Leaders of Save Environment Movement Friday called upon the government to formulate a specific policy and implement it properly to check dust pollution, reports BSS.They also urged the government and non-government organisations to create mass awareness about dust pollution and...
The opposition should not stay away from parliament over an extra-parliamentary issue, Speaker Abdul Hamid said Friday in the face of a boycott threat from BNP protesting the government notice served on its chief to leave her Dhaka cantonment house,...
BARISAL, Apr 24 (UNB): The man and 21 women, arrested from the city Thursday on suspicion, were sent to jail and safe home following a court order Friday.The chief judicial magistrate gave the order after they were produced before the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has mourned the deaths of founder general secretary of Jubo League Syed Ahmad and Mymensingh Municipality mayor Advocate Mahmud Al Noor Tareq, reports bdnews24.com."The nation has lost a man of deeds and Awami League has lost...
Due to lack of proper preservation, century old 'puthis' and manuscripts, newspapers and periodicals printed in Bangladesh during the last century, have been decaying at the Dhaka University (DU) Central Library, reports BSS.About 300 rare manuscripts and at least 600-microfilmed...
RAJSHAHI, April 24 (BSS): The unabated marketing and selling of spurious and adulterated fertilisers has been exploiting farmers along with affecting the crop production in the region.According to agronomists and soil scientists, some greedy businessmen are involved in fertiliser adulteration...
JHALAKATI, Apr 24 (UNB): Farzana Alam Eva, a female HSC examinee, was abducted by miscreants from in front of the Binoykathi exam-centre at Sadar Upazila Thursday.Witnesses said Eva, daughter of school-teacher Shah Alam Howlader of Kathipara village under Rajapur Upazila...
DINAJPUR, Apr 24 (UNB): A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot and wounded by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at bordering Manipur village under Sadar Upazila Thursday.The injured was identified as Jahangir Alam (25), son of Abdul Kuddus of the village.
FE ReportMembers of the Journalism Alumni Forum of Rajshahi University (JAFRU), a platform of former journalism students of the university, elected a 25-member new executive committee (EC) at a general meeting in Dhaka on Friday.Sazzad Hossain Shahin (first batch student)...
FE ReportThe initiation ceremony of the newly elected executive committee (2009-2011) of Feni Samity, Dhaka was held at the city's Diploma Engineers’ Institution on Friday.Some 1006 members of the Samity had elected the committee by casting their votes on November...
It will be no easy job to operationalise the arrangements for on-line submission of tax return by the tax-payers. The Finance Minister stated the other day that the tax-payers would enjoy this facility from the next fiscal. This piece of...
Syed Fattahul AlimWhen resources are scarce, people try to adjust to the situation through various innovative techniques. Whatever the method or how innovative it is, the bottom line is: use less of the resources available. But if the number of...
Anwar Faruq TalukderTHERE is no doubt among development workers or development economists that the ultimate development of the Bangladesh economy mostly depends on the development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). So patronisation of SME from the various sides is...
LL are vociferously talking about "Digital Bangladesh" including the MPs, the Ministers and the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.I have no clear idea about digital Bangladesh and why it is more important than the other basic needs like education, health, food...
Our greatest and most favourite Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alaihi Wasallam) has said, ''Patriotism is a part of Iman (Faith).''Patriotism involves some obligations through which alone it receives practical manifestation. The mere feeling or declaration that I love my country...
FOR many years we have hard many complaints of illegality and corruption at the National University.The government recently has taken steps to reform the this university. A strong committee was formed to make a plan as to how the colleges...
Prof. Lutfor RahmanA modern technology university, according to a report in a national daily, would to be established at Gopalganj. The education minister has already given the order to the relevant authorities to start the work to set up the...
Mohsin Ali HawladarDHAKA city dwellers depend on water of Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority (WASA). It is an autonomous enterprise owned by the government of Bangladesh and administered by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD). General...
SEOUL, April 23 (AP): Russia does not expect an imminent breakthrough in the standoff over North Korea's nuclear programme, Moscow's top diplomat was quoted as saying Thursday after talks with Pyongyang's foreign minister.North Korea last week expelled all international monitors...
GUWAHATI, April 23 (Reuters): Millions of Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voted Thursday under the shadow of violence in the second stage of a month-long general election that could throw up a weak coalition.Hundreds of thousands of police guarded...
Pakistan urges British apology over terror arrestsLONDON, April 23: Pakistan's high commissioner to London urged Britain to apologise over the arrest of 11 Pakistani men in anti-terror raids this month, after the men were all released without charge. Wajid Shamsul...
BAGHDAD, April 23 (AFP): Twenty-eight people, including children, were killed in a suicide attack on a police patrol in southeastern Baghdad Thursday, defence and interior ministry officials told the news agency."Iraqi police were distributing aid to displaced families when a...
COLOMBO, April 23 (AP): Civilian casualties are rising rapidly in Sri Lanka's war zone despite the exodus of tens of thousands as government troops close in on separatist rebels, a medical relief group said Thursday.The UN Security Council expressed concern...
PESHAWAR, April 23 (AP): Pakistani paramilitary forces have been deployed to protect government buildings and bridges in a district near the capital that has come under the Taliban's sway, an official said Thursday.The six Frontier Constabulary platoons arrived in northwestern...
LONDON, April 23 (AFP): Children under 16 should not be given mouth pain relief gels Bonjela and Bonjela Cool mint gel, a health regulator said Thursday.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency issued the alert for the gels, warning they...
FE DeskCorn and wheat were nearly unchanged in overnight markets, while beans were continuing with their strength.The US Department of Agriculture data have indicated that strong sales are expected this week for corn and beans. Corn sales were better than...
WASHINGTON, Apr 23 (AFP): The United States needs the rest of the world economy to emerge from its slump as much as other economies need a US recovery, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said yesterday. Geithner, in a speech ahead of...
WASHINGTON, Apr 23 (AFP): The International Monetary Fund painted a bleak picture of the world economy yesterday as top auto companies posted dismal results and Britain revealed massive debts and soaring unemployment. The IMF forecast the global economy will contract...
From Fazle Rashid NEW YORK, April 23: The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in its revised projection said the global economy will contract by 1.3 per cent in 2009 instead of modest 0.5 growth it estimated earlier. The IMF...
Our Correspondent JESSORE, Apr 23: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) men in separate operations seized huge quantity of Indian motor parts from Kholadanga Kadamtala on the outskirts of Jessore town Monday.A team of RAB raided the area and seized the motor...
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