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Unregistered motorcycles

2014-11-26 00:00:00

We often see on the roads of our capital motorbikes without registration number plates. Apparently, these motorcycles are moving around without any problem. Day by day, the number of such motorcycles is increasing. It is surprising that those motorbikes are...

Win in 2nd ODI and WC

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The Tigers have won the second one-day international against Zimbabwe comfortably and the spectators watched a match with many exciting moments and they enjoyed it thoroughly as in the end the home team won it. The Tigers could not capitalize...

Public transports

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Enormous noise continues to be made by road transport. Surprisingly, a huge number of automobiles are running in the country, which do not possess fitness certificate, road-tax receipt and other necessary documents. This is why this job needs to be...

Total compliance in RMG key to global market access

Shahabuddin Rajon | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

The ready-made garment (RMG) industry is one of the important pillars of our economy and a catalyst for development of the country. We take pride in the sector that has been fetching billions of dollars as export earnings and creating...

Food security: Silver lining in dark clouds?

B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

Is it not a major victory for India? Washington and New Delhi have resolved differences over the food-stock piling issue at the WTO, paving the way for implementation of the pending trade facilitation agreement to ease customs norms. It has...

Remembering Mohon Mia

Md. Moshiur Rahman | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

Yusuf Ali Chowdhury alias Mohon Mia died this day (November 26) in 1971 at the age of 66.  He loved democracy and wanted to bring back democracy in place of autocracy. Mohan Mia lost his father when he was only...

Swedish minister for dialogue on polls in Bangladesh

FE Report | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

Visiting Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Isabella Lovin Tuesday suggested dialogue among the political parties in Bangladesh for participatory democracy to ensure sustainable development. She apprehended said if there be no dialogue among the political parties for inclusive elections,...

Dhaka protests Pak resolution over war criminals\\\' trials

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Bangladesh strongly protested Tuesday the recent adoption of a Resolution by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Provincial Assembly of Pakistan over the conviction of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity and genocide during Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971, reports UNB. In...

Order on Khaleda\\\'s plea now Nov 30

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The Supreme Court (SC) deferred Tuesday the date to November 30 for passing an order on an appeal filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia challenging the High Court (HC) verdict that had upheld the charge framing order against her in...

Public transports to get priority in CNG use: Hamid

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Observing that the biggest mistake of the previous BNP-Jamaat regime was to allow the large-scale use of compressed natural Gas (CNG) in motor vehicles, State Minister for Energy Nasrul Hamid Bipu Tuesday said the present government wants to give priority...

SCC councillors observe 2-hr work abstention

2014-11-26 00:00:00

SYLHET, Nov 25 (UNB): The councillors of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) observed a two-hour work abstention Tuesday protesting the inclusion of the name of SCC mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury in the supplementary charge sheet in the former Finance Minister Shah...

Eight JMB men produced before M\\\'singh court

2014-11-26 00:00:00

MYMENSINGH, Nov 25 (BSS): Eight men of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who ambushed a prison van and snatched away three JMB militants, two of them being in death rows in Trishal in February last were produced before a Mymensingh...

AL submits income tax return

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The ruling Awami League (AL) Tuesday submitted its income-tax return for 2013-2014 fiscal year to the National Board of Revenue (NBR), report agencies. Awami League office secretary Dr Abdus Sobhan Golap and AL leader ABM Reazul Kabir Kawsar submitted the...

Over 100 BNP activists join AL in Rangamati

2014-11-26 00:00:00

RANGAMATI, Nov 25 (BSS): Over 100 activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jatiya Party (JP) of Naniarchar Upazila of the district formally joined the Awami League (AL) today. Senior vice-president of Rangamati district unit of AL Mahbubur Rahman attended...

4 hurt as AL rivals clash in Benapole

2014-11-26 00:00:00

BENAPOLE, (Jessore), Nov 25 (UNB): At least four people were injured, one was bullet-hit, as two rival groups of the ruling Awami League (AL) locked into a clash over taking possession of a Baor (water-body) in Bahadurpur Union of the...

Mohan Mia\\\'s 43rd death anniv today

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The 43rd death anniversary of renowned politician of the sub-continent Yusuf Ali Chowdhury (Mohan Mia) will be observed today (Wednesday). On this occasion, Yusuf Ali Chowdhury Smrity Committee will hold a milad mafil and discussion meeting at Moez Manzil in...

Probe report against Kishoreganj Razakar siblings finalised

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has finalised probe report on the alleged crimes committed by the Kishoreganj Razakar siblings Nasir Uddin Ahmed, and Shamsuddin Ahmed during the War of Liberation, reports BSS. The agency said this...

Photo: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina waving

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Over 600 fined on first day of weeklong mobile court drive

FE Report | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

More than 600 pedestrians were fined by mobile courts Tuesday on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue for not using foot over-bridges and underpass in crossing the streets, as a drive is now on as part of efforts to discipline the capital's...

Protect nat\\\'l security thru developing professionalism

2014-11-26 00:00:00

JESSORE, Nov 25 (BSS): President Abdul Hamid asked Tuesday members of the Armed Forces, especially the signal corps, to work with dedication and sincerity to protect national security and sovereignty through continued development of their professionalism and skills. "I firmly...

Poverty rate at 24.5pc: Muhith

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Finance Minister AMA Muhith informed the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on Tuesday that the country's poverty rate was estimated currently at 24.5 per cent as per the mid-term implementation report 2014 on the Sixth Five-Year Plan, reports BSS. "Besides, the poverty...

Tannery relocation to Savar by March

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The tannery industry at Hazaribagh in the city would be relocated to the newly-built industrial estate at Savar by March 2015, reports BSS. Department of Environment Director General Raisul Alam Mandal said this while visiting the Shubhadda canal in Keraniganj...

6 farm labourers killed in Bogra road accident

2014-11-26 00:00:00

BOGRA, Nov 25 (UNB): Six people were killed and four others injured as a truck crashed into a human hauler carrying a group of farm labourers in Kahalu upazila on Monday night. Witnesses said 10 farm labourers met the accident...

New PSC member sworn in

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Foni Bhushan Chowdhury was sworn in as a member of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC) Tuesday, reports BSS. Chief Justice M Mozammel Hossain administered the oath at a simple ceremony at the judges' lounge of the Supreme Court at...

Rowdy protest as one killed in city accident

FE report | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

A motorbike rider was killed, when a Jabale Nur Paribahan bus knocked him at Kalshi in the city's Mirpur Cantonment area at around 8:30pm Tuesday. The victim was identified as Nazmul Huq. Angry people set two buses of the Paribahan...

4 arrested for tourist assault in Patuakhali; SI closed

2014-11-26 00:00:00

PATUAKHALI, Nov 25 (UNB): Police arrested Tuesday four people for their alleged involvement in the looting of valuables of five tourists, including three female ones, after assaulting them near Mahipur fish port in Kalapara Upazila. In another development, in-charge of...

JS body for rise in allocations for Nazrul’s works

2014-11-26 00:00:00

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Cultural Affairs Ministry suggested Tuesday raising allocations for institutes and organisations on poet Kazi Nazrul Islam to conduct research on him and increase publication, preservation and circulation of his works, reports BSS.

Campaign over violence against women launched

FE Report | 2014-11-26 00:00:00

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNWomen, and Ministry of Women and Children Affairs jointly organised the launching of 16 Days Activism for the elimination of all forms of violence against women from society Tuesday. The programme was held at the...

News in Brief

2014-11-26 00:00:00

4 to walk gallows for murder in Netrakona NETRAKONA, Nov 25: A tribunal here Tuesday convicted four people of killing a minor boy after abduction in Durgapur upazila in 2013, and sentenced them to death. The condemned convicts are Saidul...

Weather

2014-11-26 00:00:00

Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country today (Wednesday). Night temperature may fall slightly over southern part and may remain nearly unchanged elsewhere over the country and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the...