Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Housing and Public Works has constituted a committee to give report on Real Estate Development and Management Bill 2009. Member of the Committee Enamul Huq has been made convener of the three-member committee while...
KISHOREGANJ, Dec 24 (UNB): About a thousand workers of Motorjan Sramik Union staged demonstration in the town against its General Secretary Sirajul Islam accusing him of misappropriating Tk 65 million.They also submitted a five-point demand to the Deputy Commissioner with...
FE ReportRajuk Thursday conducted an eviction drive in the city's Mirpur area to retrieve car parking space from commercial buildings.Rajuk (Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha), the city developer, had started the drive from October 11 as per the DMP's list to reclaim...
CHITTAGONG, Dec 24 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the armed forces to work shoulder to shoulder with the people to safeguard country's independence and sovereignty and for overall national development.She made the call while addressing the President Parade at...
KHULNA, Dec 24 (UNB): Some 80,000 pieces of notebooks and guidebooks of different classes from Class VI to IX were seized from a private depot at Helatala in the city Thursday, as the government has proscribed these made-easies.Acting on a...
NARSINGDI, Dec 24 (UNB): Two minor girls died and two other members of a family fell sick from food poisoning at Satirpar in the district town Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Ritu Begum (3) and Sonali Begum (8), daughters of...
FE ReportFour persons were injured and goods worth Tk one million looted by robbers from a business house at Banani in the city Thursday, police said.Gulshan police told the FE that a gang of robbers stormed into the three-storey building...
In one swift act of acceleration, and solid consolidation thereafter, Upul Tharanga almost single-handedly undid India's much-improved new-ball bowling and ground fielding, according to website cricinfo. Tharanga's seventh century, his first in 53 innings and more than three years, made...
England captain Andrew Strauss shrugged off criticism from South Africa counterpart Graeme Smith Thursday that his team's middle-order was under pressure heading into the second test, according to website cricinfo.England clung on to force a draw on the last day...
The Standard Chartered Young Tigers U-14 National School Cricket Tournament will begin Saturday with the district round matches to be participated by 539 schools, reports UNB.Addressing a conference at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium Thursday, BCB Game Development Committee member and...
Holders Abahani Limited maintained their all-win run in the Citycell Bangladesh League crushing Arambagh KS by 4-0 goals in the day's lone match at the Bir Shreshtha Shaheed Sepoy Mostafa Kamal Stadium at Kamalapur Thursday, reports UNB.With this win, Abahani...
Agrani Bank earned an easy 69-run victory over City Club in a super league match of the Metropolis First Division Cricket at the Dhaka University ground Thursday featuring two centuries by Mehdi Hasan and Sadaf Sarker, reports UNB.Winning the toss,...
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters): Sir Alex Ferguson has slammed neighbours Manchester City for the way in which they handled the sacking of his former player Mark Hughes this week.City have been widely pilloried in the football community for the manner in...
Sheikh Shahariar ZamanThe overall export scenario of the country, along with the related production mechanism, has remained static during the current year as the manufacturers were able to brave the worst global recession in the last six decades.The number of...
An additional 1,360-megawatts (MW) of electricity will be pumped into the national grid by March 2010 to meet the growing demand in the country, as the government is undertaking comprehensive power-production schemes, reports UNB. Briefing reporters at the Jatiya Sangsad...
FE ReportEnergy experts Thursday urged the government to undertake an "integrated regional energy supply programme" and reflect it in the upcoming vision paper as the country's electricity demand would swell to 20,000-megawatt per day in 2021.The experts from the public...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday clarified its recent directive on close-end mutual funds at a press conference in the city. The two-year time-frame set by the SEC to re-deem listed close-end mutual funds will only be applicable...
FE ReportDhaka stocks made marginal gain amid volatile trading Thursday, lifted by the country's largest mobile operator, Grameenphone. The market saw a roller-coaster ride, going up and down thorough out the session. It recovered in the final minutes spurred by...
The Christian community in Bangladesh, as elsewhere in the world, celebrates Christmas today (Friday) commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, reports UNB. According to Christian belief, the God entered the world of men through his Son, Jesus Christ, on the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave for India on the night of January 10 to hold crucial summit talks with her Indian counterpart Dr Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on January 11 for updating the entire gamut of bilateral ties...
Mauritius might recruit more professionals from Bangladesh, but it will take them through official channel to avoid fraudulent practices in the process, reports bdnews24.com. Briefing journalists at the foreign ministry Thursday, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, however, said the Mauritius government...
Islami Andolon Bangladesh (IAB), led by its president Charmonai Peer Mufti Syed Rezaul Karim, Thursday started a three-day-long march from the capital towards the proposed Tipaimukh Dam site to press for scrapping the Indian project considered a big threat to...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to waive entire duty on import of coriander (Dhania) seeds to meet local demand of the spice through adequate cultivation.Presently, there are 25 per cent customs duty and 5.0 per cent...
Home Minister Sahara Khatun Thursday categorically said distribution of machine readable passports would begin from April next year. She disclosed it while visiting the city's Agargaon passport office. Once the MRP is introduced, the home minister said, the Bangladeshi passports...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 24: Three of a family, including two women, were burned to death and around 45 shanties gutted as a fierce fire broke out at the Relly Bagan slum in Tan Bazaar area of the district town early Thursday....
The government will take necessary steps to reopen the laid-off state-owned industries under the Bangladesh Steels & Engineering Corporation (BSEC). Industries Minister Dilip Barua said this at a meeting with the leaders of BSEC Workers and Employees Federation at its...
Mehdi Musharraf BhuiyanThe government has embarked on an ambitious plan to bring an estimated 15,000 hectares of land under solar energy-powered irrigation system in the next three years, officials said ThursdayThe move is aimed at cutting use of grid electricity...
Sonia H MoniThe courier service companies are going to have legal framework to run their business in the country with an amendment to the Postal Act 1898, said Director General of Postal Department Mobasherur Rahman.The government has taken the move...
FE Report The central bank started buying back government securities Thursday aiming to manage the government's surplus funds properly, officials said."We've taken the move against the backdrop of the surplus balance in government account that stands at over Tk 100...
At 7:16 a.m.Thursday, the Senate passed on a 60-39 party line vote a sweeping health care bill that will tighten insurance regulations, provide insurance for 31 million more Americans and cost $871 billion over the next decade, according to the...
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