Awami League (AL) presidium member Advocate Sahara Khatun alleged Friday that putting on the mask of Golam Azam, Khaleda Zia'a eldest son Tarique Rahman, staying in London, has been conspiring against the country, reports BSS. "Ameer (supremo) of Jamaat Golam...
MEHERPUR, Apr 4 (BSS): Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq, MP, said here today that construction work of the Mujibnagar Complex with a map of Bangladesh would be completed by this year. "The history of Liberation War and Mujibnagar...
Food Minister Advocate Qamrul Islam Friday urged the Islamic scholars of the country to resist the evil activities staged by the BNP-Jamaat allies, reports BSS. "It is high time to protest the country-wide violence committed by the BNP-Jamaat and Hefazat-e-Islam...
Noted intellectual Badruddin Umar Friday called for a fresh constitution to meet the demand of the people and help resolve the current political crisis in the country, reports UNB. "The country can not run under the present constitution…reality is that...
Speakers at discussion in Rangpur Thursday evening demanded for speedy completion of the war crimes trial in building a razakar-free Bangladesh to pay due respect to the martyred intellectuals during the War of Liberation. Rangpur divisional unit of 'Muktijuddher Smriti...
MUNSHIGANJ, Apr 5 (UNB): Angry locals staged demonstrations in Gazaria upazila on Friday demanding capital punishment of the killers of a local UP chairman and the withdrawal of the police super and the OC concerned. Shamsuddin Pradhan, 65, chairman of...
At a landmark event on Thursday evening, Bangladesh, India and the United Kingdom joined hands to honour Rabindranath Tagore, one of the greatest poets of the Commonwealth, at the mother of parliaments – the House of Commons. Speaking at a...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-04-05 00:00:00
Auditing of tax files, submitted under the universal self-assessment method, is creating dissatisfaction among the taxpayers. Allegations have it that some taxmen are exercising their discretionary powers taking advantage of the absence of specific criteria for auditing tax files, sources...
Police baton-charged activists of the Ganajagaran Mancha and another group when both sides tried to hold rallies at Shahbagh, reports bdnews24.com. Seven persons, including five Mancha activists, were picked up by the police from the spot Friday afternoon. A key...
Arafat Ara | 2014-04-05 00:00:00
A persistent declining trend in the overseas jobs is taking a heavy toll on the country's remittance earnings, sector insiders and economists said. Keeping this in view, they feared that the overall inward remittances could be significantly lower this fiscal...
Jubair Hasan | 2014-04-05 00:00:00
The north and south Dhaka City Corporations and the Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (Rajuk) are locked in a row over the fate of buildings identified as risky in the capital. This has left thousands of people vulnerable to possible major tragedies...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-04-05 00:00:00
Deep frustration has gripped freight forwarders as they have failed to raise their charges in the face of stiff opposition from garment manufacturers over the last seven months, top Bangladesh Freight Forwarders' Association (BAFFA) leaders said. The BAFFA first wanted...
FE Report India beat South Africa by six wickets at the Mirpur stadium in Dhaka on Friday to book their final berth against Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup cricket scheduled for tomorrow. Chasing a target of 172, the...
Bangladesh ranks 99th among the 132 countries on the Social Progress Index (SPI), a measure of human wellbeing that goes beyond traditional economic measures such as GDP or per capita income, according to a website report and data on http://www.socialprogressimperative.org....
RAJSHAHI, Apr 4: A leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Rajshahi University unit, was shot dead by some miscreants in his room at Suhrawardy Hall of the university on Friday noon. The deceased was identified as Rustam Ali Akand (24),...
Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said Friday fare of taxicabs will be re-fixed if people express such a desire because the present government will not take any decision that will go against their interest. "A policy has been formulated for fixing...
A fire broke out at a building that houses a bank in the city's Motijheel commercial area Friday. Fire Service sources said the fire began on the first floor of the 3-storey building of Citibank Bhaban at about 10:20 am...
At least 50 people, including seven cops, were injured, several with bullets, in a clash between police and transport workers in Kishoreganj town on Friday. The injured were admitted to different hospitals. Locals said a policeman in civil dress signalled...
Police seized 67 bombs from a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Rampur in Feni town on Friday night. The bomb seizure was made on the eve of Saturday's by-polls to Feni Municipality. Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted the auto-rickshaw in the...
An indefinite transport strike began in Sylhet on Saturday morning. Transport workers on Friday called the indefinite strike in the district from 6am today demanding the arrest of the killers of a driver and attackers of another one. Bangladesh Sarak...
Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker alleged that ruling party activists helped police attack them at Shahbagh Intersection in the city on Friday. “Police ‘unfairly’ attacked Mancha activists on Friday and the supporters of the ruling party assisted in the...
Two more pirates were killed on Saturday in an 'encounter' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Companyganj Upazila in Noakhali district. Rab says those killed were ‘outlaws’ of the ‘Jasu gang’. Shahadat Hossain Jasu was killed in a similar encounter...
The foreign currency reserve of Bangladesh is now the second largest in South Asian, Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman has said. “Our foreign currency reserve is now the second largest in the south Asian countries,” the central bank governor...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai cast his vote on Saturday in the election that marks the start of his country’s first-ever democratic transfer of power, as he steps down after serving the maximum two terms in office. “I cast my vote,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the 1st SAANSO Scout Jamboree in Gazipur. She reached the National Scout Training Centre at Kaliakoir Upazila in the district around 10:00am on Saturday. As many as 9,000 scouts and officials from home and...
The body of a private university teacher has been found three days after he went missing, police say. Rajib Ahsan’s body was found in a river in Rupganj Upazila in Narayanganj on Friday evening. Thirty-seven-year-old Ahsan was a part-time teacher...
The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled more than 2 per cent in midday trade on Friday in a sell-off that battered most of the sector. Around 1730 GMT, the Nasdaq sank 96.85 points (2.29 per cent) to 4,140.89, near the...
The world's two largest cement makers are in advanced talks to merge into a company that would have a stock market value of more than $ 30 billion euros (£ 25 billion). A deal between France’s Lafarge and the Swiss...
Customs officials at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport arrested a Pakistani national and recovered Indian currency worth more than 8.8 million (88,17,000) rupees from his possession on Friday night. Contacted, Assistant Commissioner (Customs) Nazma Zabin said the Pakistani citizen identified...
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