RU Correspondent RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Feb 08: Bangladesh Chhatra Union (BCU) Rajshahi University unit took out a procession on campus demanding ban on religion-based politics and quick trial of the killers of its activist Tapon who died in a clash between...
BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed has denied the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) allegation accusing him of smear campaign against the Appellate Division order upholding the High Court verdict that had scrapped the Fifth Amendment to Constitution.In a signed statement...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanThe power division is going ahead with a plan to offload shares of its three companies on the stock market.The division will hold a meeting today (Tuesday) to decide how much money it will raise by offloading shares...
FE Report The Chittagong Customs House (CCH) has suspended issuance of advance port clearance certificates to vessels that might cause overstay of ships at the port.Shipping agents and feeder operators generally take prior port clearance certificate from the customs offices...
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 8 (BSS): Kuwait today showed keen interest in providing all-out support to different development projects in Bangladesh and also expansion of bilateral trade and business between the two brotherly Muslim countries. The assurance came when visiting Bangladesh...
BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia Monday clearly said her party would raise voice simultaneously inside parliament and out on the street to protest "repression" on journalists, price hike of essentials and pacts signed "against country's interests",...
FE ReportDhaka stocks rose for the third straight session amid volatile trading Monday, lifted by the country's largest mobile phone service operator, Grameenphone.The benchmark DSE General (DGEN) index gained 62 points or 1.14 per cent to close at 5,552.85. The...
FE ReportThe investors will have to buy shares of Grameenphone with cash money or with money from their mature funds with effect from tomorrow (Wednesday), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Monday.After a board meeting the SEC ordered the...
FE ReportBangladesh will intensify efforts to secure additional aid to implement its key anti-poverty strategy linked to the five-year development plan as donors descend on the capital next week, a top aid official said Monday. After a lapse of almost...
The Supreme Court (SC) Monday stayed a High Court (HC) order for a new warrant of precedence placing district judges above generals, reports bdnews24.com. Appellate Division chamber judge Justice Md Muzammel Hossain stayed the order for six weeks on a...
FE ReportMore 500 employees of state-controlled banks (SCBs) and financial institutions claiming themselves to be freedom fighters have applied for raising their retirement age from 57 to 59 years, sources in the Ministry of Finance (MoF) said.They have applied to...
Six foreign companies have expressed their interest in manufacturing mobile phone sets and laptop computers in partnership with the state-owned Bangladesh Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (Teshish) as a joint venture. Managing Director of Teshish Ismail Hossain told BSS that the letters...
President Zillur Rahman administered the oath of office to Chief Justice M Fazlul Karim at Bangabhaban Monday morning. Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, former chiefs of the caretaker governments Justice Habibur Rahman and Justice Latifur Rahman, outgoing...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has moved to lift ban on the activities of International Islamic Relief Organisation (IIRO) in Bangladesh after three years upon recommendation by a six-member high-power committee. The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has issued a directive to...
FE ReportThe government will allocate plots for the women entrepreneurs at the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Sylhet to ensure their financial empowerment, Industries Minister Dilip Borua Monday said."The women entrepreneurs will also get plots in a special quota in...
FE ReportHundreds of garment workers Monday jolted Tongi Industrial Zone once again for arrears and other financial benefit by suspending traffic movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway for nearly four hours.With the latest violence, the industrial hub had witnessed three major workers'...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Feb 08: Rising government debts has become a growing concern in Europe and the United States but the economies of the Asian nations have remained resilient even buoyant to underpin how economic might is shifting from...
Bangladesh regained the coveted football gold medal of the SA Games after a span of 11 years with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Afghanistan in the final held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) in the city Monday, reports BSS.Atikur...
Indian swimmers maintain their supremacy grabbing all the four gold medals including a new meet record to finish their campaign in the 11th South Asian Games in style at the National Swimming Complex in the city Monday, reports BSS.India also...
Mohammad Jewel Ahmed Jony and Mohammad Abdur Rahim brought smile for country's sports lovers as they won gold in light weight 60 kg and light welter weight 64 kg in the 11th South Asian Games boxing, reports BSS.In the 60kg...
Mesbahuddin of Bangladesh ignited a wild celebration in the Sylhet BKSP winning the gold medal of the men's nanquan and nandaou all round taolou an event of Wushu Monday, reports BSS.Meshabuddin followed the feat of his female teammate Eti Islam...
Shehan Saearuwan Abeypitiyage of Sri Lanka and Naseem Hamid of Pakistan set Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) track afire today emerging as the fastest man and woman of the 11 SA Games winning the 100 metre sprint with a timing of...
Those 22 yards never mattered less. With one of the most lethal and joyful spells of pace and swing seen in India, a red-hot Dale Steyn took the pitch out of the equation and led South Africa to the verge...
Having been kept to 183 by New Zealand's tidy bowling attack, Bangladesh were drubbed by the broad bat of Ross Taylor as they surrendered the series to the hosts at the University Oval in Dunedin. Another cheap Brendon McCullum dismissal...
FE ReportThe government has assigned two Chinese firms Monday as turnkey contractors to build two gas-fired power plants to generate a total of 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2011 next.The state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) signed separate contracts Monday...
There are two sides, basically, to improving higher education in Bangladesh. One involves expansion of educational opportunities or the quantitative factors. The other is the need for ensuring the quality of higher education. While the quantitative needs are lacking, the...
Shamsul Huq Zahid In Bangladesh conditions, giving someone the discretionary power tends to create more problems than resolving the same. This has again been proved in the area of taxation. The taxpayers for long had been grumbling about the discretionary...
Maswood Alam KhanA practice I never really liked was offering me to sit on the chair of an office-head who happened to be junior to me by rank or by pay-scale and I always hated the weird protocol of hanging...
The government in the first year of its tenure has done poorly in a very vital area where circumstances dictated it to work on a war footing. All of the government's ambitious plan of drawing foreign investments and in enthusing...
Bangladesh's rural banking as well as mobile banking grew in the 1960s. The audit for its introduction should go to the then United Bank Limited (UBL). Though it saw almost instant success, the scheme was discontinued following a sudden change...
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