JAAGO Foundation organises graduation ceremony JAAGO Foundation, a civil society organisation (CSO) working towards eradicating poverty and illiteracy, organised a graduation ceremony for celebrating the excellent achievement of first batch of students who appeared in the PEC examination. The function...
A network intended to eradicate gender discrimination has been formed on Saturday with the participation of 21 developing organisations working on gender issues in Bangladesh titled "Network Against Gender Discrimination, NAGD" at the secretariat of SBSS NGO at Mugda, says...
Indian High Commission (HC) in Bangladesh has been urged to extend its cooperation towards arranging various training courses for the doctors of Juhurul Islam Medical College and Hospital (JIMCH), reports BSS. Principal of JIMCH made the appeal when Councilor of...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 12 (BSS): Two bodies were recovered in separate incidents from the city's Pologround and Bakalia areas Saturday. The bodies were identified as school student Muhammad Tanvir (12) and garment worker Ity Aktar (25). Kotwali police said the employees...
Khalilur Rahman | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader has, once again, expressed determination to remove the old and unfit vehicles from the city. Talking to reporters last week, Mr. Quader announced that a coordinated drive would start next month in this connection, aiming to...
Munima Sultana | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
New taxi cab service is unlikely to hit the city streets from Pahela Baishakh, as announced earlier, due to failure to complete major formalities like publication of a gazette notification on fares. Officials said completion of registration, digital name plates,...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia threatened on Saturday to wage a movement against the government again at the appropriate time after reorganising her party, reports UNB. "I don't follow anybody's dictate… we'll wage our movement after reorganising our party," she said....
The Energy Ministry has worked out a plan to implement six more gas projects involving Tk 12.37 billion under the Gas Development Fund (GDF), a special fund created by the government with consumers' money derived from increased gas price, reports...
FE Report | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
icddr,b has instructed its hospitals and treatment centres to stop using glucose and rice-based saline obtained from the icddr,b Employees' Multipurpose Co-operative Society, an independent registered entity, managed separately by icddr,b employees, a release said Saturday. The decision was taken...
A Bangladesh national, whose conviction and sentencing for illegally entering Malaysia was set aside by the High Court, has filed a suit against the Malaysian government, reports UNB. Alamin Sheikh Badsha Sheik, 28 filed a case against the Malaysian government,...
NEW DELHI, Apr 12 (BSS): Fifteen people, including six security personnel, were killed in two separate blasts triggered by Maoists in Chhattisgarh today. The Maoists blew up a bus, carrying polling party and resorted to indiscriminate firing. The incident took...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
The government has sought US$146.74 million concessional loans from donors to set up two new 100-megawatt (MW) capacity units at the Karnaphuli hydropower plant at Kaptai, officials said Saturday. Power Division officials said the state-owned Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB)...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
The front-runner in the 2014 national elections in India - Narendra Modi of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - finds a personal issue emerging as a highly embarrassing one for him even as the balloting has already begun...
Pankaj Dastider | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, Apr 12: Highly imbalanced duty structures in both import and local manufacturing of CI sheet and cement have severely hampered healthy growth of the two sectors. This has led to abnormal price hike of the rural and urban housing...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has moved to offer special tax facilities to freedom fighters (FFs) to help them maintain cars and facilitate their travel abroad. As part of the facilities the board is likely to waive Advance Income...
Md Shah Jahan | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has decided to appoint an internationally reputed agency to handle procurement and take lease of aircraft on behalf of the airliner in a transparent manner, a top official of the airline has said. Confirming the decision, Biman...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has reciprocated the gesture of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by greeting her ahead of Pahela Baishakh, first day of the Bangla New Year. She reciprocated a greeting card to her arch political rival on Saturday. BNP's...
RANGPUR, Apr 12: At least six people were killed and 22 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in Pirganj Upazila early Saturday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately....
KHAGRACHHARI, Apr 12: Miscreants killed two members of UPDF at Boraitoli village of Bhai-Boonchhara in Khagrachhari Sadar this morning. Spokesman of UPDF Niron Chakma alleged that Janasanghati Samity led by Santu Larma is responsible for this incident. The victims are...
Mehreen Zahra-Malik of Reuters from Islamabad | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
The Pakistani Taliban will coordinate with Islamist activists at major seminaries in or near the capital, Islamabad, to launch attacks if peace talks with the government fail, police said in a report. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took power last year...
Osamu Tsukimori and Mari Saito of Reuters from Tokyo | 2014-04-13 00:00:00
Japan's cabinet on Friday approved an energy policy reversing the previous government's plans to gradually mothball nuclear power plants, a move likely to be unpopular with a wary public following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. But the plan may be too...
At least two people were killed and 25 others injured as two inter-city trains collided head-on in Ullahpra in Sirajganj district on Sunday. The dead are Altaf, 25, of Harishpur of Natore district and Majibar Rahman, 25, of Lalmonirhat district....
A woman was killed and four other people were injured as a bus crashed into an auto-rickshaw at Paglapir in Rangpur city on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Chandana Rani, 40, a housewife. Police and locals said the speeding...
Coast Guard members in separate drives seized 80 maunds of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 inches in length) and 30,000 metres of current net in Megha River in Chandpur district on Saturday. Coast Guard members led by station commander...
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