General Myat Hein, commander in chief (Air) of Myanmar Air Force arrived in Dhaka on a six day visit to Bangladesh Saturday. He is leading a six member delegation, said an ISPR press release. On his arrival at the Hazrat...
Kamrun NaharThe country's business leaders are set to urge an Indian delegation, which arrives today, to make good India's pledge on duty-free access of 61 Bangladeshi items to that country to help reduce Dhaka's huge trade deficit. Indian commerce minister...
A move is under way to allow a few more liquid fuel-guzzling rental power plants having a total capacity of 400-500 MW amid alleged persuasion by some ruling party lawmakers and influential business quarters, reports UNB. According to official sources,...
FHM Humayan KabirThe power division has taken a move to get the approval of the government at its highest level for relaxation of some of the terms and conditions under existing guidelines about taking supplier's credit, to set up some...
BRAHMANBARIA, Apr 22 (UNB): Six more bodies were recovered until Friday noon raising the death toll of Thursday's launch capsize in Meghna River to 33 while the rescue operation has been declared completed with the salvage of the sunken launch....
FE Report The prices of powdered milk have increased by nearly Tk 70 a kilogramme (kg) in the local market in recent weeks. Importers blamed the rise in its prices in the international market for the commodity becoming costlier in...
Jubair HasanAn official move to reduce the cost of doing business for realtors have fallen flat as authorities scrapped the proposal to create a 'one-stop service' due to 'legal complexities', officials said. The special initiative -- One Stop Service --...
Syful Islam The ministry of establishment has proposed for procurement of some 25 luxury cars for ministers and advisers though there is no allocation for the same in the current budget. Finance Minister AMA Muhith has raised question about the...
The BNP has declined an invitation from the special parliamentary (JS) committee on constitutional amendment and called for a referendum on the issue, reports bdnews24.com. "The letter to Khaleda Zia is mere eyewash," the opposition's chief whip Joynal Abdin Farroque...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Friday said the government is going to set up some 17 new public educational institutions (of which 11 are government secondary schools and six are public colleges) in Dhaka City Corporation area costing Tk 4.35...
The fifth floor of Thai Aluminium Tower at Road No 17, a multi-storied building in the city's Banani area, caught fire at around 5:00 pm Friday. Shahzadi Sultana, an official of Fire Service (control room) told the news agency that...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Saturday). Day temperature may remain nearly...
Nerun YakubA few more days to go to the 25th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster on earth ---- a meltdown of reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant in the early hours of April 26, 1986. The powerful...
Mainul IslamMany factors are working as disincentives to higher education in Bangladesh. First of all, opportunities for higher education have progressively decreased over the years. Hundreds of aspirants vie for a single seat in any of the departments of the...
The Election Commission (EC) has announced the schedule for second and final phase of elections to 3,800 union parishads (UPs), to be held between May 31 and July 5. Earlier, UP polls in the first phase were held and after...
Bangladesh, according to some media reports, is regressing in popularizing family planning activities. It is needless to say that this is a piece of ominous news for a country which is already too overburdened with its huge population in a...
Should the 15-storied Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Bhaban, built with millions of taka be demolished only for some lapses and omissions of some persons? The fact that lapses, omissions, negligence of duty and acts of corruption are...
Vegetable producers and their handlers at different levels in the distribution chain are reported to be involved in large-scale use of pesticides in the fields to preserve the vegetables and at secondary levels the handlers are also not using, as...
Syful Islam The ministry of establishment has proposed for procurement of some 25 luxury cars for ministers and advisers though there is no allocation for the same in the current budget. Finance Minister AMA Muhith has raised question about the...
The BNP has declined an invitation from the special parliamentary (JS) committee on constitutional amendment and called for a referendum on the issue, reports bdnews24.com. "The letter to Khaleda Zia is mere eyewash," the opposition's chief whip Joynal Abdin Farroque...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Friday said the government is going to set up some 17 new public educational institutions (of which 11 are government secondary schools and six are public colleges) in Dhaka City Corporation area costing Tk 4.35...
The fifth floor of Thai Aluminium Tower at Road No 17, a multi-storied building in the city's Banani area, caught fire at around 5:00 pm Friday. Shahzadi Sultana, an official of Fire Service (control room) told the news agency that...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Saturday). Day temperature may remain nearly...
Doulot Akter MalaThe woven plastic bag has emerged as a fast-growing new export product, fetching a sizeable amount of export earnings and helping to diversify the country's export basket. Recently, the product has gained a wide popularity across the world...
A leaked US diplomatic that documented in detail the conversation on February 13, 2007 between the US Consul General in Kolkata Henry Jardine and Prof Muhammad Yunus over lunch when the latter visited Kolkata, said that Yunus did not mind...
Talha Bin Habib The construction work of the country's third seaport in Patuakhali is still a far cry due to some bureaucratic tangles that pose hurdles to speedy implementation of the project, officials said. Except setting up a cell office...
Advocate Sultana Kamal and novelist Selina Hossain have been elected chairperson and secretary general respectively of the board of trustees of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), reports UNB. Editor and Publisher of the Daily Star Mahfuz Anam was elected treasurer of...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Apr 22: Members of the parliamentary standing committee on Labour and Employment Ministry today said that a separate wage structure would be announced for the workers of the ship breaking yards soon considering the health hazards they are...
NICOSIA, April 22 : At least 15 protesters were killed by security forces during massive demonstrations Friday across Syria, witnesses and activists told AFP in telephone interviews. Security forces opened fire with live rounds to disperse protesters who took to...
TOKYO, April 22 (AFP): Japan announced Friday a $49 billion budget to help fund reconstruction after last month's earthquake and tsunami as Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the country was facing a "crisis within a crisis". It was the first...
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