State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Advocate Qamrul Islam Saturday said trials of some listed war criminals will be completed within a few months, reports BSS. Rejecting any confusion about holding of trial of war criminals, he said...
Country's children are under great health risk as paints containing lead toxicity can be a significant source of childhood lead exposure and poisoning, according to a study, reports BSS. The study found that the paints manufacturers are using a lead...
FE Report | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
FE ReportJournalists, legal and communication experts Saturday put emphasis on writing investigative stories using Right to Information (RTI) act as a strategic tool. They made this comment at a roundtable titled "Use of RTI Act by Journalists: Lessons from international...
NOAKHALI, Apr 16 (bdnews24.com): Thousands of farmers have been struggling to stomach a massive crop loss of hybrid rice 'Jhalak' in Noakhali district. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in the district said, 'Jhalak' was cultivated on 1,665 hectares of...
Our Correspondent | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Apr 16: Members of the Coastguard in the Bay Saturday detained seven pirates engaged in looting in the drowned Korean flag vessel MV Hang Ro Bong at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port. Acting on a tip off,...
A rickshaw-puller was stabbed to death and his friend was also injured following a conflict over playing cricket in city's Mohammadpur area, reports UNB. Police arrested three persons in this connection. The victim was identified as Shafique, a rickshaw-puller, son...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore, Kushtia and Comillain next 24 hours till 6.0pm today...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 16 (bdnews24.com): Army corporal (clerk) Mohammad Yunus Mia, one of two soldiers killed in a UN plane crash in Congo, has been buried at his Nayahat family graveyard in Satkania Upazila in state honour. Satkania Police Station officer-in-charge...
The Daily Star observed its 20th anniversary on Friday with participation of academics, business leaders, politicians, cultural activists, media personnel and members of the diplomatic corps, says a Press release. As many as 10 newspaper editors from India, Pakistan and...
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will arrive in the city tomorrow (Monday) on a three-day state visit to Bangladesh at the invitation of President M Zillur Rahman, reports BSS. The Sri Lankan First Lady will accompany Rajapaksa during his visit,...
FE Report | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
FE ReportThe victims of the Spectrum sweater factory mishap in 2005 were given out Tk 26.8 million as donation for their family members. Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Associations (BGMEA) with the cooperation of Inditex, a world leading fashion group,...
Nobuko Horibe, regional director of UNFPA, Asia and the Pacific regional office, Bangkok arrives in the city today (Sunday) on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh, reports UNB. During her stay, Ms Horibe will observe the status of UNFPA Country...
Our Correspondent | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Apr 16: Four persons including two brothers died from toxic gas in a septic tank at a village of Satkania upazila of north Chittagong Saturday. Police said one Sohail (23) opened cover and entered the septic tank...
The present government can duly claim some positive achievements. The economy is poised to generate a growth rate of about 7.0 per cent this fiscal year, and available indicators seem to point to that direction. Second, more than 1000 MW...
President Barack Obama in his much vaunted policy speech on America's financial woes this week proposed a $4.0 trillion federal budget deficit cut over next 12 years, in contrast to Republican proposal of $4.4 trillion budget deficit cut over next...
In Bangladesh, democratic deficits are growing alongside its uninterrupted course, other than during the emergency rule in its electoral democracy. If human development is about expanding people's choices to lead the lives they value, then democratic rights should surely be...
Our Correspondent | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Apr 16: Members of the Coastguard in the Bay Saturday detained seven pirates engaged in looting in the drowned Korean flag vessel MV Hang Ro Bong at the outer anchorage of Chittagong Port. Acting on a tip off,...
A rickshaw-puller was stabbed to death and his friend was also injured following a conflict over playing cricket in city's Mohammadpur area, reports UNB. Police arrested three persons in this connection. The victim was identified as Shafique, a rickshaw-puller, son...
Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Jessore, Kushtia and Comillain next 24 hours till 6.0pm today...
CHITTAGONG, Apr 16 (bdnews24.com): Army corporal (clerk) Mohammad Yunus Mia, one of two soldiers killed in a UN plane crash in Congo, has been buried at his Nayahat family graveyard in Satkania Upazila in state honour. Satkania Police Station officer-in-charge...
The Daily Star observed its 20th anniversary on Friday with participation of academics, business leaders, politicians, cultural activists, media personnel and members of the diplomatic corps, says a Press release. As many as 10 newspaper editors from India, Pakistan and...
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will arrive in the city tomorrow (Monday) on a three-day state visit to Bangladesh at the invitation of President M Zillur Rahman, reports BSS. The Sri Lankan First Lady will accompany Rajapaksa during his visit,...
FE Report | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
FE ReportThe victims of the Spectrum sweater factory mishap in 2005 were given out Tk 26.8 million as donation for their family members. Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Associations (BGMEA) with the cooperation of Inditex, a world leading fashion group,...
Nobuko Horibe, regional director of UNFPA, Asia and the Pacific regional office, Bangkok arrives in the city today (Sunday) on a four-day official visit to Bangladesh, reports UNB. During her stay, Ms Horibe will observe the status of UNFPA Country...
Our Correspondent | 2011-04-17 00:00:00
Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Apr 16: Four persons including two brothers died from toxic gas in a septic tank at a village of Satkania upazila of north Chittagong Saturday. Police said one Sohail (23) opened cover and entered the septic tank...
Although there had been much rhetoric on rules and regulations for proper land use in Bangladesh in the past nothing has really materialised. There had been much talk about equal distribution of khas land, increasing land productivity, implementation of settlement...
The country's real estate sector is in dire straits because of the non-availability of gas and power connections to thousands of newly-built apartments in Dhaka. The authorities concerned have stopped providing these two important utility connections to newly constructed houses...
The recent passage of a convoy of trailers with goods weighing some 326 tonnes that started from Kolkata and went through Ashuganj in Bangladesh to reach the Indian state of Tripura marked the start of the overland transshipment operation by...
Over the last few days, the report of the probe body on 'Share Market' , is hiding behind the bush of "administrative editing or auditing"; which is making it all the more murky! Why not publish it in verbatim, with...
Pahela Baishakh, a symbol of Bengali culture, arrives every year and is celebrated with great enthusiasm and gaiety irrespective of poor and rich; but it is quite different from the English Happy New Year in the essence of cultural heritage...
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