Customs officials arrested a student along with 775 grams of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday, reports UNB. Sources at the airport said the customs officials searched Md Farje Rahman, 20, for his suspicious movement as he arrived...
Man found dead in Pabna Pabna, Nov 21: Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from a field near Kukragari Notunpara graveyard in Chatmohar upazila Friday morning. Police said local people found the body of the man with...
Weather is likely to remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6pm today (Saturday). Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country, Met Office said. Country's highest temperature 30.5 degree celsius was recorded...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
The largely expanded public administration continues to delude the people: they are not deriving the intended or desired benefits from it. A good number of departments are underperforming or just lying as 'lame duck', having lost their relevance, experts observed. ...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 21 (UNB): An all-round performance by Shakib Al Hasan enabled Bangladesh to taste their first ODI victory in 2014 beating Zimbabwe by 87 runs in the first of the five-match Bashundhara Cement ODI series at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury...
FE Report | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
A Bangladeshi-born UK citizen was found dead at his house in the capital's Banani area on Friday morning, police said. The victim was identified as Mezbah Uddin (72), who has been living in the UK for the last 40 years...
Mohammad Ali | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the country's commercial service sector has virtually stalled for more than two years over a legal dispute. The long-pending legal dispute is affecting investments in areas including freight forwarding and logistic service, shipping agency, airlines...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said that the present government wanted to see the country's armed forces disciplined, skilled, modern and well-equipped, reports UNB. "Our government wants to make the armed forces disciplined, skilled, modern and well-equipped and for...
Adilur Rahman Khan, a leading human rights lawyer, received the 2014 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in a ceremony in Capitol Hill in Washington DC on Thursday. "There is no more fitting tribute to my father than the presentation...
SYLHET, Nov 21: Police arrested seventeen activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in connection with Thursday's factional clash at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Akhtar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station, said a team of police and detectives...
A moderate earthquake was felt just 14 minutes and 37.45 seconds past Thursday midnight at the Seismic Centre of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) at Agargaon in the city. The location of the tremor was on the Myanmar-India border, a Met...
COMILLA, Nov 21 (UNB): An Awami League (AL) activist was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two factions of the ruling party over establishing supremacy in Kolakandi village under Titas upazila on Friday noon. The deceased...
Non-availability of funds coupled with 'inertia' from the authorities has held back installation of two much-needed facilities for over half a decade while the nation counts high cost of petroleum import and electricity generation, said sources. The two stuck-up projects...
FE Report | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
Three persons were killed in road accidents in the capital Friday. According to sources, a female pedestrian was killed when a bus knocked down her in front of City Hospital in Mohammapur area of the city in the morning. According...
WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (Agencies): Millions of immigrants living illegally in the US will be allowed to apply for work permits under a major shake-up unveiled by President Barack Obama. Pledging to fix America's "broken" immigration system, President Barack Obama offered...
FE Report | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
The government has taken preparations to make a breakthrough in emerging job markets in the European Union (EU) member-states, said officials. Most countries of the EU need a large number of foreign workers in different sectors. Recently, it showed willingness...
FE Report | 2014-11-22 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) called the government for speeding up project implementation, as it is unhappy over the progress of some seven projects, officials said on Friday. The Manila-based lender sat in Dhaka on Thursday for reviewing it's nearly...
NEW DELHI, Nov 21 (BSS): The Indian Cabinet approved on Thursday night the signing and ratifying of the SAARC pacts on railway, motor vehicles and energy during the forthcoming 18th SAARC summit scheduled to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal on...
The US stock market closed out its 5th straight week of gains with another record high on Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index carved out all-time highs, extending the market’s gains for the week....
US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal will arrive in Dhaka on November 27 (Thursday) on a 2-day visit to Bangladesh after attending the 18th Saarc Summit in Kathmandu, Nepal, according to a...
Tension gripped the Chittagong University (CU) campus with three factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) trying to gain control of a dormitory that has just been reopened. Islami Chhatra Shibir’s ultimatum regarding the allotment of hall seats to ‘legitimate’ students...
Teachers and students at Rajshahi University's Sociology department have been staying away from classes and tests for the last one week protesting the murder of Prof AKM Shafiul Islam. They are skipping classes and examinations since last Sunday (November 16),...
A top leader of Rajbari district unit of Krishak League has been shot to death by unknown assailants. Police and local people said a gang of armed miscreants fired two rounds of bullet at Munshi Nader Hossain, 60, President of...
Police have sought another 7 days to question 11 suspects detained over killing of Prof AKM Shafiul Islam of Rajshahi University (RU). The Rajshahi Metropolitan Magistrate’s court on Friday sent the detainees to jail and fixed Sunday for the remand...
Another man has become victim of enforced disappearances in the country. Local people found the body of Abul Based in Chatmohor Upazila in Pabna district on Friday, 10 days after he was picked up from his residence at Baraipara village...
A septuagenarian man was killed in a road accident in Shahjadpur Upazila in Sirajganj district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Abul Hossain, 70, a resident of Nabbila village of the Upazila. Police said a Pabna-bound bus dashed...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel arrested an alleged extremist at Goalanda Upazila in Rajbari district on Friday. RAB identified the arrestee as Kodom Ali, a member of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Lal Potaka), an outlawed group. Being tipped off, RAB...
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