's student of Economics department, and Sheikh Rahat Rahman, a third year student of Archaeology...
Senior journalist of The Daily Observer IH Sharif (Iftekharul Hamid Sharif) received an award Thursday for his contribution to journalism from an educational organisation in National Education Conference-2014, says a press release. The prize was conferred to this journalist in...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 27 (UNB): A man was hacked to death allegedly by his son-in-law over a family feud at Baneshwar Raghurampur village in Puthia upazila early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Jalil, 48, a resident of the village....
Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) Saturday awarded three best innovators of Union Information Service Centres (UISCs) for their remarkable contribution to transform Bangladesh into digital one at rural level, reports BSS. Secretary-In-Charge of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division Kamal Uddin...
COMILLA, Dec 27 (UNB): An agent of bKash, mobile money transfer service provider, was hacked to death at Duari Bazar in Debidwar upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Abul Kashem,26, a resident of Duari village. Parvez Sarkar,...
Housewife's throat-silt body recovered in Patuakhali PATUAKHALI, Dec 27: Police recovered the body of a housewife with the throat slashed from her house at Katakhali village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Beauty Begum,45, a...
Tejgaon Industrial Police Sunday evening attempted to "search" the office of the daily New Age in the city without having any search warrant, but retreated in the face of resistance by the office staff, said journalists of the national daily....
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The government has once again decided to keep city's footpaths free from hawkers. Announcing the government decision, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on December 21 last that a drive to evict hawkers from footpaths will be launched...
Monira Munni | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The government will introduce separate and dedicated desks shortly to register complaints related to workers' rights and other safety concerns in the country's readymade garment (RMG) industry, officials said. The desks that would operate two hotlines-- confidential reporting channels-- will...
FE Report | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Suspected ringleader of a gold-smuggling racket Muhammad Ali, detained two days back, was placed Saturday on a six-day police remand to interrogate him about the possessing of a cache of currencies and gold. A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court granted the...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The state-run ICB (Investment Corporation of Bangladesh) has received Tk 2.16 billion from the government for subscription of the company's rights shares, officials said. "We received the cheque of Tk 2.16 billion on Wednesday last from the Ministry of Finance...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Customs duty (CD) on a total of 4,610 products have been reduced for SAFTA (South Asian Free Trade Area) member-countries under an agreement to bring down the tariff rates to the range between zero and five per cent by 2016....
The country recorded this season's coldest day in Ishwardi of Pabna on Saturday as mercury dropped to 7.2 degrees Celsius, report agencies. An official at the Dhaka Met Office said Ishwardi recorded the country's lowest temperature of 7.2 degrees Celsius...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
The prevailing sluggish business trend in the housing and real estate sector has left an adverse impact on its backward linkage industries as the demand for their products and prices have fallen while production costs have gone up. Former acting...
FE Report The unconscious body of Jihad, the minor boy who fell into a deep well at Shahjahanpur in the capital on Friday, was recovered on Saturday by locals. He was recovered just minutes after the fire brigade declared their...
FE Report | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
A galaxy of civil-society leaders Saturday identified the factors such as "absence" of democracy, rampant corruption and weak public institutions as major impediments to real development of Bangladesh. They also alleged that the people's right to decide on important national...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 27: Bangladesh is mulling rice export to India as it has exported the first consignment of rice to Sri Lanka today. Senior officials said a proposal from India to export rice to Uttar Pradesh is in place. The...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance announced on Saturday a daylong hartal for tomorrow (Monday) across the country protesting the foiling of its scheduled Gazipur rally, reports UNB. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the shutdown programme after an...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in the city on Saturday evening on a three-day visit to discuss the progress in deals and MoUs (memorandums of understanding) signed between Bangladesh and China during Prime Minister's Sheikh Hasina's China visit. The...
Customs officials arrested a man with 3.75 kg gold from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Friday night. The arrested was identified as Masum Hossain, 31. Customs officials said that Masum landed at the airport from an...
TUNGIPARA (Gopalganj), Dec 27 (UNB) : Issuing a stern warning, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday those who are making disparaging remarks about Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will not be spared. "People know the country's...
SYLHET, Dec 27 (agencies): Minister for Health and Family Welfare Mohammad Nasim said here today that those who came up with derogatory remarks against Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would bring ruination for themselves. "Bangabandhu is like the Himalayas...none can defame...
Law Minister Anisul Huq said Saturday that a harsher law would be enacted soon increasing jail term to prevent frequent road accidents, reports UNB. He said this while inaugurating the 6th grand conference of Nirapad Sarak Chai (We demand safe...
Food Minister Advocate Quamrul Islam said Saturday that the BNP will have to face public wrath if it creates anarchy in name of movement, reports BSS. "BNP has again been hatching a new conspiracy to destabilise the country in the...
PATUAKHALI, Dec 27 (UNB) : Police in separate drives arrested a local leader and three activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from Mirjaganj and Baufal upazilas early Saturday. Of the arrestees, one was identified as Sahabuddin Nannu, president of Mirjaganj...
SYLHET, Dec 27 (UNB) : Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal from Pathantula point in the city on Friday evening. The arrestee was identified as Rasel Ahmed,27, convener of Sylhet city ward no. 8 unit Swechchhasebak Dal,...
MADARIPUR, Dec 27 (BSS): Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami are pushing the country towards conflict. About the scheduled Gazipur rally, the Shipping Minister said, "The BNP had a plan to...
FARIDPUR, Dec 27: Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain alerted the law enforcing agencies Saturday against any kind of terrorist activities and vandalism in name of political demonstration in the district. Addressing a meeting of the...
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