DU Correspondent Justice Habibur Rahman, also former caretaker government chief, has said that the law and order situation in the country was not satisfactory during the outgoing calendar year.Reviewing the year, Mr Rahman said although the government has achieved many...
Prof Dr M Nasiruddin Munshi and Dr M Mizanur Rahman were elected president and secretary general respectively of Library Association of Bangladesh (LAB), reports BSS.The LAB election-2012 was held at the Institute of Social Welfare and Research of Dhaka University...
KERANIGANJ, Dec 31 (UNB): A fake National Security Intelligence (NSI) officer was arrested in Keraniganj Saturday.The arrestee is Mirza Shahadat Hossain, alias Harun, alias Kobbat (45).Mainuddin Khan, Officer-in-Charge of Keraniganj model thana said that Shahadat, introducing himself as an NSI...
FE Report The first Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the 'Sakal Belar Sathi Sangathan', a non-profit, non-political and social welfare organisation, was held at the premises of the Shahidbagh Registered Non-government Primary School, Pallabi, Dhaka, Saturday last, says a press...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Dec 31: Five persons have died, three of them crushed under the wheels of a passenger bus, and 36 others injured in a road accident at Sitakund of the district on Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Saturday morning.The incident took...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Dec 31: The law enforcement agencies have cancelled permission given to the Ntv to stage a concert programme today at Chittagong on the occasion of celebrating the 31st December. Officials at the City SB (City SB) of...
Murad Rahman, a master's student of English department of Jahangirnagar University (JU), died Saturday falling from the rooftop of a 4- storied residential hall, reports BSS.Murad is the resident of room no. 431/B of Shaheed Salam Barkat Hall and hailed...
FE ReportMrs Suraiya Hossain, wife of late Mozaffar Hossain Manik, former executive editor of the New Nation, died at the city's Holy Family Hospital Saturday morning. She was 73.Mrs Hossain was admitted to the hospital about a week ago with...
Rezaul Haq Chowdhury Mushtaq and Mohiul Islam Mohim have recently been elected President and General Secretary (GS) respectively of Chattagram Samity Dhaka.The election was held at Chattagram Bhaban, 32, Topkhana Road in the city recently, said a press release.Other office...
A recent news report published in a Bangla newspaper was disquieting. According to the report, in pursuance of a ban on vehicles carrying heavy transports over four bridges and 15 culverts along the 47-kilometre road from Ashuganj to Akhaura, the...
Risks and dangers in the banking sector arise primarily from a regulatory framework that is not adapted to the market structure. Large financial institutions become too-big-to-fail because the regulator does not have any means to properly discipline and regulate them....
Brazil beamed with pride on news that it has powered past Britain to become the world's sixth biggest economy but officials say it will take another 20 years before the country can match the Europeans' standard of living."From a psychological...
A new year -no matter on which calendar - is always a special occasion for people around the world because it evokes hopes for the better in the days to come. Ethnic communities, people bonding together on the basis of...
Diesel, kerosene, petrol, octane and furnace oil have been made costlier by Tk 5.0 a litre each as the government raised the petroleum prices through an executive order from late last week. The new price of per litre diesel and...
The New Year 2012 is on, leaving behind 2011 which was eventful from the beginning. To be frank, most part of 2011 was simply nightmarish. Thousands of people suffered due to nasty share market debacles and they registered angry protests...
Oil prices ended 2011 up 13 per cent as a fresh wave of supply concerns capped a year of unrest and disruptions in North Africa and the Middle East that overwhelmed concerns about the economic health of large consuming nations.Iran's...
It was a busy summer city when the vehicles were in traffic signal at Matscho Bhaban Mor (corner point of Fisheries Building) in Segunbagicha. Some hawkers were selling their goods to the passengers. At that juncture, a child hawker started...
Incidents of mugging are on the rise in Dhaka. One person was killed and many others injured seriously, in the eight mugging incidents during the month of December, according to newspaper reports. It is really alarming. Such incidents create panic...
Our dearest Rasul (SM) says, ''Fighting with one's own self to refrain from committing evil acts is indeed a big fight.'' Real Jihad is therefore, to continue doing good and to avoid committing misdeeds to gain the blessings of Allah...
One of the major consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, is the future of nuclear energy itself. As an instant reaction Germany decided to close down some eight aged nuclear reactors on its soil built in the eighties....
The current state of capital market seems to be very unlikely, unexpected and somewhat ridiculous on. The long-cherished market rescue package is not producing any good results for advancement of general market index! We are really perplexed by looking at...
The cool and cool cup Bangladesh versus Pakistan cricket tournament 2011 drew its curtain last month. Bangladesh played one T-20, three ODIs and two Test matches, all in their home grounds, and they were comprehensively defeated by the visiting team...
Banks did not do well in 2011 due to various reasons. So there must be short-fall of government revenue collection from the banking sector. We do not know what will be the government's strategy to fulfill this shortfall. Like every...
Talha Bin Habib The national agency for consumers' rights protection will increase the number of market monitoring drives from today (Sunday) against unscrupulous traders across the country, officials said."We conducted 30 to 40 market monitoring drives every month against the...
Shah Alam NurThe country has achieved self-sufficiency in producing ready-made garment (RMG) accessories in the recent years and is now ready to export the surplus accessories after meeting the local market demand, said industry insiders.They said the sector contributed more...
Md Syful Islam has been elected President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for the year 2012.He was elected in the council meeting of the institute in the city recently.Md Abdus Salam, Shahjahan Majumder and Showkat Hossain...
FE ReportThe government is unlikely to introduce the new software for big companies from today (January 1) due to procedural complexities on selecting the contracting firms for preparing the system.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) earlier decided to introduce the...
Yasir WardadThe calendar year 2011 gifted the country with a robust agricultural production but the peasantry was deprived of fair price in almost every crop they produced, farmers and officials said. The farmers started the year 2011 with a godsend...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's call at Berlin seminar generated much enthusiasm and interest among the German entrepreneurs and business community on trade and investment potentialities in Bangladesh, reports BSS. The Dhaka visit of German President Christian Wulff and his subsequent...
MUMBAI, Dec 31 (Reuters): Indian banks will have to start finding ways to preserve capital and use it more efficiently, bankers and analysts said on Saturday, a day after India's central bank issued draft guidelines on Basel III capital regulations.On...
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