The tragic deaths of four persons due to electrocution in Dhaka during waterlogging highlights the severe consequences of poor infrastructure and inadequate safety measures in the city. The deceased were identified as Md Alauddin, 18, and Rasel Das, 27, both...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-07-16 00:00:00
Reports expressing concern about the country's national fish, hilsa, appeared in the media from time to time over the past few years.And those were about if hilsa stock was depleting due to overfishing or any alteration in the conditions that...
Rafeen Huq | 2024-07-16 00:00:00
Last Friday, Dhaka City went under knee-to-waist deep water, courtesy of this season's heaviest rainfall, measuring 130mm in just six hours---6 am to 12 noon. Life came to a grinding halt, not just for those six hours. Residents of most...
The state minister for commerce announces at a press conference that in view of the price hike of onion and potato, his government has allowed import of the two items from any country. To that end import permission (IP) has...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-07-16 00:00:00
Of late, the media in Bangladesh is abuzz with news of high profile cases of corruption coming in quick succession, sometimes simultaneously. Senior officials, both in office and retired, have been implicated in allegations of corrupt practices and for amassing...
NAOGAON, July 14 (UNB): A 47-year-old former councillor, who remained missing since Friday, was found dead at a water body at Patichara in Patnitala upazila of Naogaon district on Sunday.The dead is Mizanur Rahman Mitu, former councilor of No 9...
The Jatiya Sangsad (JS) body on Fisheries and Livestock Ministry has recommended postponing the ongoing recruitment process under the Livestock Department as the decision regarding the quota system is still at the court.The recommendation came from the first meeting of...
The health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, currently undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital, remains unchanged, reports UNB."Madam (Khaleda) is still undergoing treatment in a cabin with CCU facilities under round-the-clock supervision of doctors. Her physical condition...
Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud has described the quota issue as sub-judice matter and expressed his view that the ongoing movement lacks justification, reports UNB."The movement seems like thumbing nose at the court. The government has always been sympathetic towards...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir will have to take rest at home for some days upon the advice of his doctor.Earlier, he had been admitted to United Hospital in the capital on July 10, 2024...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has urged the general students and countrymen to remain alert against conspiracy and ill efforts of vested groups, including BNP, over the movement against quota system in government jobs, reports BSS.The minister made...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in the next 20 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office.It may also...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Biplab Kumar Sarker said on Sunday police were discharging their duties with utmost patience to avert any untoward incidents during the ongoing quota reform movement by the students."Police are working with utmost patience...
The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested the mastermind of a criminal gang who was selling forged academic certificates, reports UNB.The arrestee is Abu Zafar, 31, who used to sell fake certificates of City University and America Bangladesh...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock on Sunday recommended forming a committee to investigate the complaint of corruption in the tender process related to the purchase of vaccines, reports BSS.The committee of the 12th parliament...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday dismissed the leave-to-appeals challenging the High Court's verdict upholding the cancellation of 169 student admissions to class 1 at Viqarunnisa Noon School & College for the 2024 academic year, reports...
Ambassador and Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Bangladesh, Charles Whiteley, reaffirmed the EU's commitment to aiding Bangladesh in its fight against climate vulnerability and extreme poverty, reports UNB.Whiteley made these remarks on Sunday at a workshop titled...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
The Bhanga-Jashore section of the Padma Rail Link Project is expected to be inaugurated by the end of October next, establishing a 172-kilometre direct link between Dhaka and the south-western districts.Project officials said work on the 87km section would complete...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
The drafting of the Health Protection Act is now in the final stage. The ministry has held many meetings about the act, and it would be placed in the parliament soon, Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Samanta Lal Sen...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
Protectionism and sanctions, along with counter-sanctions, are damaging trade for countries like Bangladesh, said Prime Minister's Adviser on Private Industry and Investment Salman F Rahman."There is a concept that open markets would succeed and the best way for the world...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) on Sunday stayed the issuance of the notifications by newly appointed administrator of Sonali Life Insurance Company Ltd terminating five top executives.An HC bench comprising Justice Naima Haider and Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque passed the order...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) has released the full verdict that declared illegal the government circular issued in 2018 abolishing the all quotas, including the freedom fighter one, in class one and two government jobs.According to the 27-page HC verdict released...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
A special concession 'salami' (rent) rates are being considered for educational and religious institutions established on leased government properties under the Vested Property Return Act.Land Secretary Md Khalilur Rahman made the statement while presiding over a workshop on 'Allotment of...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
Responding to university teachers' demands, the government has decided to make the Prattay pension scheme effective from July next year.The decision has come as teachers of all public universities launched a strike on July 1, demanding their exclusion from the...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
The High Court has issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the 40 per cent dependent quota provision for recruitment in Bangladesh Railway should not be declared illegal.An HC bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
Students and job-aspirants Sunday marched through police cordons and submitted a memorandum to President Mohammed Shahabuddin with a timeline for recasting government-job quota.A mass march organised by the quota reformists was intercepted by police at different points on its way...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked all concerned to target the markets of Middle East (ME), gulf countries, Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia and East Europe with innovative products to boost export earnings."We don't want to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she doesn't think current drives against corruption would tarnish her government's image, as the question came up during her press meet Sunday on her China tour. Talking to the journalists she reaffirmed her commitment to...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-15 00:00:00
Implementation of the proposed National Action Plan through revising labour laws for labour-sector reforms in Bangladesh is a must-do for availing GSP-Plus facility in export to the European Union market, says the EU envoy. "That's of course a work in...
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