Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Feb 28: Commercial Counsellor of the High Commission of Pakistan in Dhaka Farah Farooq will arrive in Chittagong on an official visit from March 2 to 6. She will lead a powerful trade delegation of the Islamic...
FE Report The Directorate of National Consumers Rights Protection (DNCRP) started forming committees at the union parisahd (UP) level from January 2014 aiming to make consumers aware about their rights, official said. Earlier, the DNCRP has completed committees at upazila...
SYLHET, Feb 28 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the shrines of Hazrat Shahjalal ® and Hazrat Shahparan ® here today (Friday). Hasina first visited the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal ®, offered fateha there and joined a munajat. She then...
The 10th teachers' registration examination under the Non-Government Teachers' Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) will be held in the country on May 30-31, reports UNB. Candidates interested to take part in the examinations will be able to submit online application...
BAGERHAT, Feb 28 (UNB): Frequent attacks by pirates and forest robbers have put both lives and livelihood of the members of the fishermen community in grave peril in the Bay of Bengal and the Sundarbans. About two lakh fishermen have...
Some unidentified miscreants stabbed a youth to death in Ainusbag area under Dakshin Khan police Station in the early hours of Friday in the city, reports BSS. The victim was identified as Meraj Hossain Raihan (23), son of late Abdul...
At least five people were killed in Comilla and Mymensingh road accidents Friday, reports UNB In Comilla, three people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Sonakanda in Muradnagar Upazila early Friday....
FE Report Dhaka Journalist Housing Co-operative Society Ltd Joint Secretary Moazzem Hossain Chaudury died of cardiac arrest Friday morning at the National Heart Foundation in the city. He was 66. A valiant freedom fighter Mr Chaudury served the now-defunct The...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country and chances of light rain or thundershowers at one or two places over Rangpur and Rajshhai divisions today (Thursday). Night and day temperatures may remain nearly unchanged...
Photography exhibition on language movement Books and photographs based on language movement were displayed at an exhibition organised by language martyr Shaheed Abul Barkat Memorial Museum at Dhaka University in the city on Thursday. On the occasion, documentary films were...
Although two years have elapsed since the bifurcation of the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) into two administrative zones, north and south, it has failed to yield any tangible benefits for the city dwellers, reports UNB. According to experts and officials,...
LAXMIPUR, Feb 28 (UNB): Reiterating that they have been elected for five years, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said on Friday it depends on time and country's situation whether the present government will remain in power unit the expiry of its...
JESSORE, Feb 28 (UNB): An Awami League (AL) activist, who received injuries in an attack allegedly by BNP men at a polling station in Chaugachha upazila during Thursday's upazila election, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Friday morning....
The BNP-Jamaat backed Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya (Blue Panel) swept the elections to the Dhaka Bar Association for the 2014-15 term by bagging 18 posts out of 25, including those of the President and General Secretary, reports bdnews24.com. The ruling Awami...
Tendons of both the legs of a rebel BNP candidate, who is contesting for the vice-chairman post in the elections to Morelganj Upazila Parishad in Bagerhat district, were cut allegedly by a rival group on Friday noon, reports bdnews24.com. The...
In the second phase upazila elections held Thursday BNP favourites bagged 51 chairman posts while its arch rival Awami League (AL) candidates got 43. According to unofficial results, candidates loyal to Jamaat-e-Islami, an ally of BNP, took eight chairman posts...
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee on March 13 in connection with the allegation of acquiring wealth illegally, reports UNB. The Commission recently sent a notice to Anee asking him to be present...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Friday the repressive acts against opposition leaders and activists by 'Awami cadres' during the staggered upazila elections came as part of the government's deep-rooted conspiracy to annihilate its opponents, reports...
Monira Munni | 2014-03-01 00:00:00
Apparel makers have expressed their reservations about incorporating key information, especially on factory inspection and their trading profiles, in the proposed database fearing that their business secrets may leak out, industry insiders have said. Instead, they want to make public...
Khairul Islam | 2014-03-01 00:00:00
The month-long 'Amor Ekushey Grontho Mela' (Ekushey Book Fair) concluded Friday. According to many book lovers, the fair this year has failed to meet their demand as the event witnessed lower numbers of new titles including fictions and popular books....
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-03-01 00:00:00
The Planning Commission has proposed a Tk 540 billion Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the current fiscal (2013-14) cutting the original allocations by 18 per cent. The ADP for the FY 2014 is Tk 658.72 billion. Planning Commission (PC)...
Syful Islam | 2014-03-01 00:00:00
A team of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will visit several apparel units and shrimp processing plants in the country to get a firsthand experience on the progress Bangladesh has made so far on labour rights and safety issues,...
In the second phase upazila elections held Thursday amid sporadic violence at different parts of the country, BNP favourites took lead again bagging 51 chairman posts while its arch rival Awami League candidates got 43, reports UNB. According to unofficial...
NEW DELHI, Feb 28 (AFP): The head of India's giant Sahara group surrendered to police Friday, two days after the Supreme Court ordered his arrest over delays in repaying billions of dollars illegally collected from small investors. Subrata Roy "wilfully...
A thousand years old Buddhist temple was discovered in Nateshwar area of Tongibari upazila in Munshiganj district. "We estimate the temple was built more than a thousand years ago during the Gupta or Sen Dynasty. More importantly, the temple was...
A youth was killed after falling from a building in the city's Lalbagh area early Friday. The police found the unidentified young man, aged about 35, from a place adjacent to a building at Kashmeritola under Lalbagh police station with...
Three Bangladeshi workers died of smoke inhalation on Friday after a fire broke out in their room in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Confirming the incident, Shameem Ahsan, Director General (External Publicity Wing) at the Foreign Ministry, said two of...
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