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...
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) and Dhaka District administration will jointly launch an eviction drive again to recover three grabbed city canals soon, reports UNB. The drive will be conducted to remove all illegal structures from 'Kalyanpur Kha'...
FE ReportThe drivers of CNG-run autorickshaws Saturday staged demonstration in the city protesting price hike of compressed natural gas (CNG). With different types of slogan, the drivers peacefully marched from Motijheel to National Press Club. Officer-in-charge of Motijheel police station...
FHM Humayan KabirA bumper mango production is expected in the country's main hub Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts in the current season as the pre-monsoon rain has helped the trees to blossom, agriculture officials and growers said. The agriculture department officials...
Md Ataur Rahman (CIP), chairman, Robi Builders Ltd and managing director, Ivana Textiles Mills Limited, died of cardiac arrest at Square Hospital in the city Saturday, said a press release. He was 50. He left behind his wife, two sons,...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The ship breakers of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan have floated a tri-nation forum to fight against negative propaganda and 'conspiracy' hatched against the shipbreaking and recycling sector in the region by vested quarters. The new forum...
FE ReportThe country's electric goods export grew by more than 74 per cent in ten months of the current financial year, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data revealed. Bangladesh exported electric products such as fans, bulbs, cables and refrigerators worth US$...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong Port Truck Owners' Association (CPTOA) Saturday were sworn in at its office at Nimtala near Bandar Bhaban in the port city. CPTOA President SM Habibul Huq and General Secretary Zahur...
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...
Dr Mustafizur RahmanConstitution is the supreme law of an independent nation, freely chosen by its people. Some say, it is the rule of the game of running the affairs of the state. It may be defined as the collective pledge...
Nasir Jaffry of AFP from IslamabadPakistan lawmakers pledged on Saturday last that there must be no repeat of the US commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden and said drone strikes targeting terrorists near the border with Afghanistan must end....
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) and Dhaka District administration will jointly launch an eviction drive again to recover three grabbed city canals soon, reports UNB. The drive will be conducted to remove all illegal structures from 'Kalyanpur Kha'...
FE ReportThe drivers of CNG-run autorickshaws Saturday staged demonstration in the city protesting price hike of compressed natural gas (CNG). With different types of slogan, the drivers peacefully marched from Motijheel to National Press Club. Officer-in-charge of Motijheel police station...
FHM Humayan KabirA bumper mango production is expected in the country's main hub Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts in the current season as the pre-monsoon rain has helped the trees to blossom, agriculture officials and growers said. The agriculture department officials...
Md Ataur Rahman (CIP), chairman, Robi Builders Ltd and managing director, Ivana Textiles Mills Limited, died of cardiac arrest at Square Hospital in the city Saturday, said a press release. He was 50. He left behind his wife, two sons,...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The ship breakers of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan have floated a tri-nation forum to fight against negative propaganda and 'conspiracy' hatched against the shipbreaking and recycling sector in the region by vested quarters. The new forum...
FE ReportThe country's electric goods export grew by more than 74 per cent in ten months of the current financial year, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data revealed. Bangladesh exported electric products such as fans, bulbs, cables and refrigerators worth US$...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong Port Truck Owners' Association (CPTOA) Saturday were sworn in at its office at Nimtala near Bandar Bhaban in the port city. CPTOA President SM Habibul Huq and General Secretary Zahur...
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...
related to production, Shahiduzzaman Khan Compressed natural gas (CNG) has become costlier from late last week, as the energy regulator - Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) - fixed the gas price at Tk 25 per cubic metre (cm), which is...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has hiked the price of CNG (compressed natural gas) by nearly 50 per cent in response to a proposal sent by the state-owned Petrobangla last October. In fact, the hike is slightly more than...
Gopal Sengupta The unilateral US action to eliminate Osama bin Laden without informing the Pakistan government or getting its authorisation is being widely questioned by the Pakistanis. On the one hand, Pakistan says it cooperated with the US in the...
The recent price increase of CNG will affect different sections of society. Due to the sudden increase of the CNG price, public transport owners will definitely take the opportunity to raise the fare arbitrarily as we still do not have...
The preventive sides to health care deserve greater attention in our country. The best strategy for a developing country with limited resources is providing vital health related information among all the people. Thus, regular and intense official publicities need to...
The 94 million or so above the poverty line in the population of Bangladesh form a vast market of consumers of varying purchasing power. Even the combined population of several major European countries would be smaller than this market size...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The ship breakers of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan have floated a tri-nation forum to fight against negative propaganda and 'conspiracy' hatched against the shipbreaking and recycling sector in the region by vested quarters. The new forum...
FE ReportThe country's electric goods export grew by more than 74 per cent in ten months of the current financial year, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) data revealed. Bangladesh exported electric products such as fans, bulbs, cables and refrigerators worth US$...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, May 14: The newly elected office-bearers of Chittagong Port Truck Owners' Association (CPTOA) Saturday were sworn in at its office at Nimtala near Bandar Bhaban in the port city. CPTOA President SM Habibul Huq and General Secretary Zahur...
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