RAJSHAHI, Sept 19 (UNB): Two cases were filed in connection with the clashes between police and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir at Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) Thursday. Masud Rana, sub-inspector (SI) of Motihar police station, filed the...
TUNGIPARA (Gopalganj), Sept 19 (UNB): Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina paid tributes Friday morning to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing wreaths at his mazar here. After placing the wreaths, the PM stood there in solemn...
As part of its fresh bid to persuade the Narendra Modi administration to mount pressure on the Awami League (AL)-led government to hold a fresh inclusive election, BNP is now planning to send a delegation to India after Eid-ul-Azha. BNP...
US President Barak Obama has said his country would continue to work together with Bangladesh in strengthening the bilateral relations, and for achieving common goals of the two countries, reports UNB. The President stated this when newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador...
Maintaining their attack on the government for restoring parliament's power to remove judges, BNP senior leader Rafiqul Islam Miah said Friday it has jolted the judiciary like a tremor, reports UNB. Addressing a discussion, the BNP leader also claimed that...
SYLHET, Sept 19 (UNB): Ten people were injured in a clash between two groups of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in the city Friday over the new district committee of the BNP's student wing. The new district JCD committee was announced...
A joint meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) and Awami League Advisory Council will be held today (Saturday), reports UNB. The meeting will be held at the Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina's official residence Ganobhaban, said a press...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested seven suspected members of banned Islamist militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including its acting ameer, along with explosives from Turag Police Station area in the capital Thursday night, reports UNB. Of...
The 24-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh demanding the release of its jailed nayeb-e-ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, passed off amid poor response Friday, reports UNB. The shutdown programme ended at 6.00 am on the day. No major incident of...
A faction of Ganajagaran Mancha activists attacked another during a march protesting against war criminal Delwar Hossain Sayedee's reduced sentence, reports bdnews24.com. Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar and four others were injured in the fighting Friday evening. After a rally...
Observing that there is no unity on national issues, Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Dr Anisuzzaman urged Friday the country's young generation to put united efforts to build a nation with pro-liberation spirit, reports UNB. He made the call while addressing...
6 Jamaat-Shibir men detained in Satkhira SATKHIRA, Sept 19: Police arrested six leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from separate places in the district Friday. They arrested Maulana Mafidul Islam, secretary of Tala Upazila...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The Rampal 1,320-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant is now facing implementation delays as the Planning Commission (PC) has declined to approve it due to complexities over its funding and ownership, officials said Friday. Power Division officials said the PC has...
Rezaul Karim | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
Traders concerned are likely to procure rawhide and skin of sacrificial animals worth nearly Tk 30 billion during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest Muslim festival, industry insiders said. On the other hand, the tanners have set a target of...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
A latest study found a number of Bangladeshi rice seeds popular with farmers in India and suggested formalising the seed trade to mutual benefits of both the countries. The study, conducted by CUTS International, a Jaipur-based research organisation of India,...
FE Report | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
The ministry of finance (MoF) has given policy guidelines for the ministries and departments concerned to go the whole hog for attracting greater volume of foreign direct investment (FDI). Officials said the move came in line with a study carried...
EDINBURGH, Sept 19 (Agencies): Scotland has voted to stay in the United Kingdom after voters decisively rejected independence. Despite a surge in nationalist support in the final fortnight of the campaign, the "No" secured 55.30 per cent of the vote...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will deliver her speech at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27 and it will be in Bangla as usual. Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Dr AK...
Major General (Retd) KM Safiullah (Bir Uttam), one of the sector commanders in the Liberation War, has been elected new chairman of the Sector Commanders' Forum (SCF). Disclosing this in a press statement, acting Secretary General of SCF-Liberation War' 1971,...
BEIJING, Sept 19: China has fined UK pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline $490m (£297m) after a court found it guilty of bribery.The record penalty follows allegations the drug giant paid out bribes to doctors and hospitals in order to have their products...
Plainclothes police in a drive arrested seven suspected members of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), including the acting amir (chief) of a faction, from the city's Turag area on Thursday, report agencies. During preliminary interrogation, they confessed...
FE Report | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
Campaigners for socioeconomic progress called for adopting a strong, inclusive and people-centred post-2015 framework of action for a complete success of the Millennium Development Goals, as world leaders are going to meet at the UN for making decisions. They said...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-09-20 00:00:00
Local drug dealers have now started financing the establishment of Yaba-manufacturing units in the border areas of Myanmar adjacent to Bangladesh, officials said. Intelligence officials of the state-run Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) said they have information that nearly 40...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on Friday for greater cooperation between Bangladesh and India in the areas of energy, power, infrastructure development and tourism , reports UNB. Reiterating India's resolve to continue the full support to Bangladesh efforts for...
Without an effective opposition, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is under little pressure. Only if the prime minister feels that winning a third straight term in 2019 looks unlikely might she call an early poll in the hope of prolonging her...
Education will be central to the success of the international targets that will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015. That is the key point of a new booklet that will be released during the 69th...
A new United Nations report released in the US on Thursday said that undelivered aid commitments by developed countries were holding back progress in achieving the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), reports Xinhua. According to...
A worker was killed in a road accident in Chittagong city on Friday. The dead is Nazu Meah, 40, who hailed from Belchhari area under Matiranga Upazila of Khagrachhari. Police outpost sources at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) said Nazu,...
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