Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has announced a proposed budget of Tk 15.725 billion (Tk 15657.5 million) for the fiscal year (FY) 2014-2015. At the same time, the DSCC approved amended budget of Tk 6.728 b of FY 2013-2014, according...
Speakers at a post-rally discussion in Rangpur have called for inspiring the businesspersons and common consumers in paying value added tax (VAT) properly to strengthen revenue earning for accelerating national uplift. They stressed for creating mass awareness in paying VAT...
Bangladesh has gained much from the verdict over the 25,602 sq km of disputed Bay area with India, says Dr Md Kawser Ahmed, an oceanography expert who teaches at Dhaka University (DU). He termed the verdict by Permanent Court of...
A man was crushed under the wheels of a running train in Chhopakon Railway Station under Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district on Thursday. Identity of the deceased could not be known. Informed by locals, a team of the Government Railway...
A mobile court in Sunamganj on Thursday fined four restaurants in Chhatak upazila Tk 45,000 for selling adulterated and substandard foods. The drive was conducted by Ainur Akter Panna, Upazila Nirbahi Officer and executive magistrate. The mobile court fined Pritiraj...
Three people died and another one was injured from electrocution at Sardar Para Chakchaka in Dinajpur Sadar Upazila on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Shuvo Rahman, 18, son of Majibor Rahman, Sadequl Islam, 16, son of Mafijul Islam, and...
More than 1 million people have been registered as fresh voters in 144 upazilas during the countrywide voter list updating exercise till Wednesday (July 9) that started on May 15. A total of 10,32,397 fresh voters – 5,87,351 male and...
The government of Bangladesh is considering granting working fathers a 15-day paternity leave to ensure proper care of the newborns and their wives. It was one of the 38 proposals, pertaining to the Ministry of Public Administration, mooted on Thursday,...
A new study finds that Canada’s number of billion-dollar firms by annual revenue are more globally engaged than ever but the country’s economy is far more dependent on smaller firms than other similar economies. The study, released by an organisation...
Indian outsourcing giant Infosys reported on Friday a better-than-expected 21 per cent jump in quarterly net profit, after winning new deals from US clients. The Nasdaq-listed firm said consolidated net profit climbed to 28.86 billion rupees ($ 481 million) in...
At least three people, including a woman, have been killed in a road accident in Chittagong, police say. Witnesses said two others were injured in the accident involving a lorry and a four-wheel human hauler at Saltgola in the port...
The government has formally recruited 2,072 candidates, who came out with flying colours in the 33rd BCS examinations, in government cadres. New recruitment branch of the Ministry of Public Administration published a gazette notification announcing the recruitment on Thursday afternoon....
Miscreants slaughtered a young man and dumped his body in Baradi Bhagar area in Kushtia town on Friday. The dead is Masud Rana, 25, an auto-rickshaw driver and son of Ear Ali of Jugia Darga Para village of the Sadar...
An Appellate Division bench of the Supreme Court has directed the authorities concerned take over the ancestral house of Suchitra Sen at Hemsagar Lane in Pabna’s Gopalpur area, and turn it into a museum without any further delay. The Appellate...
An alleged mugger was killed in a ‘shootout’ with members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in the city’s Khilgaon area on Friday. Two DB men were also injured in the gun battle. One pistol loaded with...
The CID has resumed investigation in Juba League leader Riazul Haque Khan Milki murder case. After accepting the petition, Metropolitan Magistrate Tareq Mainul Islam Bhuiyan directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to take immediate steps to investigate the murder at...
The government has allocated 314.41 tonnes of rice under special Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme for the poor people of Rangamati hill district on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Rangamati District Relief Office sources said over 31,441 VGF cardholders under 10...
The US’s medical research agency National Institutes of Health (NIH) is open to fund new areas of mental health research in countries like Bangladesh. Director of the Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health Pamela Collins said they...
President Barack Obama expressed concern to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday about the risk of an escalation of hostilities in the region and said the United States was ready to help bring them to an end, the White...
US soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the Taliban for five years, appeared smiling alongside a commander from the militant Haqqani network in a photo posted on a Twitter account by a supporter of the Afghan Taliban. On...
A man accused of fatally shooting four children ages 4 to 14 and their parents after entering their suburban Houston home disguised as a FedEx delivery man while looking for his former wife was charged with capital murder on Thursday....
The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), a Saudi government agency that channels bilateral aid to developing countries through grants and soft loans, has approved US$ 50 million for the construction of a bridge over Teesta River, and it is likely...
At least four Ukrainian servicemen and five coal miners were on Friday reported killed in the latest violence in the east of the country, where government forces are fighting pro-Russian separatists. The miners were killed after the bus they were...
Israeli air strikes on Gaza killed four more Palestinians before dawn on Friday, raising the death toll from the four day offensive to at least 85, while a Palestinian rocket hit a fuel tanker at an Israeli petrol station causing...
China’s yuan is a growing force in global finance, more than doubling in use over the past year, according to a new study from the Institute of International Finance. Although its use in the international payments system remains dwarfed by...
A cargo train used by Mexicans and Central Americans to travel toward the US border derailed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on Wednesday, stranding about 1,300 migrants, emergency services said. Many of the migrants aboard were young people...
A human chain was formed in Borobazar area in Chuadanga to resist the abuse of mixing of chemical substances and formalin. Professor Dr Obaidul Islam, vice-chancellor of the university, journalists Shah Alam Soni and Ariful Islam spoke on the occasion....
The UK Home Office has announced that it will place new restrictions on the entrepreneur visa in view of scams involving individuals and organised criminal groups. In an announcement published on gov.uk, the UK government’s central information portal, the Home...
European stocks opened firmer and lower-rated government bond prices edged up on Friday, as markets settled after a broad pullback overnight on concerns about Portugal's banking sector that highlighted contagion risk in the euro zone. European shares were still on...
US cigarette makers Reynolds American Inc and Lorillard Inc are in talks on a possible multi-billion dollar disposal to Britain's Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, as part of efforts to ease antitrust concerns over their planned merger. Confirming what people familiar...
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