Ridwan Quaium | 2014-06-09 00:00:00
Previously it was thought by transportation experts that the only solution to traffic congestions was to enhance roadway capacity by adding more lanes to the existing network apart from building new roads, flyovers and highways. However, judging by experiences in...
Bangladesh has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China for building an underwater tunnel on Karnaphuli River in Chittagong. Secretary of Bridges Division Khondoker Anwarul Islam and China’s Vice Minister of Transport and Communications Chi-Kuo Mao signed the $...
Ekram Mancho and Nagorik Samaj have called a 48-hour hartal (shutdown) from Wednesday at Fulgazi Upazila in Feni district to protest the killing of Fulgazi Upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque Ekram. Upazila (UZ) unit Jubo League general secretary Golam Rabbani confirmed...
Police in a drive have recovered 80 gold bars weighing 9.3 kilograms (kg) in the city. Two people have also been arrested in this connection. Acting on secret information, a tem of the Delective Branch (DB) of police conducted the...
BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah stressed the need for a consensus among all parties in the interest of the country's development and a 'participatory election' without any further delay, reports bdnews24.com. The senior BNP leader made this observation...
Narendra Modi government will deal the 'infiltration and illegal immigrants' issue in India's northeast as a matter of 'priority'. The new government will also complete all pending fencing work along the northeast border. Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has said this...
Some 100,000 hectares of land could emerge from the Bay of Bengal as about 7.0 billion tonnes of silt fall into it each year from China and India, says Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju, reports UNB. "Another Bangladesh...
A White Paper on corruption in the financial sector will be published in the middle of the next financial year (FY), Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith has said. In a closing discussion on the supplementary budget of FY 2013-2014,...
The High Court (HC) has issued a rule on the authorities asking why it should not order the removal of Nizam Uddin Hazari from Parliament, reports bdnews24.com. The Feni-2 MP is under trouble for his alleged involvement in the killing...
Deploring that successive finance ministers were mum over the budgetary allocation for the Defence Ministry, JSD MP Moinuddin Khan Badal has demanded explanation for allocating Tk 164.62 billion (Tk 16,462 crore) in the 2014-2015 fiscal for the ministry. ‘It’s become...
State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said the ministry is 'processing' ULFA leader Anup Chetia's request for voluntary repatriation to India, reports bdnews24.com. The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leader, who had been in a Bangladeshi jail...
Miscreants abducted two people, including a village head, in Baghaichhari Upazila in Rangamati district early Tuesday. The victims were identified as Ramani Mohon, village head of Nalbunia village, and Arun Bikash Chakma, a resident of Baro Durchhari village in the...
BRAHMANBARIA, June 8 (UNB): A court here on Sunday asked the authorities concerned to take steps subject to proper investigation into the mater against nine Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members over the allegation of custodial torture on businessman Shahnur Alam,...
Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel arrested a suspected ringleader of 'Sejo Bahini', a forest robbers' gang, from a char (shoal emerged from riverbed) in Paikgachha upazila in Khulna district on Tuesday. The arrested is Rawshan Gazi, alias Sona, 35, son of...
CHITTAGONG, June 8 (BSS): The Civil Aviation officials of Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport arrested 40 people, including Rohingya intruders while collecting boarding card giving false information for going to Libya by two flights at 6:00 pm Sunday. Airport Manager...
Ruling Awami League (AL) leader Anwar Hossain, who joined the Narayanganj-5 by-poll fray in defiance of his party's decision, has pulled out of the race, reports bdnews24.com. He is the chief of the party's Narayanganj City unit. When Narayanganj-5 constituency...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will start selling of four essential items at 24 outlets in Khulna city through 529 dealers from Tuesday. The items are sugar, gram, pulse and edible oil. TCB will sell sugar at Tk 41...
Narayanganj Bandar thana unit BNP president Nuruddin was expelled from the party on charge of violating the party discipline, reports UNB. A press release signed by BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said Sunday Nuruddin was expelled from the...
FE Online Report | 2014-06-09 00:00:00
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) opened positive while the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early part of the session on Tuesday, the 3rd trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down...
A Dhaka Court deferred hearing to frame charges against BNP leaders, including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, until August 10 in three separate cases, reports bdnews24.com. Metropolitan Magistrate Tarek Mainul Islam Bhuiyan issued the order Sunday following a...
Corroborating some other prosecution witnesses' evidence, a freedom fighter (FF) accused Sunday Sobhan of stabbing three people to death after dragging them out of a mosque at Ishwardi, Pabna on April 17-18 during the Liberation War in 1971, reports UNB....
Expressing his extreme concern over alleged cheating on hiring manpower for the Padma bridge project, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader made it clear Sunday that there is no such scope but the Chinese company, which got the contract for the construction...
Gradual adoption of greener fuels for transport vehicles over the last one decade is showing a prospect of reducing air pollution in the city, according to an expert, reports UNB. Addressing a seminar on 'Air and Water Pollution Aspects of...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-09 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, June 8: Jail Superintendent of Chittagong central jail, jailor and seven others have been sued in a case filed by a relative of Zakir Hossain (30), who died in custody. Zakir's younger brother Yakub Kaiser filed the case with...
Two football fans died while trying to put up the flags of Argentina in Dhaka and Munshiganj Saturday and Sunday ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, reports UNB. A young man died from electrocution while trying to put up...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim requested Sunday the established hospitals in the city and outside to provide free health care facilities to poor mothers who can not bear cost of treatment, reports BSS. "It is very sad that,...
COMILLA, June 8 (UNB): Three people were killed and two others injured in a collision between a covered van and an auto rickshaw in the Jagorjhuli area on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in sadar upazila Sunday. Among the dead, two are...
The parliamentary standing committee report on 'Bangladesh Journalists' Welfare Trust Bill, 2014' was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad Sunday with a recommendation for passage of the bill in an amended form, reports BSS. Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information...
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