Washington, Aug 7 (PTI): Renewable energy and energy security would be the focus of the two-day annual India-US Energy Summit to be held here next month. Noting that energy security is critical for both the US and India, Dr R...
MOSCOW, Aug 7 (AFP): Russia and Iran have agreed to discuss next month a contract for Tehran to export two per cent of its annual oil production in apparent circumvention of sanctions imposed over its nuclear drive. The controversial deal...
The Information Ministry issued Thursday the gazette notification on the National Broadcasting Policy 2014 amid widespread criticisms by media professionals and some political parties, reports UNB. "The gazette notification on the broadcasting policy approved by the cabinet was issued today,"...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been invited to address the United Nations General Assembly next month for Bangladesh's 'best performance' in the health sector, reports bdnews24.com. Health Secretary MN Neazuddin addressing 6,151 new doctors Thursday said the UN has invited...
FE Report | 2014-08-08 00:00:00
A fresh move is underway to strengthen coordination among all the agencies concerned to help check capital flight from the country, officials said Thursday. According to them, the National Coordination Committee on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism...
FE Report | 2014-08-08 00:00:00
Agitating workers of the Tuba Group called Thursday strike at apparel factories across the country for Saturday after they had been forcibly driven out of the venue of their hunger strike in the city by the police in the afternoon....
Munima Sultana | 2014-08-08 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) is finally going to seek legal advice to avert any possible conflict in awarding river training work of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project to Chinese company Sinohydro. The BBA's latest move came following the company's...
FE Report | 2014-08-08 00:00:00
The country's foreign exchange (forex) reserve crossed US$22 billion-mark for the first time Thursday, thanks to a robust growth of export earnings. The reserve rose to $22.05 billion on the day, setting a new record, from $21.72 billion of the...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-08-08 00:00:00
The revenue board has instructed taxmen across the country to intensify focus on collection of tax at source, plug holes of revenue leakage and find out areas vulnerable to concealment. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) gave the directives to...
MUNSHIGANJ, Aug 7 (UNB): The divers could not yet locate the sunken launch, Pinak-6, even after four days of the mishap that occurred due to strong currents. Meanwhile, another salvage ship Kandari-2 has been working to rescue the capsized launch...
NARAYANGANJ, Aug 7: The probe body, formed by the government to investigate the sensational seven-murder incident, will quiz Shamim Osman, MP and city mayor Selina Hayet Ivy. Shahjahan Ali Mollah, head of the probe body, said Osman and Ivy will...
'Puthi', the country's first-ever Bangla Optical Character Recogniser (OCR), was launched on Thursday, aiming to digitise, archive, search and edit all types of contents written in Bangla. Team Engine Ltd, a local company, has launched the first complete Bangla OCR...
Seven additional secretaries and acting secretaries under different ministries have been promoted to secretaries. The Public Administration Ministry issued a circular in this regard Thursday. — UNB
President Barack Obama announced on Thursday night he had authorised the US military to launch targeted air strikes if needed to protect Americans from Islamic militants in northern Iraq, threatening to revive US military involvement in the country’s long sectarian...
The Faridpur-Rajbari railway service which was closed 16 years ago has resumed on a trial basis after constructing new 30-kilometre track and reconstructing 7 railway stations this year. According to official sources, the rail service was abandoned on March 15...
Amid the confusion of salary disbursement, agitating garment workers on Thursday backtracked from their indefinite countrywide strike that they had called for Friday. Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee had called an indefinite strike in readymade garment (RMG) factories across the...
President Md Abdul Hamid has paid glowing tributes to the memories of Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib, spouse of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking her 84th birth anniversary on Friday. Begum Fazilatunnesa Mujib was born on August 8, 1930, at Tungipara village...
Bodies of 14 victims of Monday's launch capsize have been fished out the fourth day into the ferry disaster, bringing the body count to 36. Eighteen bloated corpses have been sent over to families after identification until Thursday, said Munshiganj...
Ex-cadets Association has called a half-day fishing-vessel strike in protest against killing of naval engineer Alek Mia. The organisation of former students from Marine Fisheries Academy, announced a slew of agitation programmes, including strike at the end of its protest...
The Narsinghdi district administration has formed a 3-member committee to investigate the bus accident that left 10 people dead on Dhaka-Sylhet highway. Narsinghdi Deputy Commissioner Abu Hena Morshed Jaman said: ‘The committee consists of Additional District Magistrate Zinnat Rehana, UNO...
A lawyer of Bangladesh Supreme Court has gone to the High Court for a ban on broadcast of Indian TV channels in the country. The petitioner, Ekhlas Uddin Bhuiyan, sought a ruling as to why Indian channels should not be...
Three people, including a woman, were killed and 11 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Shuklalhat under Sitakunda Upazila in Chittagong on Friday. The dead are Abul Kashem, 35, driver...
Islamic State fighters seized Iraq’s largest hydroelectric dam on Thursday, giving them control of enormous power and water resources and leverage over the Tigris River that runs through the heart of Baghdad. The fighting has trapped tens of thousands of...
Police have driven hunger-striking garment workers out of Badda’s Hossain Market where five readymade garment (RMG) units of Tuba Group are located. Witnesses said cops stormed into Tuba’s five garment factories on Thursday afternoon when most of the workers were...
Customs Intelligence officials recovered eight gold bars and some gold ornaments weighing about 1.200 kg from a toilet at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport in Dhaka on Thursday night. Sources at the airport said the incident took place just after...
A man has died in a ‘shootout’ in the Sunderbans in Khulna district. Police claimed that he was a robber. They said an hour-long gun battle took place at Bhutummari’s shoal in Jhopjhopia River in Koira Upazila on Thursday night....
Eight shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Rajganj Bazar in Shariatpur Sadar Upazila on Friday. Fire service sources said the fire originated from a restaurant at a local market around 5:00am and soon engulfed seven other...
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