The price of oil has been in a slide all summer and hit a downward milestone Tuesday when the international benchmark closed below $100 a barrel. Driving the momentum is cooling global demand, combined with continuing growth in US production...
Egypt has signed a $500 million loan with the World Bank to provide natural gas to Egyptian households, the government said in a statement on Thursday. The loan will help fund a Petroleum Ministry plan to connect 850,000 Egyptians, particularly...
Grameenphone Ltd, the largest telecom operator of the country, has signed an agreement with Ethics Advanced Technology Ltd (EATL) on Wednesday to support the year-long journey of EATL-Prothom Alo Apps Contest 2015. EATL Managing Director MA Mubin Khan and Grameenphone...
Senior IAS officer Subhash Chandra Garg has been appointed as Executive Director in World Bank. Garg, a 1983-batch IAS officer of Rajasthan cadre, will have a tenure of three years from the date of assuming charge of the post, said...
State-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) made a net profit of Tk 90.58 million in the last fiscal year (2013-14), according to statistics presented by Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader in Parliament on Thursday, according to a news...
Prof Khaleda Ekram of the Architecture Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) has been appointed as its first woman vice chancellor. The education ministry issued a circular in this regard on Thursday, according to a news agency.
The International Finance Facility for Immunisation Co. (IFFI), for which the World Bank acts as treasury manager, has picked four banks for a potential US dollar-denominated sukuk, a document from lead managers showed on Thursday. Rated AA by Standard and...
Bangladesh will export between 50,000 and 100,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka this year, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed has said. Speaking at the inauguration of the 4th Agro Bangladesh Expo on Thursday, he said that cash incentives would be...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Thursday in a circular asked all banks to accelerate their loan disbursement process along with sanctioning fresh loans to the farmers, badly affected by the recent flooding in 21 districts. "The central bank has directed all...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate the Bimstec Secretariat in Dhaka on Saturday, said an official at the foreign ministry on Thursday. The Secretariat is expected to enhance Bangladesh’s image among the international community and deepen mutual understanding and...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said every government should have the political will to ensure the welfare of children living with autism. She said this when a 10-member delegation of autism specialists, led by Julien Pitton, met her at...
The High Court (HC) on Thursday granted ad interim anticipatory bail to ruling Awami League MP Abdur Rahman Bodi, an accused in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, as he surrendered to it. After a brief hearing on...
Keeping up their attack on the government, BNP leaders on Thursday alleged that the current regime has an ill-motive behind its move to empower parliament to remove Supreme Court judges. “This is an illegal government…even then it has taken the...
Attorney General (AG) Mahbubey Alam on Thursday accused Dr Kamal Hossain and Barrister Amir-Ul Islam of shaking hands with Quader Mollah’s cronies. The chief government law officer came up with the remarks while addressing a meeting organised by Bangabandhu Ainjibi...
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JHENIDAH, Sept 10: Jhenidah-Harinakundu Zila road has been in dire straits for long causing immense suffering to the pedestrians and all kinds of commuters on the route. Roads and Highways Department (RHD) sources said the total length of the road...
UNB reports: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives recovered firearms, hand bombs and Indian Phensidyl syrup and arrested two woman drug peddlers from Shailkupa and Kaliganj upazilas in Jhenaidah on Tuesday. The arrestees were identified as Chaina...
KUSHTIA, Sept 10 (UNB): Two sisters were electrocuted at Jhawdia Boalbari village under Islamic University Police Station on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Shibarun Nessa, 50, wife of Zamir Mondal of the village, and her sister Baharun Nessa,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-09-11 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Sept 10: Physicians of 33rd BCS cadre, who were appointed and joined in different vacant posts in the district's health sector, were ceremonially greeted in Nilphamari on Tuesday. A total of 77 such physicians were accorded welcome in the...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 10 (UNB): A woman was slaughtered allegedly by her daughter-in-law at Barumchhara village in Anwara upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sohagh Khatun, wife of Fazlul Haque of the village. Police said Jasim Uddin, son of...
JHALAKATHI, Sept 10 (UNB): Guava growers in the district are being deprived of fair price of their produce due to communication problem. Sources concerned said for the development of the communication system in the district, especially the part covering the...
MANIKGANJ, Sept 10 (BSS): Prices of all kinds of fish and vegetables went up in Manikganj as the normal supply chains were disrupted by days of relentless rain and flood water. Sources said heavy rainfall and flood water has inundated...
GAIBANDHA, Sept 10 (BSS): A madrasha located at Tengrakandi char under Fulchhari upazila in the district got sanitary latrines very recently from a local reputed NGO SKS Foundation for its students. The latrines were constructed for the students of Tengrakandi...
SIRAJGANJ, Sept 10 (UNB): A court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to death and another to life term imprisonment for killing a fish trader in 2009. The condemned convict was identified as Mansur Ali, 30, son of late...
KHULNA, Sept 10 (BSS): The newly appointed Khulna Divisional Commissioner here on Wednesday said journalists can play vital role in implementing the government's 'Charter of Changes: Vision 2021'. Tremendous success has been achieved so far in different sectors he said...
PABNA, Sept 10 (BSS): A man was killed in a road accident at Jalalpur on the Pabna-Dhaka Highway under Sadar upazila this morning. The deceased was Sahidul Islam, 30, son of Abdus Samad of Jalalpur-Natunpara area of the upazila. Police...
The third training course on development of efficiency of managers and workers engaged in social works, organised by Bangladesh Jatiyo Samajkalyan Parishad was held from August 31, 2014 to September 4, 2014 under the Ministry of Social Welfare. Participants from...
Road Transport Minister Obaidul Quader has said that the alignment and the designs of 16 stations for the Metrorail have been finalised. He was speaking to reporters after inspecting roads in Moghbazar on Thursday. “Today we’ve finalised the alignment and...
Body of a college girl recovered in Barisal Police recovered the body of a college girl from Nayabari village under Ujirpur upazila of Barisal Tuesday morning. The victim was Sonia Akhter, 20, daughter of Khalekh Shikder of the same area...
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