As the BNP chief has declared to wage movement after the Eid-ul-Fitr and the people waiting with anxiety to see what is in store, the ruling Awami League (AL) thinks the call of Khaleda Zia will not get any support...
RANGPUR, Jun 27 (BSS): Speakers at a views sharing meeting here stressed the need for increasing the rate of primary-level sub-stipend money for further enhancing presence of the students belonging to the hardcore poor families to attain hundred per cent...
Food Minister and Dhaka City Awami League (AL) joint general secretary Advocate Quamrul Islam alleged Friday that the anti-liberation forces were hatching conspiracies afresh against the government, reports BSS. "Conspiracy has been brewing up afresh against the government but people...
Several top leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) and the opposition BNP came together at Hotel Sonargaon Friday to meet visiting Indian minister Sushma Swaraj who came to Dhaka on a three-day visit, reports bdnews24.com Photojournalists, present at the...
COMILLA, Jun 27 (UNB): Former Jatiya Party (JP) lawmaker Ansar Ahmed who died Tuesday was laid to eternal rest with state honour here Friday. Mr Ahmed, also a freedom fighter, was buried at Bishnupur Graveyard following a namaz-e-janaza at Central...
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has invited Opposition Leader Raushon Ershad to visit Delhi, reports bdnews24.com. Issues like power, border, Teesta water-sharing dominated the hour-long meeting between them at the Opposition Leader's office in Parliament starting just before Friday noon....
The Consumers' Association of Bangladesh (CAB) alleged the Bangladesh Standards and Tensing Institute (BSTI) is not playing its due role in curbing the adulteration of foodstuffs, including the use of toxic chemicals, reports UNB. CAB general secretary Humayun Kabir told...
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu urged Friday journalists to play a positive role to free fruits and politics from formalin, reports BSS. "Like food and fruits, politics has become tainted . . . militancy, corruption and communalism are the key...
Some 53 fishermen were kidnapped from different areas of the Sundarbans under Bagerhat and Satkhira districts, reports UNB. The pirates abducted some 50 fishermen from four areas of the forest under Mongla Upazila of Bagerhat Thursday. The kidnapped fishermen hail...
Ismat Jahan, ambassador of Bangladesh in Brussels, has been reelected member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), reports UNB. Earlier, she was a member of the committee for a four-year term (2011-2014) and...
The anti-kidnapping squad of Detective Branch (DB) under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) rescued a little boy and arrested four alleged kidnappers from the city's Mirpur-12 bus stand area early Friday, reports UNB. The rescued boy was identified as two...
CHITTAGONG, June 27 (BSS): Communications Minister Obaidul Quader here said Friday the construction work of the much-cherished tunnel under the river Karnaphuli would start from January next year. "About 3.5 kilometres long tunnel would be built at a cost of...
GOPALGANJ, June 27 (BSS): State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki stressed Friday the need for establishing sense of dignity and relationship of friendship between adolescent boys and children to free the country from the curse of...
Miscreants allegedly tortured to death a man and later left his body near a dustbin at Karim Tower adjacent to the Dhaka Education Board in the city, reports BSS. "Being informed, police recovered the body near a dustbin of Karim...
Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 18.70 million in separate incidents in Sylhet, Madaripur and Dhaka districts Friday, killing an elderly man and injuring two shop employees, reports UNB. In Sylhet, sexagenarian Abdul Jalil (65) was killed in an attack by...
RAJSHAHI, June 27 (BSS): Need-oriented and effective measures should be adopted to protect the soil fertility and productivity in the greater interest of boosting agricultural output to ensure food security of the country. Time has come to bring all the...
SYLHET, June 27 (BSS): All concerned have been urged to plant more trees to build a green Bangladesh. General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 17th Infantry Division of Jalalabad Cantonment Maj Gen Muhammad Humayun Kabir made the appeal while inaugurating a...
Tk 6.1m Indian saris seized in Ctg The members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized Indian saris worth Tk 6.1 million from Mansurabad under Double Mooring thana of the port city of Chittagong Friday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Barisal, Rajshahi and Dhaka divisions until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), reports UNB. Moderately heavy to heavy falls...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-06-28 00:00:00
The Finance Bill 2014 is set to see some major changes, including continuation of tax exemption on capital gains for individual stock investors, when it is placed in parliament (Jatiya Sangsad) today (Saturday) for adoption, competent sources said. Finance Minister...
FE Report | 2014-06-28 00:00:00
New Delhi saw Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj's maiden Bangladesh visit extremely satisfactory and fulfilling. "It's our view that the visit is extremely satisfying and fulfilling. The external affairs minister goes back to India and hopes to build on...
GENEVA, June 26 (AFP): The UN's top human rights forum decided Thursday to launch talks on an international treaty that would hold corporations to account for abuses, despite resistance from the West. The 47-member UN Human Rights Council ruled that...
FE Report | 2014-06-28 00:00:00
Prices of turmeric, chili and cucumber were up by 33-35 per cent in the city kitchen markets on Friday, compared to the previous week. The prices of most vegetables also surged significantly in the last seven days due to rains....
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-06-28 00:00:00
A fall in foreign aid commitment by the development partners in recent months, coupled with a less-than-expected level of utilisation of such assistance, is set to affect Bangladesh's infrastructure, social development and fiscal management, experts and officials said Friday. Economic...
In a scathing attack on the Zia family, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged her archrival BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to stop killing people and disgracing the country by weeping to others, reports UNB. "I'll call upon the BNP...
CHITTAGONG, June 27 (BSS): A steel coils-laden lighterage ship sank in the outer anchorage of the Chittagong Port Friday morning. The incident took place at around 8 am somewhere between Alpha and Bravo anchorages of the outer anchorage when it...
COMILLA, Jun 27: Long tailback formed at two different spots on the busy Dhaka-Chittagong Highway due to separate incidents of road damage and accidents in Daudkandi upazila on Friday morning. Eliotganj highway police sources said vehicular movement was disrupted on...
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