A rickshaw-puller, who failed to repay regularly the installments of a loan he had borrowed for treatment of his wife, attempted to end his life in the city's Narda area Friday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Rezaul Karim...
CHUADANGA, Mar 7 (UNB): People are getting attacked with tuberculosis (TB) increasingly in the district as no awareness campaign is being carried out there to prevent the infectious disease. At present, TB is spreading in different areas of the district...
BRAHMANBARIA, Mar 7 (UNB): Thousands of Muslim devotees staged demonstrations in the district town Friday in protest against Thursday's attack on madrasah teachers and students and members of Tabligh Jamaat by miscreants in a local mosque. Miscreants swooped on the...
FARIDPUR, Mar 7 (UNB): Health services at Faridpur Medical College Hospital (FMCH) resumed Friday noon as interns joined their work ending a five-day strike demanding the arrest of attackers of a colleague. Dr Saifuzzahan Rabi, president of FMCH Intern Doctors'...
ULAB students receive Duke of Edinburgh Awards The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DEA) recognised seventy-one students of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) in the ULAB Auditorium Thursday. ULAB launched Duke of Edinburgh's Award (DEA) Programme in 2013. Within...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country today (Saturday). Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country, Met Office said. The country's highest temperature of 31.5 degrees Celsius was recorded Friday in...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged on Friday that the government has besieged democracy like an octopus, reports UNB. "Today, people's democratic rights and their rights to expression are being snatched. The government has grabbed democracy like...
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) has urged BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia to send a proposal to the government for engaging in a dialogue aiming to hold a free, fair and inclusive fresh national election, reports UNB. "We've told the BNP chairperson...
Worried at the irreparable losses in academic activities for what they said due to BNP-Jamaat's pre-election destructive political programmes in the name of movement, leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) have said they are determined to maintain a congenial...
GOALANDA (Rajbari), Mar 7 (UNB): Police arrested the son of an Awami League (AL) rebel female vice-chairman candidate in the upcoming Upazila polls from Daulatdiaghat here on Thursday night. Police said they arrested AKM Sajjad alias Sohagh, 33, son of...
CHITTAGONG, Mar 7 (BSS): Chittagong district police, in nightlong drives, arrested 25 activists of BNP-Jammat from different area of Sitakunda, Satkhania and Lohagara upazilas on Thursday night. On a secret information, Sitakunda Thana police in nightlong raid from 8 pm...
HABIGANJ, Mar 7 (BSS): Finance Minister AMA Muhith said today BNP gave recognition to the present government by taking part in the upazila polls. He described BNP's decision not to take part in the national elections as an extreme foolish...
Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu castigated on Friday BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia for not practicing correct politics as she refrained from making any statement on the historic March 7 Speech of Bangabandhu, reports BSS. He described militancy as 'political...
Though over a month has elapsed since BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has announced to overhaul her party with a strong push reshuffling its leadership both at the centre and grassroots levels, no effective move is in sight to this end....
BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy has criticised party's central leadership's handling of 'traitors', reports bdnews24.com. He said many of those expelled for anti-party activities after the traumatic the 1/11 (January 11, 2007) political changeover were later forgiven. The...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-03-08 00:00:00
Leading economists have come up with mixed reaction about the probable Tk. 2.5 trillion size of the next budget which will be placed before the national parliament in June next. Some economists said the size of the next national budget...
The International Women's Day will be observed in the country today (Saturday) as elsewhere across the globe with a call to work for women's rights, empowerment and gender equality, reports UNB. This year, the theme of the day is "Equality...
FE Report The total unpaid work carried out by women per year is worth Tk 111.59 billion or USD 14.45 billion in Bangladesh which is 10.75 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), a survey of an independent...
Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani arrives in the city today (Saturday) on a four-day official visit, aiming to strengthen the existing cooperation between the OIC and Bangladesh, reports UNB. The Secretary General will...
Monira Munni | 2014-03-08 00:00:00
The Accord's inspection team and an official review committee have declared two ready-made garment (RMG) factories temporarily shut on grounds of their structural flaws, amid uncertainty over the workers' wage benefits during the period, sources said. Following the decision, one...
Accusing Khaleda Zia of looking for newer pretexts to wage a fresh movement, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday urged the people of the country and her party leaders and workers to get united to stand against any evil force, reports...
The historic March 7, a red- letter day in the history of the Bangalees' long arduous freedom struggle, was observed on Friday paying glowing tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS. On this day in...
Jasim Khan | 2014-03-08 00:00:00
New Delhi is now awaiting an early decision from Dhaka on a proposed bilateral Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA) that will enable vehicles from both the countries to enter and ply inside their territories. The Indian road transport and highways ministry...
Three youths have been killed when a truck ran over the motorcycle they were riding at Savar. Police said the accident took place around 7:00 pm Friday on Dhaka-Aricha highway at Jadurchar of Hemayetpur. The truck had hit the motorcycle...
Supporters of an Awami League 'rebel' upazila parishad chairman candidate blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur to protest his alleged detention by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). Sreepur Police Station OC Amir Hossain said traffic came to a halt on...
KIEV, Mar 7: Ukraine's interim prime minister has warned the Crimean parliament "no-one in the civilised world" will recognise its referendum on joining Russia. Arseniy Yatsenyuk and others in the Kiev government have called the vote "unconstitutional" and "illegitimate". But...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-03-08 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) will review performance of 15 development projects this week as it is not satisfied with utilisation of fund and the progress in their implementation, officials said Friday. The WB has already informed the Economic Relations Division...
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