Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the expatriate Bangladeshis living in Italy to put in their all-out efforts in brightening Bangladesh's image and dignity before the world community, reports UNB. She also called upon them to contribute more towards strengthening...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan said on Saturday the government would take steps to bring back the Bangladeshis reportedly rescued after being abducted and shipped to Thailand to be sold as 'slaves'. The minister, however, noted that all of...
Customs intelligence officials arrested a man in possession of 64 gold bars worth Tk 37.5 million (3.75 crore) at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital on Saturday. The arrestee was identified as Abdul Latif, 37, who hailed from...
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has decided to relieve Lodewijk de Kruif as the head coach of the Bangladesh National Football team. Bari Tito, his deputy, will take charge of the team temporarily, said BFF President Kazi Salahuddin. BFF has also...
SIRAJGANJ, Oct 18: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said on Saturday check-posts would be set up at all entry points in the country to prevent any outbreak of Ebola virus. — BSS
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A team of experts from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) stressed last week the need for retrofitting country's important buildings vulnerable to earthquake. Leader of the JICA team, Fumio Kaneko said on the eve of International Day for Disaster Reduction...
FE Report Former Indian President and eminent missile technologist A P J Abdul Kalam said sustainable economic growth and prosperity can help a country reduce the risk of terrorism-the most pressing problem now troubling different corners of the world. "People...
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The Hilsa conservation programme of the government has helped increase production of the most delicious fish in the country but fishermen are yet to get any benefit from it, a study revealed Saturday. Ban on Hilsa fishing for three months...
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CHITTAGONG, Oct 18: Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain formally inaugurated the three-day-long photo exhibition of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at Chittagong Shilpakala Academy in the city today. A total of 71 pieces have...
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A two-day national convention began Saturday in the city to assess the role of micro-finance institutes (MFIs') in poverty alliviation and social development. Stakholders from microfinance institutes, microcredit borrowers and microcredit entereprenours across the country shared their success stories at...
The Central Shaheed Minar has fallen prey to partisan politics of the ruling party, says the BNP, report agencies. It blamed the Awami League (AL) for the protests against the decision to take Prof Piash Karim's body there. Speaking at...
The 50th birthday of Sheikh Russell, youngest son of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was observed Saturday in a befitting manner across the country, said a press release. On this day in 1964, Sheikh Russell, the youngest...
President Pranab Mukherjee urged Bangladeshi youths to work for making Dhaka-Delhi "friendship strong and permanent," report agencies. He told this to a 100-member visiting youth delegation when they called on him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi Saturday. The...
Unhappy over the formation of its new committee, the demonstrating Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leaders in the city locked Saturday the student body's central office inside the BNP's Nayapaltan central office, reports UNB. The dissident JCD men have been demonstrating...
RANGPUR, Oct 18 (BSS): Special Envoy to the Prime Minster (PM), former President and Jatiya Party (JP) chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad said JP will start working from March next with a target of winning 151 parliamentary seats in the next...
Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya (Bir Bikram) said Saturday no national polls will be held in the country prior to the scheduled timeframe, reports BSS. "An elected government can be replaced through polls but it (government)...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home on Saturday night after attending ASEM summit in Italy. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines landed at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport at 11:50pm. Cabinet members, senior party leaders and officials of the...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel arrested a person along with a pistol and two magazines at Benapole union in Sharsha Upazila in Jessore on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Rahima Khatun, 32. Being tipped off about firearms being...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has warned the government of dire consequences if their ‘peaceful action programmes’ in the ongoing movement are obstructed. ‘Our movement is on and this will be intensified in the days to come. But the consequences won’t...
Some miscreants have killed the driver of a microbus, injured his assistant and fled to Narsingdi from Gazipur with the vehicle. Police have recovered the body of microbus driver Md Parvez, 18, in Narsingdi district. The microbus, which was stolen...
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The prices of most of the shares at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) witnessed negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday, the first session of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE,...
Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha, who secured bail from the Supreme Court (SC), was released from the central jail after the special court issued order on paying surety. Earlier, the special court issued the order for release of...
A man chopped his father and mother to death at Shayesta Union in Singair Upazila in Manikganj district on Sunday. The identities of the victims were not known immediately. Officer-in-Charge of Singair Police Station Syeduzzaman said, the incident took place...
National professor Salahuddin Ahmed died at the age of 90, his family announced on Sunday morning. The renowned academic, who was awarded the Ekushey Padak and the Shadhinota Dibash (independence) Award, died around 6:00am at his Banani residence in Dhaka....
BNP’s Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman has been sued over his recent comment on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Advocate Abdul Malek, alias Moshiur Malek, President of Bangabandhu Foundation, filed the case with Dhaka District and Sessions Judge’s Court on Sunday...
The death toll from a cyclone ‘Hudhud’ that hit India’s east coast last week has risen to 41, as authorities struggle to restore power, transport and communication links and shelter 150,000 people forced to abandon their homes. ‘Hudhud’ hammered the...
Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif has claimed that the BNP has become ‘politically bankrupt’. He alleged that the party is doing politics over a dead body and religion. ‘BNP has been able to realise that it has...
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