SANAA, May 14 (Xinhua): Forces of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Republican Guard attacked pro-protest defected military unit stationed at the western edge of the capital Sanaa on Friday, killing three soldiers, including two Republican troopers, a key opposition media...
Iran has no information about US journalist working for Al-Jazeera TEHRAN, May 14: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Saturday that he had "no information" on the whereabouts of an American journalist working for Al-Jazeera after Damascus said she...
Gulshan Youth Club and Azad SC won their respective matches in the 3rd Women's Club League cricket at separate city venues in the city Saturday, reports UNB. Gulshan Youth Club (2199 in 32 overs) crushed Indira Road KC (969 in...
BENAPOLE, May 14 (UNB) : BGB members arrested 26 people including 7 women and 2 children while they were returning home from India at Boro Achra and Sadipur border areas Saturday early morning. The arrestees were identified as Alpona Begum...
MADARIPUR, May 14 (UNB) : Ro-Ro ferry 'Shah Mokhdum' on Maowa Kewrakandi route in the Padma river caught fire early Saturday. BIWTC sources said the ferry ran aground during a nor'wester when it reached Hazra channel at around 11pm Friday....
GAIBANDHA, May 14 (BSS): Speakers at a function here stressed the need for ensuring human rights and providing the government services to the neglected and underprivileged Char dwellers for their faster socio-economic development. "Living standard of the backward Char people...
Leaders of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) today suggested that the government take immediate steps to revise the Tobacco Control Act by imposing high tax on cigarettes and bidis to check smoking and its use, reports BSS. Speaking at a roundtable...
Siddique Islam The central bank will soon ask the non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) to double their paid-up capital by June 2012 to consolidate their capital base for minimising risks. "We expect that a circular will be issued by the end...
FE ReportNobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus has expressed concern over a move to change the ownership structure of Grameen Bank (GB) and urged the government to keep the current 96.5 per cent stake of the bank in the hands of...
Zaidi SattarIn the previous segment, I argued that strong export orientation was a driver of high growth. Among developing countries, Bangladesh's growth performance has been notable but not outstanding. It is clearly not in the league of two recognized emerging...
M Azizur RahmanThe government is set to ink an amendment to the existing gas purchase and sales agreement (GPSA) with Australian oil and gas company Santos this week allowing the firm to sell gas from its offshore structures to private...
FE ReportThe government will not interfere in the affairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) once the regulator is restructured, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday. Muhith said the government is recasting the securities regulator in an effort to...
Doulot Akter MalaIncome tax officials of the revenue board and its field offices have proposed to the government to create necessary provision in the next budget for disclosing undeclared money to bring shadow economy under formal channel. According to a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Doha en route to Geneva on a 13-day official visit to Switzerland, Canada and France, reports BSS. A Qatar Airways flight carrying the Bangladesh Premier and members of her entourage will take off...
MADARIPUR, May 14: The government has formed a five-member committee to investigate the fire incident in a ferry disrupting ferry service on the Mawa-Kawrakandi route for about five hours. Ro-ro ferry Shah Makhdum had caught fire at Hazra turning point...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed over a cheque for US$ 2 million Saturday to Japanese envoy in Dhaka Tamotsu Shinotsuka at Ganobhaban for reconstruction of earthquake hit Japan. Foreign minister Dipu Moni and Ambassador at Large M Ziauddin were present...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0 pm today (Sunday). Day temperature may remain...
A debate between the Chief Justice and the Law Minister over quick dispensation of justice surfaced in presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after she laid the foundation of the Judges' Complex at Kakrail in the city Saturday, reports UNB....
FE ReportProfessor Jamilur Reza Chowdhury Saturday said the city's traffic congestions have intensified due to risk-avoiding nature of bureaucrats, and their incapability to take right decisions in time. However, he was optimistic about improving the city's traffic situation for the...
BNP lawmaker Moudud Ahmed has alleged that the ruling party does not want the opposition in parliament, reports bdnews24.com. Parliament will reconvene on May 22 for its ninth session where recommendations of the special parliamentary committee on constitution amendment will...
Two leading forums of the minority communities Saturday urged the government to remove all provisions in the constitution considered discriminatory to any religious group, creed or caste, reports BSS. Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikyo Parishad (BHBCOP) and Bangladesh Adibashi Forum...
Foreign Minister (FM) Dr Dipu Moni said Rabindranath Tagore was a proponent of Bangali cultural identity and he resisted colonialists through his writings, reports UNB. "It was Rabindranath who played the most dominant role in encouraging the Bangali intellectuals to...
An Islamist group has warned that they would not accept the amended constitution if secularism and socialism are restored in it, reports bdnews24.com. Sammilita olama Mashayekh Parishad at a news briefing in the city Saturday also urged the government to...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The Chittagong Port Authority lacks a strong vessels traffic system (VTS) and radio control facilities to make the calling ships sufficiently aware of the tide and currents in the port channel. Engineer and nautical surveyor of...
Minister for Primary and Mass Education Dr Afsarul Amin said in the city Saturday the present government has attached highest importance on creating a new generation educated in modern technology to build the country as it fitted for twenty-first century,...
Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr AFM Ruhal Haque presented a proposal to the WHO (World Health Organisation) board meeting in may last year that stated that 'Bangladesh sees cholera twice a year - before and after monsoon'. Leaders...
CHITTAGONG, May 14 (UNB): A BNP activist was Saturday slaughtered by identified terrorists in broad daylight at Dantmara in Fatikchhari Upazila. Abdul Gani (50), the victim, was local BNP leader and president of Hoako Bazar Committee. His wounded associate Siraj...
Leaders of Bangladesh Anti-Tobacco Alliance (BATA) today suggested that the government take immediate steps to revise the Tobacco Control Act by imposing high tax on cigarettes and bidis to check smoking and its use, reports BSS. Speaking at a roundtable...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has urged the judges to conduct trial process discarding all sorts of fear, intimidation, affection, agony, emotion and maintaining highest neutrality while disposing of the cases so that people get justice. The PM said this,...
CHITTAGONG, May 14 (BSS): Three renowned foreign maritime universities have expressed keen interests in carrying out research with the proposed Sheikh Mujib Maritime University (SMMU) in Chittagong. The universities expressed interests in joint research are: World Maritime University (WMU) of...
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