Sex workers in the country demanded Saturday rights and their inclusion in country's mainstream development, reports BSS. They made the demand at the National Conference of Sex-workers- 2014 at the city's Kazi Bashir auditorium at Mohanagar Natyamanch jointly organised by...
State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder urged the students Saturday to practise extra-curricular activities to make them mentally and physically sound for ensuring their active participation in building a happy and prosperous Bangladesh, reports BSS. Students should be...
KHULNA, Dec 20 (UNB): Operation of Sarkari Shishu Paribar in Khulna city is being seriously hampered for multifarious problems, including inadequate fund allocation, poor infrastructure and manpower shortage. Consequently, the state-run children's home for boys now no more appears to...
HABIGANJ, Dec 20 (BSS): Complying with the order passed by a Habiganj court, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) ASP Meherun Nesa Parul is scheduled to submit a fresh supplementary charge sheet (CS) in the murder case of former finance minister Dr...
The Journalism Alumni Forum of Rajshahi University (JAFRU), a platform of ex-students of the department of Mass Communication & Journalism, Rajshahi University, will organize an annual river cruise on January 9 next year, said a press release. Presided over by...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 20: The annual general meeting (AGM) and election to the executive committee of Chittagong Club Ltd were held recently in the club. Industrialist MA Salam has been elected chairman of the club while Tazik Karim voted vice chairman....
President Md Abdul Hamid visited Taj Mahal, the Mughal-era mausoleum known as testament to Emperor Shah Jahan's love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, Saturday, reports BSS. The President spent about 30 minutes at the monument of love, a 17th century...
SIRAJGANJ, Dec 20 (UNB): A mobile court sentenced a young man to two years' imprisonment for sexually harassing a housewife at Nishi Boira village in Belkuchi upazila on Friday. The convict was identified as Abu Taleb,19, son of Almas Molla,...
RANGPUR, Dec 20 (BSS): Speakers at an installation ceremony called upon Saturday the Rural Medical Practitioners (RMPs), commonly known as 'Polli Chikitsok', for reaching primary medicare services to rural people at their doorsteps. They were addressing the installation ceremony of...
KISHOREGANJ, Dec 20 (UNB): At least three people, including a woman, were killed and 20 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch amid dense fog at Manohorpur in Kuliarchar upazila early Saturday. Two of the deceased were...
Our Correspondent | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Dec 20: Chittagong Journalists Cooperative Housing Society Limited (CJCHSL) observed its three decades of journey today amid discussion and awarding crests of honour to the freedom fighter-journalists of Chittagong. Daily Azadi editor MA Malek inaugurated the programme while State...
8th ICECE confce begins The 8th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE)-2014 began at a city hotel Saturday. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6pm today (Sunday). Moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and light to moderate fog may occur elsewhere over the country during...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
A factory producing fish and poultry feed with toxic tannery wastes in city's Hazaribagh area was sealed by a mobile court last week. An employee of the factory was sentenced to suffer two years' jail term. The mobile court also...
Bangladesh should stop importing rice as it is preventing local farmers from getting proper prices for their produce, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said, reports bdnews24.com. He was speaking at a press briefing of the Jatiyatabadi...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
US Ambassador Dan W Mozena, in his goodbye press address, had all praise for made-in-Bangladesh apparel, leather and pharmaceutical products which, he said, would dominate the world market. Bangladesh can become number-one premium and best brand on the world clothing...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
A vital project like Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) Park is now poised for a belated start with handover of plots to the manufacturers of raw materials for medicines by next March, officials said. After the commissioning of the industrial park,...
Voicing grave concern over the recent oil spill in the Sundarbans, WildTeam, a nature conservation organisation based in Bangladesh, has urged the authorities concerned to prepare a baseline report on the immediate impact which would help assess the ecosystem recovery...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The prevailing 'unusual' political situation is hurting country's economy and affecting the quality of governance, politicians, economists and experts said Saturday. They called upon the major political parties to engage in an immediate dialogue for, what they said, restoring democracy...
Calling for vigilance to avert any incident like the 2009 BDR massacre in any force in the country, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked on Saturday members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to convey her immediately in case of any...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
Commercial banks have expedited their loan-recovery drives to bring down the volume of non-performing loans (NPL) to a reasonable level by the December deadline. Officials of a good number of commercial banks said the default loan is expected to come...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
The National Pay and Service Commission will submit today (Sunday) its report on possible pay hike for government employees. Commission chairman Mohammad Farashuddin will submit the report at 9:00 am at the ministry of finance, officials said. He will hand...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 20 (UNB): Six people were killed in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar Highway in Satkania upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased were identified as M Sayed, 35, an auto rickshaw...
FE Report | 2014-12-21 00:00:00
Russian Atomenergoproekt, a sister concern of state-run state nuclear company Rosatom that designs nuclear power plants, has floated a tender for engineering survey, environmental monitoring and development of project documents for the Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP) site. The contract...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) formed a seven-member high-level committee to investigate the oil spill in the Sundarbans following an oil-tanker crash. The committee, led by BNP vice-chairman and former water resources minister Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, was formed at a meeting...
WASHINGTON, Dec 20: The United States issued a worldwide travel alert Friday, warning Americans to be vigilant during the holiday period, especially in the wake of a deadly siege in Australia. Sydney this week saw a dramatic siege in a...
Admission tests in nine government high schools in Chittagong has begun amid tough contests. A total of 21,369 students applied for the admission tests against 3574 seats in different classes of the 9 govt high schools in the port city....
A housewife has been killed by her husband over family feud at Kasta village under Keshabpur Upazila in Jessore district. The victim Aklima Khatun is mother of a child and 2nd wife of Abdul Wahab of the same area. Police...
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