A prosecutor made a futile 75-minute exercise on Thursday before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 in support of its plea seeking to issue a contempt-of-court charge against its editor, publisher and a reporter of a vernacular national daily, reports UNB. The...
The daylong strike enforced by "Anti Students of Evening Course," a platform of the left-leaning student organisations demanding cancellation of the master's evening course of the Political Science Department, was going on at Dhaka University Thursday, reports UNB. The striking...
The depression over the east central Bay and the adjoining areas moved northeastwards over the same area Thursday, reports UNB. It was centred at 03:00 pm Thursday about 620 kms south of Chittagong port, 530 kms south of Cox's Bazar...
A bicycle rally was held in the city Thursday to promote the use of bicycles as part of a campaign for green transport, reports UNB. Lawmakers and environmentalists took part in the rally demanding separate lanes for bicyclists along the...
The outgoing Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Bangladesh WA Sarath Kumara Weragoda paid his farewell call on President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban Thursday , reports BSS. During the meeting, the President expressed his satisfaction with the existing Bangladesh-Sri Lanka bilateral...
A five-member executive committee of WildTeam, a conservation organisation, was elected at its annual general meeting Thursday, reports UNB. The meeting elected Enayetullah Khan as its Chairman, while Prof M Harunur Rashid Vice-chairman, Professor Md Anwarul Islam General Secretary, Dr ...
The 115th birth anniversary of the national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, will be observed on May 25. Elaborate programmes have been taken in this regard, reports BSS. The theme of this year's celebrations is 'Nazrul and non-communalism'. The main programme...
Annual convention of Lions Clubs District 315A1held The 19th annual convention-2014 of Lions Clubs International, District 315A1 was held at a city hotel recently. Ln Mian Mohammed Quddus has been elected as district governor for the year 2014-2015 at the...
Syful Islam | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has requested Bangladesh to bring necessary amendments to the country's several acts and ordinances to make them conform to its convention on abolition of forced labour, sources have said. Bangladesh ratified the ILO Convention on...
FE Report | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
The next budget is set to see an allocation of Tk 4.0 billion for the metro rail project. Officials said the allocation would be more than double the allocation made in the current fiscal year. The Dhaka Mass Rapid Transport...
FE Report | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
The government's social safety net programme is not yielding expected results as the major portion of the allocated money goes to the pockets of the vested quarters, speakers said at a seminar Thursday. They also alleged that due to the...
FE Report | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
Children living in slums lead a more miserable life compared to rural children in the field of education, health, child labour, child marriage, nutrition and child rights, a Save the Children study has found. It also said children and women...
Nearly 1,000 undocumented migrants heading to Europe, including 170 children, were rescued in the seas off the coast of southern Italy in the past two days by the Italian navy, according to a internet(www.upi.com) reports. In the most recent incident,...
BAGERHAT, May 22 (UNB): The fire that broke out in the Sundarbans East Zone under Morelganj upazila Wednesday have burnt down several acres of the mangrove forest. Forest guards first spotted the fire near Gulishakhali Camp under Chandpai Range Wednesday...
Munima Sultana | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
A Chinese company has got the job of constructing the main structure of the Padma Bridge at a cost of Tk 121.33 billion. The cabinet committee on government purchase gave its nod to the offer of the lone company, China...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
The government is likely to sign a US$1.18 billion concessional loan deal with Japan for five development projects during the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Tokyo next week, officials said Thursday. "Bangladesh will sign an exchange of note...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has demanded investigation into alleged forced disappearances, murders and extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh by a high-level commission, report agencies. The former prime minister urged the people to raise their voice for a 'free and fair' general...
Siddique Islam | 2014-05-23 00:00:00
The country's balance of payments (BoP) witnessed a downward trend in the first nine months of the fiscal year (FY) 2013-14 due mainly to widening trade gap, negative growth of inward remittance and lower inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI)....
When Bangladesh media ran reports that Narendra Modi wants to set up a separate department in the Home Ministry to combat "infiltration", it provoked furious reactions with many suggesting a change of regime in Dhaka, according to a special report...
NARAYANGANJ, May 22: A court here placed former RAB officials-Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and Arif Hossain-on a fresh eight-day remand Thursday in connection with the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case, reports agencies. Judicial Magistrate KM Mahiuddin passed the order when Detective Branch...
BOGRA, May 22: A local Jubo League activist was shot to death by unidentified miscreants in the district town Thursday. The victim was identified as Farhad Hossain Shiplu, an activist of the district unit of ruling Awami League's youth front...
A young man has allegedly been tortured to death by police in Savar. The victim has been identified as Ripon Miah, 26. He was a vendor. Police picked up Ripon from a tea stall near the entrance of National Memorial...
Bangladesh has described the army takeover in Thailand as their 'internal affairs' and refrained from making any comment. "It's their internal affairs," said State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam after a function at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the...
LAXMIPUR, May 22 (UNB): Police recovered the bodies of two local Awami League leaders from different places in Raipur and Sadar upazilas of the district early Thursday. The deceased were identified as Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, president of Charshahi union unit...
A housewife has been stabbed to death allegedly by her husband at Bonpukur Moholla in Savar municipality area. The victim was identified as Popy Begum, 30, wife of Akter Hossain of Matlab upazila in Chandpur district. Locals said the couple...
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