Ismail Hossain | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
The woes of Indian visa-seekers have not been reduced even after increased facilities and slots for visa due to growing number of aspirants for visits to the neighbouring country for business, medical, tourists and many other reasons. The crowd in...
Shamsul Huda | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
The government has decided to introduce feed-in-tariff system for popularising the use of renewable energy in the urban area, officials said. Under the system, individuals can set up solar power generating devices of any capacity on their premises, and use...
State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal Tuesday said the three controversial Rab officials, already dismissed from their jobs for their alleged involvement in the killing of seven people after their abduction in Narayanganj, would be arrested by Wednesday (today)...
An express train running between Dhaka and Sylhet caught fire Tuesday noon, burning down its three compartments, reports UNB. The Dhaka-bound 'Kalni Express' caught fire immediately after it had left the Airport Railway Station in the capital at 1:22 pm,...
A doctor and his cohorts at Sikder Medical College and Hospital in the city assaulted a special correspondent of the Bangla daily Prothom Alo as he had been there to collect information about the physician's 'irregularities,' reports UNB. Dr Shafiul...
FE Report | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
UN assistant secretary general and UNDP regional director Haoliang Xu will visit Bangladesh on May 17-21, a press release said Tuesday. During the five-day visit he will observe the success of UNDP's various initiatives to reduce urban poverty, disaster management...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Tuesday accused the government of indiscriminately killing people since it assumed office by force, reports UNB. "The current regime, which grabbed power by force through a lopsided election on January-5, is indiscriminately...
Siddique Islam | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
The private sector credit recorded a slight growth in the month of March last following a substantial rise in import payments during the month, bankers said. "Trade financing increased during the month of March primarily to foot the bills against...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
The outcome was foreknown. Even the central bank, possibly, was aware of the end-result at the time of issuing its directive relaxing the default-loan rescheduling policy on December 23, 2013. It did not take too long a time to prove...
NARAYANGANJ, May 13 (Agencies) : BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has said that the government was behind the multiple murders in Narayanganj and that the RAB was used to carry it out. Speaking to reporters in Narayanganj today, she reiterated her...
Munima Sultana | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
The metro rail project is facing a fresh hurdle due to complexity over getting land from Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakhya (RAJUK) for the depot of the high-priority project, project insiders said. Although there are directives from the Prime Minister's Office, the...
Nine Bangladesh nationals among 11 who were burnt to death in a fire that broke out in a furniture-manufacturing factory at Shifa Sanaya in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Monday night, reports UNB. The fire broke out in the factory around...
FE Report | 2014-05-14 00:00:00
Normalcy is yet to return to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), though honorary doctors and interns lifted their strike call from Monday night. As a result, the hospital received less number of patients and visitors yesterday (Tuesday). Some doctors,...
In separate incidents, customs officials at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport seized gold bars weighing around 11:5kg Tuesday evening. Assistant Commissioner (Customs) Ruhul Amin said they noticed the suspicious movement of two passengers of an Emirates Airlines flight which landed...
A female physician died falling from the roof of a house at New Baile Road in the city Tuesday afternoon. The victim was identified as Dr Tania Rashid, 35, wife of Dr Masud Reza, a resident of Nao Ratan Colony...
Tokyo stocks dipped 0.34 per cent on Wednesday morning on profit-taking after surging the previous day. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index, which climbed 1.95 per cent Tuesday, fell 49.72 points to 14,375.72 by the break, while the Topix index of...
Share prices in Hong Kong stock markets rose on Wednesday, with another record-breaking close on Wall Street offset by profit-taking after the previous day’s healthy gains. Hong Kong’s stocks ended the day up 0.57 per cent, according to AFP.
Dhaka University (DU) and the AIMST University of Malaysia will start joint collaborative research programmes, including mutual exchange of students, researchers and faculty-members soon. An official familiar to the process has said that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) will be...
Jamaat-e-Islami’s Chittagong unit chief ANM Shamsul Islam and 20 other activists have been sent to jail in a case filed under Anti-terrorism Act. Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court has accepted a bail petition from the leaders as well as a remand...
A deadlock in Chittagong University (CU) caused by an internal feud of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has ended after seven days. The faction of the university unit of the pro-government student organisation Chhatra League, that was holding the non-stop blockade...
India's Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi man from Munshipur border in Chuadanga district and tortured him to death after dragging him to India on Wednesday, according to private TV channels.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel on Wednesday arrested an aide of Nur Hossain, the fugitive Narayanganj City Corporation Ward 4 Councillor, in connection with abduction and killings of seven people in Narayanganj. Police identified the arrestee as Hasmat Ali Hasu,...
The fatalities of Bangladesh nationals in Saudi Arabia sofa factory fire rose to 11 with two more injured Bangladeshi workers dieing in a Riyadh hospital on Tuesday. With these, the toll of Bangladeshi workers in the devastating fire reached 11....
A man was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers over land in Ramgati upazila in Lakshmipur district on Tuesday night. The dead is Sekandar Hossain, a resident of Charporagachha village. Witnesses said there had been a longstanding...
Bangladesh is known for its apparel manufacturing industry – and for the conditions faced by garment workers toiling in Dickensian factories for a dollar a day. But according to a report released on Sunday, the South Asian nation has become...
A daylong hartal (shutdown), called for Wednesday in greater Chittagong by the local unit of Jamaat-e-Islami, is progressing without any untoward incidents. Jamaat called the general strike in the greater Chittagong protesting the arrest of its 21 leaders and activists....
Harvest of Boro paddy has been continuing in full swing in the northern region of the country with an excellent yield rate. Sources at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said, the framers have already completed Boro harvest on 328,000...
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