Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday stressed strict monitoring of infrastructure development works of the government to ensure their completion in time, reports UNB. "Issuing work order is not the final step… monitor the progress of the particular development work to...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Ministry has called upon all concerned to extend cooperation for implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.The Standing Committee at a meeting Saturday discussed in detail the progress in implementation of the RTI...
Voting ended peacefully across the country Saturday to elect new bodies of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad, a platform of the Freedom Fighters (FFs) of Liberation War, reports BSS. The FFs exercised their franchise at 481 centres across the country to elect...
Government would not tolerate anarchy or disorder during the hartal, Home Minister Sahara Khatun said Saturday. Speaking at a discussion to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in the city, the minister said the government has...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has demanded reconsideration of Anti-Corruption Commission Act-2004 Amendment proposal, reports UNB.The demand was made at an annual meeting of TIB members held in the city Saturday morning.Combating corruption and establishing good governance would be hampered in...
As many as 2061 Bangladeshis have been languishing in jails in different countries across the world, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni told the House Saturday, reports BSS.Replying to a question from BNP lawmaker Nazim Uddin Ahmed, the minister said according...
MYMENSINGH, June 26 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here today laid emphasis on social movement for protecting the people, particularly the youth, from drug addiction side by side enforcing laws to prevent availability of contraband drugs and their illicit trafficking....
Justice Golam Rabbani, Shahriar Kabir and Qazi Mukul have been made president, executive president and general secretary respectively of the central executive council of Ekattarer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee. The central executive council was formed for 2010-11 in the city...
RANGAMATI, June 26 (UNB): Two leaders of the reformist group of Parbatya Chhatagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) were gunned down by a rival group at Bagpara village in Langdu Upazila Saturday morning.The victims were identified as Shishir Tripura (25) and...
To ensure the capital's sustainability, the government should prioritise preserving water bodies in implementing the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) to protect surface water by controlling pollution, encroachment and reviving water bodies, reports UNB.Emphasising augmentation of the navigation system by dredging...
RANGPUR, June 26 (BSS): Major rivers and their tributaries marked both rises and falls during the past 24 hours till this morning in the Brahmaputra and Ganges basins due to lower rate onrush of waters from the up streams amid...
The second Senate meeting of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) was held in the city recently, said a press release.Vice Chancellor and Senate Chairman of the BUP Major General Md Shafiqul Islam presided over the meeting. Air Commodore Kazi Delwar...
DU CorrespondentDhaka University (DU) will announce its annual budget of Tk 2.3 billion tomorrow (Monday) for the fiscal 2010-11 allocating only 10.36 per cent of the total amount for the education and research sector.DU Treasurer Prof Mizanur Rahman will present...
Our CorrespondentNILPHAMARI, June 26: Five NGOs of Nilphamari and its neighbouring districts organised a seminar here recently to create awareness among people against corruption and to ensure accountability and transparency in the government. LN Rokey presided over the seminar, while...
MYMENSINGH, June 26 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here today laid emphasis on social movement for protecting the people, particularly the youth, from drug addiction side by side enforcing laws to prevent availability of contraband drugs and their illicit trafficking....
The Dhaka Collegiate School Alumnae Association will observe 175th founding anniversary of the school on December 17 and 18, 2010 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city, said a press release. Former students and their wives will participate...
KHULNA, June 26(BSS): The 6th death anniversary of the editor of the daily Janmobhumi and Ekushey Padak recipient journalist, Humayun Kabir Balu, will be observed here tomorrow (Sunday). On this day in 2004, the then incumbent president of Khulna Press...
Nazmul AhsanThe government is making a fresh move to get back the funds believed to have been laundered during the rule of the BNP-led four-party alliance government, official sources said.The Asset Repatriation Committee, formed during the tenure of last caretaker...
FE Report Commerce minister Faruq Khan Saturday berated the Indian bureaucracy for creating tariff and non-tariff barriers that choke off increased bilateral trade between Dhaka and New Delhi. "In the past, political acrimony was a big barrier. But now that...
PORT ELIZABETH, June 26 (AFP): Uruguay became the first country to make it into the World Cup quarter-finals with a 2-1 win over South Korea at a sodden Nelson Mandela Bay stadium here Saturday.Goals in either half from Luis Suarez...
FE Report Finance Minister AMA Muhith said Saturday the government wants to mobilise fund through issuing bonds for financing the country's infrastructure.Mr Muhith was addressing as chief guest at budget evaluation meeting, organised by Bazlur Rahman Foundation, at Dhaka Reporters...
FE ReportThe main opposition is set to observe a general nationwide dawn-to-dusk hartal today (Sunday) in protest of what it said the failures and misrule of the government.The strike - the first of its kind at the national level in...
FE ReportDiscussants at a workshop on Saturday in the city, with its theme -- 'Lessons from the Crisis and Prospects of Inclusive Growth' -- stressed the need for putting the primodal thrust on infrastructural development and human skill upgradation for...
A Dhaka court Saturday placed Rashedul Kabir and his second wife Razia Sultana Smrity on seven day remand when police produced the couple before the court. Metropolitan Magistrate M Nazrul Islam granted the remand for seven days instead of 10...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday handed over cheques of Tk 100,000 to each of the 98 families affected by the Begunbari building collapse and Neemtoli blaze in the city. Besides, Rupali Bank donated Tk 200,000 each as fixed deposit for...
Monira MunniThe government has sealed a US$129 million soft credit from Islamic Development Bank to build the country's first offshore floating platform aimed at saving billions of taka it spends in unloading oil in deep sea.Finance Minister AMA Muhith signed...
M Azizur RahmanThe government will launch a fresh bidding round for onshore hydrocarbon (HC) exploration by the year-end, as the country's offshore prospect is being stymied over the long-pending maritime boundary disputes, top officials said Saturday."We are going to float...
FE ReportAgriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury Saturday came down heavily on the World Bank over the BBS issue at the Parliament.She was talking at the discussion on budget 2010-11 at the House.Acting Bangladesh head of the multilateral lending agency recently said...
Munima SultanaThe government has sought one year more time from the High Court to introduce vehicle tracking system in the country's hundreds of motorised vehicles to stop stealing and control high speed.The High Court issued a rule on June 25,...
FE ReportThe FBCCI Foundation Saturday distributed computers, sewing machines, irrigation pumps and rickshaw vans among 1,090 families under its 'One Family One Businessman' project aimed at creating self-employment.Finance Minister AMA Muhith distributed the products at a ceremony organised by the...
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