Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave in city for China Friday on a six-day official visit during which both the countries are expected to complete negotiations on the construction of a deep seaport at Sonadia in Cox’s Bazar. During the...
BNP standing committee member MK Anwar urged the Prime Minister to arrange a fresh national election in line with people’s desire shunning her vanity. “You (PM) are freewheeling and saying whatever you like. You’re defaming the country’s revered persons. You...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith is set to present in parliament a Tk. 2.5 trillion national budget for 2014-15 fiscal Thursday. This will the first budget of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government since it was elected for the second consecutive term...
Venezuela has confirmed its support for Bangladesh’s candidature to the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and assured to arrange support for Bangladesh’s candidature to the Human Rights Council. Outgoing Venezuelan Ambassador to Bangladesh with residence in...
Cable TV network owners urged the government Tuesday not to impose 400 per cent supplementary tax on foreign pay channels in the upcoming budget to be placed in parliament on June 5. They also demanded that the government take steps...
Trust Bankl Ltd and Meghna Life Insurance Company signed an agreement recently under which insurance premium holders of Meghna Life Insurance Company will be able to pay insurance premium from anywhere anytime through Trust Bank Mobile Money. Trust Bank Mobile...
Attacks across Iraq, including in the normally peaceful south, killed nine people Monday after unrest a day earlier left 40 dead, the latest in a protracted surge in nationwide bloodshed. The violence comes as political leaders jostle to build alliances...
Former Jatiya Sangsad whip and BNP MP Mahbubul Alam Tara died at a Singapore hospital on Monday. Tara, also the ex-president of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal, breathed his last around 2:40pm at the National University of Singapore, said BNP chairperson’s media...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) member Nayek Subedar Mizanur Rahman, who was killed in firing by Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) men in Bandarban, was laid to eternal rest at Bhelanagar village in Debidwar upazila in Comilla district on Monday. Mizanur...
Voicing displeasure over the weak law of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), its Chairman Prof Dr Mizanur Rahman on Monday said human rights become the casualties in Bangladesh due to weak rule of law. “When there’s no rule of...
Water experts at a workshop here on Monday stressed the need for immediate renovation of the existing drainage system and sewerage network of the capital to address the water-logging and urban flooding problems. They said the drainage and sewerage network...
President Abdul Hamid on Monday urged ophthalmologists to organise regular eye camps in remote areas driven by professional pledge and responsibility towards common people with a view to reaching the eye treatment to the doorsteps of the hapless and poor....
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to probe the allegation of gold swindling in the crests presented to foreign friends in recognition of their contributions to the country’s Liberation War in 1971. The Commission at its regular meeting on...
A Narayanganj court on Monday placed former Rab officer Lt Commander MM Rana on a fresh five-day remand in the sensational seven-murder case. Senior Judicial Magistrate KM Mahiuddin passed the order when Detective Branch of Police Inspector Mamunur Rashid Mondal,...
The conflict in Syria has cost Lebanon $7.5 billion as it struggles to cope with hosting more than a million refugees from the neighbouring country, according to World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim. "We estimated last summer that the impact...
The National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reforms (Nicar) on Monday approved seven proposals, including setting up of two new pourasavas, two new upazilas and one thana. The approvals were given at Nicar’s 109th meeting held at the Bangladesh Secretariat with...
The military junta running Thailand has drawn up a list of emergency measures such as price caps on fuel and loan guarantees for small firms to kick-start an economy threatened by recession after months of political turmoil. The plans, outlined...
The state-run Teletalk mobile phone operator has been urged to modernise and expand its network across the country. The call came at the third meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry on Monday. The...
Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Roberto Azevedo will arrive in Dhaka on Tuesday on a two-day visit to discuss trade-related issues with the government and private sector entrepreneurs. He will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the...
The United States on Monday proposed ordering cuts of up to 30 percent in carbon emissions from power plants in President Barack Obama's most ambitious action yet on climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency laid out a proposal that would...
The board of directors of Wata Chemicals Ltd on Monday recommended 30 per cent stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2013. The annual general meeting (AGM) of the company will be held on June 27 at 11am...
Banks can now operate “agent banking” in municipal (Pourashabha) areas alongside the rural areas. A Bangladesh Bank (BB) circular on Monday amended its previous circular where it had barred agent banking within metropolitan, city corporation and municipal areas. The Bangladesh...
Accusing the government of its failure to run the state, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said there is no alternative to unseating this regime. The BNP spokesman was addressing a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club Monday,...
The country’s foreign remittance earning last month slightly declined to stand at $1202.18 million compared to $1230.57 million in April. The remittance inflow in March totalled $1288.62 million, according to the latest data provided by the Bangladesh Bank. The central...
Robi Axiata Limited has introduced 3.5G services at the same 2G data rates. It is expected that this move will make 3.5G services affordable for all consumer segments. The perception that 3.5G data price plans are expensive may be discouraging...
CHITTAGONG: The government is going to take steps against Maritime Dredging Corporation, a Malaysian firm, for leaving the Karnaphuli capital dredging project incomplete, chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Shipping Ministry Rafiqul Islam said Monday, according to a news...
Private mobile phone operator Airtel Bangladesh Limited has recently launched its 3G services in Rangpur. Abdur Rahman, Zonal Business Manager of North West Zone of the company and Muhammed Mozibur Rahman, Zonal Sales Manager, along with other officials were present...
Several rights groups on Monday urged the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to ensure that products from the least developed countries (LDCs) like Bangladesh get duty and quota free concessions in developed markets. The demand came at a human chain protest...
Law Minister Anisul Huq said Monday the judiciary should not take any step that might create anarchy in the country’s judicial system. The Law Minister, however, said the government welcomes the steps taken by the court on its own motion...
A new road connecting Siliguri in West Bengal with neighbouring countries Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal will be constructed at a cost of Rs 14 billion, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Monday, according to a news agency. "We will be developing...
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