Nizam Ahmed Bangladesh's trade deficit is likely to be enormous in the current fiscal year (FY), as petroleum price is projected to cross $170 per barrel by the middle of the next calendar year, market monitors and traders said Thursday....
M Azizur Rahman The government has invited bids from four global firms to build the country's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal on Moheshkhali Island in Cox's Bazar in the Bay of Bengal, a top government official said Thursday....
FE Report Non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) will come under the Basel-II accord, particularly on matters relating to capital adequacy requirement, from January 1, 2012, in line with the international standard, the central bank officials said. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued...
FE Report A sand trader and ex-leader of Swechchha Sebak League (SSL), a volunteer wing of the ruling Awami League, was killed in a bomb attack at Badda in the capital Thursday, police said. The deceased was identified as Mamunur...
The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has issued 14,17,068 machine readable passports (MRPs) among Bangladeshi nationals since its introduction on May 1, 2010 earning Tk 5.08 billion for the national exchequer, officials said.The number of MRP passport seekers also...
Results of lottery for admission in grade-I and admission tests for grade II to grade IX in 24 government secondary schools in the city were announced on Thursday. The applicants who passed the hurdle will have to enrol themselves between...
BNP's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the government wants to hold election under the party in power "to run parliament in a controlled manner with a pet opposition," reports UNB. He said this while talking...
Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (ML) Thursday called for holding the next elections particularly the parliamentary elections under an 'interim government' as mentioned in the 15th amendment to the Constitution, reports UNB. "There is no further necessity of caretaker government as this...
Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed on Thursday urged the media to make people aware about the existing laws aimed at preventing violence against women and ensuring their rights, reports UNB. "Laws are there to deal with violence against women. So,...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Thursday said her government attaches top most importance to safe migration and ensuring the rights of migrant workers, reports UNB. She said this when Regional Representative for South Asia of International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Rabab...
Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque on Thursday directed all the divisional directors, civil surgeons and family planning experts to properly supervise nutrition services so that people could reap benefits from the programme, reports UNB. The minister...
The qulkhwani of the veteran freedom fighter and one of the influential organisers of the War of Liberation in 1971 Abdur Razzaq will be held in the city's Kalabagan playground after Asr prayers today (Friday), reports BSS. In a statement...
SAVAR, Dec 29 (BSS): Prof AA Mamun of Physics Department and Dr Sharif Uddin of Mathematics Department were elected president and general secretary respectively of Jahangirnagar University Teachers' Association (JUTA) Thursday. While Prof Abul Khayer of Botany Department, Hasibur Rahman...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Thursday said modern and time-befitting education is the demand of the time and her government is working tirelessly to this end, reports BSS. The PM said this while inaugurating the distribution of new free textbooks...
FE Report Experts at a seminar Thursday said HIV prevalence amongst the most vulnerable population is 0.9 per cent which indicates the situation is under control in the country but expressed concern over the poor awareness and prevention programmes among...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, December 29: City's rickshaw pullers and owners have today threatened to enforce hartal in the city on January 2 if the administration suspends movement of rickshaws between Bahaddarhat and Barik Building, the main thoroughfare, from January 1,...
DU Correspondent Pro-Awami League blue panel has won the elections of Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) bagging 11 posts out of 15 that was held at the university's Teachers' Club Thursday. The blue panel convener Professor Anwar Hossain also incumbent...
Popular film actress of the 1980s Ifte Ara Dalia Doel, known as 'sweet girl of Dhallywood', died at a hospital in the capital's Dhanmondi area on Thursday. Her husband Subrata, also an actor, told bdnews24.com that Doel (45), had suffered...
The euphoria sparked by the Arab Spring is giving way to disquiet over political instability and the growing influence of Islamists, but the democratic process still looks unstoppable, experts believe. In 12 months, the Arab world has gone through more...
The figures about some countries of the world and the corresponding states of the USA, which are of Bangladesh equivalents in terms of US$-based respective gross domestic products (GDPs) of 2009, are quite encouraging for us as a nation. At...
What has been happening in Turkey since the Justice and Development party (AKP) came to power has given fuel to a lot of debate in the international press. The views on steps taken by AKP to demilitarise Turkey's key institutions...
Sabre-rattling took a turn for the worse on December 27 when Iran threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow four-kilometre passage through which nearly a third of all sea-borne oil is shipped. In fact, the passage is...
Inaugurating a small rental power plant in Fenchuganj last year, the prime minister declared her government's target of achieving power production capacity of 7000 megawatt by 2013 and thereby minimising the existing load- shedding significantly. Time will say whether the...
It appeared farmers overproduced potatoes last year hoping to get a good return. But a quantity of the overproduced potatoes--some 1.0 million tons are in danger of getting rotten as there is now no way to fast unload them from...
Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels. "It is only a matter of time before we stop killing...
The leader of a group of Iranian exiles living in a camp outside the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has said 400 of its residents are preparing to relocate, reports BBC. The group's Paris-based leader, Maryam Rajavi, said the decision to leave...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 29 (AFP): Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink and paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels. "It is only a...
FHM Humayan Kabir The government is likely to cut foreign aid allocations by 20 per cent to Tk 150 billion in the development budget as project implementation agencies have shown poor performance in implementing the donor-supported schemes, officials said Thursday....
The Awami League-led 14-party combine and other like-minded political parties supporting the trial of war criminals will bring out processions and hold rallies in every district of the country on January 7 to shape up public opinion on the issue....
The economic growth in the country is on a sound and rising trend with increased remittance inflow and export growth in the last three years, according to a central bank report. The report, released Thursday, said the remittance received in...
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