State-owned North West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday with a Chinese power company, CMC, to set up a 1320-MW power plant in Patuakhali. Officials said both sides will ink the deal...
The country’s power generation on Tuesday hit 6,801 MW setting a new record against the previous record of 6675 MW in March last year. PDB officials said the power generation reached the new level following various steps taken up by...
Traders of Panchbibi on Tuesday protested the alleged torture on their fellows by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members. The traders took to the street in the morning and blocked Joypurhat-Hili road at Tinmatha of Panchbibi Bazar for three hours from...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
JHENIDAH, Mar 17: Operational activities in Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) Industries Service Centre (ISC), Binerpota, Satkhira, is being severely hampered due to decrepit infrastructures including entrances, internal roads, drains and culverts here. The infrastructures constructed during the...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Mar 17: Textile and Jute Minister Imazuddin Pramanik has announced to restart the second unit of Rajshahi Jute Mills soon. Minister Imazuddin Pramanik announced this while talking as chief guest at an exchange of view meeting with officials and...
Our Correspondent | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
PABNA, Mar 17: The 94th birthday of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was observed in Pabna on Monday with a befitting manner. The district administration organised a colourful rally, discussion meeting and special prayer at different religious...
RANGPUR, Mar 17 (BSS): Speakers at a visioning workshop have stressed for improving services at community clinics to ensure better medicare services for rural mothers, pregnant women and children. They were addressing the daylong community clinic visioning workshop organised by...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Tuesday expressed profound shock at the death of Tabligh Jamaat’s Delhi chapter ameer Maulana Jubayerul Hassan. In a condolence message, Khaleda said the Muslim Ummah will ever remember the messages of Islamic ideals preached by...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Mar 17 (BSS): Speakers at an opinion exchanging meeting on Sunday urged the conscious people of society to create an anti-corruption sentiment among students and young generation for economic progress of the nation. The speakers also said an anti-...
SHARIATPUR, Mar 17 (BSS): A father and his son were killed in a road accident at Langaldanga on Shariatpur-Chandpur road under Sadar upazila of the district this morning. Local and eyewitness said the accident happened when a brick laden trolley...
LONDON: Europe’s main stock markets rose Tuesday as investors breathed a sigh of relief despite Russia incorporating Crimea amid an outcry from the West. In afternoon trading, London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.32 per cent from Monday’s close to 6,589.42 points,...
20 shops and houses gutted in Kishoreganj At least 15 shops and five houses were gutted by a fire that broke out in Borobazar area of Kishoreganj Sunday night. Pran Nath Saha, deputy director of Kishoreganj Fire Service and Civil...
NOAKHALI, Mar 17 (UNB): Police on recovered bullet-hit bodies of two young men from separate places in west Deliai area in Chatkhil upazila on Monday morning. None of the deceased could be identified immediately. Locals spotted bullet-hit body of a...
NETRAKONA Mar 17 (BSS): Farmers harvested a bumper Crop of transplanted Aman (T-Aman) here in the last Aman season following favorable climate condition and joint efforts of farmers and the concerned officials. District Agriculture Extension Department (DAED) office sources said,...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 17 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar have emphasized the need for proper enforcement of the Consumers' Rights Protection (CRP) Law for protecting the consumers' rights together with freeing the human body from any food poisoning and other contamination....
NOAKHALI, Mar 17 (UNB): The local administration has imposed section 144 prohibiting mass gathering at Mouriganj in Sonaimuri upazila following a clash between two groups of villagers on Monday morning. The restriction will remain in force for an indefinite period...
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 17 (AFP): The last words from a Malaysian passenger jet missing for 10 days were spoken by the co-pilot, the airline said Monday, providing a new glimpse into the crucial period when the plane was deliberately diverted....
KIEV, Mar 17 (AFP): Crimeans' decisive choice in favour of Kremlin rule leaves Ukraine's new leaders with few viable ways to reclaim the peninsula but is likely to deepen their budding ties to the West. The Black Sea region that...
BENGHAZI, Mar 17 (AFP): A car bomb Monday targeting a military academy in Libya's restive eastern city of Benghazi killed at least five soldiers and wounded more than 10, military and hospital sources said. The medical centre in Benghazi reported...
BELGRADE, Mar 17 (AFP): With a resounding election victory under its belt, Serbia's centre-right SNS party must now forge ahead with tough economic reforms as it plots a course into the EU, analysts said on Monday. With around half the...
BAALBEK, Mar 17 (AFP): The suicide car bomb attack in a Hezbollah-dominated area of eastern Lebanon, near the Syrian border, left two people dead, according to a new toll released Monday. A security source said the Lebanese army detected and...
Second artificial heart implant due in 'weeks' PARIS, Mar 17: After its first recipient died, French biomedical firm Carmat said on Monday it expected to try again to implant its experimental artificial heart in another patient "in several weeks". Artificial...
The World Bank has provided the highest amount of foreign aid to Bangladesh since independence until the last fiscal year (2012-13) with an amount of over $ 13.1 billion out of the country's all major bilateral and multilateral development partners,...
A managers' conference of Dhaka zone of United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) was held recently at the Learning & Development Centre auditorium of the bank. The conference was presided by the Managing Director of UCBL Mr. Muhammed Ali. Review of...
Munima Sultana | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
Disbursement of loans for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) marked a phenomenal rise in all sectors in 2013. Such an increase has been attributed mainly to entrance of new entrepreneurs and ventures following combined efforts of the central bank and...
FE Report | 2014-03-18 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), the implementing agency of Anti Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML-CFT) arranged a conference at Cox's Bazaar for Chief Anti Money Laundering Compliance Officers (CAMLCO) and Deputy CAMLCOs of commercial banks operating...
Jamuna Bank arranges blood donation, free eye camp A Voluntary Blood Donation Program and Free Eye Camp, Gynae and General Treatment was held at Lawachhara, Sreemongol, Moulvibazar under the auspices and finance of Jamuna Bank Foundation. Kanutosh Majumder, Chairman, Jamuna...
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