Cittagong, Mar 20 (UNB): Customs officials seized 30 gold bars from the possession of two cleaners at Shah Amanat International Airport here Thursday. Moshiur Rahman Mandal, Assistant Commissioner of Chittagong Airport Customs Authority, said being tipped-off, customs officials detained two...
Director General (DG) of European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), Prof Rolf-Dieter Heuer will arrive in the city on April 7 on a two-day visit, said a handout, reports UNB. Prof Rolf-Dieter Heuer will attend the convocation of Dhaka University...
The UK visa application centre in Dhaka will move to new premises at Gulshan North in the city on Sunday, reports UNB. Applicants for the UK visa will be able to avail themselves of the services from the new location...
A 15-member executive committee of the Forum for Rights of the Elderly, Bangladesh (FRE-B) was formed for a fresh two-year term at its annual general meeting in the city Wednesday with WHO's former senior regional adviser Dr KM Rashid its...
An official of private television channel RTV was crushed to death under the wheels of a train while crossing a level-crossing in the city Thursday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Polash Roy, son of late Bhanu Roy of...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 20 (BSS): A 22-day Air to Air Live Firing Exercise of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) began Thursday at Kutubdia Firing Range, an official release of the ISPR said. A good number of BAF fighter aircraft including MIG-29 will...
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Thursday said the government has taken a project to set up technical schools in 100 upazilas of the country, reports BSS. The ECNEC has already approved the project involving estimated Tk 9.24 billion and the...
Former Indian CEC to attend workshop Monday Dr SY Quraishi, former chief election commissioner of India will visit Dhaka for a curtain raiser to the 16th Lok Sabha (General) elections in India scheduled to be held from April 7 to...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Khulna, Barisal, Dhaka, Chittagong, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions until 6:00 pm today (Friday), reports UNB. Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
CHITTAGONG, March 20: The government will provide cash incentive at the rate of 0.25 per cent to the readymade garment (RMG) industries to overcome the fallout of Rana Plaza collapse and Tazreen Fashion fire. Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed announced this...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Cancelling an ad-interim bail granted earlier to the Tazreen Fashions Limited's Chairperson by a Judicial Magistrate Court, the Dhaka District and Sessions Judge sought Thursday explanation from the magistrate whether there was any violation of law, sources said. "The judicial...
Board of Investment (BoI) and Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) will put in joint efforts to foster private sector development in the country in the coming days, reports UNB. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed at the BoI office...
WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (AFP): US President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on more Russian officials and a bank Thursday and threatened to target the broader Russian economy if Moscow escalates its actions against Ukraine. "Russia must know that further escalation will...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
The government Thursday fixed the target to procure 1.10 million tonnes of rice for this Boro season which will start from May 1 next. Of the total, 1.0 million tonnes will be rice while 0.15 million tonnes will be paddy....
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Finance Minister AMA Muhith hinted Thursday at the possibility of offloading shares of state-owned commercial banks (SoBs) to bring them under private partnership. "Like in Rupali Bank Limited, steps will also be taken to introduce private partnership in the three...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
The increased public borrowing from the country's banking sector does not cause crowding-out effect on the economy, according to a finding of research by the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). It is widely believed that public borrowing from the...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been ranked 108th on the global Logistics Performance Index (LPI) based on its activities in improving logistics for economic growth and competitiveness, a World Bank report has said. The LPI in the WB report on "Connecting to Compete...
FE Report | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) pointed out Thursday high level of corruption and irregularities at each stage of food management as major impediments towards ensuring safe food consumption in the country. TIB has demanded immediate and necessary measures to form a...
from Syful Islam | 2014-03-21 00:00:00
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 20: Taking advantage of the suspension of Bangladeshi manpower recruitment by most of the Middle Eastern countries, the middlemen are cheating poor jobseekers and increasing their sufferings by keeping them stranded in the airports. Lured by the...
CANBERRA, Mar 20 (AFP): Surveillance aircraft scoured a remote and stormy section of the Indian Ocean on Thursday for a pair of floating objects that Australia and Malaysia guardedly called a "credible" lead in the 12-day-old hunt for a missing...
BNP has condemned the charge framing against its chairperson Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman in the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases, saying it was done at the behest of the government with an ill-motive to...
Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida arrives in Dhaka today (Friday) on a two-day visit to Bangladesh to hold talks for promoting bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Kishida will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) Thursday asked all banks to follow the directive of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) in deducting VAT (value added tax) on the remuneration of their board of directors. Referring to an NBR directive, issued on February...
Heads of 40 states and governments have so far congratulated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina since the formation of the present government following the January 5 national elections. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has came up with the data in the...
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