FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
Parliamentary standing committee on the environment and forest ministry formed a sub-committee to submit report along with recommendations to ban polythene bags of all types in the next meeting. Standing committee member Tipu Sultan was made chairman of the sub-committee....
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
Speakers at a discussion programme in the city stressed Sunday the need for creating awareness to prevent deadly and costly kidney diseases. They said about 40,000 patients out of 20 million (two crore) kidney patients in the country die every...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 23 (Agencies): Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested five persons including a Pakistani citizen from Hotel Lord's Inn, a residential hotel at the city's GEC crossing at 1pm today. Police suspects that the arrested persons...
The Parliament on Sunday unanimously passed three separate bills for the three district councils of Chittagong Hill Tracts aiming to increase the number of members in the councils for bringing dynamism to serve people of the small ethnic groups in...
Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman M Badiuzzman said on Sunday the ACC is being called by a certain quarter as a commission of impunity intentionally, which is 'designed to tarnish its image', reports UNB. "Injustice has been shown calling the...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim told the Jatiya Sangsad on Sunday that no Ebola virus patient was detected in Bangladesh, reports BSS. Medical team to prevent Ebola virus so far screened 216 incoming international passengers, especially those landed...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 23 (UNB): A Chittagong court Sunday asked police to conduct re-autopsy on the body of a Naogaon judge, who was found dead at a city house on September 16. Metropolitan Magistrate Faridul Alam passed the order following a...
Nurses under the banner of 'Bangladesh Nurses Oikya Parishad' staged demonstrations at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city on Sunday to press home their eight-point demand, reports UNB. The demands include appointment of nurses on the basis of merit...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Monday). Night temperature may fall slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, Met Office said. The country's highest...
Form Safe Food Authority in 3 months: HC The High Court(HC) Sunday asked the government to constitute 'Safe Food Authority' and 'Central Safe Food Management Coordination Council' within three months to ensure safe food for all citizens of the country....
KERANIGANJ, Nov 23 (UNB): Two suspected robbers were beaten to death by a mob in Dharmasur area under Keraniganj Model thana early Sunday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Quoting locals, Majibar Rahman, officer-in-charge of the...
Bangladesh has made a significant leap in the Competitive Industrial Performance (CIP) country ranking, co-prepared by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), reports BSS. The UNIDO and the WEF published the CIP ranking...
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism (MoCAT) formed Sunday a committee to investigate into the involvement of Biman officials in gold smuggling. Additional secretary of the MoCAT Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Munim will investigate into the matter. "The committee...
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
The Cabinet Committee on Purchase approved on Sunday seven proposals worth Tk 4.55 billion. The approval was given at a meeting held on the day at the Cabinet Division of the Bangladesh Secretariat with Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith...
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) honoured 24 top remitters at a function at a city hotel Sunday for contributing to the country's economic growth by sending a significant amount of foreign currency in 2013. The central bank formally acknowledged the contribution...
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested early Sunday four members of the banned outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including its women wing chief, from the capital's Sadarghat area. The women wing chief was identified as Fatema Begum, wife of Kolkata...
NEW DELHI, Nov 23, 2014 (BSS/AFP) - India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley promised Today to unveil a whole series of "second-generation" reforms to try to kickstart the stuttering economy. In an interview with the Press Trust of India (PTI) news...
Police recovered the body of a young man from inside an almirah at a house in old Dhaka city's Lalbagh area on Sunday morning, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Alauddin Shikdar(29), son of Hossain Shikdar, a resident of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
The number of personal or individual-level income taxpayers in the country gives quite a disconcerting picture, notwithstanding the 'big bang' about annual tax fairs, the much-vaunted drives for expanding the direct tax net and the much ado about reorganisation, recast,...
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
An oil tanker exploded into a blaze with a big bang at a fuel station in Dhaka's Tejgaon industrial area on Sunday night, sending people in panic. Firefighters said the fire erupted while the tanker was releasing fuel at Sotota...
Munima Sultana | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) is in a dilemma with a project for construction of three bridges as it did not get approval from the Planning Commission to revise the project proposal during the last one year and a...
Syful Islam | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
The government is going to empower numerous agencies, in addition to the lone anti-graft body, to independently investigate pecuniary offences, money laundering in particular. Sources said the National Board of Revenue (NBR), Bangladesh Bank, Police and the Department of Narcotics...
Keeping its order pending for 75 weeks, the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday set today (Monday) for pronouncing the judgment on war crimes accused Razakar commander Mobarak Hossain, a post-independence union-level Awami League leader in Akhaura, Brahmanbaria, reports UNB. Passing...
FE Report | 2014-11-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh Merchant Bankers Association (BMBA) has made a set of proposals, including bringing clients having margin loan above Tk 10.0 million under credit information bureau (CIB) reporting, to facilitate the recovery of 'huge default' margin loan, officials said. The BMBA's...
The BNP-led 20-party alliance has decided to announce tougher action programmes, including non-stop hartal, and gradually turn those into a decisive movement if the government hikes gas and power tariffs in January next, reports UNB. The decision was taken at...
Bangladesh took 2-0 lead in the five-match Bashundhara Cement ODI series beating Zimbabwe by 68 runs in the second successive match at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Sunday, reports UNB. With this win, the Tigers keep alive the...
Sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique arrived in the city Sunday night, according to a report by a Bangla news site. He came from India by an Air India flight. Siddique's anti-Hajj rant in New York last month provoked a furore...
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