The special court to try the Feb 25-26, 2009 killings and looting inside the BDR headquarters at Pilkhana has admitted charges against 26 new suspects, reports bdnews24.com. With them, the number of the people facing the charges reached 850. The...
A stalker stabbed a college girl as her parents protested stalking by the spoilt youth in city's Jurain area Monday, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Mahmuda Akhter, a 1st year HSC student of Central Women's College in capital...
'We Love Professor Yunus', a newly formed forum of working journalists in Dhaka, Tuesday urged the government to find a respectable solution relating to Grameen Bank Managing Director Dr Mohammad Yunus for the sake of the country's greater interest, said...
FE ReportThe country's insurance sector Monday urged the government to reduce the existing high rate of corporate tax on the insurance companies, cut tax on their capital gain, and keep a tax exemption ceiling for the insurance agents. The leaders...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 28: The Chittagong Water and Sewerage Authority (CWASA) have asked the government to hand over control of the Halda and the Karnafuli to make the rivers pollution-free for ensuring supply of drinking water to the city dwellers....
Four more bodies of Bangladeshi expatriates from Libya have reached Dhaka from Greece where they jumped off a ship and died at sea, taking the body count to 13, reports bdnews24.com. The Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET) Joint...
A team of National Consumers' Rights Protection Directorate (NCRPD) Monday realised Tk 0.13 million in fines from 15 drug traders in city for selling date-expired drugs, reports BSS. An official press release said the team penalised the traders while conducting...
The chances of signing agreements with international oil companies (IOCs) ConocoPhillips and Tullow seem to be very thin, before a settlement is reached on the issue of Bangladesh's maritime boundary dispute with Myanmar and India. Conoco became responsive for as...
Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck left Dhaka for Thimpu Monday ending his five-day visit. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Dipu Moni saw him off at Shahjalal International Airport at 10:40am. The king came to Bangladesh on Mar...
In the poor and low-income countries, involving the people in the production system is always a big challenge for the governments. Until a government is able to make optimum use of its potential, whether it is the labour force or...
"Some are born great, Some achieve greatness, And greatness is thrust upon some" is how Shakespeare portrayed greatness. This can truly be attributed to the poets of Bangladesh. Some poets have in-born talents. No matter what formal education they have...
The tobacco industry in Bangladesh contend that they pay a good amount of revenues to the government, indicating thus how smoking is related to a business from the growers' to producers' level and how the curbing of the same would...
It is well-nigh impossible to get any credible, updated official data about the unemployment situation in Bangladesh. Defining unemployment also involves a complex exercise. Here, under-employment, 'disguised' unemployment and self-employment in un-remunerative conditions, are found to be equated with employment....
After wavering on the issue since coming to power more than two years ago, the government appears to have finally shed the ambivalence on the matter and decided to go ahead with the election pledge on submitting the wealth statement...
Since the health sector as a whole is very much among the most corruption-ridden sectors of the country, it is not surprising that corruption is rampant in the public hospitals across the country including the city's Suhrawardy Hospital, Dhaka Medical...
Bangladesh has been expecting get a large amount of aid fund for spending on coping activities against climate change from the multilateral capital donors and some bilateral sources. A good past of the amount is to be provided given by...
Despite slow growth in exports of fresh vegetables and fruits, Bangladeshi businessmen are otherwise optimistic of the potential of these sectors. They are for a modern processing centre to help them export more fresh produces by meeting requirements of buyers,...
Education is a widely discussed subject the world over, despite manifold divergent views, controversies and debates taking place these days over its various aspects. In Bangladesh there is unanimity on issues such as attainment of mass literacy, adoption of appropriate...
A society is bound to crumble if its judiciary - the place for justice - suffers from trust-deficit and becomes an apparatus for injustice. "The state of Judiciary in Bangladesh is turning into a glass-house and may crumble at any...
Since the health sector as a whole is very much among the most corruption-ridden sectors of the country, it is not surprising that corruption is rampant in the public hospitals across the country including the city's Suhrawardy Hospital, Dhaka Medical...
Bangladesh has been expecting get a large amount of aid fund for spending on coping activities against climate change from the multilateral capital donors and some bilateral sources. A good past of the amount is to be provided given by...
Despite slow growth in exports of fresh vegetables and fruits, Bangladeshi businessmen are otherwise optimistic of the potential of these sectors. They are for a modern processing centre to help them export more fresh produces by meeting requirements of buyers,...
FHM Humayan KabirThe REB has submitted a proposal to the BERC, seeking a 13 per cent hike on power tariff at consumer level. The Rural Electrification Board (REB) officials Monday said they had recently sent the tariff adjustment proposal to...
TOKYO, Mar 28 (Agencies): Highly contaminated water has escaped from a reactor building at Japan's quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant and may leak into the ocean, the operator said Monday, appealing for overseas help in the crisis. Radiation fears have disrupted...
Syful Islam The government is trying to continue the present pace of sending people abroad amid volatility in its major market in the Middle East, officials said Sunday. Besides, it is continuing to explore new markets with a view to...
NAPLES (Italy), Mar 28 (news agencies): NATO has taken over enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya, the general in charge of operations told reporters on Monday at the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples in southern Italy. "Yesterday NATO aircraft...
M Azizur RahmanA consortium of local and Russian power firms is eager to renovate the country's most aged and largest Ghorasal 950 megawatt (mw) power plant to boost electricity supply with efficient energy use, a top government official said Monday....
Raihan M ChowdhuryMichael J Paulus, Managing Director and Citi Public Sector Group Head - Asia Pacific said Bangladesh has demonstrated progress across the broader economy. "We have a positive outlook on Bangladesh based on signs of progress, and we expect...
FE ReportThe IPO (initial public offering) subscription of mutual funds (MFs) are facing under-subscription due to investors' poor response, market sources said. The situation deteriorated after the recent stock market crash that also made investors' confidence very shaky. Some fund...
FE ReportThe securities regulator has agreed with the proposal of stakeholders to postpone the proposed amendment to the book building method until the probe committee submits its report, officials said. The proposal came at a meeting held Monday at the...
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