Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Suranjit Sengupta said bureaucrats were creating hindrance in repealing the black law of vested property act, reports BSS."Keeping the vested property act alive, the most heinous law that...
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affaires Barrister Shafique Ahmed Friday urged the countrymen to come forward to foil the 'conspiracy of vested quarters' and help the government to effectively implement the education policy, reports UNB.Barrister Shafique made the appeal...
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has said economic development through democracy can ensure sustainable peace and stability in a society, reports UNB.She made the remarks Friday, while acting as a panelist in the interactive session on the second day of Bali...
Eminent Swedish journalist and South Asia analyst Ingvar Oja, who witnessed the Pakistani army's surrender in 1971, said the liberation war was justified and he foresaw Pakistan's breakup long ahead viewing the severe disparity between its two wings, reports BSS."The...
In the light of vulnerability of the country's coastal belt due to climate change, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is imperative to save the coastal belt from environmental degradation and to ensure food security in the coastal region.Prof Dr BK...
Himalayan Peak Mt Chekigo (6257 metre) was formally renamed Nepal-Bangladesh Friendship Peak on October 25 after conquering the peak through a joint venture effort.The teams of Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC) and Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) jointly conquered the...
Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad Friday said the government has taken a plan to build a cultural zone centring the Race Course Maidan (Suhrawardy Udyan), reports BSS.He was addressing the launching function of Jagoroner Gaan-2 (an album...
Adulterated cosmetics have flooded markets around the country to such an extent that the sellers themselves are unable to distinguish between the original and the adulterated, reports bdnews24.com.Wholesalers claim it has become impossible to identify the accurate commodity before use.They...
KERANIGANJ, Dec 10 (UNB): A man was killed and 30 others were injured in a clash between two rival groups over land dispute at village Kunderchar under South Keraniganj Upazila Friday.The police said there was a long standing dispute between...
In Comilla, two people were killed and 25 others injured in separate road accidents under Daudkandi and Muradnagar upazilas Friday.A bus carrying a bridal party and another truck collided head on at Illiotganj on Dhaka-Chittagong highway under Daudkandi Upazila, leaving...
All preparations have been completed to host the eight-nation first-ever SAFF Women's Football Championship that begins in the country's tourist town of Cox's Bazar tomorrow (Sunday), reports UNB.Nepal will play the Maldives in the inaugural match, which will kick-off at...
CHITTAGONG, Dec10 (Cricinfo): Heavy overnight rains ensured the fourth one-dayer, the first of two in Chittagong, was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Though the rains stayed away Friday morning, a slushy outfield at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium and...
CHENNAI, India, Dec 10 (AFP): Ravichandran Ashwin led a devastating spin attack as a second-string India thrashed New Zealand by eight wickets in the fifth and final one-day international Friday for a 5-0 clean sweep.The off-spinner grabbed three wickets for...
SYDNEY, Dec 10 (AFP): Australia dropped three players on Friday and gambled on left-arm spinner Michael Beer after just five first-class games for next week's crucial third Ashes Test against England in Perth.Marcus North, Xavier Doherty and Doug Bollinger paid...
ACCRA, Dec 10 (AFP): FIFA has warned Ghana after authorities raided its football association, giving it until Sunday to stop what it called interference in the sport's management, according to a statement on the association's website.
OSLO, Dec 10, (agencies): The head of the Nobel Committee Friday placed the Peace Prize diploma and gold medal on an empty chair representing absent laureate Liu Xiaobo, who languishes in a Chinese prison."We regret that the laureate is not...
TEHRAN, Dec 10 (AFP): Iran's English-language Press TV on Friday denied reports that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman whose sentence to death by stoning for adultery had sparked an outcry, has been freed from jail. A German-based campaign group said...
India's foreign minister called last week's pat-down of Ambassador Meera Shankar unacceptable. Shankar had attended a conference at Mississippi State University and was catching a flight to Baltimore from Jackson-Evers International Airport, report agencies.Witnesses told the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson...
Haiti officials will recount disputed votePORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec 10: The electoral council will recount the vote in Haiti's disputed election in view of election monitors and potentially of the three leading candidates themselves, the council president said. — APIndian tribals...
Prices of rice, fish and onion were up while that of edible oil maintained the high trend even after fixation of price in the city's kitchen markets, traders said Friday.Even after fixation of price of loose bottled edible oil by...
Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) opened its 248th branch at Banshkhali in Chittagong recently, said a press release.Jafrul Islam Chowdhury, MP, inaugurated the branch as the chief guest, while IBBL Chairman Abu Nasser Muhammad Abduz Zaher presided over the function.IBBL...
Industrial credit disbursement recorded a significant rise by over 38 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of this fiscal compared to the corresponding period of the last fiscal, indicating an upward trend in investments.The disbursement of industrial term loans...
Sonia H MoniApparel manufacturers will construct a hospital to provide modern health care services to the apparel sector workers and their families free of cost as the poor community cannot avail the same due to high expenses.With the aim, Bangladesh...
December 5-December 9, 2010Commercial Bank of CeylonUncertainty continued in the call money market as high interest rates prevailed during the past week as well. The inter bank rates hovered around 30 per cent despite Bangladesh Bank (BB) providing limited support...
Of late, eve-teasing has become a social issue that has put the nation into much peril. A college teacher named Mijanur Rahman had to die while protecting his own college students from the jaws of the eve-teasers. Parents are to...
Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International has consistently ranked Sweden as one of the best countries in the world in which to do business. It's a perception Swedes share. And they're very much attached to it. Walking down the sparkling clean streets...
Although the subject of legal rights of the visually impaired has too often been sidelined, it is an issue that needs immediate attention. Visual disability is prevalent amongst all populations of the world. Therefore, its importance cannot be ignored even...
First things are to be addressed first. Without addressing the most important factor that frustrates the attainment of an objective and going after secondary requirements, the same cannot be regarded as either pragmatism or realism. But that's what we see...
THE first time in my childhood, when I stood in awe of the nature's wonders, was a wintry morning as with my eyes, big and round, I was watching at the butterflies that were dancing like multi-coloured kites flying around...
One used to hear of thugs and thieves masquerading as policemen and robbing unwary citizens of their possessions. It happened in the life of this scribe sometime in the 1970s. As he got off a Dhaka-Chittagong 'coach' at Jamalkhan Road,...
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