A case has been filed against officer-in-charge (OC) and two sub-inspectors (SI) of Rampura Police Station for allegedly demanding graft and threatening to grab a house in Khilgaon, Dhaka, reports bdnews24.com.
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has permitted its probe panel to question major war crimes suspects Jama'at leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, reports bdnews24.com. The tribunal Tuesday granted the appeal submitted by the investigation team and...
Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-04-06 00:00:00
Nazmul AhsanThe government is set to establish a permanent commission soon to settle the outstanding issues of the Jubo Karmasangsthan Society (Jubok) and its clients, as per the recommendations made by probe body. The proposed commission might be given two...
FE Report | 2011-04-06 00:00:00
FE Report Achintya Sen, a veteran journalist and senior member of Jatiya Press Club, died Tuesday at the age of 64 at Labaid Hospital in the city. He has been suffering from kidney- and lung-related diseases for long. He began...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will award prizes to 39 best exporters tomorrow (Thursday) for their contribution to the country's export in fiscal 2008-09. Ministry of Commerce and Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) are jointly organising the distribution of best exporters' trophy...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Mohammad MufazzalThe securities regulator is largely responsible for the recent stock market scam as it created opportunities for vested quarters to make their fortunes by indulging in illegal practices. This was stated by the chief of the committee, now investigating...
Munima Sultana | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Munima SultanaFive international companies from China, Korea and India are going to participate in the bidding for the country's longest bridge construction across the river Padma with the tender likely to be called by this month. World Bank (WB), which...
FE Report | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
FE ReportViolent clashes in Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country marked countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (strike) enforced by Islamic Law Implementation Committee Monday. The call for hartal was given earlier by Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini, chairman of a faction of...
DU Correspondent | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
DU CorrespondentThe Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations - 2011 begins today (Tuesday) across the country with the participation of a record number of students. Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid informed the journalists Monday that a total of...
At least 10 people were killed and more than 150 injured, as tornado lashed scores of villages in Jamalpur, Thakurgaon, Sherpur, Mymensingh, Gaibandha, Joupurhat and Bogra districts on Monday late afternoon and evening. Besides, several hundred of thatched houses were...
Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Zaglul Ahmed ChowdhuryCampaign for the much-awaited crucial state assembly elections in the Indian state of West Bengal has been launched with main contenders for power accusing each other on a variety of issues and promising better time, should they get...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Doulot Akter MalaThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) will amend the draft law on the value added tax (VAT), in line with the suggestions of the business leaders and chamber bodies, following the latter's sharp reactions to some of the...
Nazmul Ahsan | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Nazmul AhsanThe SAFTA member countries have tacitly expressed their reluctance to cut the number of products in their respective sensitive list (SL) under the regional trade pact, making the prospect of the five-year-old trade bloc bleak. The official representatives of...
At least 10 people were killed and more than 150 injured, as tornado lashed scores of villages in Jamalpur, Thakurgaon, Sherpur, Mymensingh, Gaibandha, Joupurhat and Bogra districts on Monday late afternoon and evening. Besides, several hundred of thatched houses were...
Talha Bin Habib | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
Talha Bin Habib The government has undertaken measures to rehabilitate landless families in different areas of the country with an aim to ensure their basic rights of shelters and also enabling them to be self-reliant, a ministry official said. To...
Ruling Awami League general secretary has claimed the opposition has used Amini as a 'proxy' to enforce their own hartal, reports bdnews24.com. Syed Ashraful Islam told reporters on Monday, "This hartal wasn't Amini's.it was BNP and Jama'at's." He claimed that...
Islamic Foundation has undertaken steps to digitize the holy Quran, reports BSS. The initiatives have been undertaken following the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, an Islamic Foundation press release said in the city Monday. To this end, a meeting...
Ambassador James Larocco, director, Near East South Asia (NESA) Centre for Strategic Studies Monday called on Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office and discussed bilateral issues, reports UNB. US Ambassador James Moriarty, Prof Robert Bogga of NESA, Khaleda's...
State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate | 2011-04-05 00:00:00
State Minister for Home Affairs Advocate"Visibly the hartal was called by the IOJ (faction), but it was supported by BNP . . . they actually are of same character," he told a group of newsmen as the nationwide stoppage was...
Foreign Minister (FM) Dr Dipu Moni Monday requested developed economies to take positive actions in transferring clean technology to developing nations particularly the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), reports UNB. "The availability of technology would help us switch from fossil fuel...
A total of 34,198 Bangladeshi workers have been repatriated to Bangladesh from trouble-torn Libya until Monday, reports UNB. Of them, the return of 3,831 persons has been arranged by their employers while some have returned on their own and 27,010...
Senior Advocate Ajmalul Hossain QC termed the caretaker government (CG) system illegal, as it is contrary to the Constitution, reports BSS. Taking part in the hearing on the appeal petition challenging the 13th amendment to the constitution as one of...
At least 10 people were killed and more than 150 injured, as tornado lashed scores of villages in Jamalpur, Thakurgaon, Sherpur, Mymensingh, Gaibandha, Joupurhat and Bogra districts on Monday late afternoon and evening. Besides, several hundred of thatched houses were...
FE Report The central bank continues its foreign exchange support through selling the US dollar directly as well as providing overdraft (OD) facilities to the banks for settlement of import bills. "We've been maintaining foreign currency support to the commercial...
Syful IslamA move is underway to bring families of over 0.2 million fishermen of the country under insurance coverage; a regional organisation has expressed concern over their safety and living conditions, officials said Monday. Inter-governmental organisation, the Bay of Bengal...
The Supreme Court (SC) will hear today (Tuesday) Dr Muhammad Yunus' plea for leave to appeal against the High Court judgment affirming his removal as Managing Director (MD) of Grameen Bank, reports UNB. A six-member Appellate Division bench of the...
Former president of BAIRA Ghulam Mustafa has been elected Governor of Rotary International District 3280 Bangladesh in its conference held in the city recently, said a press release. Freedom Fighter Ghulam Mustafa is the Managing Director of Prantik Travels &...
The government has decided to appoint Md Wahidur Rahman, the director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the next Bangladesh High Commissioner to Kenya, reports BSS. Rahman, a career diplomat belonging to the 9th batch of the BCS...
RAJSHAHI, Apr 4 (BSS): Speakers at a daylong views-sharing meeting here today unequivocally called for forging a social movement against all sorts of human rights violation for institutionalising democracy. In this regard, they said the government or any single organisation...
GAZIPUR, Apr 04 (BSS): The surface water of the district including that of rivers, canals, and beels has been contaminated by the industrial wastes which is also a threat to public health. Numerous water bodies of the district are affected...
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