The High Court has asked the government to explain why sending victims to jail in the name of safe custody should not be declared illegal, reports bdnews24.com. It also has demanded an explanation from the government about why it should...
Bangladesh Scouts, a voluntary non-political organisation, Tuesday launched lottery of Tk 10 for raising funds for maintaining its activities, reports UNB.There are a total of 662 prizes, including first prize (one) of Tk 2.5 million, second prize (one) of Tk...
FE ReportCarjackers snatched away a private car after stabbing its driver at Mirpur in the capital at the early hours of Tuesday, police said.Witnesses and police said the incident took place before Harun Eye Foundation Hospital at about 12:30 am...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, June 8: Jessore district administration Monday removed about 50 illegal business outlets along Laldighi, a large pond in the heart of the town.The people of the town staged several demonstrations to save the pond for the sake...
FE ReportWorld University of Bangladesh Tuesday held a reception to welcome about 1850 students of the Summer Semester 2010 at the LGED auditorium with the VC of the university Prof Dr Abdul Mannan Choudhury presiding.In his address as the chief...
Abdullah Al Faisal (16), a student of class eight in Bangladesh Military Academy High School, Bhatiary, Sitakond, Chittagong has been suffering from blood cancer. Local doctors suggested him to go abroad for re-establishment of bone marrow. The treatment cost will...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanFeeder vessel operators are set to impose congestion surcharge at Chittagong port in view of the longer period of stay at the port leading to higher trade costs.The period of overstay of a ship increased by 17 hours...
Shamsul Huq Zahid The worst fire at the old city's Neemtali and the collapse of a four-storied building at Begunbari have triggered a flurry of initiative on the part of a number of government agencies. The Dhaka district administration, the...
Munima SultanaCommunications minister Syed Abul Hossain has said the government sees no possibility of revising the cost of the 2.4 billion Padma multi-purpose bridge although the demand has been raised from the development partners.He said the cost of the road-cum-rail...
The Bangladesh Observer is no more. Squabbling owners decided to pull the plug on this long-suffering daily English newspaper on Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com. The daily broadsheet was at death's door for a long time, Khaled Hamidul Haque Chowdhury, the son...
FE ReportDhaka stocks bounced back Tuesday as the market shrugged off tax worries push--ing all the three indices up. The market overcame the losses of the previous session riding on the gains of bank, fuel and power issues, non-banking financial...
FE ReportThe ECNEC Tuesday endorsed setting up of a 360-megawatt power plant and installation of three transmission and distribution lines to ease the severe electricity supply crisis, officials said.The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), the government's highest...
JESSORE, June 8: Import of cotton from India started Monday, as the country withdrew ban on export of cotton. A total of 3,349 bales of cotton were imported from India on the day. Petrapole customs authority in West Bengal had...
M Azizur RahmanIrish company Tullow has stopped supplying gas from Bangora field under block-9 from Monday evening after a pipeline accident, deepening gas crunch in the already crisis-ridden Chittagong region, top officials said Tuesday.The company halted entire production of 120...
SUNAMGANJ, June 8 (UNB): At least 18 people drowned and 19 others went missing after a trawler capsized in a haor in Dharmapasha upazila of the district on Tuesday.Local sources said the Badshaganj-bound trawler from Balijuri, with around 100 passengers,...
FE ReportA mobile court Tuesday sealed off seven warehouses of Euroasia, a chemical marketing company, and a factory of galvanised iron wire in the capital's Chawkbazar for illegally running the business at the residential area.Police said the mobile team, led...
FE ReportTrading of the United Commercial Bank Limited (UCBL) will start at the country's both bourses from June 13 (Sunday), ending its two years of trading at the over-the-counter (OTC) market.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took the decision of...
Bangladesh needs stable public policies with a risk-free political environment to attract large volume of foreign investment and drive sustainable industrialisation, Director General of United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) Dr Kandeh K Yumkella said Tuesday, reports UNB. "Stable policy...
FE ReportThe government looks to almost halve its reliance on gas as a major fuel for electricity generation over the next 20 years as it goes ahead with diversifying the energy use, a top official said. ASM Alamgir Kabir, chairman...
Doulot Akter MalaPrices of reconditioned cars might go up in the coming months as the government is now considering imposition of heavy duty on import of cars and cut their depreciation rates, aiming to scale up revenue collection.The National Board...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, June 8: Turkey is one of the few countries in the region which had warm ties with Israel. Egypt and Jordan are the other two countries. Israel-Turkey friendship is now in tatters. Israeli bellicosity knows no...
Bangladesh has, over the past three decades, made impressive progress in curbing the birth rate, currently averaging 2.7, but given the dynamics of a youthful population, it is still considered too high. During question time at the Jatiya Sangsad last...
Bashir Mahmud ElliasIn trying to understand the reasons for the increase in violent crime, it is useful to note that this increase has been paralleled by an equivalent growth in other varieties of pathology -- both medical and social. The...
Mohsin MonirThe government's transport strategy has largely been focused on the road sector and the lion's part of the annual transport development budget is allocated to roads. Donor support has also mirrored this pattern of emphasis. Bangladesh Railway (BR) did...
After the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) confiscated some VoIP equipment, terming these illegal, and cancelled licenses of some Telecom operators, it was heartening to note that the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee for post and telecommunications ministry came...
It is a common sense realisation that if one flogs a lame horse to make it run, the horse will not do so or probably run far less than its capacity. A comparison can be made between such a horse...
The dreadful fire incident which took place at Nimtali in old Dhaka on 3 June caused many across the country to shed tears.While expressing her instant reaction in this regard, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said, ''Fire makes people destitute.'' She...
Maswood Alam KhanOn January 12, 2010 in Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince an earthquake of seven-magnitude killed in just one minute about 230,000 people, almost one-fourth of the capital's population. As I was viewing the horrible scenes of Nimtali fire tragedy...
Iftu AhmedThe world's eyes are turning to South Africa where the FIFA (Federation International Football Association) World Cup soccer is going to kick off from June 11 to July 11, 2010. Thirty-two nations are participating being divided into eight groups...
Shafeen Mahmood"Many Species. One Planet. One Future" has been decided as the theme for World Environment Day (WED)-2010 by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),held on June 05, 2010 in Kigali of Rwanda, the East African country. This year's theme is...
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