Traffic jams continues to be on the rise in metro Dhaka. While construction of some flyovers has eased the problem to an extent, some are going to add to it in future. Maghbazar-Malibag-Banglamotor flyover will worsen the traffic jam. At...
Everyday newspapers carry news reports of a women being tortured and often murdered for dowry. I was shocked to read a report on a girl named Zohra who was brutally tortured by her husband because she was unable to pay...
Saleh Akram | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
The economy encountered an unpalatable experience in the first quarter of the current fiscal year. The trade deficit almost doubled during the period and rose to $2.4 billion due to rising imports and falling exports. Import growth of 13.62 per...
Abu Afsarul Haider | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Youths are the greatest wealth and strength of any nation. The future of a nation lies in the hands of its posterity. That is why a society that prepares its youths for the future will not only ensure its future...
Ahmed Aboulenein of Reuters in Birmingham, England | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
For some British Muslims, the path to jihad and the path to peaceful aid work can traverse much of the same terrain. From an office in Britain's second largest city, Waseem Iqbal and a friend are planning a trip to...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
A parliamentary body Wednesday recommended necessary changes to the Vested Property Act to remove complexities in the law that deals with such landed property. The parliamentary standing committee on the land ministry also ordered taking stern action against all land...
Observing that democracy is set to slip into a deep hole in the country, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia urged all Wednesday to get united to foil the plots of evil forces of democracy killers, reports UNB. "We all must get...
Shaheed Dr Milon Day, commemorating the martyrdom anniversary of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, will be observed today (Thursday) across the country in a befitting manner, reports BSS. On this day in 1990, Dr Milon, the then joint- secretary general...
The prosecution at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 Wednesday concluded arguments on charges that have been framed against former Jatiya Party (JP) MP from Mothbaria, Engineer Abdul Jabbar, reports BSS. Prosecutor Jahid Imam argued on charge number 3, 4 and...
KATHMANDU, Nov 26 (UNB): Pakistan Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif called on the SAARC member states Wednesday to fight for resolving common problems like poverty, rather than fighting against each other. Speaking at the inaugural session of the 18th South...
Health and family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said Wednesday the government will make sure that the physicians attend minimum a day in a week at the community clinics to ensure health services to the village people, reports BSS. "Health services...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu, MP, said Wednesday "Securing democracy, independence is a long, arduous struggle," reports BSS Expressing deep sympathy to the family of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, a political colleague, who was martyred in the battle against...
RAB says it has traced the auto-rickshaw used by the killers of Rajshahi University teacher AKM Shafiul Islam, reports bdnews24.com. RAB's Rajshahi wing Deputy Commander Maj Shafiqul Islam said the vehicle was found abandoned near the city's railway station. Sociology...
The Anti Corruption Commission on Wednesday interrogated former State Minister for Water Resources Mahbubur Rahman for reportedly acquiring illegal wealth, reports UNB.
State Minister for Health and Family Welfare Zahid Maleque said Wednesday Bangladesh has made tremendous progress in the fields of population and reproductive health, reports BSS. With a population of 161 million, Bangladesh has achieved the highest life expectancy rate...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will pay a three-day visit to Bangladesh from today (Thursday). This will be Nisha Desai Biswal's second visit to Bangladesh. She visited the country soon after taking...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
A total of 256 pedestrians were fined by the mobile courts on the second day of the week-long drive against jaywalkers on the capital's busy Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue Wednesday, officials said. They also realised fine to the tune of...
Authorities will take tight security measures for the upcoming two-phase Biswa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after the holy Hajj, said State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan on Wednesday, reports UNB. The meeting decided not to allow Ijtema...
PABNA, Nov 26 (UNB): A university student, who had gone missing from the capital seven days ago, was found dead in a beel (water body) in Sathia upazila of the district Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Golam Rabbi (22),...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid visited Mirza Ahmed Ispahani High School situated at Pahartali in Chittagong on Wednesday, says a press release. He was cordially received by the teachers, students and the high officials of Ispahani Group of Companies. The...
RANGAMATI, Nov 26 (UNB) Members of a joint force have rescued three forest officials, who were reputedly kidnapped by miscreants from Harikata of Langadu upazila, from Naniachar of the upazila 19 days after the incident. The three forest officials-conservator Farid...
A Dhaka court ordered Wednesday the exhumation of the body of Nayar Sultana, a popular child actress in the 1980s as Tuni, for a fresh postmortem, reports UNB. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha passed the order following a petition...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
A fire broke out Wednesday at a garment accessories factory and a storehouse of a bicycle factory at Tejgaon in the capital, officials said. The fire originated at about 01:43 pm from cigarette butt on the ground floor of Uni...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
Paribartan Chai, a social volunteering organisation, has announced December 31 as Pariskar Kori Dibos to clean the city and its surroundings aiming at creating awareness among people about the necessity of tidiness. At a press conference on Wednesday, Partiban Chai...
FE Report | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
A three-day capacity building workshop for grassroots-level migrants' rights activists was launched Wednesday in the city. The workshop titled 'National Migrants Rights Networks Capacity Building for Bangladesh Ovibashi Adhikar Forum (BOAF)' was organised by WARBE (Welfare Association for the Rights...
RU Correspondent | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Nov 26: The authorities of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) will celebrate the golden jubilee (50th founding anniversary) amid fanfare on the campus in the last week of December this year, said a press release....
BOU, IUBAT sign deal Bangladesh Open University (BOU) and International University of Business Agricultural and Technology (IUBAT) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the city Wednesday. BOU Registrar Prof Dr Abul Hossain Ahmed Bhuiyan and IUBAT Registrar Prof Dr...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Thursday). Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, Met Office said. The country's highest temperature of 29.8 degree...
Monira Munni | 2014-11-27 00:00:00
The country's sweater makers are switching over to automated production system to increase productivity of their units and also to ward off any possible labour unrest following the workers' growing demand for hiking piece-rate. A good number of sweater units...
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