The third Bangladesh-US Partnership Dialogue begins in the US capital of Washington on Tuesday, aiming to further widen and deepen the ties between the two countries overcoming the political gap that surfaced following the January-5 elections, according to a news...
Junior British minister for international development Lynne Featherstone has asked Bangladeshi youths to campaign for a change in the condition of girls. “You young people are the change-makers,” she said Monday at the first Girl Summit in Dhaka. Featherstone, the...
The authority of Mymensingh Nursing College closed the college for indefinite period as its female students demanded the removal of principal and the hostel keeper. The authority also asked the female nurse students to vacate their new and old hostels...
More than 50 cheques have been stolen from a branch of the state-owned Sonali Bank in Dhaka. The bank's Lalmatia branch has filed a complaint with Mohammadpur police over the incident. Sonali Bank, the largest state-owned bank, has been hit...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Monday said the bilateral trade agreement between Bangladesh and Bhutan would be reviewed to take initiative for enhancing export, according to a news agency.
Bangladesh’s first-ever judicial museum has been set up on the precinct of the Supreme Court (SC), aiming to enrich the collections of documents and materials relating to the country’s judicial history and its heritage. Chief Justice M Muzammel Hossain officially...
Authorities in India have alerted fishermen going out into the sea as a powerful cyclone is heading for the western coast. Cyclone Nilofar, categorised as "severe" by weather forecasters, is expected to hit the western state of Gujarat during the...
Consumer and capital goods imports have increased in the first quarter of FY 2014-15, according to the central bank. Bangladesh Bank in a media statement Monday said total value of import Letter of Credits (LCs) opened was worth $10.834 billion...
Taking a swipe at the government, eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain on Monday said people have said no to abduction, forced disappearance and killings in the country. Dr Kamal, also the president of Ganoforum, made the remarks while addressing a...
UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development Lynne Featherstone on Monday said young people are the ‘change makers’ and urged them to start a campaign sending out a strong message to end child marriage, according to a news...
Germany’s Parliamentarian State Secretary of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Hans-Joachim Fuchtel has lauded Bangladesh’s dynamism in readymade garment (RMG) production, saying it has bright scope to increase its share in global market. “RMG production in Bangladesh...
Jim Finkle of Reuters in Boston | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating about two dozen cases of suspected cybersecurity flaws in medical devices and hospital equipment that officials fear could be exploited by hackers, a senior official at the agency told Reuters. The...
Paul Taylor of Reuters in Paris | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
France has long called for a European economic government to harmonise the bloc's policies, but it is baulking now at that governance being applied to its own fiscal indiscipline. After defying European Union rules by putting forward a budget far...
Rafael Nam and Abhishek Vishnoi of Reuters in Mumbai | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
An unprecedented ban on India's largest property developer from tapping capital markets has fuelled expectations of tougher penalties ahead, as the country's regulators feel emboldened to take on even companies long sheltered by political connections. The result has been a...
Kevin Yao and Benjamin Kang Lim of Reuters in Beijing | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
China's central bank is likely to hold its line against an interest rate cut even as growth slows to a quarter-century trough, as the politics of reform influences the conduct of monetary policy, government sources involved in internal policy discussions...
Ahmed Rasheed and Isabel Coles of Reuters in Baghdad/Arbil | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
Iraqi security forces made significant gains against Islamic State in a strategic area near Baghdad last week and Kurdish fighters retook a northern town after heavy coalition air strikes against the Sunni Islamist insurgents. Iraqi troops seized most of Jurf...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Oct 26: Incidents of theft have risen alarmingly at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) in recent days while the authorities concerned are yet to take adequate steps in this regard. According to sources at least 50 theft incidents took...
The Ministry of Industries has taken an initiative to introduce e-filing system at all levels of the ministry by 2015 to provide fast the necessary services to the entrepreneurs. As part of the initiative, e-filing system has already been introduced...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
KHULNA, Oct 26: Building container vessel in Khulna Shipyard will add a new dimension to the national economy, said the Shipping Minister Shahajahan Khan while he was addressing as chief guest the inaugural function of the construction work of a...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 26 (BSS): Increasing the number of trained land surveyors has become indispensable for substantial and sustainable reduction of the existing land- related corruption and litigation, speakers at a discussion said here today. They also viewed that introduction of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Oct 26: The expected production of zinc enriched paddy BRI 62 has been attained in Nilphamari district. The success was evident in the harvesting of the crop in the field days where DAE officials were present in different Union...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
TANGAIL, Oct 26: Market price of green chilli remains unstable in Tangail since last Eid-ul Azha causing sufferings for the commoners. While visiting the different local markets of the town this FE correspondent found that green chilli is being sold...
A Correspondent | 2014-10-27 00:00:00
GAZIPUR, Oct 26: Gazipur police administration organised a rally to make drug free Gazipur, on Saturday. Liberation war affairs minister A.K.M. Mozammel Haque inaugurated the rally as the chief guest. A number of people from all walks of society attended...
KHULNA, Oct 26 (BSS): The second phase camera trapped census of Tiger population in the Sunderbans begins in November. A total of 30 field workers will use 89 cameras for trapping to count the total tiger population in the Bangladesh...
BENAPOLE, Oct 26 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive on Saturday night rescued three women while they were being trafficked to India illegally from Putkhali frontier in Sharsha upazila. The BGB also detained two human traffickers...
JOYPURHAT, Oct 26 (UNB): Robbers looted Tk one million from a cold storage in Boiragirhat area of Kalai upazila early Sunday injuring six of its workers, including a woman, with bullets. Jayanta Kumar, accountant of South Pole Cold Storage, said...
SUNAMGANJ, Oct 26 (UNB): Police recovered the body of a man from a field in Bharargaon area of Dirai upazila on Sunday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Locals spotted the body of the man in...
Touchstone statue recovered in Barisal Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) yesterday arrested two people with a touchstone-made statue worth about Tk 40 million from Uttarkandi village under Char Gobindaopur Upazila of Madaripur district in Barisal, said a press release here Saturday....
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