Jasim Uddin Haroon Bangladeshi companies' competitive advantage in the seven Indian states are under threat after the government allowed Indian traders to use Ashuganj as a transshipment hub for moving merchandise to the land-locked northeast. Exporters have aired their concern...
Munima Sultana The capital development authority, Rajdhani Unnayan Karthipakha (Rajuk), has backed off from a move to hand over land for the proposed Metro Rail, making the future of the mass transport project further uncertain and raising its cost substantially....
FHM Humayan Kabir Prospect of receiving the World Bank's US$1.0 billion budgetary support has become uncertain as the lender is unwilling to finalise the assured loan before completion of the ongoing investigation into alleged graft in the Padma bridge bidding...
Nearly 50,000 children aged under five years die of pneumonia annually in the country. Besides, as many as 6,00,000 children are affected every year, health experts told a workshop Saturday at the DRU on the occasion of World Pneumonia Day-2011....
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury The United States launched an allout military offensive against the "Taleban"-ruled Afghanistan ten years ago - on October 7,2001, and the most powerful nation of the world remains engrossed with the tangle with its allies, now with...
DUBAI, Oct 7 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia said it had executed eight Bangladeshi nationals on Friday for their part in an armed robbery in which a security guard was killed, the state news agency reported. Saudi Arabia, which has avoided mass...
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 (Reuters): Malaysia said Friday it planned to boost infrastructure and consumer spending to cushion the impact of the global economic downturn and bolster confidence in the run-up to an expected general election in early 2012. Prime...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 7 (BSS): Large-scale expansion of livestock farming is very vital to remove the existing protein deficiency together with freeing the country's northwest region from the curse of poverty and hunger, said experts and dairy farmers. Associate Prof Jalal...
A week-long cultural competition for children began in the city Friday marking the 47th birth anniversary of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS. State Minister for Law, Justice and...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 5: The website of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) which remained hacked by unidentified hackers since this morning has been recovered in the afternoon. Head of IT (information technology) of the CDA Mostafa Zaman said the website has been...
Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the AL would not obstruct any peaceful political programme of the opposition and urged them (opposition) to shun destructive politics in the interest of the country's development. The AL...
BNP leader Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain Saturday said the government would expose its utter 'foolishness' if it tries to obstruct Monday's Dhaka-Sylhet road march to be led by Khaleda Zia, reports UNB. He expressed the hope that the party in...
Md Jamal Uddin The transport tracking service is getting popular in the country as vehicle owners are adopting this modern technology for protecting their automobiles from growing accidents and hijacking. The service is introduced in about 25,000 transports of different...
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka has said the city's traffic system needs to be brought under the corporation to ease the worsening traffic condition. "We've urged the government to put the capital's traffic system under the DCC...
The Election Commission (EC) has served show cause notices on two councillor candidates of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) elections on charges of violating the electoral code of conduct, reports bdnews24.com. Omar Khayyam Chanchal of ward-11 and Saiful Islam of ward-16...
Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), formed during the military-backed caretaker government (CG), has threatened to launch movement if the proposed National Broadcasting Policy is implemented, reports bdnews24.com. "There are sufficient ways to control misdeeds and irrelevant publicitypublication under the existing law....
Prime Minister's Health Adviser Syed Modasser Ali has claimed that under the parliamentary system advising the opposition is also his responsibility, reports bdnews24.com. Speaking at a workshop at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Saturday, Modasser said, "As I am the government's...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 8 (BSS): Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) recovered a light gun (LG) and a cartridge from Chittagong head office of Bangladesh Islami Chhattra Shibir (ICS) on Friday night. Assistant Commissioner of DB Abdullah Al Mahmood...
A week-long cultural competition for children began in the city Friday marking the 47th birth anniversary of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS. State Minister for Law, Justice and...
CHITTAGONG, Oct 5: The website of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) which remained hacked by unidentified hackers since this morning has been recovered in the afternoon. Head of IT (information technology) of the CDA Mostafa Zaman said the website has been...
Shah Alam Nur Bangladesh's female garment workers have been suffering from severe skin diseases due to lack of health-friendly environment in their working places. This scenario was seen when this scribe visited the city's three garment healthcare centres. The temperature...
Private waste collectors in the city have called upon the government to provide subsidy for ensuring proper management of three million kilogrammes of waste collected every day. The waste collectors under the banner of Dhaka Waste Collection Management (DWCF) raised...
Pankaj Dastider CHITTAGONG, Oct 8: Trial run of container terminal management system (CTMS) in Chittagong Port will start on October 10, keeping the apparel sector beyond its purview. The CTMS system will be applied to the apparel sector on November...
FE Report Police recovered two unidentified dead bodies form different places of the city Saturday. Officer in Charge (OC) of Shaympur Police Station Mia Kutubur Rahman said that they had recovered an unidentified body of a woman (30) kept in...
A high profile international conference focusing on the role of social protection in Bangladesh for promoting growth and protecting people against risks will begin in the city today (Sunday), reports BSS. Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate...
Bangladesh and India will hold a joint military exercise from October 9 to Oct 22 in Sylhet, reports UNB. An ISPR release said the two-week joint military exercise titled 'Sampriti-II' will be conducted between a team of Bangladesh Army and...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Oct 8: Bangladesh Real Estate Directory (BD-RED) starts its four-day housing fair at Chittagong from October 12 at the Institution of Engineers compound in the city. Organisers disclosed this at a press conference at a hotel in...
Anwara Khan, wife of noted child specialist and National Prof Dr MR Khan, died of old-age complications in the city's Central Hospital at 9:10am Saturday. She was 77, reports BSS. Mrs Khan left behind her only daughter and husband and...
SYLHET, Oct 8 (bdnews24.com): Authorities of a private medical college in Sylhet have said that one of their teachers, who was 'missing' since Thursday, has returned. North East Medical College authorities filed a general diary with Dakkhin Surma police after...
KIRHOREGANJ, Oct 08 (UNB): Kishoreganj Jail Super, a jail guard and a prisoner were severely injured in an attack by an inmate over a trifling matter in the district jail on Saturday. Injured Mahbub Alam, 50, superintendent of the district...
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