Doulot Akter Mala Two-thirds of the country's 345 lawmakers submitted their tax return this year after they were brought under the tax net for the first time in the country's history, officials said Sunday. Led by the Leader of the...
FE Report The aggrieved investors, coming out of different brokerage houses, staged demonstration and formed a human-chain in front of the DSE Sunday, following a steep fall of share prices in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). The investors, under the...
Nizam Ahmed and Talha Bin Habib An unabated price-spurt of different varieties of vegetables and also fish, a source of essential protein, has hit hard the middle- and low-income groups of people. Most consumers are in great financial hardship to...
The much-hyped road march of the BNP-led four-party alliance from the capital to the saints' city of Sylhet, led by Khaleda Zia, begins today (Monday), aiming to garner public support to force the government to hold the next national election...
FE Report The Indian firm -- Man Industries (India) Ltd -- has won the Tk 9.95 billion project to supply line-pipes having American Petroleum Institute (API) standard for construction of three major gas transmission pipelines with a total of 351...
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will hold bilateral talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department on October 12. "Yes, it is correct," a US diplomat in Dhaka confirmed about the schedule Sunday. Dipu has already left...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) has recently opened its 258th branch at College Road, Feni, according to a press release. Chairman of the board of directors of IBBL Prof Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher inaugurated the branch as the chief...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 8 (BSS): Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad has called for objective and authentic reporting for welfare of the nation and its people. Besides, he has invited journalists to engage in a constructive criticism of the government but not...
MANILA, Oct 8 (AFP): The US ambassador to the Philippines has apologised for his controversial remark that 40 percent of male tourists visit the country for sex, the foreign department said Saturday. Harry Thomas sent the apology through a cell...
Social Welfare Minister Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid said the government is committed to ensure welfare of the disabled children. The social welfare minister said this at the concluding session of 'World Children Day-2011' organised by Bangladesh Shishu Kallyan Parishad' in...
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has urged the Chief Justice (CJ) to immediately withdraw judicial power of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and lodge allegation of "violating judges' code of conduct" against him before the Supreme Judicial Council for action,...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Sunday said her government is making sincere efforts to give democracy an institutional shape and strengthen electoral system which was reflected in all the polls so far held under the Election Commission during the tenure...
BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Sunday said they would expose the government's 'unabated corruption' through their road march programme, reports UNB. Mr Alamgir said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will lead the Dhaka-Sylhet road march today (Monday) with...
Home Minister Sahara Khatun Sunday warned that law enforcers will swung into action if the opposition BNP tries to create chaos in the name of 'road march', reports UNB. She, however, said law-enforcing agencies will be there to cooperate with...
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam Sunday alleged that the President and Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) were engaged in implementing the opposition political parties' agenda by using the association. "The Bar president is trying to mislead the lawyers...
A court in the city Saturday fixed October 13 for defence hearing on charge framing against 30 persons, including BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, implicated in the supplementary charge sheets of August 21, 2004 grenade attack cases. Judge Shahed Nuruddin...
FE Report Heads of European Union (EU) missions in Bangladesh Sunday opposed the use of death penalty in the UN member countries and called upon Bangladesh to take action to implement the UN Resolution on it. "The European Union reaffirms...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 9 (UNB): Six suspected activists of outlawed Hizbut Tawhid, including a septuagenarian, were arrested from Motihar area in the city Sunday. On secret information, a RAB team raided the house of Sujan Mia in the morning when 12...
The parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Communications has recommended taking necessary steps to reclaim the lands of Bangladesh Railway (BR) from their illegal occupants within a month and lease those by the following month. The recommendation came from...
Despite holding separate meetings with two candidates, Shamim Osman and Selina Hayat Ivy, the ruling Awami League (AL) on Sunday could not decide to whom it would actually extend its support for contesting the upcoming Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election....
Social Welfare Minister Enamul Haque Mostafa Shahid said the government is committed to ensure welfare of the disabled children. The social welfare minister said this at the concluding session of 'World Children Day-2011' organised by Bangladesh Shishu Kallyan Parishad' in...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has vowed to ensure social protection of the people through developing rural economy across the country, reports UNB. "For ensuring the success of our social safety net programmes in poverty reduction, our government is determined...
FE report Eighteen Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) Sunday claimed Bangladesh has fallen into a corruption trap following the climate fund management. This trap will help the World Bank (WB) to establish control over climate fund, the representatives from the CSOs...
The Jagannath University (JnU) has opened after an extended Puja vacation with the celebration of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's assurance that the government will fund its academic activities, reports bdnews24.com. The students Sunday brought out a big procession to celebrate...
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju Saturday said the postal department is being upgraded with adoption of modern information and communication technology (ICT) to cater to the growing demand of people. The minister said this as the chief guest,...
FE Report Hundreds of disadvantaged children Sunday demanded separate directorate and a national commission for children under the women and children affairs ministry with their access which will deal with their problems. They called for conducting more awareness campaigns for...
FE Report Grameenphone (GP) Employees Union, a proposed association of the GP employees Sunday declared that if their seven-point charter of demands was not met immediately then they would start work abstention from today (Monday). The declaration was made in...
FE Report Heads of European Union (EU) missions in Bangladesh Sunday opposed the use of death penalty in the UN member countries and called upon Bangladesh to take action to implement the UN Resolution on it. "The European Union reaffirms...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 9 (UNB): Six suspected activists of outlawed Hizbut Tawhid, including a septuagenarian, were arrested from Motihar area in the city Sunday. On secret information, a RAB team raided the house of Sujan Mia in the morning when 12...
The parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Communications has recommended taking necessary steps to reclaim the lands of Bangladesh Railway (BR) from their illegal occupants within a month and lease those by the following month. The recommendation came from...
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