The rule hearing on long-pending legal dispute over the leasehold on BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's Dhaka Cantonment house began in the High Court (HC) Sunday.On the first day of the hearing senior Advocate TH Khan made his submission before the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the police personnel Sunday to be impartial while performing their duties, report agencies."Criminals must not be spared even if they belong to my party. Don't succumb to any pressure," she told the members of the...
RU CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, June 6: Mr Kamruzzaman Shafiq and Mr Mir Touhidur Rahman Kitu have been selected president and general secretary respectively of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Rajshahi city unit.According to sources, the Rajshahi city unit BCL committee was...
RANGPUR, June 6 (BSS): Comprehensive commitment of all is vital for turning the Education for All (EFA) programmes into a social movement to make it successful within the year 2015 in the country. Speakers made the observation while addressing at...
An advocacy campaign to raise awareness about public procurement (PP) and popularise the Public Procurement Act and the Public Procurement Rules starts today (Monday), said a press release.The Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) of the IME Division under the Ministry...
FE ReportUNIDO will further extend its technical and technological support for poverty reduction through development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and strengthen industrialisation. Without value addition, infrastructural development, poverty can't be reduced, Dr Kandeh K Yumkella, director general of...
FE ReportThe second 'Inter-school Dosti Art Competition' and prize giving ceremony was held in the city Sunday with 90 students from 50 institutions around the country participating in the event.The theme of this year's competition was "'Natural Splendor of Bangladesh".High...
FE ReportOne-third of child cancer can be cured totally in our country if the disease is detected and treated at an early stage, said National Professor Dr MR Khan while addressing a seminar as the chief guest, a press release...
Mohammad MufazzalThe government is set to impose five per cent tax on investors whose profit from the country's capital market would cross half a million Taka in the coming fiscal year.Officials said the Finance Minister would announce the capital gains...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government is unlikely to change the limit of lowest tax-free ceiling for individual taxpayers, corporate tax rates and SIM tax in the budget for upcoming fiscal in a bid to achieve a revenue target of nearly Tk...
FE ReportThe government has moved to take actions against shoddy structures and chemical factories housed in residential areas in an effort to prevent repeat of the fire and building tragedies that last week killed nearly 150 people.Food and Disaster Management...
M A TaslimBangladesh has persistently demanded duty-free access to the prized US market. Virtually all developed countries have granted duty-free access to the export products of the least developed countries (LDCs) in line with several resolutions in multilateral bodies such...
S Rizwana HasanAlthough countries such as Thailand, South Korea and Taiwan, much before their current state of prosperity, decided to phase out ship breaking on grounds of sustainability, the debate continues in Bangladesh as some consider this "industry' vital for...
Bangladesh Newspaper Owners' Association (NOAB) has urged the government to withdraw existing 3.0 per cent duty on import of newsprint in view of sharp increase in its price in the international market, reports UNB.The association at a meeting Saturday expressed...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said there is still scope to enhance ADP implementation, even though the implementation rate has increased slightly this year compared to the last fiscal, reports UNB.He made the statement while placing the report on implementation...
Demolition of the seven-storey building that tilted on Friday at Begunbari at Tejgaon started on Sunday, reports bdnews24.comThe building's caretaker Akbar Hossain said the building's owner began the dismantling at around 1.0pm. About seven to eight workers began knocking down...
FE ReportDhaka Stocks ended flat Sunday after a heady start as investors dumped market heavyweights -- banks and Grameenphone -- for fast booming fuel and power shares. The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) closed at 6107.81 with a slight fall...
The High Court has ordered Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) and Dhaka Electric Supply Company (DESCO) Limited to examine all electrical transformers of Dhaka city and report to it, reports bdnews24.com. It sought an explanation on why the failure of...
FE ReportCentre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a think tank, urged the government Sunday to prioritise investment in energy and power as years of sluggish flow of public and private capital to the sector limited the country's ability to pave the...
The High Court (HC) has demanded explanation from the government why there should not be specific guidelines in the appointment of judges to ensure transparency. Also, it wants to know it why the guidelines should not be published in a...
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is going to open its office in Bangladesh after 35 years, Director General of UNIDO Dr Kandeh KYumkella informed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday. While meeting PM Hasina at her Gonobhaban residence...
The EPZ Labourers Welfare Association and Industrial Relations Bill 2010 was placed in the House Sunday. Agriculture Minister Begum Motia Chowdhury, who is in charge of Prime Minister's Office in parliament, placed the bill. — BSS
FHM Humayan KabirThe government's key electricity generation project Bheramara 360-megawatt plant is likely to get the higher body's approval tomorrow for constructing it by June 2014, officials said Sunday.Planning ministry officials said they would place the Tk 42.14-billion Bheramara scheme...
A Z M AnasA Dhaka court has ordered the World Bank (WB) to reinstate one of its public relations staffer, in a ruling lawyers say could bring an end to the global lender's perceived immunity.District sessions judge Syed Mashfiqul Islam...
Siddique Islam The government's borrowing from the banking sector is set to shoot up by a massive 343 per cent in the next fiscal year as it moved to implement hundreds of development projects. The government will borrow around Tk...
Munima SultanaThe government has dropped construction of almost all its proposed six flyovers in the city's busy roads, but added three others to ease traffic jam in and around the upscale Gulshan and Dhanmondi areas.Officials said out of the proposed...
FE ReportFacebook was reopened in Bangladesh Saturday night after the government formally lifted the weeklong ban on the social networking website just before the midnight. Sources said the telecom regulator formally asked the international gateway operators to unblock the access...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, June 06: Soccer madness, already on view worldwide, will take a frenzied form from June 11. All eyes will be focused on South Africa with international media persons converging to report the matches. This African nation...
A Major of United Liberation Front of Asam (ULFA) of India was arrested Sunday from a nursing home in Mymensingh where he was undergoing treatment, reports UNB.High-level police sources here said they have heard of arrest of Ranjan Chowdhury alias...
Looking at Dhaka city closely, one would be simply stupefied to see the frightful chaos that has now endangered the lives of millions and millions of its residents. What is required under the circumstances is not shifting focus on this...
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