Ayesha Faiz, mother of popular litterateur late Humayun Ahmed, died of ailments at a city hospital Saturday morning at the age of 84, report agencies. She got admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at LabAid Hospital on September 11...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
Experts have called for establishing rule of law in the transport sector to ensure safe roads along with other factors like increasing educational qualification of drivers and creating mass awareness. They also said higher educational qualifications of drivers have been...
The present government has taken various steps to modernise Bangladesh Air Force (BAF). In this connection, the government has taken steps to induct nine K-8W trainer jet aircraft made by China. As part of this induction process, in the 1st...
NARAYANGANJ, Sept 27 (UNB): Police recovered throat-slit body of an unidentified young man stuffed in a suitcase from Kuripara area in Bandar upazila on Saturday morning. Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bandar Police Station, said local people spotted the suitcase beside...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 27 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) detained 17 people in Chandgaon area in the city while they were trying to go to Malaysia illegally early Saturday. Two suspected human traffickers- Humayun Kabir, 27, and Taslimuddin alias...
The International Right to Know Day will be observed in the country as elsewhere in the world today (Sunday), reports UNB. The day is observed to raise awareness of every individual's right of access to government-held information and the right...
BOGRA, Sept 27 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rescued a four-year old boy from Satshimulia area of the town on Friday night, five days after his abduction from Ashulia in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital. A...
A Bangladeshi-born naturalised US citizen has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend 25 years ago, reports bdnews24.com. Daily Mail and Huffington Post reported that Mahfuz Huq, 47, ran away to Bangladesh after...
Bangladesh will observe the World Rivers Day today (Sunday) to highlight the importance of protecting the rivers from pollution and encroachment, reports UNB. The World Rivers Day is a global celebration of the world's waterways, observed every last Sunday in...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions untill 6pm today (Sunday). Moderately heavy falls are also likely at...
Navy chief returns home Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral M Farid Habib returned home Friday after attending the 21st International Sea-Power Symposium which was held at Naval War College at Newport Road Island in United State of America, an...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
Green activists urged the government last week to realise an amount of Taka 25.29 billion as compensation from the owners of tanneries in Hazaribagh area for polluting Dhaka city's lifeline-the Buriganga. The Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA) put forward the demand...
FE Report | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
Uncertainty looms over payment of wages of workers of closed Tuba Group factories before the Eid-ul-Azha festival, sources said. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and the Tuba Group authority blamed the insurance company for not getting insurance...
NEW YORK, Sept 27 (BSS): United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon highly appreciated on Saturday Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for maintaining a stable situation in Bangladesh. He also expressed hope that the progress of Bangladesh would continue through the stability....
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
More than one-third of the readymade garment (RMG) factories in the country are yet to give group insurance coverage (GIC) to their workers, in what amounts to noncompliance with the labour laws. Industry-insiders fear such default issue on the part...
Bangladesh and Japan have signed an agreement to operate direct flights between Dhaka and Tokyo soon, reports UNB. A total of four flights will operate once a week through 'code sharing' between Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Japan Airlines Com Ltd....
LONDON, Sept 27 (AFP): Six banks may face record fines in Britain as they begin talks about a settlement following an investigation into allegations of rigging currency markets, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Barclays, Citigroup, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, the...
FE Report | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
A gang of unidentified robbers looted Friday a sum of Tk 19.5 million from a branch of Brac Bank Limited in Joypurhat district after breaking open its vault, police said. They said the occurrence took place at Joypurhat SME Krishi...
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the United Nations on Saturday to play the central role as the custodian of global peace, security and development saying the evil forces destroying secular fabrics of the nations should...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
The government of Myanmar has given citizenship to 209 of the Muslims displaced by sectarian violence, in what is seen as a good gesture to the minority community. It's a welcome beginning that needs to be followed through. Driven out...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
A report, released by the country's insurance regulator, has uncovered extensive irregularities in the maintenance of the books of account by the life insurance companies. The report of the Insurance Development & Regulatory Authority (IDRA) said life insurance companies have...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
The government is going to inject money further to the Rampal power plant despite failure of the Bangladesh-India joint-venture (JV) company to start installation of the proposed 1,320-megawatt (mw) coal-based plant, officials said Saturday. Power Division officials said the state-owned...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has warned that the government will be forced to sit for talks with her party over an interim election, reports bdnews24.com. Addressing a rally in Jamalpur on Saturday, Khaleda, who heads the 20-Party Alliance, claimed the...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-09-28 00:00:00
People in the city have been cautioned by the law enforcers about taking any food or drink from hawkers and roadside vendors as members of Agyan (doping) or Malam (balm) gangs have become active ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, officials have said....
NEW DELHI, Sept 27 (BSS): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jaylalitha has been pronounced guilty in a disproportionate assets case. She has been reportedly convicted under Prevention of Corruption Act Section 13 (1) (E). After this verdict, Jaylalitha can no longer...
JOYPURHAT, Sept 27: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested five members of a snake venom smugglers' syndicate with 12 pounds of cobra venom worth Tk 680 million (68 crore) from several parts of the district early...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hassan Mahmud Khandker said on Saturday the legal process was underway to bring back Nur Hossain, the main accused in the seven murder case of Narayanganj. "Investigation into the seven murder case is a judicial...
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