THAKURGAON, May 17 (UNB): The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi boy from Jagadal frontier under Ranishongkoil Upazila Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Muhammad Hossain (12), son of Abdul Majid of Chikanmati village in the...
FE Report | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki said Saturday the United Nations must emphasise women rights in the post-2015 development framework. She also demanded that the government should include gender equality and women rights as a priority...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
The government and Brac will apply for US$ 43 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) by June 15 this year, a high official of the government said Saturday. "The government will apply for global...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Saturday her government gave top priority to education to build an educated nation as no country could achieve desired development without education, reports UNB. "It's not possible to build a hunger and poverty free...
FE Report | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
A training institute and a testing lab will be set up for garment accessories and packaging sector under the Bangladesh Inspired Programme. The programme was launched by Bangladesh Inspired Project of the Bangladesh Garments Accessories and Packaging Manufacturers & Exporters...
GAIBANDHA, May 17 (UNB): Police in a drive arrested an accused in the case for killing Saad Inbe Momtaz, a student of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, from a house on the Godown Road in the town early Saturday. The...
NARSINGDI, May 17 (UNB): A drug trader, who was seriously injured in an attack allegedly by his rivals following a dispute over drug peddling issues at Hajipur in the district town Friday afternoon, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital...
CHITTAGONG, May 17 (BSS): A student committed suicide after failing to get GPA-5 in the SSC examination in the port city's Mehedibag area Saturday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Sourabh (17), who hailed from Bera of Pabna district. Sourabh...
PIROJPUR, May 17 (UNB): Police rescued a boy from Surui in Sadar Upazila of Bagerhat early Saturday 12 hours after his kidnap from Pirojpur Friday evening. The rescued boy is Rashedul Islam (15), a Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinee and...
Haoliang Xu, the assistant administrator and director for the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP), of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) arrived in Dhaka Saturday afternoon on a five-day visit, reports BSS.
New executives of Ctg journalists' society CHITTAGONG, May 17: Moinuddin Quadery Shawkat and Jalaluddin Ahmed Chowdhury have been elected president and vice president of Chittagong Journalists' Cooperative Housing Society (CJCHS) Ltd. The election was held at Chittagong Press Club Saturday....
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Dhaka, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore and Kushtia until 6pm today (Sunday). Weather may...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
Roti, made of atta, is an essential item in the daily menu of poor, middle and even affluent families in Bangladesh. It becomes headache for a housewife when the domestic help does not turn up in the morning, and she...
Denouncing the inactive role of the then foreign minister, Dr Kamal Hossain, in protecting Bangabandhu's two daughters after his assassination in 1975, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Saturday that neither she nor her sister got any help from him...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
The government has at last decided to start construction of the controversial 1,320-megawatt (MW) coal-based power plant at Rampal with commercial loans, officials said Saturday. The 'Maitree Super Thermal Power Project' at Rampal will cost Tk 145.84 billion (US$1.82 billion),...
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CNG pump owners renewed their call Saturday to immediately implement the recommendations of the energy ministry to help them stay in the business. Otherwise, they would go on a strike at gas stations across the country, the owners warned. The...
MUNSHIGANJ, May 17 (UNB): The death toll in Thursday's launch capsize in the Meghna river in Gazaria upazila climbed to 54 with the recovery of 23 more bodies Saturday. The sunken launch 'MV Miraj-4' was salvaged and taken to the...
FE Report | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
Senior politicians, economists, political analysts, bureaucrats and rights activists Saturday expressed their deep concern over the fate of democracy in Bangladesh saying that the situation would further worsen in the coming days in the absence of democratic practices within the...
NARAYANGANJ, May 17 (UNB): A court here placed on Saturday two ex-RAB officials, arrested for their alleged involvement in the sensational Naryanganj seven murders, on a five-day remand each. They are former Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad and ex-Major Arif...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
On all counts, it has been a great victory for the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its prime ministerial nominee, Narendra Modi, in the 2014 general elections of India. Undoubtedly, the victory was very much on the cards, but...
FE Report | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
Results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations have breached all the previous records registering a 91.34 per cent pass rate which is 2.31 per cent higher compared to that of the last year. The examinees this year...
NEW DELHI, May 17: Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has tendered his resignation to the President of India Pranab Mukherjee while the newly-elected parliamentarians of the BJP have decided to meet on May 20 to choose their leader before...
Customs officials at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital seized 101 gold bars weighing about 12.6 kilograms and arrested three young men in this connection Saturday morning. The arrested were identified as Sabuj Miah, 35, Joynal, 35, and...
MYMENSINGH, May 17: At least three workers died and three others were injured in a boiler explosion in a rice mill at Dhara Bazar in Haluaghat upazila early Saturday. The deceased were identified as Sultan, 29, Hazrat,30, and Alam, 28,...
Jack Kim of Reuters from Pyongyang | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
North Korea renewed a threat last week to conduct a nuclear test amid heightened concern that the reclusive state with a stockpile of missiles may set off an atomic device for the fourth time on the path to building a...
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