The World Bank will lend Bangladesh $140 million to improve and strengthen critical disaster prevention infrastructure in the country’s coastal areas. The assistance from the bank’s soft-lending International Development Association (IDA) will come under an agreement the global lending agency...
Bangladesh and China have signed five deals during a summit between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Beijing. The Sonadia deep sea port is not among these agreements. Hasina met Li at the Great Hall...
Two Formed Police Units (FPUs) of Bangladesh Police on Monday left Dhaka to join the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. The units comprising 140 male and 15 female personnel are under the command of Police super M Shawkat Ali. The...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Monday there had been mistakes on the government part in selecting people for the boards of state-owned banks. “We had many mistakes in our choice…There was a weakness in monitoring the banks,” he said, according...
Egypt’s relations with Bangladesh will remain ‘good on all fronts’ and the present Egyptian government is ‘purely a civilian one, not backed by army’, said its Ambassador Mahmoud Ezzat Monday. “I assure you, Egypt will have good relations with Bangladesh...
Health and Family Planning Minister Mohammad Nasim told Parliament Monday that a total of 11 doctors were terminated while punitive actions were taken against over 100 others due to their negligence of duty in the last five months, according to...
A schoolboy has been killed in a clash between two groups of college students in Jigatola in the capital, Dhaka. The boy, 'Ayaj', was a student of Government Laboratory School and sat SSC exams this year, according to a news...
KARACHI: The Pakistani Taliban Monday threatened more attacks after claiming responsibility for a brazen five-hour assault on the country’s busiest airport in which gunmen disguised as police guards stormed the international airport in Karachi, set off explosions and killed 28...
NARAYAGANJ: A court here Monday placed former Rab official Lt Col Tareque Sayeed on a fresh five-day remand in connection with the sensational Narayanganj 7-murder case, according to a news agency. Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Chand Nirupam passed the order...
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Monday alleged that the country is now under the grip of ‘uniform-less autocracy’. “The Awami League general secretary Sunday said criticism doesn’t suit those who placed budget wearing urdi (uniform) in the past. We...
The Bangladesh Bank has decided to give additional financing facilities to the local contractors taking part in the construction of the Padma bridge. A circular from the central bank said Monday the single borrower exposure limit would not apply to...
SANGSAD BHABAN: The Jatiya Sangsad passed Monday the supplementary budget of over Tk 80.66 billion for the fiscal 2013-14 to meet increased expenditures under different ministries. Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed the supplementary budget in the House on June 5...
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RAJSHAHI, Jun 8: Even after construction of four storied infrastructure and procurement of necessary instruments at a cost of Taka 100 million four years ago, dental unit of Rajshahi Medical College has not yet been turned into a full fledged...
BEIJING: Bangladesh and China Monday signed five instruments, including two agreements, one memorandum of understanding (MoU) and two Exchange of Letters (EoLs), to enhance their mutual cooperation in sectors like trade and investment, power generation and climate change, according to...
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PABNA, Jun 8: Angry mob vandalised a private clinic and also beat up its doctor after death of a patient in the clinic Sunday morning. Earlier, a housewife died after caesarean operation in 'Medicit Clinic and Diagnostic Centre' of Bera...
COMILLA, Jun 8 (UNB): Three people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a covered van and an auto rickshaw at Jagorjhuli area on the Dhaka-Cittagong highway in Sadar upazila on Sunday. Among the deceased, two were...
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NILPHAMARI, Jun 8: A day-long post-budget seminar was held in the conference room of Diabetic Samity Nilphamari on Saturday. Arranged by Campaign for Good Governance, a national NGO, the seminar was presided over by the president Nilphamari district Unnayan Forum...
GAIBANDHA, Jun 8 (BSS): With the rise of water level in two major rivers, erosion has taken serious turn at different places along the riverbanks of four upazilas in the district recently creating untold sufferings and anxieties for the river...
BARISAL, Jun 8 (UNB): Two children drowned in a pond at Fullashri village in Agoiljhara upazila of the district on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Poly, 7, daughter of Siraj Molla and Mim, 8, daughter of Shahjahan Talukdar...
CHITTAGONG, Jun 8 (BSS): A man allegedly killed his uncle Aminul Islam, 40, over land dispute at Keshua village of Borma union under Chandanaish upazila of the district on Saturday night. Police said Aminul died on the spot after his...
MANIKGANJ, Jun 8 (UNB): Police recovered hanging bodies of a woman and her daughter at Bojoynagar village in Harirampur upazila Sunday. The deceased are: Josna Begam, 28, wife of Tara Miah of the same village, and their daughter Sadia Akter,...
SYLHET, Jun 8 (UNB): The body of a young man was recovered from a fish farm in Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet on Saturday afternoon. The identity of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately. Locals spotted the body at a...
One beaten to death in Bandarban An accused of a murder case was beaten to death by locals in Aungjoy Para area of Ruangchhari upazila in Bandarban Saturday night. The deceased was Muslim Miah, 24, of the area. Locals also...
NEW DELHI, June 8 (agencies): China's foreign minister began a two-day visit to India Sunday for the first high-level talks between the world's two most populous nations since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took charge. Wang Yi arrived in New Delhi...
BANGKOK, June 8 (AFP): Thai police arrested seven anti-coup protesters after a flashmob rally held Sunday outside a Bangkok shopping centre in defiance of thousands of security forces deployed city-wide to enforce a ban on political gatherings. Small and increasingly...
QUETTA, June 8 (AFP): Pakistani paramilitary forces Sunday killed more than 10 separatist rebels in the violence-stricken southwestern province of Baluchistan as part of a fresh operation to quell a long-running insurgency, officials said. The operation in Dera Bugti district's...
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