KHULNA, July 6 (UNB): An indefinite strike in all private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in the city protesting Wednesday's attack on Gazi Medical Collage Hospital by Khulna University (KU) students entered the second day, Sunday, causing untold sufferings to...
CHUADANGA, July 6 (BSS): Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-6 Battalion have regained possession of 75 bighas of Bangladeshi land from India at Benipur out post by the side of Bangladesh-India border demarcation pillar no-61 under Jibannagar upazila of...
Police arrested four fake Detective Branch (DB) men with firearms in Tongi Sunday, reports UNB. Police arrested three fake Detective Branch (DB) men with firearms from Khapara area in Tongi early Sunday. The arrested persons were identified as Jewel, Iqbal...
JOYPURHAT, July 6 (UNB): A girl, who was kidnapped by her former husband by killing her brother in Dogachhi of Sadar upazila on Friday night, was rescued early Sunday, 30 hours after her abduction. Police also arrested the prime accused,...
COX'S BAZAR, July 6 (UNB): Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized some 0.17 million yaba tablets from a fishing trawler in the Naf river in Teknaf upazila Sunday. It is the largest haul of contraband tablets by the border...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia expressed Sunday profound shock at the death of former Justice and Law Commission member M Sirajul Islam, reports UNB. Sirajul Islam, also the youngest brother of former Finance Minister and BNP standing committee member M Saifur...
CHITTAGONG, July 6 (BSS): Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested Nur-e-Alam alias Nuru,40, a CMP-listed top terrorist from city's Pahartali area early today. On his confession police recovered a Light Gun and cartridges from Ispahani rail gate area under Akber Shah...
Father died and son received serious wounds as a passenger bus hit their motorbike in front of Anarkoly Cinema Hall at Tongi on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway Sunday morning, reports BSS. The dead is Asaduzzman Khokon (42) and injured son Hamim Asfaqui...
Miscreants tried to pick up president of Dhaka Reporters' Unity Shahed Chowdhury from the city's Bijoy Sarani crossing Sunday evening, reports UNB. Shahed Chowdhury, also the city editor of the Bangla daily Samokal, was on way to the Tejgaon newspaper...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6:00 pm today (Monday). Day and night...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina alleged on Sunday that the World Bank cancelled its funding in the Padma Bridge project (PBP) being provoked by the United States and a vested quarter in the country. "The World Bank cancelled the fund being...
Munima Sultana | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) has in principle agreed to finance in the country's third mass transport project to establish 20-kilometre bus rapid transit (BRT) lane for running buses in dedicated lane from Airport to Jhilmil project area. After a meeting...
Khairul Islam | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Telecom operators and internet-service providers have proposed building up a central database for suspected mobile SIM cards to detect illegal VoIP (voice over internet protocol) call terminations that reportedly fetched fortunes for many in the business. The proposal on SIM...
Bangladeshi famed all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has denied having made any threat to quit Tests and ODI for Bangladesh, reports UNB. He made the remarks while talking to reporters at the Shahjalal International Airport Sunday on his return from London....
FE Report | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
The country's apex trade body stepped in Sunday to contain the prices of brinjal following its abrupt hike in the kitchen markets as the mechanism taken by the government to rein in prices failed to work, disappointing consumers, customers said....
Terming the TIB report on private universities 'immature, incomplete and baseless', Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said Sunday said the government would seek information from the TIB on what basis they prepared the research report, reports UNB. He came up...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Petrobangla has planned to appoint a consultant to estimate the reserve of methane, a coal by-product, in Jamalganj coalmine, north off Bogra, before extraction of the coal. A top official Sunday said the government will utilise the coal-bed methane from...
FE Report | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
The government dissolved Sunday the board of directors of the scam-stricken BASIC Bank and appointed Alauddin A Majid as its new chairman to replace Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, who made an unceremonious exit. Officials said the bank and financial institutions...
The Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee approved 'in principle' Sunday an offer of the Malaysian government to construct 8,400 residential flats for the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), the capital development authority, reports UNB. The committee at a meeting with Finance Minister...
Siddique Islam | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Country's overall imports grew by nearly 15 per cent in the first 11 months of the just concluded fiscal year (FY) 2013-14, thanks to a big (125.84 per cent) jump in import of food grains during the period, officials said....
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
Lengthy procedures of tax compliances coupled with higher cost and unofficial payments create a web of barriers to bringing businesses onto the tax-net in Bangladesh, an IFC study reveals. On an average, 339 days are required for resolving tax disputes...
Syful Islam | 2014-07-07 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) is going to procure 20 more dredgers without any need assessment, official sources said. The move to collect a number of dredgers at a time under one project has raised questions among the...
Customs officials and Armed Police Battalion (APBn), in two separate drives arrested two persons, with 7.6 kg of gold worth about Tk 38.2 million (3.82 crore) at the Hazrat Shahjalal (R) International Airport (HSIA) in the city Sunday. Assistant Commissioner...
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