SIRAJGANJ, Feb 7 (UNB): A Bangladesh Army officer was killed as his vehicle overturned on the Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge under Sadar Upazila Friday. The deceased was identified as Prabhat Kumar (34), a sergeant (engineering Corps) of Bogra Cantonment.
SYLHET, Feb 7 (UNB): Police arrested two muggers along with looted Tk 1.8 million of a British-American Tobacco Company agent in Chhatak Upazila of Sunamganj district Friday. The arrestees were identified as Saiful Alam (35), son of Chamak Ali of...
The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Thursday night recovered nine petrol bombs and eight crude bombs from the city's Mohammadur area, reports UNB. Additional Police Super Raihan Uddin of RAB-2 said being tipped-off, a team of RAB-2 conducted a...
A Correspondent JHENIDAH, Feb 07: A day-long cake festival (Pitha Utshab) organised by Police Nari Kalyan Samity was held at Jhenidah Police Lines Friday. Jhenidah Superintendent of Police (SP) Altaf Hossain was present as the chief guest, while wife of...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, Feb 6: The members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Thursday arrested 9 Bangladeshis including two children while they were going to India illegally through Benapole frontier. M Abdullah, in-charge of BGB, Benapole check post camp,...
The 80th birth anniversary of Poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah Khan, the second son of former justice Abdul Jabbar Khan, will be observed today (Saturday). On the occasion, a discussion will be held at his residence at Baherchar village under Babuganj...
The second death anniversary of the country's first ENT-micro surgeon Brig Gen (Retd) Prof Dr M Masudur Rahman Khan (MR Khan) will be observed today (Saturday) in the city's MARKS Group office at Mirpur-14 and his ancestral home at Kamlapur...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), reports UNB. Moderate to thick fog may occur over the river basins and light to moderate fog elsewhere over the country until morning,...
Youth Red Crescent Camp begins in city A three-day Dhaka Divisional Youth Red Crescent Camp-2014 began in the city Friday. State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Kamal inaugurated the camp by releasing balloons. The theme of the camp this year is...
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleged on Friday that state-sponsored terrorism has spread across the country as the Prime Minister (PM) is defending the 'terrorist acts of her party men', reports UNB. "Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina will tour Rajshahi today (Saturday) to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of a number of development projects and exchange views with the people injured in pre-and post-poll violence unleashed by BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men at different...
CHITTAGONG, Feb 7 (BSS): Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury today said that the parliament is the centre for solving all kind of problems. She said any kind of problem in the country could be solved...
The announcement of schedules for the staggered upazila parishad elections came as a relief for the ruling Awami League (AL) as this will keep away its arch political rival BNP from going for any further movement for fresh polls following...
Terming the January-5 election a 'farcical' one, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) President Col (Retd) Oli Ahmad Friday demanded the government arrange fresh parliamentary polls, reports UNB. "Arrange a new national election immediately. Otherwise, people won't sit idle … they'll ensure...
The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charge sheet against former Post and Telecommunication Minister and BNP leader Barrister Aminul Haque and his brother-in-law in a money laundering case, reports UNB. The Commission at its regular meeting Thursday approved the charge...
Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu Friday said there is none in the 10th national parliament who supports militancy, reports UNB. "The present parliament formed following the January 5 general election is free from the backers of militancy. You won't find...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2014-02-08 00:00:00
The government has been forced to cut the annual foreign aid target by US$ 420 million to $2.95 billion this fiscal year (FY) due to poor disbursement of the assistance amid weak project execution performance, officials said Friday. They said...
Jasim Uddin Haroon | 2014-02-08 00:00:00
The credit flow to the private sector slowed moderately during the July-December period, which analysts blamed on the political turmoil during the period that brought almost all economic activities to a halt. They said it would take time to restore...
Md Shah Jahan | 2014-02-08 00:00:00
The investigation into much-talked-about Padma Bridge graft conspiracy case has been virtually put on hold as the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has failed to collect required information yet. After submission of a partial probe report in March last, no visible headway...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2014-02-08 00:00:00
The revenue board has halved Value Added Tax (VAT) for the country's superstores in a bid to encourage consumers to buy quality products at reasonable prices from such outlets. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) cut the VAT on purchase...
TEN years after they arrived, the weapons have found their victims. In April 2004 police in Chittagong, the main port city of Bangladesh, intercepted a shipment of rifles, submachine guns with silencers, 25,000 hand grenades and more, worth some $5m....
Bangladesh is to get $1.2 billion in loans this year from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to help finance its oil imports, at cheaper rates than last year when it borrowed more, reports Reuters. The IDB will provide the loan...
About 1.0 million (10 lakh) transactions worth more than Tk 2.21 billion were taking place every day through the micro-finance services (MFS) bKash, Mobile Money and M-Cash, said Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor Atiur Rahman Friday. "Key players in the MFS...
GAZIPUR, Feb 7: Four people were killed and three others injured as a CNG-run autorickshaw collided head-on with a human hauler at Jamiarchar in Kapasia upazila Thursday night. Three of the deceased were identified as Parvin Akther, 35, of Narsingdi...
CHITTAGONG, Feb 7: Customs officials recovered 420 gold bars weighing nearly 49 kilograms from a flight of the "Fly Dubai" at the Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong Thursday night. Assistant commissioner of airport customs Moshiur Rahman said the customs...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the country's first 'light and sound show' on Friday evening at Lalbagh Fort, an archaeological site, in the city aiming to attract more local and foreign tourists apart from informing the visitors about its history,...
Arafat Ara | 2014-02-08 00:00:00
The government initiative to reduce migration cost has hardly yielded any positive result as lots of workers are still securing jobs abroad spending a large amount of money in absence of regular pace of migration. Earlier, the government set the...
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