The Primary and Ebtedayee Terminal Examinations-2014 will begin in the country on Sunday morning. Some 27,88,544 students from schools, while 3,05,721 from madrasas will take part in the examinations to be held simultaneously at 6,791 centers across the country. The...
Police arrested Sylhet district unit president of Jatiyatabadi Tarun Projonmo Dal (JTPD) from Ambarkhana area in the divisional city on Wednesday night. The arrestee was identified as Layek Ahmed, president of the district unit of JTPD and son of Nazmul...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday came down heavily on the prosecution for its failure to submit a comprehensive investigation report on detained war crimes suspects Obaidul Haque alias Taher and Ataur Rahman alias Noni of Netrokona as promised. The...
Residents in a locality of Dhaka's Dhanmondi have been suffering an acute water crisis for the past six months. They say the situation has gone only from bad to worse in the last couple of months, compounding their problems. They...
A deadly snowstorm has swept New York’s Buffalo leaving seven people dead. A source at the ministry of foreign affairs of Bangladesh on Thursday said no Bangladeshi casualties reported from the snowstorm-hit county city Buffalo in New York and its...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has arrived in the Australian city of Melbourne on a five-day visit to Australia. During the visit, the Bangladesh’s Commerce Minister will participate in a seminar, styled ‘Global Garment Industry after Rana Plaza: The Way Found’....
Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain informed the Jatiya Sangsad (parliament) that inward remittance to Bangladesh was US $ 11,465.54 million (Tk 88,997.34 crore) till October of 2014. Replying to a scripted question of Treasury Bench...
Customs Intelligence officials arrested a Pakistani citizen and recovered 11.7 million (1.17 crore) Indian rupees from him at Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday. The arrestee was identified as Muhammad Selim, a Pakistan national. Joint Commissioner of...
Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed (Sajeeb Wazed Joy) and Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury have been appointed as Advisers to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. According to a gazette notification of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), noted IT expert Sajeeb Wazed Joy, also son of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the importance of transit through India for establishing connectivity with Bhutan and Nepal to further enhance trade and business among South Asian countries. The Prime Minister said this when visiting Chairperson of the...
Speakers at a workshop in Dhaka on Thursday stressed curbing corruption, improving traffic situation and ensuring political stability to attract investment for the healthy growth of the country’s economy. They came up with the observation at a workshop titled, “Prospects...
Grameenphone's (GP) board has appointed Rajeev Sethi as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company. Sethi, who has been the marketing chief of Uninor, the Indian subsidiary of GP's parent company Telenor, will replace Vivek Sood from December...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday told the House that Bangladesh exported medicine to 107 countries across the world in the last fiscal year 2013-14. The minister was answering to a number of scripted questions tabled in the Parliament, according...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Thursday expressed optimism that Bangladesh would exceed US$ 2 billion export volume of RMG products to Australia in next four years, according to a news agency.
Bangladesh has been elected Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC). The election took place at the 29th session of the Intergovernmental Council of IPDC being held from November 20-21, 2014...
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Stocks returned to the green Wednesday after four sessions’ fall as investors took position on lucrative price level stocks. The market opened with a positive mood which sustain till the market closure. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock...
The 2-day Asia-Pacific conference on gender equality began in Bangkok on Wednesday morning. Ministers, mostly women affairs, of the UN Asia-Pacific region have converged on its regional headquarters in the Thailand capital with an aim to agree on a common...
A Rajshahi court on Wednesday placed 11 people on a 2-day police remand over the murder of Rajshahi University (RU) teacher AKM Shafiul Islam. Metropolitan Magistrate, Rajshahi, Sharmin Akter issued the order in the afternoon. Motihar Police station’s OC Alamgir...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised on establishing connectivity between Bangladesh and Bhutan to further boost bilateral trade and business. 'We must establish connectivity to further increase bilateral trade and business,' the PM said on Wednesday afternoon when Bhutanese Ambassador...
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested three more foreign nationals from Uttara area in the city on Wednesday for staying in the country illegally. The Rab conducted the drive alongside other law enforcing agencies as part of the operation against...
Noting that the confidence and trust of people are the biggest power for Awami League (AL), Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said in Parliament on Wednesday that the “people of Bangladesh now have full confidence and trust” in the current AL...
Newly-appointed Bangladesh Ambassadors to Vietnam and Austria Shahab Ullah and Abu Zafar respectively made courtesy calls separately on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Wednesday. President Hamid asked the new ambassadors to work with utmost sincerity to brighten Bangladesh’s image...
A Pakistani court has given the death sentence to four people for bludgeoning to death a pregnant relative who had married against their consent. Farzana Parveen, 30, was beaten with bricks and sticks in May outside Lahore's high court. Police...
President Abdul Hamid underscored Wednesday the need for the united efforts of all so that private universities cannot turn into profit-making institutions. "We've to keep in mind that higher educational institutions must not become profit-making business organisation in any way....
The central bank chief has vowed a crackdown on defaulters failing to service huge debts owed to Bangladesh's commercial banks and ruled out concessions for chronic defaulters beyond existing norms. "We must bring down the level of loan default to...
Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee has said Bangladesh is a role model for its remarkable achievements in women empowerment. She conveyed tribute to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and expressed her deep interest to meet her when she will visit the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday distributed cheques of financial assistance among five ailing personalities in the field of literature, art and culture as well as to an organisation working with autistic and physically challenged persons in Manikganj. The Prime...
A deputy general manager of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and four others will be questioned for four days in police custody over their suspected ties to gold smuggling. They are Biman DGM Emdad Hossain, Flight Captain Shahidullah, Schedule in-charge Tozzamel Haque,...
JSD lawmaker Mainuddin Khan Badal on Wednesday in Parliament urged the authorities concerned to remove all the barriers to help expand the operations of private airlines in the country. Taking the floor on a point of order, he said economic...
Vehicles will be checked for papers just about anywhere, said the road transport minister, describing an ongoing drive as a new means of tracking down unfit vehicles. Obaidul Quader spoke of shifting gear to strengthen the current operation by the...
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