Detained Jama'at-e-Islami chief and major suspect of "crimes against humanity" in 1971 Motiur Rahman Nizami Thursday admitted his role in constituting the razakars and other auxiliary forces that carried out atrocities siding with the Pakistani troops in 1971, reports BSS....
Pankaj Dastider CHITTAGONG, May 5: Bangladesh has further advanced in the ship building sector as a private company has successfully built three cutter suction dredgers for the government. The industry for the first time has achieved success in dredger building...
The parliamentary special committee on constitution amendment will give formal reaction Monday on the outcome of its opinion exchange meetings with political parties, constitutional experts, lawyers, intellectuals and editors, reports UNB. Special committee co-chairman and spokesman Suranjit Sengupta told this...
FE ReportBangladesh has witnessed an 11 per cent increase in murder incidents in April 2011 compared to the number recorded in the previous month, Democracywatch said. The non-government human rights watchdog in a statement issued Thursday said a total of...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...
F R ChowdhuryIn my days as a civil servant in Bangladesh, I learnt a lot about bureaucracy. One of the fundamentals was to create ones own empire. There was very little respect for other ministries, department or agencies. The general...
Maswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USASara Zihan Azad, who her classmates call Sara and her parents Zihan, is the four-year old daughter of Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad, a young IT professional, the owner of the house at College Park in...
Economic factors such as scarcities of goods against their higher demand, snags in production or distribution and the better purchasing power of consumers, do normally drive up prices. But to a very large extent and most of the time, price...
The menace of fake doctors is a cause for serious concern. A national daily has recently reported that the number of doctors who are simply faking as so and practising with impunity, specially in the country's rural areas, has increased...
Australian High Commissioner Justin Lee welcomed eight new Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) volunteers to Bangladesh at a function Thursday, said a press release. The young volunteers will work at a range of host organisations for the next 12...
Opposition BNP Thursday demanded immediate dissolution of parliament and electing a constituent assembly for amending the constitution which the government has mooted, reports UNB. It alleged that the government in a planned way orchestrated the share market scam to destroy...
Bangladesh Jama'at-e-Islami Thursday reiterated their demand for unconditional release of its detained top leaders immediately, reports UNB. Jama'at acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam made the demand again at a press conference at the party's central office in the afternoon....
Detained Jama'at-e-Islami chief and major suspect of "crimes against humanity" in 1971 Motiur Rahman Nizami Thursday admitted his role in constituting the razakars and other auxiliary forces that carried out atrocities siding with the Pakistani troops in 1971, reports BSS....
Pankaj Dastider CHITTAGONG, May 5: Bangladesh has further advanced in the ship building sector as a private company has successfully built three cutter suction dredgers for the government. The industry for the first time has achieved success in dredger building...
The parliamentary special committee on constitution amendment will give formal reaction Monday on the outcome of its opinion exchange meetings with political parties, constitutional experts, lawyers, intellectuals and editors, reports UNB. Special committee co-chairman and spokesman Suranjit Sengupta told this...
FE ReportBangladesh has witnessed an 11 per cent increase in murder incidents in April 2011 compared to the number recorded in the previous month, Democracywatch said. The non-government human rights watchdog in a statement issued Thursday said a total of...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...
FE ReportBangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Thursday demanded extension of bonding facility period and a smaller amount of tax for import of machinery and spare parts used by its members. A BGMEA team, led by its president Shafiul...
NARAYANGANJ, May 5 (UNB): At least 30 garment workers were injured when some miscreants attacked them while staging demonstration in protest against the closure of their factory at Adamjee EPZ on Thursday. Vehicular movement on Narayanganj-Demra-Adamjee Road came to a...
ROME, May 5 (Agencies): An international meeting on Libya agreed Thursday on a new fund to aid Libya's rebels, with the US and Europe promising to tap frozen assets of Moamer Gaddafi's regime despite still unresolved legal issues. The fund...
Bangladesh is on course for reaching middle income group threshold by 2013, according to a document presented Thursday at the 44th annual meeting of Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Hanoi, reports BSS. Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor...
Badrul AhsanLocal jewelers Thursday have demanded a national policy on jewelry in an effort to regulate the gold market and allow them to buy bullion from international market. In an emotional plea to the commerce ministry, they said a lack...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, May 05: The invincibility of the Pakistan army and its Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) has been embarrassingly exposed by the US raid on Osama bin-Laden's hideout in the garrison city of Abbottabad, close to capital Islamabad. How...
Bangladesh Jama'at-e-Islami Thursday reiterated their demand for unconditional release of its detained top leaders immediately, reports UNB. Jama'at acting secretary general ATM Azharul Islam made the demand again at a press conference at the party's central office in the afternoon....
Detained Jama'at-e-Islami chief and major suspect of "crimes against humanity" in 1971 Motiur Rahman Nizami Thursday admitted his role in constituting the razakars and other auxiliary forces that carried out atrocities siding with the Pakistani troops in 1971, reports BSS....
Pankaj Dastider CHITTAGONG, May 5: Bangladesh has further advanced in the ship building sector as a private company has successfully built three cutter suction dredgers for the government. The industry for the first time has achieved success in dredger building...
The parliamentary special committee on constitution amendment will give formal reaction Monday on the outcome of its opinion exchange meetings with political parties, constitutional experts, lawyers, intellectuals and editors, reports UNB. Special committee co-chairman and spokesman Suranjit Sengupta told this...
FE ReportBangladesh has witnessed an 11 per cent increase in murder incidents in April 2011 compared to the number recorded in the previous month, Democracywatch said. The non-government human rights watchdog in a statement issued Thursday said a total of...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at a few places over Dhaka, Barisal and Chittagong divisions and at one or two places over Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till...
FE ReportChittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) Thursday gave listing permission to MI Cement in compliance with a directive from the regulator. Recently capital market watchdog, Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) gave directive to DSE and CSE to enlist MI Cement in...
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