Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina stressed Wednesday the need for flourishing science and technology-based technical and vocational education in a wider way alongside general education in the country to meet the growing job market demand, reports UNB. "Science and technology-based...
FE Report | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on finance ministry Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said Wednesday that most of the foreign development agencies are willing more to invest in awareness creation programme instead of infrastructural development. "Because of media coverage and...
Communications minister Obaidul Quader said Wednesday that coordinated drives would be conducted during the holy Ramadan and Eid festival for ensuring safe movement of passengers, drivers and pedestrians, reports BSS. Terming the traffic congestion a national problem and road accident...
Our Correspondent | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, June 16: Three persons including two school children were killed as a truck hit the auto-rickshaw carrying them in Sitakunda area today. The deceased are: Dr Mohd Jahangir, his daughter Anannya and Raojatul Jannat. Anannya and Jannat were students...
CHITTAGONG, Jun 18 (BSS): A Chittagong court indicted Wednesday eight persons for the collapse of an under-construction flyover in Chittagong that claimed 11 lives at Bahaddarhat crossing in 2012. Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge SM Mojibur Rahman framed charges against the...
Eviction drives started in the capital against illegal installations including shops constructed on the roads adjacent to different hospitals, including health directorate at Mohalhali in the city, reports BSS. At the directive of Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim,...
A female readymade garment (RMG) worker died early Wednesday as a truck knocked her down in the city's West Nakhalpara, police and hospital sources said, reports BSS. Hospital sources said the dead is Parul Begum (30). She received serious injuries...
A two-day 10th International Conference on 'Mechanical Engineering (ICME 2013)' will begin at the Council Bhaban of BUET tomorrow (Friday). Prof Dr MH Khan, former vice chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), will be present on the...
Visiting UNFPA Representative Argentina Matavel Picin met Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury at the latter's office Wednesday, reports BSS During the meeting, they discussed matters related to bilateral interests. They also discussed the participation of the Speaker...
Police recovered four bomb-like objects from the city's Chowkbazar area Wednesday morning, reports UNB. Sources at Chowkbazar Police Station said local people spotted the four objects wrapped with tape on the road in front of Sonali Bank branch at about...
Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi division today (Thursday). Moderately...
Syful Islam | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
No export has so far been made through the Pangaon Inland Container Terminal (ICT), as the time factor offsets different facilities offered to the port users to interest them. Officials said during the last seven months since its inauguration, 236...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is set to introduce a verification module from July 1, 2014 to check fake Taxpayers Identification (TIN) holders obtaining services from public and private entities. The module will help the service providing authorities, including...
FE Report | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
The leaders of Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC) demanded Wednesday the continuation of the 10 per cent tax rebate facility for the listed companies, which disburse more than 20 per cent dividend, officials said. BAPLC placed the demand...
India has officially informed Bangladesh about the arrest of Nur Hossain, the prime suspect of Narayanganj multiple murders, the minister of state for home says. "They (India) have given us the information in a note verbale," Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told...
Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani has appreciated the socioeconomic development achieved by Bangladesh, particularly in empowerment of women, report agencies. He pledged all-out support for further enhancing the existing cooperation between Bangladesh and...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has informed parliament that country received Tk 65 billion foreign direct investment (FDI) during the period from 2009 to 2013, report agencies. The FDI emanated from France, Australia, Japan, China, Germany, South Korea, India, USA,...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
Technical glitches at less expensive gas-fired power plants and their persistent closure are eating up the overall growth in electricity generation, pushing the overall electricity generation cost higher, industry insiders said. All sorts of clients, from less-electricity consuming domestic users...
Shahiduzzaman Khan | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
The ongoing crackdown on use of formalin in fruits is a welcome move, in view of the growing menace of the use of dangerously harmful toxic substances in food items and a serious threat to human health in its wake,...
Siddique Islam | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
The country's overall imports particularly for industrial sector are expected to rise significantly in the near future with the implementation of different infrastructure projects including the Padma Bridge. "We expect that the overall imports, particularly for industrial sector, will increase...
Badrul Ahsan | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
Borrowing funds from overseas sources by private-sector entities has shot up more than ten times in just three years with the country's banking systems glutted with idle money. Borrowers and experts have attributed such a steep rise in overseas borrowings...
FE Report | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group, is set to raise its investment up to US $ 1.0 billion in Bangladesh, mainly in the areas of textile and climate change, in the...
Talha Bin Habib | 2014-06-19 00:00:00
Anyone found in illegal possession or selling formalin will have to spend life in prison, according to one provision of a law in the making, as the government moved to curb the curse of poisoning of the food chain with...
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