NATORE, Dec 11 (UNB): Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Sunday said if the present government gets another chance to serve the nation, it would ensure overall development of the country. Hasina, also the President of Bangladesh Awami League (AL), made...
BNP acting secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed his doubts regarding the prime minister's (PM) plan to execute the Padma bridge project under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement, reports bdnews24.com. "The PM's plan to complete the Padma Bridge project through...
President M Zillur Rahman on Sunday returned to Bangabhaban after medical check-up at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), reports UNB. "The President returned to Bangabhaban at 11:50am and is now in good condition," President's press secretary AKM Nesar Uddin Bhuiyan...
The war crimes tribunal has adjourned cross-examination of the first prosecution witness in a case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee, reports bdnews24.com. The cross-examination will resume today (Monday) after submission of certain documents by the Jamaat executive council member's...
LONDON, Dec 11 (bdnews24.com): The liver transplant operation of senior Awami League leader Abdur Razzak has been postponed as doctors decided to hold a kidney transplant operation along with the liver transplant. Doctors want to complete the two operations at...
SYLHET, Dec 11 (UNB): Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman and former President Hussain Muhammad Ershad has warned that construction of Tipaimukh dam on Barak River across the border in India will spell disaster for lower riparian country Bangladesh. Urging the government...
The Election Commission (EC) will today (Monday) decide whether the maiden polls to the newly formed Dhaka City Corporation South (DCCS) and Dhaka City Corporation North (DCCN) will be held under the existing commission, reports BSS. "The EC will take...
FE Report China will provide Bangladesh Tk 39.87 billion loan for building the proposed Shahjalal Fertilizer Factory in Sylhet. State-owned Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) signed a financial agreement with China Sunday to build the factory. The signing ceremony was...
The 131st birth anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani will be observed today (Monday) with due respect, reports BSS. Different social, cultural and political organizations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day. The programmes included offering Fateha...
Foreign journalists of leading international media who covered the massacre committed by the Pakistani occupation forces and their collaborators in 1971 revisited the memory lane at a time when the trial of some of those responsible for slaughtering, rape, arson...
Experts at a workshop on Sunday blamed brickkilns for causing serious air pollution in Dhaka and its surrounding areas, reports UNB. They said the brickkilns are responsible for 40 per cent pollution. Every year 8.0 million tonnes carbon is being...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 11 (BSS): Deputy Speaker of the Parliament Col (retd) Showkat Ali Sunday said that it is absurd not to demand the trial of the war criminals as the trial is already under process. He said the trial of...
The proposed Tipaimukh Dam project taken by the Indian government may trigger a massive earthquake in the region claiming around 30 million lives in Bangladesh, fears an expert, reports UNB. "The Tipaimukh Dam site is located in a zone highly...
FE Report Bangladesh has prepared the Country Investment Plan (CIP) to implement country's food security programme, Food Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque said at a workshop in the city Sunday. He said, "Bangladesh has been the first recipient country of...
DU Correspondent The authorities of private universities came down heavily on the recent move of University Grants Commission (UGC) to allow foreign universities to open branches of their institutions in the country saying that it will hamper the higher education...
Jubair Hasan Vehicles' owners will get all kinds of traffic-related information, including amount of fines for traffic rules violation through mobile phones as Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will officially introduce e-traffic system from January, officials said. The move will end...
Mir Sanwar Ali, a senior sub-editor of the Daily Naya Diganta and member of Dhaka Sub-editors Council, died of cardiac arrest at the National Heart Institute Saturday, according to a press release. He left behind his wife and a son...
In the last 5 weeks, 16 illegal workers from Bangladesh have been arrested in several enforcement operations in businesses across the UK, reports UNB. They had committed immigration offences including entering the UK illegally, overstaying and working in breach of...
The four-day deputy director general (DDG) and inspector-general (IG) level meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India begins today (Monday) at Shillong in India, reports BSS. A 12-member delegation headed by DDG of BGB...
The European Union (EU) would stop funding to emerging economies in South and Southeast Asia and divert the money to relatively low income countries that include Bangladesh for their social sector development, a senior Western diplomat said in the city...
SA Mansoor With the spiralling international price of hydrocarbon fuels and our ever-increasing demand for electricity, the harnessing of alternative energy sources and power conservation brooks no delay for the nation. Shortage of power has been a persistent problem all...
Tasfi Sal-Sabil and M Mizanur Rahman Many nations have been cited as role models for the type of development path Bangladesh should take. We often say that if Bangladesh could develop like Malyasia or if we could have a leader...
Fabrice Randoux The Palestinian flag will be hoisted tomorrow at UNESCO headquarters, over a month after its admission to the UN cultural agency sparked anger and reprisals from the United States and Israel. President Mahmud Abbas will travel to Paris...
Despite the diminishing contribution of agricultural sector to the country's gross domestic product (GDP), it plays still an important role in providing food security and absorbing labour force. But the sector would have served the economy better had there been...
Shamsul Huq Zahid On the world anti-corruption day, observed on last Friday, the head of the country's anti-graft watchdog, the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC), was heard saying that a strong anti-graft law would be enough to take Bangladesh out of the...
Neil Ray If the top functionaries of the government were to be believed, their concern is no less than reaching improved basic utility services at the doorsteps of the citizens of the capital. Hence the bifurcation of the Dhaka City...
The United States, the world's largest economy, has suffered damages costing at least US$50 billion in the year of 2011 in weather-related disasters. Recently, the US government confirmed that this summer was the second-hottest on record. There is growing evidence...
Talking on mobile phones, while driving, is thankfully an offence that doesn't invite hefty fines in Bangladesh. The move for monetary fine or short period of imprisonment is rightly intended to avoid road accidents. Moreover, one notices pedestrians clinging to...
M Arif Iqbal Khan India will not stop building the Tipaimukh Dam because of our political demonstrations. For our part, we have failed to provide a clear concept about what we really want. A lower riparian country must seek a...
Diana Simeonova The bare fields, the empty roads, the ruined houses and the shuttered schools say it all. Welcome to Bulgaria's rural northwest, officially the poorest region in the European Union. "There is almost no socioeconomic indicator on which this...
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