Our media are still vibrant with the incident of child Jihad's tragic death. But what is really appalling is the way Jihad's father was harassed and detained by the police for nearly twelve hours. The government agencies failed to recover...
It is indeed alarming to watch that gradually the politics of the country is getting heated up and it is no good news for our economy which is still struggling to recuperate from the wounds of the severe political unrest...
Roads of our Dhaka city are generally in a dilapidated condition and as a result we have to face a perpetual traffic jam almost everywhere. Dhaka City was divided into two city corporations presumably to improve services and reduce sufferings...
Saleh Akram | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
There has been a discreet shift in the government's foreign policy with an eastward bias. Bangladesh borders India and Myanmar on three sides except the south with the Bay of Bengal. India surrounds Bangladesh from three sides and the position...
The government has decided to make the provision of a three-day training for insurance agents and financial associates (FAs) mandatory for the development of the country’s insurance sector. The Insurance Development Regulatory Authority (IDRA) has already issued a circular under...
S Iftikhar Murshed from Pakistan | 2014-12-28 00:00:00
Six days after Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi of India received this year's Nobel Peace Prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education," the hideous tragedy...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6pm today (Saturday). Mild cold wave is sweeping over the regions of Pabna, Jessore and Kushtia it may continue, Met Office said. Moderate to thick fog may...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 26: A vessel with the first consignment of Bangladesh rice will leave Chittagong port for Colombo tomorrow (Saturday), sources said. An official of Chittagong Port Authority said that the loading of 12,500 tonnes of rice on MV Banglar...
The BNP has called a dawn to dusk hartal in Gazipur and demonstration across the country for today (Saturday) in protest against the section 144 imposed on the venue where the party was set to hold a rally today, report...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
A section of importers of diesel-run three-wheelers are set to face customs action as they allegedly managed to get their vehicles released from the port on false declaration. Officials said the customs wing of the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, now in Kathmandu, arrives here on Saturday evening on a three-day visit which is considered a step towards further boosting the bilateral ties between the two countries. The Chinese Foreign Minister is coming at the...
Arafat Ara | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
Local recruiters are failing to tap the growing demand for domestic helps in Hong Kong due to the government's 'failure' to update its database with willing job-seekers information, said sector insiders. They said selection of candidates, to be sent to...
Rescue operation going on | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
FE Report A minor boy fell into a nearly six-hundred feet abandoned water well in the city's Shahjahanpur railway colony area in the capital on Friday. The boy named Zihad (three and half years old) fell into the well at...
CHITTAGANG, Dec 26: Customs officials at the Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport recovered 24 gold bars from a toilet of the airport. Assistant commissioner of Chittagong Customs Moazzamul Hoq said the gold bars were found in an abandoned luggage in...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested six members of a drug smuggler gang and recovered 2,15,314 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets and Tk 1.8 million (18 lakh) in cash from Chittagong and Gazipur early on Friday. The elite force...
WASHINGTON, Dec 26: The online gaming networks for Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox consoles -- hot gifts this Christmas - went dark in what hackers said was a coordinated attack. The disruption started Christmas Day and went into Friday, PlayStation...
Shofiq Sarwar Sumon | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
The ever-green Jahangirnagar University (JU) now resounds with sweet twittering of thousands of migratory birds, since they started landing on the campus lakes. Colourful water lilies, especially red-coloured ones, that began blossoming on the lakes of the JU with the...
Monira Munni | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
A significant number of readymade garment (RMG) factories still remain outside the purview of minimum wage structure implementation even nearly a year after the new pay hike came into force, labour leaders alleged. Though there is no concrete statistics over...
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was arrested early Friday and remanded for three days over the alleged attack on AL MP Chhabi Biswas. Strongly denouncing the arrest of her party's senior leader, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Friday alleged...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
A good number of Bangladeshi workers, living in Malaysia, are likely to be benefited and many of them will get legal status, as the Malaysian government last week announced work permit extension of foreign workers for another year. About 267,000...
FE Report | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
The ongoing chilly weather disrupted normal life Friday across the country as a mild cold wave swept across Jessore, Kushtia, Chuadanga and Ishwardi, officials said. The grapple with the biting chill may continue for the next two to three days....
Rezaul Karim | 2014-12-27 00:00:00
The government has primarily fixed an allocation of Tk 102.12 billion for the Power Division in the budget for the next fiscal year (FY), 2015-16, officials said. The proposed allocation would be Tk 9.28 billion higher compared to that of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has left for Gopalganj's Tungipara this (Saturday) morning on a day-long visit. The helicopter carrying her left Dhaka for Tungipara around 10:15am. On her arrival in Tungipara, her birthplace, Hasina will place wreaths at the grave...
FE Report The customs authorities were yet to sue the suspect held for 'unlawfully' possessing 62kg gold worth Tk 300 million and a large sum of foreign currencies, officials said on Friday evening. "We will file case against him after...
The BNP has enforced a daylong hartal (shutdown) in Gazipur in protest against the local administration’s ban on gatherings at Khaleda Zia’s prescheduled rally venue. BNP’s Gazipur unit chief AKM Fazlul Haq Milon made the call on Friday night after...
Rescuers have failed to find a minor boy purportedly trapped several hundred feet down an abandoned deep tubewell in Shahjahanpur Railway Colony in Dhaka despite frantic efforts unfolding all night long before a captivated nation. The hopes to rescue alive...
The authorities of Bangladesh Railway (BR) has suspended its engineer for keeping a bore well (a long and wide pipe) exposed in an abandoned pump house in Dhaka city. Senior Sub-assistant Engineer Jahangir Alam was suspended on Friday evening for...
It would be a miracle in every sense of the word if a minor trapped down a deep tube-well in a Dhaka railway colony is rescued alive. There is no precedent of anyone being pulled out alive from so deep...
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