The weather remained mostly stable with signs of improving trend following partial disappearance of fog amid a sunny sky for sometimes in the northern districts, bringing easiness to the common people. Despite blowing chilly winds, the cold wave situation marked...
Ferry services on the Shemulia-Kewrakandi route in the Padma River resumed after five hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Saturday morning. Shekhar Chandra Roy, assistant manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) at Shimulia ghat, said river...
Five days into the capsize of an oil tanker in Shela River, the authorities on Saturday started removing the spilled oil from 30 cannels of the Sundarbans engaging 200 workers. Amir Hossain, divisional forest officer (DFO) of Sundarbans East Zone,...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel in separate drives arrested three alleged drug traders from two places in Faridpur district on Friday. The elite force also recovered some Yaba tablets from them. The arrested are Md Ashraf Mia, 32, Md Chunnu...
Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) has arranged issue of Commercial Paper of BDT 450 million covered by Bank Guarantee for Pran Agro Ltd., a concern of PRAN-RFL Group, with the closing ceremony held at a city hotel recently. Shitangshu Kumar...
South Bangla Agriculture & Commerce (SBAC) Bank organised business development conference today (Saturday) at its head office. Mr Md Rafiqul Islam, Managing Director & CEO of the Bank presided over the conference. Mr Md Dilwar Hussain Bhuiyan, DMD and Mr....
The leader of a top human rights organisation in Pakistan has said that Pakistan should unconditionally and sincerely apologise to Bangladesh for the killing, torture, rape and looting during the country’s independence struggles 43 years ago. ‘Today or tomorrow, Pakistan...
Authorities on India's eastern coast are on alert after a tanker and another vessel collided, spilling more than 350,000 litres of furnace oil into the waters of the Sundarban tidal mangrove forests in neighbouring Bangladesh. "We are taking all precautionary...
Jatiya Party (JP) Secretary General Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu has said his party will not take responsibility of killing, forced disappearances, kidnapping, corruption and misrule by the Awami League (AL). JP is with the ruling AL-led grand alliance for strategic reason,...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has again termed the current Awami League-led grand government unelected and illegal. He said the government did nothing for the country and its people in the last six years. ‘It (government) failed to provide security to...
United Nations negotiations on climate change went deep into overtime as delegations at the talks struggled to break a deadlock between rich and developing nations on the underpinnings of a world carbon-cutting agreement. The UN-sponsored climate talks are being held...
A man was killed when a speeding train knocked him down at Naldanga Railway Bridge in Natore district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Gopi Ghosh, 42, a sweetmeat trader. Local people said the Parbatipur-bound ‘Titumir Express’ train...
Customs Intelligence officials seized 4.4 kilograms (kg) of gold in Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Saturday. They also arrested a man in this connection. The arrested was identified as Riazul Haque, 35. He arrived in Hazrat Shahjalal...
All banks and financial institutions (FIs) must provide green projects with direct financing from January 2015, said Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor Dr Atiur Rahman on Saturday, according to a news agency.
KABUL: Taliban insurgents killed at least 19 people in a series of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan Saturday, underlining worsening security as US-led NATO forces end their combat mission in the country. A suicide blast wrecked an Afghan military...
Actress Naznin Akter Happy has gone to court against Bangladesh cricketer Rubel Hossain for allegedly cheating her. Naznin Akter Happy filed a case against Rubel under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Mirpur police Saturday. She alleged the...
MOSCOW: Russia responded angrily Saturday to news that US senators had passed a bill calling for fresh sanctions against Moscow and the supply of lethal military aid to Ukraine.“Undoubtedly, we will not be able to leave this without a response,”...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged farmers not to use excessive pesticides in their croplands as those reduce the fertility of land alongside destroying the local species of fish in wetlands. The Prime Minister was distributing the Bangabandhu National...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday laid importance on making the farmers aware of the adverse impacts of excess use of fertilizer and pesticides and called for promoting natural and integrated pest management in all areas of agriculture. She also called...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Saturday hit the streets to protest the arrest of her minister Madan Mitra in the Saradha scam, and wondered if Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be arrested for the Sahara scandal as he was...
Though four days have elapsed since the huge oil spill after the crash of an oil tanker in the Shela River of the Sundarbans, removal of the oil-slick remains very negligible and experts fear the damage is already done for...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said that Bangladesh would become number one apparel exporting country in the world in shortest possible time. The commerce minister made this comment while addressing at post Dhaka Apparel Summit press conference, organised by...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Poor implementation of foreign-aided projects has prompted the government to cut its project aid (PA) in the current Annual Development Programme (ADP), officials have said. Under the initiative to cut the project aid, the Economic Relations Division (ERD) sat with...
The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) Thursday said the price of unpacked edible oil must not exceed Tk 102 per litre at the retail level, in accordance with the price adjustments made by the refiners at...
Khairul Islam | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
The mobile phone operator Citycell may lose its operating licence as the telecom regulator is set to take tough action against the company over the non-payment of its outstanding dues, sources have said. The regulator's move against the country's lone...
Jubair Hasan and Yasir Wardad | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Seepage of oil from the sunken oil tanker in Shela River near Mrigamari in the Sundarbans spread to more than 60 kilometres on Thursday, posing a serious threat to biodiversity in the world's largest mangrove forest, officials and experts said....
FE Report | 2014-12-12 00:00:00
Turnover in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) fell to a 14-month low Thursday as most of the investors were reluctant to make fresh investment following introduction of a new trading system. The premier bourse introduced the new and fast automated...
A Bangladeshi expatriate worker has been shot dead by a muezzin in Saudi Arabia for allegedly failing to make prayer call on his behalf, reports bdnews24.com. The incident took place on Sunday at Ortawwiyah in Majmaah district, some 30km from...
JOYPURHAT, Dec 11: At least four people were killed and 25 others injured as they fell off a freight train and crushed by it in Panchbibi upazila here on Thursday afternoon. Three of the deceased were identified as Sadequl of...
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