FE Report | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
Dhaka University (DU) authorities have reconstituted the committee against sexual harassment in the wake of increased sexual abuse in the country's leading public university. Following massive criticism and students' agitation, the university authorities recently temporarily terminated chairman of the Theatre...
Canadian International School opened the Space Science Club on CIS campus at Gulshan Avenue in the city recently. High Commissioner of Canada in Bangladesh Heather Cruden inaugurated the CIS Space Science Club, constructed with Celestron 11-inch schmidt cassegrain reflecting telescope....
Kumari Puja celebrated The third day of the Durga Puja, biggest festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, ended Thursday with Mohashtami Puja Proshashta and Brotoupabas (fasting) and Sandhi Puja at night. — BSS Man hacked to death in broad daylight...
Two Eid congregations at DU Two Eid-ul-Azha congregations will be held at Dhaka University Central Mosque at 8:00 am and 9:00 am. Khatib of the mosque Dr Syed Muhammad Emdad Uddin will conduct the first payers while Hafez Usaid Ahmad...
Water levels in 4 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 76 stations recorded falls, reports BSS. Among the 83 monitored water level stations, water levels at two river stations are flowing above...
Siddique Islam | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
The flow of inward remittances during the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY) marked a significant rise by 21.85 per cent to US$ 3.98 billion over the corresponding period of the last fiscal year, officials said Thursday....
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
The country's power development board will set up a 400-megawatt (MW) gas-based plant at Bibiyana for the first time out of its own fund to enhance the electricity supply Power Division officials said the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) submitted...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
The government is set to purchase power to be generated from solar panels to be set up on rooftops of houses in urban areas. Such power will be added to the national grid. With an aim to popularise solar power...
Our Correspondent | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Oct 2: US Ambassador Dan W Mozena has said women entrepreneurs of Chittagong are dedicated to building a golden Bangladesh and so they are favourite to him. He said this while exchanging views with directors and members of Chittagong...
Monira Munni | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
Some 1,587 Rana Plaza collapse victims and their families received the first installment of their compensation from the ILO-managed Trust Fund, officials said. A total of Tk 127.09 million was paid on September 30 through the DBBL accounts to the...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
A significant portion of home-goers left the city Thursday for their respective homes for celebrating Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja with their near and dear ones. However, the holiday-makers had to face hassles due to increased crowds at launch terminals and...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
Buyers' concern over artificially fattened cattle continues to grow in the absence of any specialised team at the capital's cattle markets to examine health condition of sacrificial animals. Although the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock had announced that they would...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
Container handling by the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) hit an all-time high in August last on an increased volume of 'project-related cargoes', official data said. The Chittagong port, the largest seaport of Bangladesh by capacity, handles around 1.6 million 20-foot...
M. A. Taslim | 2014-10-03 00:00:00
During the early phases of economic development most of the labour force of a country finds employment in agricultural and related activities. As other sectors grow with economic development, the share of the labour force engaged in agriculture starts declining,...
After facing expulsion from the Cabinet over controversial remarks on Hajj, Awami League leader Abdul Latif Siddique is now likely to lose his party membership, says a central leader of the party, report agencies. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 2 (UNB) : A Chittagong court has convicted five bank officials and sentenced them to life term rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating nearly Tk 45 million (4.5 crore) from state-owned Agrani Bank. The Divisional Special Judge Court of Chittagong...
The Environment and Forest Ministry on Thursday issued some directives to make people aware about preventing environment pollution with proper removal of waste of sacrificial animals during the Eid-ul-Azha. In an official handout, the ministry called upon all to remove...
NAOGAON, Oct 2: Three motorcyclists were killed as a bus crashed into their bike at Baboltali on Rajshahi-Naogaon highway in Sadar upazila Thursday. The deceased were identified as Abdus Samad Sardar (55), Abul Kashem (55) of Kismat Kasba village, and...
Bangladesh Bank(BB) Thursday issued another circular with a four-point directive asking the banks to ensure smooth operation of ATM (Automated Teller Machine) with adequate security during the holidays on the occasion of Durga Puja and Eid-ul-Azha. — UNB
More than two million pilgrims have begun walking to Mina on the first leg of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage at the heart of the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government has made elaborate arrangements to ensure the smooth...
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged all to remain alert so that no one can make petty gains by harming the country’s religious harmony. ‘Bangladesh is a land of communal harmony. Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Christians...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Abdul Latif Siddiqui’s highly outrageous remarks on Holy Hajj has shocked her. ‘I am shocked for irresponsible, outrageous comments of Latif Siddiqui that demeaned Hajj,’ she said while talking to journalists in Sylhet...
A police officer was killed and two constables were injured as a motorcycle carrying them slammed into the railing of Ghorashal Bridge at Muradnagar Upazila in Comilla on Thursday night. The dead is Abdul Quader, 40, sub-inspector of Muradnagar police...
Heavy traffic is choking roads and highways as people are heading out of Dhaka and Chittagong cities to spend Eid-ul-Azha holidays back in their native homes. Long queues of stranded vehicles in gridlocks could be seen in many places on...
Sellers are saying Dhaka's cattle markets are yet to see the kind of rush Eid-ul-Azha usually brings, but they are hoping that customers will start coming from this (Friday) morning. Eid-ul-Azha is on Monday. The haats (cattle markets) will remain...
At least two people, including a woman, were killed in separate road accidents at Mirpur and Abdullahpur in Dhaka city in the last 24 hours ending at 9pm on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Khadija Begum, 55, a resident...
Two bikers were killed and another was injured in an accident on the approach road (West) of Bangbandhu (Jamuna) Bridge in Sirajganj district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Abul Kalam Azad, 50, of Enayetpur area of Sirajganj and...
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