At last, the inevitable has happened. Osama bin Laden has been killed after 10 years of manhunt by the United States. His killing near the Pakistan Military Academy vindicates the world's stand that Pakistan was playing the double game of...
Md Mizanoor RahmanWomen in Bangladesh constitute almost half the population, but their involvement in the SME (small and medium enterprise) is still very low. Nevertheless, a new class of entrepreneurs has emerged: SME women entrepreneurs in urban and rural areas,...
The first death anniversary of Farhad Bin Mannan, director of Phoenix Insurance Company Limited, will be observed tomorrow (Saturday), said a press release. He died on May 7, 2010. He was the only son of late Major Gen (retd) Abdul...
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...
Zaglul Ahmed ChowdhuryPakistan is facing a number of vexing and embarrassing questions on the issue of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of Al Qaeda, who was killed by the Americans in a military operation in Abbottabad, near capital...
Shafiqul AlamRecently, the main opposition party BNP has submitted memoranda to deputy commissioners across the country, as part of its five-day agitation programme in protest against what it said the government's failure to run the country and demanding steps to...
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...
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...
The Election Commission (EC) has asked the Home Ministry and the law enforcing agencies concerned Wednesday to take immediate measures to detain identified terrorists and recover illegal weapons before upcoming Union Parishad (UP) elections, reports UNB. "Identified terrorists will have...
Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni Wednesday said Bangladesh has been recognized as a role model in the outside world due to its achievements in different sectors including agriculture, food security and climate change, reports BSS. "Bangladesh was known as a...
Detained war crimes accused Jama'at-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami will face interrogation today (Thursday) while Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid on May 8 at a designated 'safe home' in the city, reports UNB. Both will be interrogated from 10:00...
Opposition BNP warned that if the government does not allow the party to hold its programmes at Paltan Maidan, Muktangon or other places the party would organise it in front of Bangabhaban, reports UNB. BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul...
Ameer of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini Wednesday warned of taking legal action against the government for what he said, the government was interfering in his personal activities, reports UNB. "The government has been...
Syful Islam The government may allow a foreign operator to manage the affairs of the Chittagong sea port. However, a decision to this effect would depend on the experience to be gathered from the New Mooring Container Terminal (NMCT), Shipping...
FE Report Very little progress has been made in shoring up Bangladesh's accountability and transparency institutions since 2008, a report released Wednesday by the US-based Global Integrity (GI) said. "An ombudsman agency focused on investigating a wide range of concerns,...
M Azizur RahmanThe government has rejected a plea of Australian Santos and its partner US's Oakland to explore jointly two gas blocks and sell output to private buyers, officials said Wednesday. The energy ministry has informed Santos and Oakland officially...
NEW DELHI, Apr 29 (Commodity Online): A day after India and Pakistan restarted trade talks, both could be poised to test their wheat export records, signalling that nearly eight million tonnes in extra supplies could hit the market, according to...
LONDON, Apr 29 (Reuters): Gold steadied Friday, just shy of fresh record highs and set for its seventh successive weekly gain, driven largely by the decline in the dollar to its lowest in nearly three years. The dollar fell to...
YANGON, Apr 28: Myanmar and China plan to build a railroad together that will link China's landlocked Yunnan province to a deep-sea port being built in Myanmar's Rakhine state. The state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday the project...
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...
Munima SultanaThe cost of the first-ever metro rail construction in the city's busiest corridor is likely to drop due to cut in its length by two kilometres, the metro rail study team said. The study team earlier found the 21.5...
Siddique Islam Bangladesh has made a routine payment of nearly US$ 1.0 billion to the Asian Clearing Union (ACU) against imports during the March-April period of this calendar year. The payment pushed the country's foreign exchange reserve down to $...
An environment-friendly retired military officer and his spouse have developed a garden of diverse trees and plants on 2,400-square feet rooftop of their six- storey building at Baridhara DOHS in the city, reports BSS. In the midst of concrete jungle...
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