Khalilur Rahman | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Prime Minister (PM)Sheikh Hasina directed the relevant ministries last week to clear four rivers around Dhaka city and two in Chittagong of unauthorised occupation. The PM also asked the authorities concerned to make the rivers pollution-free as soon as possible....
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
The government has included 959 unapproved fresh development projects in the Annual Development Programme (ADP) for the next fiscal year (FY) 2014-15 without giving any fund allocations, officials said Saturday. Presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the National Economic...
Monira Munni | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Workers of the closed readymade garment (RMG) units are being deprived of their lawful facilities as owners are not following the existing law relating to wage payments and other service benefits, labour leaders alleged. Since the beginning of inspection by...
Bangladesh will have discussions with Japan on half a dozen mega projects during Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina's visit to find ways how the East Asian nation can assist Dhaka in implementing those projects, reports UNB. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood...
FE Report | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) Chairman Dr. Qazi Kholiquzzaman emphasised the need for programmes in the Post 2015 Development Agenda to reduce inequality. "The Post 2015 Development Agenda should ensure inclusive and equitable economic growth while it needs attention to reduce...
M Azizur Rahman | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
The government's allocation on account of subsidy to the power and energy sector is set to decline by 30.11 per cent to Tk 94 billion in the next fiscal year (FY) 2014-15 over that of the previous year, a senior...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
The Drug Administration (DA) last month banned five generic drugs for their 'harmful' effect on human life. But it has not recalled the drugs from the market in line with practice followed most countries, sources said. The DA has asked...
Renewing her demand for a fresh national election under a non-party administration, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia warned on Saturday that if the government makes delay in doing so, the situation may spin out of control anytime, reports UNB. "There's still...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
The military take-over in Thailand has not come as a surprise. In fact, it has been somewhat a logical corollary to the developments that had been going on in this south east Asian nation for last several months. The elected...
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, currently Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Human Resources at the Department of State, will be the next US ambassador to Bangladesh, reports UNB. Marcia will succeed incumbent ambassador Dan W Mozena who has been...
BAGERHAT, May 24: At least seven people, including two children, were killed and three others injured in a collision between a microbus and a bus in Taiyab's Battala area on Khulna-Mawa Highway in Fakirhat upazila on Saturday. Zahidur Rahman, assistant...
BANGKOK, May 24: Thailand's coup leaders say they are dissolving the country's Senate and will assume all lawmaking power. Saturday's announcement, which was read out on television, strips away the last democratic institution in the country two days after the...
Rainfall on Saturday afternoon brought respite to Dhaka dwellers. Most areas of the country received rainfall, due to a low pressure over Bay of Bengal. According to the latest weather forecast of the Met Office, the country might see rains...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Tokyo early Sunday. Earlier, she left Dhaka on a four-day official visit at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her...
Relatives and supporters of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC)’s slain Councillor Nazrul Islam have demonstrated demanding arrest of AKM Shamim Osman, the member of parliament from Narayanganj city. A march was taken out on Saturday night when Jatiya Party Chairman HM...
Transport Owners and Workers went on an indefinite strike in all districts under Rajshahi division from 6am on Sunday to press home its 6-point-demand, including a ban on the movement of unauthorized vehicles on roads and highways. The decision to...
A local ward councillor, one of the suspected killers of Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque, has surrendered to police in Feni. Abdullah Hil Mahmud Shiblu, the Ward-5 councillor of Feni municipality, surrendered to Sadar Model Police Station around 3:00pm. Police...
The 115th birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being celebrated across the country on Sunday. Different eminent personalities, politicians, academicians, cultural personalities, family members of the poet, poetry lovers and people in general paid homage to the...
Owners of CNG-driven auto-rickshaws have threatened to call a three-day strike in Dhaka from Tuesday. They issued the threat one week after the Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association made a similar threat. Dhaka Metropolitan CNG Auto-rickshaw...
When the value of his $20 million portfolio plunged in the 2008 global financial crisis, luxury car enthusiast Gerard Tan followed a growing trend among Asia’s elite investors by turning to an independent adviser for help. His bank had put...
A housewife allegedly has committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house at Teroratan area in the outskirts of Sylhet city. The deceased was identified as Asma Begum, 20, wife of Sajal Ahmed. Police said, informed by...
A woman was killed and another injured in separate incidents of lightning strike at Jessore Sadar upazila on Saturday evening. Local sources said lightning struck Lucky Khatun, 40, wife of Reazul Islam, while returning home from a field at Nurpur...
Rafiur Rabbi, father of slain Naraynganj Ganojagoran Mancho activist Tanvir Mohammad Twaki, has claimed that local MP AKM Shamim Osman is intentionally trying to create panic ahead of the Naryanganj-5 by-poll. Rabbi will contest the seat, which fell vacant after...
FE Online Report | 2014-05-25 00:00:00
Stocks on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) saw negative trend in early hours of trading on Sunday amid choppy trading, the first trading day of the week. DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went down...
European polls reach their culmination on ‘Super Sunday’ when the remaining 20 of the EU’s 28 countries go to the vote, with the balloting expected to confirm the dominance of pro-European centrists despite a rise in support for the far-right...
Ukraine began voting on Sunday in a presidential election seen as the most important in the country’s history as it grapples with a deadly pro-Russian rebellion in the east. Thirty-six million people are registered to vote, but the separatist insurgents...
Pro-BNP lawyers started boycott of court proceedings on Sunday morning in protest against police obstruction to hold rally at Supreme Court premises. Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum brought out a protest procession at Bar Bhaban in the city around 10:00am. The gate...
Police arrested a man along with one kilogram (kg) of explosives at Benapole at Sarsa Upzalia in Jessore on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Mansur Ali, 25, son of late Khalilur Rahman of Dighirpar of Benapole union. Acting...
Sonali Exchange has opened a new branch in Bronx in the New York City. Bangladesh’s permanent representative to the UN AKA Momen on Friday launched the branch of Sonali Bank’s subsidiary in Bangla Bazar Avenue, a neighbourhood of more than...
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