Ismail Hossain | 2014-07-05 00:00:00
Disappointment has gripped the country's printers as the government has invited international printing houses for the fifth consecutive year to print textbooks for 2015 whereas almost half of the local printers remain idle during the peak season. The government has...
Foreign products, especially manufactured goods, are gradually being replaced in the country with locally produced items, thanks to the country's strong manufacturing base and the government's policy support to grow local industries, reports BSS. Once upon a time, foreign products...
JHALAKATHI, July 4 (BSS): Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu Friday said the present government has taken various pragmatic steps to expand fish production in the country. "The government is working sincerely to increase the growth of fishes so that Bangladesh...
RANGPUR, July 4 (BSS): Expanded use of organic fertilisers substantially improves soil health ensuring sustainable crop productivity reducing use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, experts at a farmers' filed day said here Thursday. They put special emphasis on enhancing production...
SHANGHAI, July 4 (AFP): China designated a clearing bank in Seoul for yuan transactions in South Korea on Friday, coinciding with a visit by President Xi Jinping, as Beijing promotes greater use of its currency overseas. China's central bank has...
Taiwan's HTC swings back to profit in Q2 TAIPEI, July 4: Taiwan's struggling smartphone maker HTC said it has swung back to profit in the April-June quarter thanks to a boost from sales of a new flagship handset, but analysts...
BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah alleged on Friday that the government is trying to restore a controversial provision of the press law in a bid to hide its corruption and misrule, reports UNB. Addressing a discussion at the...
CHITTAGONG, July 4 (BSS): Air and sound pollutions in the port city have reached intolerable level making city dwellers suffer from different complicated diseases. Air pollution caused by black emission of smokes from unfit vehicles and dusts from open space...
LALMONIRHAT, July 4 (UNB): The Election Commission (EC) has filed a case against Jatiya Party (JP) chairman HM Ershad for not submitting the return of election expenses within the stipulated time. District returning officer of the January-5 national election and...
Police arrested three suspected members of banned Islamic outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh from the city's Badda area on Friday, reports UNB. The arrested were identified as Nayon, 25, an MBA student of Presidency University, Razan, 25, a last year student...
A local Swechchashebak League leader has allegedly captured a heritage building in Shankhari Bazar in Old Dhaka, which also houses a temple, reports bdnews24.com. Locals say Debashish Biswas, the president of Dhaka Metropolitan Swechchashebak League (South), threatened the residents out...
RANGAMATI, July 4 (UNB): Six organisations of Bangalee settlers on Friday noon withdrew their 36-hour road-waterway blockade enforced in the district protesting the tour of a team of International Commission on Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs to the hill region....
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists of Dhaka University unit engaged in a skirmish with shop employees at Nilkhet in the city on Friday, reports UNB. Witnesses said Sir AF Rahman Hall unit BCL vice-president Omar Faruque cashed out Tk 500...
Senior Awami League (AL) leader Suranjit Sengupta has advised Awami League (AL) leaders to organize the party besides doing development works for the Country, reports BSS. "To rule a country with some sincere ministers is not everything for a party....
Md Shah Jahan | 2014-07-05 00:00:00
The first ever law regulating brick production has come into force since July 1 without much preparation and any effort to familiarise it with both the brick makers and officials related to enforcement, sources said. Officials of the Department of...
As Bangladesh's export to India remains below the expectation despite having duty-free access, business leaders and economists said Bangladesh needs to look for alternative ways for closing the trade gap with its important neighbour, reports UNB. Proper market analysis, producing...
Life has been utterly miserable for them after the collapse of Rana Plaza 14 months back, but neither the government nor anybody else has come forward with any support for the owners of the shops housed in that doomed building,...
Our Correspondent | 2014-07-05 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, July 3: Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) director Md Solaiman was granted seven-day remand by a local court in a case filed over misappropriation of money. The court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Md Mashiur Rahman passed the order...
A youth killed himself hanging from the ceiling of a tin-shed house in the capital's Khilgaon area early Friday, police and hospital sources said, reports BSS.
MYMENSINGH, Jul 4 (UNB): Three people were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between two trucks at Meherabari in Bhaluka Upazila early Friday morning. One of the deceased was identified as truck driver Monirul while others could...
A move is underway to extend the agreement of two more power plants in the private sector, reports UNB. The two plants are 110 MW NEPC barge-mounted power plant (BMPP) at Haripur in Narayanganj, and 53 MW Ashuganj United Power...
The low over West Bengal and adjoining area persists and under its influence steep pressure gradient lies over the North Bay, reports BSS. Squally weather may continue over the North Bay, adjoining coastal areas of Bangladesh and the maritime ports,...
The two Bangladeshis, who were killed in a missile attack by insurgents in Libya last month, have been laid to rest in their family graveyard, reports bdnews24.com. The siblings, Swapan and Milon Syal, were victims of a June 21 missile...
GAZIPUR, Jul 4 (UNB): Muggers looted Tk 1.55 million from the owner of readymade garments (RMG) factory after injuring him at Harinachala in Konabari of the city Thursday night. The victim was identified as Mehedi Hasan, managing director of Oishee...
A group of officials of the Begum Rokeya University have kept Vice Chancellor (VC) AKM Nur-un-Nabi confined to his office for over 24 hours, reports bdnews24.com . Altogether 138 staff members have been protesting in front of the VC office...
Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation (BHBFC) provisionally posted a net profit of about Tk 1.95 billion (195 crore) in the last fiscal (2013-14), according to a statement of the state-owned corporation, reports UNB. The BHBFC profit was up by Tk...
SAVAR, Jul 4 (UNB): Robbers looted valuables, including cash and gold ornaments, worth Tk1.5 million from a house of a manager of Rupali Bank in Savar municipality Bank Colony here early Friday. Police said a gang of robbers, numbering 10-12,...
Apan Jewellers' Eid offer Apan Jewellers has offered an attractive discount on their various gold and diamond products on the occasion of the holy Eid-ul-Fitr. Customers will get a maximum of 30 per cent discount on various jewelries like necklace...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Sylhet, Rajshahi, and Rangpur divisions today (Saturday). Moderately heavy to heavy falls are also likely at places...
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