The task of updating the voter list with photographs will start from August throughout the country, Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain said Thursday, reports UNB. Talking to reporters at the Election Commission Secretariat, he said before updating...
An advisor to prime minister (PM) has said 'plots' are being designed to dissolve Rapid Action Battalion proving the elite force a 'failure', reports bdnews24.com. Without taking names, Tarique Ahmed Siddique on Thursday said: "Certain quarters and an NGO are...
A senior Awami League leader has urged the government to prioritise resolution of energy crisis, rising commodity prices and deteriorating law and order in the next budget, reports bdnews24.com. The ruling party's policy maker Obaidul Quader Thursday also suggested higher...
CHITTAGONG, May 19 (BSS): Transport owners and workers in Chittagong Thursday observed a dawn-to-dusk transport strike on 28 inter-district routes of Chittagong, Khagrachhari and Rangamati. They observed the strike to press home their 11-point charter of demands including setting up...
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...
Sonia H MoniDhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is going to set up a second sewage treatment plant at Dasherkandi in the city for treating diverted sewage from Hatirjheel and Begunbari canal project, officials said. DWASA Deputy Managing Director...
FE ReportThe US Government will be providing US$51.3 million in food assistance to Bangladesh in fiscal 2011 through the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), a press release from the US Embassy said Thursday. The assistance programme which also includes transportation...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 19: Chittagong City Corporation has launched medical waste disposal and management programme today by commissioning a waste collection vehicle in front of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). Initially one covered van will collect medical wastes from all...
President M Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina Thursday extended their greetings to their Yemeni counterparts on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Yemen, reports BSS. "I am confident that the existing brotherly relations...
A researcher at Jahangirnagar University (JU) has invented a kind of environment-friendly polythene, which is perishable in soil, reports BSS. Prof SM Wahiduzzaman invented the polythene during the course of his PhD research in the Department of Chemistry under the...
The country's three maritime ports have been advised to hoist cautionary signal No 3 as deep convection is taking place over the north Bay, reports UNB. Squally weather may affect north Bay and adjoining coastal areas of the country, said...
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...
AM Mainuddin KhanStock trading is now very much a burning issue in Bangladesh. Last few months many investors lost their money in the share trading business. Most of the share investors are still not aware about the strategies of the...
M Mizanur RahmanWhen nations concentrate more on adopting Social Safety Net Programmes and less on its proper implementation, some opportunists take the benefit and the targeted people remain where they were. In these days of price hike of essential commodities,...
Violence is what this country does no longer like to see. There is already an over-supply of acts of violence in every aspect of our society in both cities and villages. We are experiencing a critical state of law and...
If Osama bin Laden is seen by some radicals as a martyr it is not because they subscribe to his doctrine or approve of his ways, but because they have long regarded him as a defender of their faith and...
Banking in the context of Bangladesh, cannot be entirely divorced from the needs and principles of extending vital services in neglected areas or extending uniform facilities in the country to meet the requirements of equity and justice. The private banks,...
If law enforcement is the problem, then why cannot the relevant ministry arrange it with the concerned government personnel to increase their presence and patrolling in the reserved forest areas and take other measures on its own to face up...
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...
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