Voicing concern over the recent inauguration of projects by the Anti Corruption Commission chairman, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the ACC leadership to avoid such matters of conflict of interest. In a statement Sunday, TIB executive director Dr Iftekharuzzaman...
Voicing concern over the recent inauguration of projects by the Anti Corruption Commission chairman, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the ACC leadership to avoid such matters of conflict of interest. In a statement on Sunday, TIB executive director Dr...
Mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Limited on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with CARE Bangladesh. The agreement was signed with the objective to jointly design, develop and implement sustainable enterprise development initiatives based on inclusive business models- targeting...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged Iranian entrepreneurs to invest in joint ventures in Bangladesh, identifying such areas as oil and gas exploration, petro-chemicals and infrastructure development. She made the request Sunday, when outgoing Iranian Ambassador to Bangladesh Hossein Aminian...
For the first time, the country is going to achieve the rare feat of bone marrow transplantation by mid-March, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim Sunday. “It’ll be a milestone in the treatment of blood cancer and thalassemia...
Authorities on Sunday night declared Rajshahi University (RU) closed for an indefinite period following campus violence. The decision was taken at a meeting of the RU Syndicate after over 100 students were injured, including 30 with bullets, in attacks by...
Many ruling party MPs are allegedly interfering in the party’s nominations for the upcoming upazila elections in violation of the party chief’s order that they should stay off the process. Allegations have also surfaced that the MPs are pressing to...
DAMASCUS: At least 85 people were killed in 24 hours of Syrian regime air raids on the city of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Sunday, after 10 days of inconclusive peace talks. The deaths came as a suicide car bombing...
Muggers shot two employees of a ‘bKash’ agent and took away Tk 1.0 million from them near the Kadam Fuara of High Court area on Sunday. The injured were identified as M Sohag Khan, 28, and Doulat Gazi, 35, employees...
A man was killed and two others were injured in a road accident in Dhelduar upazila in Tangail district on Friday night. The identity of the deceased, aged around 40, could not be known immediately. Officer-in-charge of Dhelduar Police Station...
A devastating fire brunt down at least 28 dwelling houses in Roangchhari upazila in Bandarban district on Friday night. Fire service sources said the fire originated from a kitchen at a house Waingbang Para area and soon engulfed 27 other...
More than 100 houses were gutted in a fire in Khulna City’s Sonadanga on Friday night. The fire broke out around 8:30pm at Harijan Palli, police said. Eight firefighting units put out the flames at around 10pm. Harijan Palli Police...
Police have recovered the body of a young man from a ditch in Halot area of Pabna town four days after he mysteriously disappeared. The victim was identified as Masud Rana, 22, son of Nayeb Ali, a resident of Bilkula...
A high-level Bangladesh delegation is expected to visit Saudi Arabia soon to explore business opportunities between the two countries. Bangladesh Consulate in Jeddah has already started working to establish channels of communication between the trading communities in the port cities...
Motiur Rahman Nizami and Lutfozzaman Babar are being taken to Gazipur's Kashimpur Jail from Chittagong. The former ministers were sentenced to death on Thursday along with 12 others for their role in smuggling ten trucks of weapons through Chittagong in...
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh organized a two-day training on 'Financial Management' for the officials of Non Government Organizations (NGOs) and Micro finance Institutions(MFIs).The first phase of the aforesaid training programme began Saturday at the training room of...
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to meet top Ukrainian opposition leaders on the sidelines of a security summit in Munich, amid continuing unrest in the country. Mr Kerry said his message would be one of full support....
Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya on Friday said the government has been elected for a five-year term as per the constitution, and ruled out the possibility of any midterm election. “The hope (of BNP) for a...
The beating and subsequent death in New Delhi of a university student from India’s remote northeast has sparked a furious outcry against racism and criticism of police in the Indian capital. Several hundred people protested outside a Delhi police station...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has deferred its Monday’s nationwide daylong hartal to Thursday due to the second phase of Biswa Ijtema and Saraswati Puja. The Islamist party, however, will stage ‘peaceful’ demonstrations across the country on Monday protesting what the party said...
The United Nations’ secretary-general has pressed the U.S. and Russia to help ensure that peace talks aimed at stemming Syria’s civil war can resume on Feb. 10 as proposed by the U.N. mediator. A week of peace talks ended in...
Police in an overnight drive arrested 22 people for their suspected involvement in assaulting Awami League MP Abu Reza M Nezamuddin in Lohagorah upazila here on Friday night. Shahjahan, officer-in-charge of Lohagorah police station, said 22 Jamaat-Shibir activists were arrested...
Eminent economists of the country advised Bangladesh Bank (BB) to be more cautious to contain inflation, which has already appeared as the major threat to reshape the economy, dented by the recent political unrest. The country's inflation was in a...
England Cricket Board chairman Giles Clarke hinted Saturday that Ashley Giles would succeed Andy Flower as Test coach after the former Zimbabwe international quit following their Ashes whitewash. Flower resigned on Friday to allow the team to rebuild after their...
Terming the January 5 election a miraculous act, Gano Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Saturday said that people have not liberated this country for holding such polls. “A total of 153 candidates have been elected unopposed in the 10th...
Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, projected that the real rate of growth in GDP in the current fiscal year may decline to 5.65 per cent. The research organisation in its current issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update on Monetary...
Urging the leaders of doctors’ associations not to engage in lobbying to avail themselves of undue government facilities, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim on Saturday sought their cooperation in ensuring physicians’ presence in rural hospitals. “Cooperate with the government in achieving...
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) members picked two Bangladeshi nationals from Kolmudanga border in Sapahar upazila on Saturday morning. The victims were identified as Arif Hossain, 25, son of Daud Ali and Humayun Ahmed, 27 son of Rezaul Islam of...
The 2nd phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after holy Hajj, ends Sunday with the Akheri Munajat (ending prayers) to be joined by millions of people. Noted policymaker of Tablig Jamaat Maulana Jubayer Al-Hasan from India is...
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