NARAYANGANJ: Police detained Narayanganj City Corporation female councillor Jannatul Ferdous Nila from the city’s Hajiganj area Sunday in connection with seven murders. A team of Detective Branch of police picked up Nila, also a close aide of Nur Hossain, the...
The Appellate Division bench was reconstituted Sunday for hearing the appeal on the verdict pronounced by the trial court sentencing Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to death for crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971. The Chief Justice reconstituted...
The government needs to start immediate negotiations with Malaysia and seize the opportunity to send maximum number of workers against their present demand of 1.1 million, suggests a trade body in Dhaka on Sunday. Leaders of the Bangladesh Malaysia Chamber...
The second session of the 10th Parliament, which will clear the budget for the next fiscal, will begin on June 3. Finance Minister AMA Muhith might present his budget proposal for fiscal 2014-15 on June 5, a senior official at...
The government will work closely with the new Indian government to take Bangladesh-India relations to a greater height, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said on Sunday. “The government looks forward to working closely with the incoming government of India,” he...
The Netherlands has showed interest to provide financial and technical assistance for building a deep seaport and LNG terminals in Bangladesh. Netherlands Ambassador in Dhaka Gerben Sjoerd De Jong on Sunday said this when he met Planning Minister AHM Mustafa...
The government will work closely with the new Indian government to take Bangladesh-India relations to a greater height, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said Sunday. “The government looks forward to working closely with the incoming government of India,” he said...
Bangladesh has become a role model for the United Nations (UN) to be showcased for its excellent development performance and success in poverty alleviation, says a visiting UN official in Dhaka on Sunday. Haoliang Xu, Assistant Administrator and Director for...
Two Dhaka courts on Sunday sent former BNP MP Salahuddin Ahmed to jail in eight cases. Metropolitan magistrates SM Ashiqur Rahman and M Moniruzzaman passed the orders when the BNP leader surrendered before their courts on expiry of the High...
Director (Additional Secretary) of Primary Education Directorate Faruk Jalil was appointed administrator of Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Sunday. Faruk Jalil is going to replace existing administrator Anwarul Islam Sikder, who was transferred to Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC)...
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on Sunday urged the government to fill up the vacant posts of the Appellate Division to resolve long-pending cases in the interest of justice seekers. Addressing a press conference, SCBA President Khandker Mahbub Hossain...
Allegations of killing two more people and dumping their bodies into rivers have been brought against the members of Rapid Action Battalion-11 in the district. The Rab members picked up Hossain Showkat, a land property trader of Siddhirganj, and Tajul...
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is not legally empowered to investigate any crime like the brutal seven murders in Narayanganj, its chairman Dr Mizanur Rahman said Sunday. “The law that created the NHRC in 2009 allows it only to...
Two cousins, including a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), drowned in the Bangali River in Sariakandi upazila of Bogra district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Rifat, 23, a first year student of Buet and...
Speakers at a roundtable on Sunday stressed that good relations between Bangladesh and India should be used in resolving water disputes with the neighbouring country. “The good relations Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has with India should be used to prevent...
After the Prime Minister, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday night phoned Indian Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and hoped to work together for the welfare of the people of the two countries. Khaleda made the phone call to Modi from...
Donald B. Holsinger | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
Like most of my colleagues in the development field, I have defended public schooling on the ground that education indirectly helps people who would not pay voluntarily for the benefits they receive from it, and thus education would be undersupplied...
Masum Billah | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
The Prime Minister office's Access to Information (A2I) project and the British Council with the help of the education ministry and the ministry for primary and mass education organised a three-day teachers' conference between May 5 and 7 2014 in...
NEW DELHI, May 17 (agencies): Thousands of flag-waving supporters mobbed Indian prime minister-elect Narendra Modi as he made a triumphant entrance in New Delhi Saturday after securing a historic victory for his Hindu nationalist party. The 63-year-old flew into Delhi's...
VIETNAM, May 17 (AP): Each day the Vietnamese ships tried to get close to the rig. And each day they were driven back by the much larger Chinese ships. But before they sped away, laboring engines spewing black smoke, the...
KOLKATA, May 17 (Reuters): Mamata Banerji is not exactly rejoicing her unusual high-margin victory in West Bengal-and she has a deeper reason than what pundits seem to say. Most media reports would indicate Mamata has little to worry in West...
YANGON, May 17 (AFP): Thousands of people joined a rally in Myanmar's main city on Saturday to call for changes to a military-drafted constitution that bars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming president. The former political prisoner-turned-politician has...
BANGKOK, May 17 (AP): A Lao air force plane carrying senior government officials crashed Saturday, killing at least five people on board, including the country's defense minister, Thai officials said. The Russian-made plane, believed to have had about 20 people...
Baghdad area bombings kill five BAGHDAD, May 17: Bombings killed five people in the outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday as the count from an April 30 general election finally neared completion.The deaths were latest in a protracted surge in bloodshed...
RANGPUR, May 17 (BSS): A super bumper production of maize is likely in northern Bangladesh during this current season as its harvest continues in full swing with excellent yield rate everywhere, official sources and farmers said. According to the sources...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
PABNA, May 17: Around two thousand bigha cultivated land was washed away as the dyke of Ichhamati River collapsed in Santhia upazila of Pabna early Friday. The incident occurred at I-3 cross dam of Ichhamati river in Jagannatpour Telkupi area...
Our Correspondent | 2014-05-18 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, May 17: Leaders of Rajshahi district Bus-truck Owners-Labourers Oikkya Parishad at a press conference held at Rajshahi Bus Owners Association office this morning have threatened to stop plying all sorts of motor vehicles throughout the district from May 20...
GAIBANDHA, May 17 (BSS): Farmers of Sadullapur upazila in the district are expecting a desired production of Malta, a golden juicy fruit, during the current season. The trees have already worn eye catching looks with huge fruits and the growers...
KHULNA, May 17 (UNB): A good number of private clinics and diagnostic centres in the city are operating illegally taking advantage of lax monitoring by the authorities concerned. Sources at the Khulna Divisional Health Director's office said among 155 private...
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