Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu asked the US envoy Saturday to suggest BNP chief Khaleda Zia shunning militancy, patronising Jamaat-Hefazat and avoiding violence before suggesting her to take part in election, reports BSS. "We hope the US envoy in Bangladesh...
SYLHET, July 19 (UNB): Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) for his suspected involvement in Thursday's clash between two rival groups of JCD from Hazipara area in the city early Saturday. The arrested...
Awami League (AL) presidium member Advocate Sahara Khatun said Saturday the BNP's movement after the Eid would not be successful as the people are not with that party, reports. "The BNP's movement is the movement of burning buses, copies of...
MUNSHIGANJ, Jul 19 (BSS): Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan said Saturday Mawa launch terminal will be relocated to Simulia within next three months. After visiting the Mawa launch terminal, he said this while talking to journalists. Chief engineer of Bangladesh Inland...
As the cost of higher education in private universities in the capital is scaling up day by day, the government is thinking of introducing a strict law to check their profit motive apart from a plan to approve private universities...
FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
A group of civil society organisations held a human chain in front of the National Press Club on Saturday demanding immediate government steps to save coastal people from the devastation of tidal surge which is hitting the coastal areas along...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina hosted Saturday an Iftar reception in honour of professionals at her official residence Ganabhaban, reports UNB. Vice-chancellors and teachers of public and private universities, journalists, physicians, engineers, lawyers and businessmen were among the guests. The...
RANGPUR, July 19 (BSS): Director General (DG) of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Sree Devendra Kumar Pathak at a courtesy meeting with officials of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has committed to stop killings on the common borders. The BSF...
A systematic retrofitting work to make Tejgaon Fire Station building an earthquake resistant one has started for the first time in the country. Retrofitting is a technology that could be used to make a vulnerable building earthquake resistant without demolishing...
The government should make a sound national policy to use the country's marine resources for national interest, a meeting was told Saturday, reports UNB. The views-exchange meeting on 'Sea Port, Barapukuria and the Sundarbans' was organised by the National Committee...
The second death anniversary of noted litterateur, filmmaker and playwright was observed with various programmes in his home district Netrokona, reports bdnews24.com. To mark the day, black flags were hoisted in his village Kutubpur and at Shahid Smriti Bidyapith, a...
MANIKGANJ, July 19 (BSS): Communications Minister Obaidul Quader asked the concerned authorities to complete the necessary repair of all roads including highway by July 24 for smooth and congestion-free movement during the holy Ed-ul-Fitr. The minister said this while visiting...
Bangladesh Ambassador to Lebanon AFM Gousal Azam Sarker has been asked to return home immediately, a foreign ministry source said Saturday, reports UNB. In its July 17 letter to recall the ambassador the foreign ministry gave no reason. Azam has...
Masum, Sani elected president, GS of DUJA Masum Billah of The Daily Samakal and Sanaul Hoque Sani of The Daily Amader Somoy were elected president and general secretary respectively of Dhaka University Journalists' Association (DUJA) for the next one year...
Alhaj Maulana Abul Kashem died of heat attack at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the city recently. He was 63. He was the peer of Baniapara Darbar Sharif under Daudkandi Upazila of Comilla. He had been suffering form...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Rajshahi, Rangpur and Dhaka divisions today (Sunday). Moderately heavy to...
Ziaur Rahman | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Perennial dependence on the import of cotton yarn and woven fabrics is taking a little downturn as the readymade garment (RMG) manufacturers are using more such local raw materials for the export industry. Sources said the yarn and fabric imports...
FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
A vested quarter is reportedly trying to manage the government to make international incoming call rate half from the existing US$ 3.0 cents in order to protect the interest of some companies, especially those allegedly involved with the illegal VoIP...
Ukraine has accused pro-Russian militiamen at the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash of trying to destroy evidence of an "international crime", reports BBC. For a second day, OSCE monitors at the scene have had their movements restricted by militiamen....
BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters): At least 38 people were killed in a collision between a bus and a van carrying flammable liquids in southern China, state media reported on Saturday, the latest in a string of accidents that have fuelled...
Fifteen Bangladeshi nationals, who got stranded at Erbil International Airport of trouble-torn Iraq, returned home Saturday, reports UNB. Deputy Secretary of the Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry Bodiar Rahman received the Bangladeshis when they arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia left the city for Saudi Arabia Saturday night to perform Umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government, reports UNB. The BNP chief flied from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in a flight of Emirates Airlines around...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
The monetary policy for the second half (H2) of the current calendar year (2014) should focus on ways to stabilise inflation and nominal exchange rate, said some leading economists. They also said the next monetary policy should keep adequate space...
FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Biman Bangladesh Airlines planes which usually cross eastern Ukraine to fly to Europe have been instructed to avoid the volatile Ukrainian airspace wherefrom a Malaysian jet was shot down last Thursday in a grim tragedy. The national flag carrier operates...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
A pall of gloom has descended over the globe for a unbelievably shocking incident. The aircraft of the Malaysian passenger airlines on way to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam was shot down over the sky of Ukraine, killing all the passengers...
Monira Munni | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
About 32 per cent of the apparel factories, surveyed by a government organisation, have not issued appointment letters and identity cards with photographs to their workers. The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) under the ministry of labour...
Siddique Islam | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
The interest rate spread in the country's banking sector widened further in May as most of the banks cut deposit rates, keeping their lending rates almost unchanged. The weighted average spread between lending and deposit rates offered by the commercial...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Many government agencies are now in a scramble for purchasing cars from the project funds. The Rural Electrification Board (REB) alone will purchase 74 vehicles under a project at a cost of Tk 122 million, officials said Friday. Of the...
FE Report | 2014-07-20 00:00:00
Advance ticket sale of state-run Bangladesh Railway (BR) and BRTC ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr begins today (Sunday), while people started gathering at bus counters and railway stations from Saturday night, long before the beginning of official sale, sources said. Private...
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