The government has decided to set up an Arabic University in the country. The Education Ministry Thursday formed a six-member committee led by joint secretary of the ministry (university) to formulate a draft act for setting up of the university...
Mamun RashidSamson H Chowdhury, an icon of Bangladesh private sector died of old age complications at a Singapore hospital Thursday, January 5, at the age of 86. By all criteria, Mr. Chowdhury was more than his life to almost all...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Jan 5: Five workers of a local dockyard drowned and five others are missing in a boat capsize at Boalkhali upazila of the district today.The engine-boat with some 40 passengers capsized in the Raikhali Khal of the river...
Nizam AhmedAs part of regular imports some 100,000 tonnes of raw sugar are expected to reach Chittagong port in next four to six weeks from Brazil, traders said on Thursday.Most the country's annual requirement of about 1.5 million tonnes are...
FE Report Former caretaker adviser A.B Mirza Md. Azizul Islam has advised bankers not to reschedule loans at the last moment to enable powerful, but delinquent borrowers to participate in elections."….don't finance unsustainable bubble in real estate or stock prices,"...
Fire gutted wood, sewing machines and other valuables worth about Tk 10 million in two separate incidents in the city's Badda and Malibagh areas, reports UNB.The first incident took place at about 5:30 am when a fire broke out from...
FE ReportThe government will create an authority for renewable and sustainable energy development to promote green energy in the country, the Prime Minister's adviser for energy affairs said Thursday.Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said, "We have approved the proposal to form the renewable...
BNP has termed the last three years of ruling Awami League (AL) grand alliance as being marked by "deception" with the people, reports UNB.Addressing a discussion and Dua Mahfil Thursday afternoon, BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday made a fervent call to the opposition party to shun all confrontational politics and work together as she addressed the nation to mark the three years of the five-year tenure of her Awami League-led grand...
HABIGANJ, Jan 5 (UNB): The Speedy Trial Tribunal in Sylhet on Thursday ordered the Criminal Investigation Department to conduct further investigation into former Finance Minister SAMS Kibria killing case.Tribunal judge Dilip Kumer Devnath passed the order after hearing the petition...
The International Crimes Tribunal has set January 9 for order on a prosecution plea to take into congnisance the charge made against former Jama'at-e-Islami ameer Ghulam Azam for committing crimes against humanity during the liberation war in 1971, reports UNB.Justice...
Weather is likely to remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country having chances of light rain or drizzle over the regions of Jessore, Kushtia, Rajshahi and Pabna in next 24 hours until 6:00pm today (Friday).Moderate to...
President M Zillur Rahman Thursday asked police to play a more responsible role in carrying out investigation with professionalism and neutrality for establishing rule of law in the society, reports BSS."Establishing rule of law depends largely on neutral and objective...
FE ReportBangladesh Railway will press a number of special trains into service to facilitate hundreds of thousands of devotees to attend the Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi from all over the country Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta announced at the Railway Bhaban...
FE ReportMinisters, business leaders, bankers and different trade bodies have condoled the death of Chairman of Square Group Samson H Chowdhury.In a condolence message, Finance Minister AMA Muhith expressed his deep shock and grief at the death of Samson H...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud Khondker on Thursday handed over commemorations to the bereaved family members of those policemen who were killed in action last year, reports UNB.The commemorations were given for the glorious contribution of policemen who...
Speakers at a citizens' rally here on Thursday urged the government to reopen the country's closed state-run jute mills to create job opportunities for those who lost their jobs due to the closure of these mills, reports UNB.They said about...
Atiur RahmanThe annual lecture event commemorating Nurul Matin, one of the helmsmen of our central bank and the banking sector in the early years after liberation, has been very purposeful. To this day the banking community in Bangladesh values highly...
Maswood Alam KhanThere are times when you have to tolerate the intolerant. It seems the United States has no option but to tolerate the new government in Egypt, being formed by Islamist Brotherhood Party. The ascent of Islamists in Egypt...
Khan Ferdousour RahmanOur eyes and brain work together to see; but when this doesn't work the way it should, a person may be visually impaired, or blind. Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological...
International standard accounting procedures are practised in many business establishments of Bangladesh. But there is also the other side in many other business organisations which do not have accounting systems in place consistent with the international standard. Achieving uniform accounting...
The government is taking up some development projects such as elevated expressway, metro rail and flyovers, to further improve the road communication network in the city. According to experts, these projects, including the proposed 26-kilometre elevated expressway, will rather increase...
The Gulshan-Banani-Baridhara Lake, one of the largest water bodies of the capital, is dying. Choked by weeds and garbage, it is no longer attractive to the eye as the lake has been reduced to almost a drain. Conservation of water...
The recent news report headlined: 'Schools celebrating textbook festival' has drawn my attention.The report says that all primary and secondary schools and madrasas across the country celebrated the "Text Book Distribution Festival" on the first day of 2012. What was...
The newly-appointed minister in charge of Railway expressed his desire to reintroduce railway services again in the routes closed earlier along with the introduction of new routes. Similar utterances were made by his predecessor in the communications ministry. The Rupsha-Bagerhat...
The much-hyped energy roadmap of the ruling coalition seems to have hit a snag. With the discloser made on January 04 by none other than the chairman of Petrobangla that given known reserves of natural gas, the country may fall...
Syed Mansur HashimWere we to believe the internet-generated news, then gathering of intelligence in 'real time' in troubled hot spots like Syria will become a child's play. Admittedly, the World Wide Web or the 'internet' (as it is known in...
Mohammad Helal UddinEconomic development organisations have long been seeking ways to apply market-based approaches as a means to poverty reduction in developing countries. A shining success of this endeavour is microfinance. First appearing in the early 1970's, by 2006 more...
Md Nurnobi IslamOn December 25, 2011 different newspapers published news about assault on a teacher in Kurigram Government College. A student who happens to be president of Chhatra League of that college confined a teacher on duty in a room...
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