The Benapole land port has remained seemingly unaffected by a general strike being enforced by Islamist groups demanding Abdul Latif Siddiqui’s arrest for anti-Hajj remarks. Customs official Khairul Kabir said the strike had not affected port activities. Thursday was a...
The US development agency’s Assistant Administrator for Asia Anne Aarnes will arrive in Dhaka on Monday. USAID Bangladesh said Aarnes would visit development projects in Khulna, Jessore, Baagerhaat and Munshiganj during her four-day stay. Aarnes is in charge of USAID’s...
The government has taken up a Tk 4,000 million project for the development of Gulshan-Banani Lake as it will be linked with Hatirjheel project widening facilities for the city dwellers. ‘Hatirjheel project will be linked with Gulshan-Banani Lake. As part...
Twenty-four European banks have failed stress tests of their finances, the European Banking Authority has announced. The banks now have nine months to shore up their finances or risk being shut down. They include nine Italian banks, three Greek banks...
The 141st birth anniversary of veteran politician of the subcontinent Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq was observed across the country with due respect on Sunday. To mark day, different political and socio-cultural organisations took up elaborate programmes including placing wreaths at...
The daylong nationwide hartal, enforced by Sammilito Islami Dal Samuho, a coalition of Islamic parties, demanding the trial of sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui for his rant on Holy Hajj, passed off in a slack manner on Sunday. There was...
A Dhaka court has acquitted all 7 accused in Padma Bridge corruption case after accepting the final report by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC). Special Senior Judge Zahurul Haque on Sunday issued the order bringing curtains on the case that...
Alleging that the current regime is running the country with ‘Satan soul’, BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday said the much-sought peace in the country will be restored with the fall of this ‘devil’. ‘This illegal government...
Speakers at a seminar in the city said rural industrialisation can play a vital role in ensuring sustainable poverty eradication creating huge jobs in the country. They said rural industrialisation is needed to eradicate poverty from the country as agriculture...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) will help Bangladesh get facilities it ought to have from World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a least development country. ‘From now on, Unctad will help...
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will appoint a labour attaché at its embassy in Dhaka from the beginning of the next year to simplify the procedure of recruiting manpower from Bangladesh. UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zayed...
United Arab Emirates (UAE) will post a labour attaché in its Dhaka embassy to simplify the process of hiring workers from Bangladesh. UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan conveyed this to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday...
President Abdul Hamid leaves city for Dubai Monday morning to attend the 10th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF). "The honourable President will leave Dhaka for Dubai at 9.55 am on a regular flight of Emirates Airlines," President's Press Secretary Ihsanul...
Bangladesh needs to take appropriate measures to help boost Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and ensure the participation of deprived and poor people in the country’s economic activities and subsequent growth process. President of International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICC-B) Mahbubur Rahman...
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is going to recruit 1,000 female workers in 14 areas, including housemaids, drivers, and gardeners, from Bangladesh in the first phase and more would be recruited later. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee on Sunday sent back a proposal on conversion of gas-fired 150MW Shikalbaha peaking power plant into a dual-fuel system one, asking the Power Division to add customs duty (CD) and the value added tax (VAT) with...
An expatriate was shot to death by robbers at Raipur village in Nawabganj upazila of Dhaka district early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Shahid Khan, 39, a Saudi expatriate and son of late Bahadur Khan of the village, according...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee on Sunday approved four tender proposals for the import of a total of 100,000 metric tonnes of granular urea fertiliser. The approval came from a meeting of the cabinet body held with Finance Minister AMA Muhith...
A seven-day fair, ‘PKSF Development Fair-2014’, began at the city’s Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Sunday. Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation organised the show as part of its year-long programmes to celebrate the silver jubilee, according to a news agency.
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said Germany is keen to provide its assistance for the development of garment sector by ensuring working-friendly environment for workers. This interest was shown by Parliamentary State Secretary of Germany and Governor of Asian...
Abdul Latif Siddique wants to stay either in Kolkata or in Shantiniketan to pursue research and study, not in New Delhi. He told senior journalist Sukharanjan Dasgupta, recipient of the Swadhinata Padak, Sunday he would prefer staying in a 'Bengali...
TUNIS: Tunisians expressed tentative hope for the future as they lined up Sunday to choose their first five-year parliament since they overthrew their dictator in the 2011 revolution that kicked off the Arab Spring. The past three and a half...
Tariff and non-tariff barriers impede trade integration in South Asia, said the International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh (ICCB) on Sunday, the concluding day of the two-day celebration of its 20 years presence in this country. Mahbubur Rahman, president of the...
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad Sunday asked his party men to take all-out preparations for the next general election as people want to get rid of Awami League and BNP. “People have not forgotten me. They’re looking for a change…they’re...
Muhammad Quamrul Islam | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
The 100th birth anniversary of Akhter Hamid Khan, ex-principal of Comilla Victoria College and the founder of Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development was observed at CIRDAP auditorium, Dhaka by the old Victorians (ex-students of Comilla Victoria College) and ex -...
Amid the fresh threat by a group of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal to resume their protest programme against the newly formed committee of the student body, two crude bombs exploded in front of BNP’s Nayapaltan central office Sunday night, leaving a...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Oct 25: Around 50 thousand sacks of potatoes, stored in Krishikal Biz cold storage at Ujirpur village under Pirganj upazila in Rangpur district this year have gone rotten. As a result the affected farmers and traders are incurring huge...
The government is all set to launch a crackdown on vehicles without fitness clearance and drivers having no driving licence from November 10. The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges has also decided to start a drive against fraud, ‘middlemen’...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-26 00:00:00
PABNA, Oct 25: Angry students of Pabna Edward College blocked Pabna-Rajshahi highway in front of the college campus protesting muggers attack on three students of the college. Earlier the muggers stabbed three residing students of the college on Friday night...
Terming the expatriate Bangladeshis the 'Golden Human of Bangladesh', Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged them to abide by the laws of the countries where they live so that Bangladesh’s image gets brightened abroad. "The country’s image is getting...
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