To ensure primary education for all children, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) under the joint initiatives of the government had started 'School Feeding Programme' in different districts in 2001.Against the backdrop of success of the programme, the government...
FE ReportInternational Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has helped train bankers on how to appraise sustainable energy finance loans to assist them increase investments in green businesses.South Asia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF), which is managed...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 4 (BSS): The picturesque Botanical Garden of Chittagong University (CU) has turned into a place of tourist attraction and safe haven for wildlife which are alluring nature lovers and bird watchers to visit the place. The garden endowed...
Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) a UK based organisation of restaurant owners will organise this year's annual dinner and award giving ceremony tomorrow (Sunday) at a hotel in London to mark its 49th founding anniversary. The event titled 'BCA Annual Dinner...
A fourteen-day architectural sketch exhibition of Sajid Bin Doza began Friday at the Alliance Francaise in the capital. The solo exhibition titled 'Ghor: Kachhey Thakar Char Deyal, the Story of Mud and Thatch' started at the La Galerie, which would...
Police arrested three terrorists with a powerful bomb and some bomb making materials from Porabari village Friday, reports UNB.The arrestees are Islam, Milon Mia and Sumon.Acting on secret information, a team of Benapole Port thana police raided the village in...
Sri Lanka made a good start in the 6th Bangabandhu SAFF Championship beating rough and tough Pakistan by a solitary goal in the opening match of the 8-nation meet at the country's premier sports venue Bangabandhu National Stadium in the...
In a battle of titans, Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club beat their arch-rival Abahani Limited by six wickets in a key 10th round match of the Metropolis Premier Cricket League at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur Friday, reports UNB.With the day's...
ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa, Dec 4 (Reuters): The winners of next year's World Cup final in South Africa will collect $30 million (18 million pounds) in prize money, FIFA said Thursday after their Executive Committee meeting in the historic setting...
MUMBAI, Dec 4 (Cricinfo): In the fourth over of the day, Muttiah Muralitharan got one to dip on Virender Sehwag. For a change Sehwag played in front of his body and scooped it back to Murali, who took the catch...
WELLINGTON, Dec 4 (Cricinfo): It's a venue that Pakistan's bowlers have enjoyed more than those from any other side over the last two decades, and they celebrated the Basin Reserve's fiftieth Test in fitting style, destroying New Zealand's top order...
KUSHTIA, Dec 4 (UNB): Two top cadres of an outlawed party were killed in a triangular gunfight between two extremist groups and law enforcers on the outskirts of the town early Friday.The deceased were identified as Rokan (28) of West...
Officials concerned of Land Ministry have been directed to distribute undisputed agriculture Khas land among 101 landless families in each upazila by next June.Minister for Land Mohammad Rezaul Karim Hira issued the directive at the coordination meeting of the divisional...
Chittagong OfficeCHITTAGONG, Dec 04: A Chittagong court Thursday issued warrant of arrest against BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury in a sedition case filed by a businessman in Chittagong.The chief judicial magistrate Akhtar Hussain passed the order after hearing the case...
BOGRA, Dec 4 (BSS): There is a large number of killing fields and mass graves of martyrs of the War of Liberation at different places in the district that remain uncared for a long time. The killing fields and mass...
Nazmul AhsanBangladesh, during the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India, is likely to seek withdrawal of quantitative restriction from the duty-free entry of its apparels to the Indian market, sources said. But the ministry of commerce (MoC)...
Doulot Akter MalaThe revenue board has decided to realise unpaid taxes from taxpayers against whom legal actions have been initiated. The decision has been taken out of the fear that a substantial amount of outstanding taxes could never be realised...
KISHOREGANJ, Dec 4 (UNB): At least 46 people drowned and about 20 others remained missing as a mechanised trawler carrying nearly 150 passengers sank in the Daira River in remote Fulpur area of Mithamoin Upazila this (Friday) morning. Local police...
S M JahangirCredit rating has been made mandatory for mills under the state-run Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) with a view to streamlining their outstanding debts lying with the banking system.It was one of the major decisions made at a...
NEW DELHI, Dec 4 (bdnews24.com): India Friday formally announced arrest of Arabinda Rajkhowa, the chairman of the insurgent outfit United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), from near the country's border with Bangladesh at Dawki in its northeastern state of Meghalaya....
A Z M AnasThe government plans to register thousands of manpower brokers in a move to regulate the multi-layered overseas recruitment process, while stemming cases of fraud, officials said Friday. Although nearly 800 private agencies obtained licences from the government...
Khaleda Zia has been elected unopposed chairperson of BNP as she was the lone candidate for the top post, chief of BNP's election commission TH Khan said Friday afternoon. He announced the result of the 'chairperson election' at the party's...
Eight persons, including three of a family were killed and 25 injured in separate road mishaps in two districts in the country Friday. Five persons were killed as a locally assembled vehicle from Nazampur Gate of Kushtia collided head on...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 4: Two workers of a steel mill at Nasirabad succumbed to injuries Friday. Panchlaish police said Amjad Hossain (40) and Abu Jafar (35) received severe injuries when a heavy steel plate fell on them during the gas cutting...
FHM Humayan KabirFinancial analysts said rising remittances to Bangladesh should be invested in the productive sector to avert inflation and spur economic growth.They said the idle foreign exchange in the banks could spur inflation and raise import of luxury goods,...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The country's tanners and rawhide and skin suppliers are at loggerheads over prices offered by the former and those demanded by the latter, threatening the leather industry.Experts said that the quality of leather will deteriorate and the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returned home Friday morning ending her six-day official visit to Port of Spain, the capital of Caribbean Island state Trinidad and Tobago, reports BSS.An Emirates air flight carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage landed at...
Munima SultanaForty-one per cent of the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) area has been used for human habitation leaving developers to go outside of its 1,500 square kilometres jurisdiction for future urban development, a study said.The study of the Dhaka Transport...
FE Report The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) experienced upward trend in the week with decrease in turnover amid shortened trading due to Eid vacation. In the week that ended on Thursday, the benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) closed at 4410.48,...
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (AFP): Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday admitted "mistakes" leading up to the economic crisis but argued the central bank's independence should not be limited in financial system reforms.Bernanke defended his record at a stormy Senate...
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