The writer of the article titled 'Unforgettable Mosharraf Bhai', published in the August 20, 2014 issue of the Financial Express, has the following to say: Late Mosharraf Hossain, a former lawmaker, during his life-time, was extremely generous in helping hundreds...
How universally accepted positive developments are stymied in this country is best explained by the inexplicable delay in formulating rules necessary for implementation of an amended labour law. A year has passed since the latest amendment to the Bangladesh Labour...
Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi on Tuesday said lack of unity among different groups of people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is holding back the full implementation of the CHT Peace Treaty. “This (lack of unity)...
Abdul Bayes | 2014-08-26 00:00:00
Michael Lipton, a well-known economist and now a Professor of Economics at the Sussex University, recently talked on rural transformation in Bangladesh. In a seminar organised by the Bangladesh Economists' Forum, the economist has attributed the transformation to three 'F's:...
Tarequl Islam Munna | 2014-08-26 00:00:00
Fish has a very strong cultural attachment as an irreplaceable animal food source in Bangladeshi diet with high nutritional value. Unfortunately, over the years, marketing of fish across the country has been tainted by the abominable practice of applying Formaldehyde...
Israel has been launching its attack on Gaza since the holy month of Ramadan. Many Palestinians, including children and unarmed civilians, have died and injured, their homes destroyed, in the continued Israeli assaults. The big powers, including the USA and...
JERUSALEM: Israel has agreed to observe an "unlimited" ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP Tuesday, shortly after the deal was announced by the Palestinians. "We have accepted, once again, an Egyptian proposal for an unconditional and...
Much uproar has been sparked off by the sinking of Pinak-6 motor launch near Mawa Ghat recently. The media dealt with the tragic incident quite seriously. The launch sank in the Padma river with over 200 passengers. Its capacity was...
Ataturk Model High School, situated at the central point of Dagonbhuiyan upazila headquarters in Feni, is a non-government high school. It has vast properties including 240 shops in a large four-storey building. The school is called a bridge between Mujib's...
Zoglul Husain from London | 2014-08-26 00:00:00
Over the last two decades Bangladesh, in terms of development, has been making steady and remarkable progress. It has maintained both steady economic growth and human development, so that, according to the World Bank in 2012, it was then already...
Md Shahadat Hossain | 2014-08-26 00:00:00
Monetary policy is one of the important issues of the economy of a country. Monetary policy means a process by which the monetary authority i.e., the central bank of a country controls the supply of money often targeting a rate...
Accusing the government of snatching people's basic rights and annihilating democracy, BNP warned on Monday that this might invite bad consequences for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB. "The government has infringed on people's all rights and destroyed democracy. It...
Describing BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir's remarks on Awami League (AL) and its chief Sheikh Hasina as devoid of political etiquette, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said on Monday the people of the country will give a befitting...
Tarique Rahman has alleged Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led a family of killers, stirring up fresh controversy after having made waves earlier by saying he was a failure. The BNP senior vice-chairman made a series of...
Outgoing Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Li Jun met BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday night. The nearly two-hour meeting that started around 8pm was held at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office. Party sources said the BNP chief and the Chinese...
A Dhaka court framed Monday charges against 147 leaders and activists of the BNP-led 18-party alliance, including BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and publicity secretary Zainal Abdin Farroque, in a case filed for unleashing violence from an anti-government...
Terming BNP's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman a coward, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader urged him on Monday to return home to face Awami League (AL) politically, reports UNB. "He (Tarique) yells from London. If he has the enough courage then he...
Health experts said Monday there is no reason to get panicked about Ebola virus infection in Bangladesh, reports UNB. Doctors of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) came up with the assurance at a scientific seminar on 'Menace of Ebola...
Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia has been shut following a clash between police and members of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, reports bdnews24.com. Students have been asked to vacate the residential halls by 12pm, Proctor Mahabubur Rahman said. The decision was...
The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunals (ICTs) submitted on Monday a 844-page report to the prosecution on the war crimes charges against three detained war crimes suspects-Siraj Master, Khan Akram Hossain and Abdul Latif Talukder of Bagerhat district,...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 asked on Monday the prosecution counsel to satisfy it with legal points as to how a local civilian war crimes accused had exerted superior command responsibility in the commission of the offence of crimes against humanity...
NATORE, Aug 25 (UNB): A court here turned down on Monday the bail petitions of 72 BNP leaders and activists and sent them to jail in separate cases filed in connection with violence during the Upazila polls. Natore Chief Judicial...
FE Report | 2014-08-26 00:00:00
Experts at a roundtable Monday urged the government to increase funding to continue the present success of the country's tuberculosis control activities. "Better technologies may be needed to detect TB infection in future. Donor support is yet another concern in...
In the last 12 months ending in June, 2014, UNHCR estimated that some 53,000 people departed irregularly through Bay of Bengal from the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, a 61 per cent rise from the previous 12 months, reports UNB. As in previous...
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali stressed Monday the need for strengthening victim and witness protection regime through identifying and addressing the gaps to ensure the full protection of witnesses to terrorism, reports UNB. "We must leverage that synergy to further...
FE Report | 2014-08-26 00:00:00
Dhaka WASA has set a target to reduce dependency on ground water to 30 per cent from current 78 per cent by 2020. Managing Director of Dhaka WASA Taqsem A Khan disclosed this in a discussion meeting on 'water of...
NOAKHALI, Aug 25 (UNB): At least 10 fishermen were injured, including seven with bullets, in an attack by pirates in the Bay of Bengal under Hatiya Upazila early Monday. Ten other fishermen remain missing as the miscreants threw them into...
David Meale has joined the US Embassy in Dhaka as its new Deputy Chief of Mission, reports UNB. Meale was previously the Counsellor for Economic Affairs at the US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, says a press release Monday. With over...
Customs intelligence officials seized 893 cartons of contraband cigarettes from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city Monday morning, reports UNB. Airport custom officials said a flight of Qatar Airlines 'QR 632' from Pakistan via Doha landed at the airport...
Detective Branch (DB) of Police in a drive arrested four people along with .05 million pieces of Yaba tablets and some equipment used to manufacture the drug from the city's Khilgaon area Sunday night, reports UNB. Tipped-off, a team of...
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