Our Correspondent RANGPUR, Apr 25: The wheat farmers of 8 districts in Rangpur division harvested a bumper crop during the current season and they are happy over the market price of wheat. According to the sources of the Department of...
RAJSHAHI, Apr 25 (BSS): Speakers at a pre-budget discussion here Sunday called for giving top priority to the country's education, health and food security in the forthcoming national budget of fiscal 2011-12. In this regard, they also mentioned that the...
Our CorrespondentKHULNA, Apr 25: The process of long cherished Khulna to Mongla port rail line has been started. RFP (Request For Proposal) has been called from six organisations with the last date fixed on May 15. Of them, one organisation...
GAIBANDHA, Apr 25(BSS): Folk song and street drama, which are very popular to the common people, play a significant role in creating mass awareness about different social issues and human rights. A group of artistes has been performing these at...
Highway police arrested a robber along with a revolver and two rounds of bullet from Gopalpur area on Rajbari-Kushtia road in Pangsha Upazila of Rajbari Sunday early hours.The arrestee was identified as Rabiul Islam (32), son of Hossain Ali of...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 1,240 sacks of OMS rice from a chatal (terrace) in Kagil area of Gabtoli Upazila of Bogra and arrested its owner Monday morning.The arrested person was identified as Imran Hossain Nahid (25), son of Ashraful...
A young man was chopped to death by some unidentified assailants at Migram village in Lohagara Upazila of Narail Sunday noon.The deceased was identified as Musa Khandaker (25), son of Razzak Khandaker of Chardigholia village in the upazila.Police said some...
An Indian cattle trader was arrested while selling 18 cows at a cattle market in Bhurungamari Upazila headquarters of Kurigram Saturday.The arrested trader was identified as Nosir Miah (48), son of late Bohor Miah of Tufanganj Thana in Kuchbihar district...
Nine shanties were gutted in a fire in the Faridpur town Sunday night. According to fire service sources, the fire originated from a cook shed gutted the corrugated tin-sheet houses along with all the household materials located at Haveli Gopalpur...
Detective Branch (DB) of police seized 60kg ganja and arrested four alleged drug peddlers from the Mathua area under Chouddagram Upazila of the Comilla district in the early hours of Monday. A patrol team of District Detective Branch (DB) police...
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Nilur Kahmar village in Nageshwari upazila Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Lucky, 25, wife of Azim Uddin of the village. Police quoting local people said following a quarrel with...
Police arrested five highway robbers including a ringleader at Shimultoli diversion on Sherpur-Jamalpur highway early Monday while taking preparation to commit robbery. Police nabbed notorious ringleader of Morakandi area of sadar upazila Ajad alias ZKalu Dakat,30 and his associates-Mobarak Ali,22,...
A mobile court here on Monday awarded a youth one month imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl. Police said Sumon Hawlader gave bad proposal to Shapla Akter, daughter of Liton Hawlader of Dabhit Co. Para in front of Hawkers' market...
A court here on Monday sentenced 13 people to different terms of jails-from five to nine years- for committing robbery at Jabra village in Gheor upazila in 2008. The convicts are Raja Mia, Rezaul Karim, Bachchu Mia, Alauddin, Lavlu, Mostafa,...
Outraged by persistent power outages, local people attacked two officials of Sarsha palli bidyut office, leaving them injured Tuesday morning. The injured were-Mafijur Rahman, Deputy General Manager and Shariful Islam, Assistant General Manager of the power office. Local people said...
Nazmul AhsanThe Review Committee on Grameen Bank (GB) Affairs has strongly recommended liquidation of Grameen Fund and Grameen Kalyan and amalgamation of the institutions with their parent organisation GB with all their existing assets and liabilities. The recommendations along with...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has raised the revenue target for the current fiscal by Tk 30 billion in a bid to brace for the adverse impact of the economic downturn by strengthening domestic revenue-base. The ministry of finance (MoF) in...
FE ReportFinance Minister AMA Muhith Monday said no financial irregularities took place in transferring fund from the NORAD, the official agency of Norway for international development cooperation, to Grameen Kalyan. "The issue of fund transfer was settled between the NORAD...
FE ReportDhaka shares plunged 3.49 per cent to seven weeks low Monday with the benchmark index falling below 6,000 mark, sparking violent protests by investors in front of the Dhaka Stock Exchange building. The protesters hit the streets for the...
FE ReportThe economic consequences of the Arab spring are what matter at this stage for Bangladesh, according to a report published in the latest issue (April 23rd-29th, 2011) of the London-based prestigious weekly, 'The Economist'. The weekly in a report...
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 25 (UNB): Ten robbers and one villager were killed and over 50 people, including six policemen, injured in mob beating and gunfight between police and robbers at Jalia Palong village in Ramu Upazila early Monday. The deceased...
Syful Islam India has offered another $1.0 billion credit for infrastructure development in Bangladesh, a senior official of the government said. Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma gave the offer during his meeting with his counterpart Faruk Khan last...
FHM Humayan KabirPoint-to point price inflation hit double digit to 10.46 per cent in March, the steepest spike since July 2008, as rising food prices hit consumers mostly in the country's rural areas, officials said Monday. The Bangladesh Bureau of...
Country's foreign exchange reserve increased to US$ 11,174.75 million on April 24. The reserve was US$ 10,714.46 million on March 29 this year while US$ 10,554.00 million on April 25 last year, according to Bangladesh Bank statistics released on Monday.Despite...
The government has renamed the Ministry of Establishment as the Ministry of Public Administration. The new name was approved by the cabinet at a meeting at the Secretariat with prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair Monday. - bdnews24.com
A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Nilur Kahmar village in Nageshwari upazila Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Lucky, 25, wife of Azim Uddin of the village. Police quoting local people said following a quarrel with...
Police arrested five highway robbers including a ringleader at Shimultoli diversion on Sherpur-Jamalpur highway early Monday while taking preparation to commit robbery. Police nabbed notorious ringleader of Morakandi area of sadar upazila Ajad alias ZKalu Dakat,30 and his associates-Mobarak Ali,22,...
A mobile court here on Monday awarded a youth one month imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl. Police said Sumon Hawlader gave bad proposal to Shapla Akter, daughter of Liton Hawlader of Dabhit Co. Para in front of Hawkers' market...
A court here on Monday sentenced 13 people to different terms of jails-from five to nine years- for committing robbery at Jabra village in Gheor upazila in 2008. The convicts are Raja Mia, Rezaul Karim, Bachchu Mia, Alauddin, Lavlu, Mostafa,...
Outraged by persistent power outages, local people attacked two officials of Sarsha palli bidyut office, leaving them injured Tuesday morning. The injured were-Mafijur Rahman, Deputy General Manager and Shariful Islam, Assistant General Manager of the power office. Local people said...
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