Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to confer the 'Bangladesh Bank Award-2013' on Prof Dr Muzaffer Ahmad and Dr Swadesh Ranjan Bose (posthumous) for their distinctive and remarkable contributions to the field of development economics. A jury board comprised of five...
BNP’s Dhaka city unit convener Mirza Abbas on Sunday said though they want to face Awami League (AL) in the field, the ruling party opts to resist them by law enforcers. “Nasim (Health Minister) has announced to face us in...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia sat with BNP standing committee members on Sunday night to finalise her party’s fresh action programmes. The meeting began around 8:40pm at Khaleda’s Gulshan political office. Party sources said Khaleda at the meeting with the party...
The government has issued a special alert at immigration centres of all land, air and river ports for the next 90 days to prevent Ebola Virus Diseases (EVD) from getting into Bangladesh. "Several teams of physicians will work at all...
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed on Sunday suggested that the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) to create a fund to tackle crisis like the Tuba Group’s one. The minister made the recommendation at a press conference at BGMEA Bhaban...
JESSORE, Aug 9 (UNB): The rivers in Jessore district are in a moribund state as their flows have fallen drastically for widespread encroachment by land grabbers and unplanned government development projects. Sources concerned said though official records put the number...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 9 (UNB): Two people were killed and three others injured as a truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Moslem More on the Kharkhari Bypass Road under Matihar thana in the city early Saturday. The deceased were identified...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Aug 9 (BSS): Speakers in an advocacy meeting on Friday said Bangladesh government has been trying to reduce the rate of death in tuberculosis (TB) to half by 2015 through Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) programme. The meeting...
RANGPUR, Aug 9 (BSS): Leaders of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and Jatiya Jubo Jote here today called upon all pro-liberation forces to work unitedly for greater national interests in line with the spirit of the Liberation War for continuous uplift....
NARSINGDI, Aug 9 (BSS): About 25,000 under privileged women and girls in the six upazilas of the district have achieved economic self-reliance through various income generation activities during the last ten years. The women and girls with their own initiatives...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 9 (BSS): Speakers at a post-rally discussion here today unequivocally called for ensuring legitimate rights of the ethnic community people for their peaceful existence in society. They said the living and livelihoods of the ethnic community people have...
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
BRAHMANBARIA, Aug 9: Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL) officials and the district administration observed the National Fuel Safety Day-2014 in a befitting manner in the district town today (Saturday). BGFCL officials brought out a rally and paraded the streets...
JHENIDAH, Aug 9 (UNB): A man was chopped to death by miscreants following a conflict over a social matter at Shingnagar village in Shailakupa upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed Mandal,55, son of late Bhedai...
BENAPOLE, Aug 9 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 21 people on charges of their illegal attempt to enter India through Putkhali border Benapole early Saturday. Among the arrestees, there were 13 men, seven women and a child....
Our Correspondent | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
NILPHAMARI, Aug 9: One more private airline US Bangla, is going to start operation in Syedpur Dhaka airway very shortly. Sources said after the closure of the flights of Bangladesh Biman in this air route for lost making reasons, the...
MAGURA, Aug 9 (UNB): A young man died from electrocution in Molla Para area of the district town on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Shahajalal,20, son of Abdul Aziz, a resident of the area. Quoting family members, police...
Masum Billah | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
Dealing with mixed ability students in a class is a common phenomenon in teaching career though it is a very difficult situation for a teacher to cope with. A teacher's success depends on how successfully he/she can manage such kind...
Manuel Mogato and Lesley Wroughton of Reuters from Manila/Washington | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
China will come under the most concerted diplomatic pressure yet to rein in its assertive moves in the disputed South China Sea when the United States uses a regional security meeting this weekend to rally support for a freeze on...
Jessica Dye of Reuters from London | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is facing a mounting wave of lawsuits by women who allege that the company knew about possible serious side effects of its blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor but never properly warned the public. In the past five months,...
Suvashree Dey Choudhury and Manoj Kumar of Reuters from Mumbai and New Delhi | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has set himself a target of lowering consumer inflation and is even ready to raise rates to achieve it, risking friction with the new government if he is seen as overstepping. Rajan,...
Karar Mahmudul Hassan concluding his two-part article titled \'Road management and financing\' | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
Road experts have suggested various solutions to address the problems/bottlenecks. It is worth recalling here what Suleiman Hafez, the then Jordanian Minister of Finance, said at a seminar on 'Road Maintenance Financing' held in Amman on June 30, 1997. The...
Sulav Chowdhury | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
With the Russian annexation of Crimea, the shoot-down of Malaysian plane MH17 on Ukrainian air space, attempt of the USA to put Russian President Putin at bay, caprice in oil economics and formulation of BRICS Bank, a new dynamics in...
M. Serajul Islam | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
The Awami League (AL) is under mounting pressure from national and international forces to hold fresh elections in the country. The Prime Minister said recently: 'Big powers' are conspiring against her government but 'the country is advancing by countering such...
The health authorities last Thursday organised a unique event at the city's Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) where as many as 6221 newly-recruited doctors listened to orientation lectures delivered by the health ministry honchos. The basic objective behind organising the...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
The finance ministry in a report to the parliamentary standing committee on the ministry said that money laundering has registered substantial rise in Bangladesh with the proliferation of bribery, corruption, forgery, black-marketing and smuggling. The committee, following the report, recommended...
Shihab Sarkar | 2014-08-10 00:00:00
Greek philosopher Zeno (490 BC-430 BC) said, "The reason we have two ears and one mouth is that we may hear more and speak less." The observation laced with the law of nature seems to be oxymoron in the context...
The police crackdown on the peaceful workers of the Tuba Garment factory was unfortunate. The government and the BGMEA failed to handle the matter properly. In the beginning they did not pay attention to the grievance of the workers. The...
A media report on August 09 on the national flag carrier Bangladesh Biman causes agony. The airline, overburdened by manpower, is crawling along with taxpayers' easy money. Basically Biman does not earn its 'keep'; so why allow it keep wasting...
It is indeed heartening to know that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has taken the responsibility of treatment of ailing celebrated actor Khalil. I have grown up watching the acting of powerful actor Khalil. He adorned all kinds of role. There...
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