FHM Humayan KabirTransport sector is set to bag Tk77.20 billion funds in the next development budget, 47 per cent higher than current outlay, to upgrade the country's rickety infrastructure and build the Padma Bridge, officials said Thursday. Planning ministry officials...
Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, May 19: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, beleagured Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resigned yesterday amid growing accusation that he is hurting the institution. "It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled to present to...
Mamata Banerjee is to be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister(CM) of West Bengal on Friday. Some 43 ministers will also take their oath. Mamata Banerjee on Thursday resigned as the Union Minister of Railways and Mukul Roy...
LONDON, May 19: The BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia spent a busy day holding meetings with several ruling party leaders of the UK Wednesday. During the meetings with Parliamentary Human Rights Group Vice-Chairman Lord Avebury at the House of Lords and...
Leaders of different social and environmental organisations Sunday demanded increase of tax on bidi, cigarette and all tobacco products in the upcoming budget for protecting public health and saving lives from their harmful effects, reports BSS. Tobacco and tobacco products...
A day-long Embassy Open House programme of Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC drew a large number of visitors from all over the United States (US) and tourists from other countries, reports UNB. The programme was organised in coordination with Cultural...
NO amount of activism or media campaign seems able to shame the polluters into stopping the draining or dumping of industrial or other wastes into vital water sources and fertile land. Add to it all the 'sharing' of waste from...
Zaglul Ahmed ChowdhuryPolitical discussions, debates and gossips are the essential ingredients in a democratic polity and Bangladesh is no exception. Such elements in the political arena always exist, but at times these are quite dull and dreary. Then again, different...
Ashraful HasanDespite the recent success of Bangladesh in terms of growth of its gross domestic product (GDP), boost in its exports earnings, etc , the question remains if the country could have done much better in these and other indicators...
The news item under the heading 'Government Plans to Overhaul GB' published in the 'Financial Express' on 18th May 2011 is shocking and frustrating. Grameen Bank is a well performing bank with 97 per cent recovery rate. Why the government...
Since the inception of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in 2004, several governments have taken the advantages of this force to control law and order situation throughout the country. Needless to mention that the Police had lost their...
A photograph published on May 16 in a local English daily says it all. The hanging plug-in switch boards are there freely available (or is there a hire charge for plugging-in?) It supplies all the electricity you may need! Splendid...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, May 19: Wife of a rickshaw puller has filed a case against nine officials and employees of the Chittagong Narcotics department. Monowara Begum filed the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman yesterday against the...
FHM Humayan KabirTransport sector is set to bag Tk77.20 billion funds in the next development budget, 47 per cent higher than current outlay, to upgrade the country's rickety infrastructure and build the Padma Bridge, officials said Thursday. Planning ministry officials...
Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, May 19: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, beleagured Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resigned yesterday amid growing accusation that he is hurting the institution. "It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled to present to...
Mamata Banerjee is to be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister(CM) of West Bengal on Friday. Some 43 ministers will also take their oath. Mamata Banerjee on Thursday resigned as the Union Minister of Railways and Mukul Roy...
LONDON, May 19: The BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia spent a busy day holding meetings with several ruling party leaders of the UK Wednesday. During the meetings with Parliamentary Human Rights Group Vice-Chairman Lord Avebury at the House of Lords and...
Leaders of different social and environmental organisations Sunday demanded increase of tax on bidi, cigarette and all tobacco products in the upcoming budget for protecting public health and saving lives from their harmful effects, reports BSS. Tobacco and tobacco products...
A day-long Embassy Open House programme of Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC drew a large number of visitors from all over the United States (US) and tourists from other countries, reports UNB. The programme was organised in coordination with Cultural...
Pratap Chakravarty of AFP from New DelhiIndia's notorious Tihar Jail in New Delhi is currently home to a clutch of VIP inmates suspected of corruption as police win rare permission to go after the "big fish" in recent cases. The...
Kill the culture to kill a nation is a long old fascist maxim. It is free from amilitary approach and is increasingly practised by stronger nations over the relatively weaker ones. The latest victim in the South Asian region happens...
Prof Lutfor RahmanSome deaths remind us the importance of the persons concerned. The death of the nuclear scientist Dr MA Wajed Miah is one of such example. He had left us two years back around this time in May 2009....
The news item under the heading 'Government Plans to Overhaul GB' published in the 'Financial Express' on 18th May 2011 is shocking and frustrating. Grameen Bank is a well performing bank with 97 per cent recovery rate. Why the government...
Since the inception of the elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in 2004, several governments have taken the advantages of this force to control law and order situation throughout the country. Needless to mention that the Police had lost their...
A photograph published on May 16 in a local English daily says it all. The hanging plug-in switch boards are there freely available (or is there a hire charge for plugging-in?) It supplies all the electricity you may need! Splendid...
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, May 19: Wife of a rickshaw puller has filed a case against nine officials and employees of the Chittagong Narcotics department. Monowara Begum filed the case with the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman yesterday against the...
FHM Humayan KabirTransport sector is set to bag Tk77.20 billion funds in the next development budget, 47 per cent higher than current outlay, to upgrade the country's rickety infrastructure and build the Padma Bridge, officials said Thursday. Planning ministry officials...
Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, May 19: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, beleagured Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) resigned yesterday amid growing accusation that he is hurting the institution. "It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled to present to...
Mamata Banerjee is to be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister(CM) of West Bengal on Friday. Some 43 ministers will also take their oath. Mamata Banerjee on Thursday resigned as the Union Minister of Railways and Mukul Roy...
LONDON, May 19: The BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia spent a busy day holding meetings with several ruling party leaders of the UK Wednesday. During the meetings with Parliamentary Human Rights Group Vice-Chairman Lord Avebury at the House of Lords and...
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