M Azizur Rahman | 2014-12-26 00:00:00
The government has awarded a contract to China's Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation for drilling four onshore exploration wells in Titas gas-field keeping the state-run oil and gas exploration company almost idle, said officials. State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production...
The oil slicks remaining fused with the shore soil of the Sundarbans' rivers should be shoveled off from the affected areas and be stored in a particular place to properly clean up those, reports UNB quoting a chemical engineer. "After...
Syful Islam | 2014-12-26 00:00:00
The government has decided to conduct a feasibility study anew before going for construction of a deep-sea port at Sonadia in Cox's Bazar, officials said. The decision has been taken as a previous feasibility study of 2006 has become outdated...
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 (PTI): The government has hiked import duty on both crude and refined edible oil by 5 per cent to protect the interest of domestic farmers and oil processors amid fall in global prices, a move that...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 25 (AFP): Pakistan said on Thursday it would set up military courts for terror-related cases, as part of an ambitious anti-terrorism plan following a deadly Taliban school attack that killed 150 people. In a midnight address to the...
The Christian community of the country as elsewhere across the world, celebrated the merry Christmas on Thursday, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, reports UNB. The Christians are offering special prayers in churches on the occasion as it is one...
Police in an overnight drive arrested BNP’s senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in the city. Party and family sources said plain clothes policemen picked up BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy from his friend’s house in the city’s Shiddheshwari...
BNP is set to stage nationwide demonstrations on Friday protesting the ‘ruling party’s attacks on its peaceful gatherings in the city’s Bakshibazar on Wednesday and arrests of party leaders and repression on them across the country. The programme will be...
Law enforcers stormed Badre Alam College premises in Bhawal in Gazipur and established total control over the college field and its adjoining area on Thursday night as tension is running high between local units of BNP and Awami League over...
Two bikers were killed in a road accident on Sherpur-Bongaon road in Sherpur Sadar Upazila on Thursday night. The dead are M Joinal Miah, 32, and M Arif Hossain, 27, residents of Narayanpur in Sherpur town. Quoting locals, police said...
Law enforcers reportedly raided the house of BNP’s Dhaka city unit convener Habib-un-Nabi Khan Sohel in the city on Thursday night. However, the BNP leader was out of the houses during the police raid. BNP sources said plainclothes police raided...
Ferry services in Shimulia-Kawrakandi and Daulatdia-Paturia waterways remained suspended for over 6 hours till Friday morning due to poor visibility caused by dense fog. Sirajul Haque, manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Shimulia Ferry Ghat (terminal), said...
Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus says social business is like ‘frying a fish in its own oil’ – a Bangla idiom that in English roughly means once the pump is primed, the enterprise will carry on under its own steam. ‘I...
Detectives arrested an alleged arms trader in possession of a foreign-made pistol, one magazine and five rounds of bullet from Dharmatala Road in Khanpur area of Narayanganj city on Thursday. The arrested is Mir Rasel, son of Mir Anwar Hossain,...
Businesses have urged politicians to shun violence to ensure an investment-friendly atmosphere in Bangladesh in the coming year. The country witnessed less violence in the outgoing (2014) year than it had in 2013 when the BNP and its allies hit...
Police arrested 7 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal (JCD) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, including the vice president of the local unit of Jubo Dal, from different parts of Gazipur city early Friday. Of the arrestees, one was identified...
Police recovered 500 pieces of Yaba tablet in Sharsha Upazila in Jessore district on Thursday night. Three people were arrested in this connection. They are Fatema, wife of Habibar Rahman Habi, Jahangir, son of Abdul Gaffar, and Rafiqul, son of...
A mobile court in Narayanganj on Thursday sentenced 2 young men to 6 months’ imprisonment each for taking and peddling drugs. The convicts were identified as Alamgir Hossain, 26, son of Samiullah, and Al Amin, 25, son of Ali Jabbar,...
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said that Bangladesh Television (Btv) played a vital role in the war of liberation in 1971. He said this while addressing as the chief guest at a function marking the golden jubilee of...
Environment activists have demanded that the authorities take immediate steps to stop the preparations to organise a function at Ramna Park, one of the oldest and largest parks in Dhaka. Addressing a press conference in the city, they noted that...
Kidnappers have cut the body of a minor boy into 6 pieces and dumped those in an irrigation conduit in Mohanpur Upazila in Rajshahi district. Mohanpur Police OC Abdul Hamid said the body was found in a field in Dyeing...
Some miscreants shot and injured two young men in Dhaka’s Shajadpur area early Friday. Hospital sources said unidentified armed miscreants opened fire on Ramjan Ali, 30, and Alamgir Mohiuddin, 20, around 2:00am, leaving them critically injured. Ramjan Ali is a...
Asian markets were mixed on Friday as key markets remained closed for the Christmas holidays. Tokyo slipped 0.17 per cent, while Shanghai edged up 0.18 per cent, Shenzhen added 0.04 per cent and Seoul was up 0.24 per cent in...
The Local administration has imposed Section 144 in Gazipur following mounting tension over the BNP and the Bangladesh Chhatra League announcing simultaneous rallies at the same venue. The district Police Superintendent Harunur Rashid said an indefinite ban was imposed on...
Despite the ruling party’s total control in Gazipur city, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said they will surely hold the rally foiling all the obstacles to it, triggering an apprehension of political violence. ‘The rally...
The director general (DG) level formal border talks between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) began at Peelkhana BGB headquarters in the city on Friday. BGB’s DG Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed is leading a 23-member Bangladesh...
BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy was detained by Detective Branch (DB) of police on Friday morning and shown arrested in connection with a case filed over Bakshibazar clash. Though initially police could not ascertain to the cause of his detention,...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has condemned the arrests of party’s standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy and other leaders and workers of the opposirtion party. In a statement issued hours after Gayeshwar’s arrest, Khaleda Zia demanded his release from the...
The Khulna University (KU) authorities have taken up an initiative to set up a crop clinic at the varsity for the benefit of the farmers of the south-western coastal region. The clinic having a website will disseminate information on proper...
Another members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) gave confessional statement before a Narayanganj court over the sensational 7-murder. Former army personnel of the Naraynaganj-based Rab-11 Asaduzzaman gave the statement separately in two cases before the court of Senior Judicial Magistrates...
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