NOAKHALI, Aug 28 (BSS): The government will take all measures to stop repression of women and children in the country.State Minister for Children and Women Affairs Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury Friday said this at a views exchange with government officials...
The government is considering extension of duty-waiver facility to Khulna, Rajshahi and Barisal metropolitan cities, like Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, for the import of taxicabs under a plan for expanding this civic transport service in a wider range, reports UNB.Aiming...
BENAPOLE (Jessore), Aug 28 (UNB): Thugs ransacked the house of a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and looted valuables worth Tk 0.5 million (5.0 lakh) injuring four inmates at Laxmanpur village in bordering Sharsha Upazila Wednesday night. Quoting villagers, the...
Speakers paid rich tributes to August 15 victim Abdur Rob Serniabat who left invaluable contributions for protecting the rights of country's peasantry, especially the landless people in abject poverty. The speakers said this at a discussion jointly organised by Jatiya...
CHITTAGONG, Aug 28 (UNB): Assistant secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Chittagong University unit was arrested early Friday on charge of snatching.The police said BCL leader AK Sohel Rana was arrested from Gate No. 1 of the university along with...
FE ReportThe Indian High Commission in Dhaka has organised a photo exhibition titled 'Liberation War of Bangladesh' in memory of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.The exhibition will continue until September 27, 2009 at the High Commission's Cultural Centre at Road no...
KURIGRAM, Aug 28 (BSS): Erosion of the Dharla, Teesta, Brahmaputra and Dudhkumar rivers are going on unabatedly which has already devoured several hundred acres of cultivable land and four educational institutions in the district.Some of the establishments of the Water...
Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh Arturo Perez Martinez called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique Wednesday at the latter's office, says a press release.The ambassador was accompanied by his wife Kayoko Takagi de Perez, Deputy Head of Mission Eduardo...
Twenty-nine Bangladeshis have been waiting to hear from the Bangladesh embassy for the last four months about their repatriation after landing in an immigration detention centre in Bangkok bdnews24.com. Coastguards of Myanmar and Thailand detained them in the sea as...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 28 (BSS): The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has been implementing a Tk 1.09 billion uplift project titled 'Secondary Towns Integrated Flood Protection (phase-2)'.The main objective is to attain economic prosperity besides alleviating poverty in the metropolis. Officials told...
FE ReportA security guard of a garment factory was shot and critically wounded by alleged extortionists at Kafrul in the city early Friday, police said.An officer of Kafrul police station told the FE some miscreants arrived at the main gate...
A prayer has been offered Friday in the city on the occasion of the death anniversaries of Alhaj Kafiluddin, a yarn businessman and philanthropist of Chwakmugaltuli and his wife, Yamonnesa.An Iftar was also arranged to mark the occasion at Concord...
Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Syndications & Structured Finance of Prime Bank Limited Md Touhidul Alam Khan obtained postgraduate diploma (PGD) in Islamic Banking and Insurance, says a press release.He was also awarded Associate Fellow Membership from Institute...
Khwaja Mozammel Hoque Foundation (KMRF) has distributed one-off working capital to poor and destitute families with a view to helping them create self-employment opportunities. Foundation Chairman Khwaja Tipu Sultan gave away fund to 168 people at a ceremony in the...
A Z M AnasBangladesh's banking industry remains largely risk-free, allowing it to hurtle toward profitability, says a major assessment by the World Bank and the IMF.The Washington-based lenders have concluded the only risk facing the country's banks is excess liquidity...
Munima SultanaThe cost of the Padma multi-purpose bridge is likely to hit two billion dollars as experts and consultants have decided to build the country's biggest construction project with steel. Officials said the consulting firm Maunsell AECOM finalised the 'scheme'...
Nazmul AhsanThe ministry of commerce is in a dilemma over initiating fresh talks with Washington on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), keeping some controversial clauses of the draft agreement unchanged.The US has recently insisted Dhaka on signing the...
M Azizur Rahman Petrobangla will sign a wide-ranging deal with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) very soon, allowing the Chinese energy giant to make its foothold in the country's gas and oil sector, officials said Thursday. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Doulot Akter MalaThe income tax department set an impressive trend of revenue collection at the outset of the current fiscal when it surpassed the target for the first month by Tk 50 million.This has been possible because of government close...
KERANIGANJ, Aug 28 (UNB): Angry mob put blockade on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway near the Buriganga Bridge in Hasnabad area Friday demanding smooth supply of electricity and gas in the area.Hundreds of people took position on the busy highway after Jum'a...
FE ReportPolice arrested Abul Kalam Azad, chairman of Azad Group, from a city hotel at Purana Paltan Thursday night for his alleged attempt on the life of a CID (Criminal Investigation Department) inspector, police said.An officer of Paltan police station...
Nineteen more cases of swine flu have been detected in the country, taking the total number to 163, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Director Mahmudur Rahman said Friday. "Of the new, detected with the virus, one came...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 28: Katakhali Power Generation Centre is going to produce 50 megawatts (MW) of electricity in the next six to nine months on a rental basis. The Power Development Board (PDB) will also complete all necessary work to make...
NARSINGDI, Aug 28: Three people drowned and at least four went missing when a boat capsized in the river in Raipura Upazila of Narsingdi Friday afternoon. The dead were identified as Mizan (8), Abdul Mannaf Mia (70) and Farooq Mia...
S M JahangirThe government is finding it difficult to raise the Boro procurement target in absence of storage facilities, despite getting a 'huge response' from the local rice suppliers, officail sources said."A previous such plan faced a major blow mainly...
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, August 28: The grim news is the US banks lost $3.7 billion in the second quarter more than earlier estimated. The amusing news is Britain has levied a value added tax (VAT) of pound sterling...
FE Report The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) experienced a downward trend in the week that ended Thursday after a moderate gain in the previous week. The share price movement was a bit slow as the investors took a cautious approach...
FE ReportPoultry leaders Friday urged the government to withdraw the import decision as the price of eggs has started falling in local market and would come down further within next week, said a statement. They warned that the government's decision...
HOBIGANJ, Aug 28 (bdnews24.com): A RAB man was beaten to death by a mob Friday after he had chased two youths at Noahati under Madhabpur Upazila in the district, the police said. Habiganj superintendent of police (SP) Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan...
Jasim Uddin HaroonThe city's banana market size has reached around Tk 7.0 million at wholesale level a day during this holy month of Ramadan, senior banana traders told the FE. The senior traders said this based on the trucks that...
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