A bill is going to be placed in the next parliament session for bringing a change in the nomenclature of 'Adibashi' instead of 'Upajati' in defining the ethnic communities, reports UNB."The Cabinet has in principle approved the bill as the...
KUSHTIA, Aug 1 (UNB): A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader was killed and two Jubo League activists were injured in a terrible bomb and gun attack at Sajipara village in Mirpur Upazila Saturday evening.The deceased was identified as Tipu Sultan,...
FE Report The government has raised domestic and commercial connection rates of natural gas by more than 11 per cent effective from August 01 as per the directive of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC)."We have given directive to the...
Bangladesh survived a tense finish to complete unprecedented one-day whitewash of hosts West Indies after winning the final match of the series by three wickets at Warner Park in St. Kitts early Saturday (BdST), reports bdnews24.com. Chasing 249, the Tigers...
Siddique Islam Import orders for capital machinery plummeted by nearly 30 per cent in the fiscal year ended on June 30, 2009 as the global economic crisis created a climate of uncertainty in the country's industrial expansion, officials said Saturday....
Mashiur RahamanExcessive recruitment cost is helping flourish illegal labour trafficking from Bangladesh making its low-skilled job seekers desperate for quick money to repay the debt they left behind, a UNHCR report said.The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report...
FHM Humayan KabirThe Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED), the government's vital project evaluation body, is hamstrung by lack of logistics and shortage of manpower which, officials say, might scuttle the development schemes.Planning ministry officials said Saturday inadequate power, absence...
Dozens were reportedly injured in clashes at the Dhaka headquarters of Proshika, one of the country's largest non-government organisations, as hundreds of supporters led by its sacked chairman Kazi Faruque Ahmed marched on the building Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. The balconies...
Doulot Akter MalaA secret "intelligence wing" created at the revenue board has started paying off after it sniffed out Tk6.00 billion in hidden taxes from the country's four state-owned banks (SoBs), officials said Saturday.The wing was set up at the...
In a move intended to revitalise the moribund health sector, the government is set to fill more than 28,000 administrative posts through direct appointment, a statement issued by the prime minister's office said Saturday, reports bdnews24.com. The initiative was taken...
BARISAL, Aug 1: The Barisal office of drug administration collected 15 samples of paracetamol syrup produced by 14 pharmaceutical companies and sent those to Dhaka. ATM Zahid Hossain, drug super in charge of Barisal, said that on a directive of...
SAVAR, Aug 1: About 105 more garment workers of a factory here fell sick due to food-poisoning Saturday. Locals said the workers of Pearl Garments factory at Palashbari suffered from severe pain in stomach and diarrhea in the morning after...
Plainclothes police arrested three women from the city's Mirpur area Thursday suspecting their involvement in kidnapping a man. Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police raided a house at Ahmednagar of Pikepara under the Mirpur police station and...
Mahmudur RahmanThere are times when emotion does indeed rob the individual of the ability to express one's self. But even this can hardly be accepted as an excuse for the downward slide of language skills in the country.Highly gifted and...
FE ReportA top aide to the Prime Minister Saturday said lax reserve requirements for the Islamic banking and the central bank's refinancing programmes are largely responsible for surplus cash in the banking system.The Bangladesh Bank has slashed statuary liquidity rate...
FE ReportBangladeshi knitwear manufacturers must improve labour conditions and ensure safety in factories if they are to beat China and Turkey to emerge as the top apparel exporters in the world, a business leader said Saturday. Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and...
FE ReportSpeakers at a seminar Saturday demanded proper implementation of Dhaka City Master Plan and upgrading drainage system to avert water logging in the mega city.They urged the government to estimate damages caused to people and goods in the recent...
India's planned Tipaimukh Dam puts 70 million "at risk" in northeast India and adjoining areas, including Bangladesh, and people of the region must co-ordinate efforts to safeguard sustainable development in face of such controversial projects, says Anastasia Cristalina Pinto, executive...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith Saturday said the country should get out from what he called tradition of army intruding indiscriminately into various national affairs, reports UNB."We have to get out from this tradition," he said speaking at 'Bangladesh Sanglap' dialogue...
US President Barack Obama has named Bangladesh's Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, British physicist Stephen Hawking and South African anti-apartheid veteran Desmond Tutu among the 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour of the...
FE ReportThe Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) is looking for ways and means to improve the disposal system of solid waste generated in the city. The DCC in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) formulated a master plan to clean...
THRISSUR, Kerala, July 30: Bollywood Actor-Couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai had a narrow escape when an elephant ran amok killing the mahout during the shooting of Mani Ratnam's 'Ravana' at Athirapally Waterfalls Area in this district of Kerala.Kunju, the...
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NEW DELHI, July 31: Actress-director Nandita Das has been appointed the new chairperson of the Children's Films Society of India (CFSI)."The tenure of her appointment ... shall be for a period of three years or until further orders, whichever is...
They say finally Shakib Khan has started to feel the pinch. Maybe he has started to get a bit nervous as well. Out of the seven movies he made in 2009, five flopped extremely badly. They say some filmmakers had...
M Azizur RahmanThe UK-based Cairn Energy has resumed exploration activities at new Magnama and Hatiya offshore structures as Petrobangla gave the go-ahead to sell gas to private users, company officials said."We are now inviting international tender to carry out three-dimensional...
FE Report Prices of almost all essentials including fish, sugar and local onion, witnessed upward trend but edible oil decreased in the city's retail markets during the last one week.Market sources said the 10-hour downpour of Monday night triggered the...
The Board of Directors of ICB Asset Management Company Limited (IAMCL) has declared dividend of Tk.25.00 per Unit on ICB AMCL Unit Fund Certificate and Tk. 24.00 (Including Tk. 9.00 paid for the 1st half of 2008-09) per Unit on...
FE ReportBASF has maintained its first place in the global chemical market and 59th largest company ranking in the world (based on 2008 sales figure), according to a survey ofFORTUNE GLOBAL 500.Every year, the US-based Fortune Magazine ranks world's 500...
US dollar continued to be supported by the central bank and despite high liquidity in the market, it maintained its steady upward movement against Bangladesh taka (BDT). Reduction in import payments, coupled with growing inward remittances and exports resulted in...
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