FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh is at the risk of facing food insecurity, serious diseases, increased mortality and morbidity, loss of rural livelihood and marine and coastal ecosystem due to climate change, Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said Wednesday. The country is...
FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
A two day long training course on 'E-Service' for the administrative officers, personal officers and computer operators under the Ministry of Industries (MoI) started yesterday (Wednesday) organised by the A-2-I project of the Prime Ministers' Office (PMO). The training is...
TOKYO, Aug 6 (AFP): Tokyo stocks fell 1.05 per cent Wednesday after a sharp sell-off on Wall Street, with SoftBank shares dropping on a report that its US unit Sprint was abandoning plans to buy T-Mobile. The Nikkei 225 index,...
Khairul Islam | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
The government has finally turned down a proposal of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for allowing 'rest and recreation leave' facilities to the country's public university teachers and staffs, officials said. Although the universities' regulator had earlier applied twice seeking...
BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged Wednesday that charges were farmed against BNP leaders and activists in a 'false case' in a bid to keep the party out of election and annihilate it politically, reports UNB. "The government has...
Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad called upon the government Wednesday to register its protest on the streets against Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, reports UNB. "The Prime Minister earlier protested the genocide in written, but now I request...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Wednesday ten thousand more nurses will be appointed in the public sector hospitals and clinics in addition to establishment of a higher institution for postgraduate nursing studies, reports BSS. She said two more child...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
The number of people with disability is about 1.70 million in the country, which is 1.4 per cent of the total population (154.7 million). It was revealed in the primary findings of a national-level census of social welfare ministry. The...
FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
The government decided Wednesday to start Hajj flight from August 27 next. It will continue till September 28. The return flights will start from October 8 and continue until November 8. "Hajj flight will begin on August 27 and continue...
The first consignment of food grains for landlocked northeast India's Tripura state has reached the Ashuganj river port, a minister here said, reports bdnews24.com. He said that in the next two days, the consignment will enter the state through the...
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said Wednesday South Africa will soon recruit skilled workers and professionals, especially farmers, from Bangladesh, reports UNB. "There's an enormous demand for Bangladeshi workers in South Africa. The South African...
The newly appointed chairman of the Bangladesh Press Council (BPC), Justice Mohammad Mamtaj Uddin Ahmed, joined his post Wednesday, reports BSS. Earlier, the government appointed the retired Supreme Court Justice as Press Council chairman for the next three-year term. Mamtaj...
Two Bangladeshis arrested in Bahrain Police in Bahrain have arrested two Bangladeshis suspected of murdering a fellow countryman in the capital Manama. The Bahraini English language 'Gulf Daily News' reported on Wednesday that the two men were taken into custody...
Two more Bangladesh nationals were killed having been caught in clashes at Serraj in Tripoli, Libya Tuesday, reports UNB. Another Bangladeshi was also injured in the incident, said a Foreign Ministry release Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Jahangir Munir...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at most places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at many places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions today (Thursday). Moderately...
FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
Majority of the agitating Tuba workers refused to take two months' back pays offered by the owners and threatened to enforce a strike in all the apparel units next Saturday as the starter of a tougher movement unless their five-point...
NARSINGDI, Aug 6 (UNB) : At least seven people were killed and 60 others injured as two buses caught fire after a collision on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Amtala in Shibpur upazila Wednesday afternoon. Two of the deceased were identified as...
FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
A visiting team of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has expressed its satisfaction over the progress the country's apparel industry made in implementation of its action plan regarding workplace safety and labour welfare, sources said. A four-member delegation comprising...
FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
Eleven more missing passengers of the sunken launch Pinak-6 were found dead Wednesday as bodies of the victims are floating up the waters of Padma and Meghna in different districts along the banks of the two mighty rivers. One of...
FE Report | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
Energy Minister of Nepal Radha Kumari Gyawali said her country looks forward to signing an agreement on power trade with Bangladesh after striking a similar deal with India, as she stressed regional cooperation in this sector. "We are ready to...
Criticising the United Nations for its failure to take effective steps against Israel aggression in Gaza, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday lamented as the OIC and Arab League have failed to effectively protest the offensive, reports unb. She came up...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
A substantial volume of term deposits with scheduled banks is being diverted to the government savings schemes mainly because of the continuous decline in rates of interest offered by banks. Such diversion may leave a number of adverse consequences on...
Syful Islam | 2014-08-07 00:00:00
The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is unlikely to develop the Karnaphuli Container Terminal (KCT) by demolishing the existing General Cargo Berths (GCB) right now to keep the country's prime seaport operational, officials have said. The demolition of the existing GCB...
Narendra Modi is bullish on his government's neighbourhood policy and as part of it wants to push through the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA), signed with Bangladesh by his predecessor Manmohan Singh, in this winter, reports bdnews24.com. "He wants this done...
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