CHANDPUR, Apr 8 (bdnews24.com): After 22 days of their confinement, police have rescued four labourers from a brickfield at Sadar Upazila of the district. Sub-inspector of Chandpur Sadar Model Police Station Mohammad Sheikh Salahuddin told the journalists that police raided...
Comrade Abdul Matin Talukder, acting convener of Banglasher Shamajtantrik Dal (BSD), died of blood cancer last night at a city hospital. He was 68, reports BSS. He left behind his wife, one son, one daughter and a large number of...
Two students of Dhaka University (DU) have been expelled temporarily on charges of sexually harassing three girls on the campus and attacking the proctorial team including the proctor. DU Proctor Dr KM Saiful Islam Khan told BSS that the university...
FE Report | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
FE Report Advocate Miah Sirajul Islam, a freedom fighter and assistant attorney general (AAG) of Bangladesh Supreme Court, has recently been admitted to Surgical Department of Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute (ICHRI) in the city following a massive cardiac...
Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
Nazmul AhsanThe government will go for a drastic restructuring of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), highly placed sources in the government said Friday. The overhaul will take place as per the recommendations made by a probe committee on the...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
FHM Humayan KabirThe government will face severe difficulties in implementing its nearly 1,200 ongoing development projects as those will require Tk 171.21 billion for execution in the next three fiscal years (FYs), officials said. The planning ministry has already informed...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
Doulot Akter MalaThe government may introduce emission tax from the next fiscal in a bid to check import and use of substandard vehicles that pollute air and create pressure on the country's traffic system. An expert committee of the Ministry...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
Mohammad MufazzalThe investigation committee on the recent stock market scam has identified one particular group of major market players who were active during both unusual rise and fall of the market. A member of the committee told the FE Friday:...
The chairman of the Probe Committee on the share market scam, Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled said Friday it would be better for the government to disclose the names of those accused, mentioned in its report, reports UNB. "As a citizen, I...
LONDON, April 8 (AFP): World oil prices jumped Friday to their highest levels in more than two years as the market was driven by simmering political tensions in the Arab world and concerns over elections in Nigeria. Brent North Sea...
AJDABIYA (Libya), April 8 (AFP): Loyalist forces shelled the edge of the Libyan town of Ajdabiya Friday forcing insurgents there to retreat, as NATO expressed regret at the deaths caused by an alliance air strike on rebel tanks. Reacting to...
FE Report | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
FE ReportThe Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) will be launched today (Saturday). The Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Barrister Shafique Ahmed, will be the chief gust at a function, to be held at the Bangabandhu International Centre in the...
SIRAJGANJ, Apr 8: Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina arrives here tomorrow (Saturday) to inaugurate a 150 megawatt peaking power plant at Saidabad and expansion works on the Saidabad-Enayetpur road. She will also reopen Qaumi Jute Mills. During the visit in...
DINAJPUR, Apr 8: A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Daudpur border in Birampur Upazila early Friday. The injured was identified as Abdur Rahim (40), son of Islam Ali of Damarpara village of the...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore and Kushtia in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Saturday). Weather...
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) will launch four new departments in the upcoming academic session of the university, Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir said. He said this while addressing an orientation and farewell function at the Fazilatunnesa...
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) managed to get together about a thousand politicians, scientists and activists to attend a conference it organised recently in Delhi on the subject of nutrition --- both hidden and apparent ---- and how...
wishful fantasies in spite of warning fr | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
wishful fantasies in spite of warning frMaswood Alam Khan from Maryland, USA He is very young. He studies in the seventh grade in an American high school. I am close to his family. I am very friendly with him, so...
The Department of Environment (DOE), in a recent drive, perhaps to be seen doing something against polluting industries, fined a dyeing factory nearly two million taka (Tk 24.42 lakh) for discharging untreated liquid waste into the Bongshai river of Kaliakor...
Dowries are like a curse on the poorer sections of our society. Young maidens are not married off without the compulsory payment of dowry in the form of cash, land and different articles of use. Reports appear regularly in newspapers...
Libya, the North African country apparently in a civil war now, is crossing the transition period between the repressive monarchy and democracy. Protesters are struggling for a new leadership and democratic elections there. But Gaddafi, the ruler of all Libya...
LONDON, April 8 (AFP): World oil prices jumped Friday to their highest levels in more than two years as the market was driven by simmering political tensions in the Arab world and concerns over elections in Nigeria. Brent North Sea...
AJDABIYA (Libya), April 8 (AFP): Loyalist forces shelled the edge of the Libyan town of Ajdabiya Friday forcing insurgents there to retreat, as NATO expressed regret at the deaths caused by an alliance air strike on rebel tanks. Reacting to...
FE Report | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
FE ReportThe Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) will be launched today (Saturday). The Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs, Barrister Shafique Ahmed, will be the chief gust at a function, to be held at the Bangabandhu International Centre in the...
SIRAJGANJ, Apr 8: Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina arrives here tomorrow (Saturday) to inaugurate a 150 megawatt peaking power plant at Saidabad and expansion works on the Saidabad-Enayetpur road. She will also reopen Qaumi Jute Mills. During the visit in...
DINAJPUR, Apr 8: A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Daudpur border in Birampur Upazila early Friday. The injured was identified as Abdur Rahim (40), son of Islam Ali of Damarpara village of the...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore and Kushtia in next 24 hours till 6.0pm today (Saturday). Weather...
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) will launch four new departments in the upcoming academic session of the university, Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Shariff Enamul Kabir said. He said this while addressing an orientation and farewell function at the Fazilatunnesa...
The United States has expressed serious concern over the failure to investigate fully extra-judicial killings by security forces, including several deaths in custody of alleged criminals detained by RAB, reports UNB. The concern was expressed in 2010 Country Reports on...
Syful Islam | 2011-04-09 00:00:00
Syful IslamThe Bangladesh Textile Mills Corporation (BTMC) has drafted a policy on the divestment of the loss-incurring state-owned textile mills, allowing foreigners along with local investors to buy those mills. The draft policy, to be finalised this week, will also...
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