Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Mar 29: People living in the port city of Chittagong are still under the grip of unprecedented water crisis. Chittagong WASA could not enhance water supply even in two decades.Moreover, as the water supply is not likely to...
State Minister for Forest and Environment Adv Mostafizur Rahman Sunday called upon all to launch a social movement to protect environment from pollution, reports BSS."We must be united to protect the environment at all costs for the sake of our...
Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr M Abdur Razzaque left here for Bangkok Sunday to attend the 29th Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) regional conference for Asia and the Pacific, reports UNB. The Food Minister, who is leading a four-member...
A six-member delegation of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) arrived in the city recently for a period of two years, reports BSS.This Japanese team met with JICA Chief Representative Nobuko Suzuki Kayashima.With this new batch of 6 volunteers, the...
A four-member delegation of the Science University of Malaysia led by its deputy vice-chancellor Prof Asmal Ismail Sunday called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office, reports BSS.Other members of the delegation included Prof...
JESSORE, March 29 (BSS): Several thousand workers of Akiz Jute Mills Limited in Nawapara industrial area of the district today observed hunger strike demanding withdrawal of its closure order.The workers of the mill gathered in front of the mills and...
GAIBANDHA, March 29 (BSS): Grameen Bank has taken up a plan to distribute stipends among the poor brilliant students in the district. The objective of the programme is to help the students to continue their studies in schools and colleges...
Our CorrespondentGOPALGANJ, Mar 29: Gopalganj Bar Association election was held Saturday.Advocate Ahmed Nawsher Ali has been elected president of the association. He defeated Advocate Fakir Abdul Mannan by 53 votes.Advocates ASM Golam Rasul Khan (Raja) and AKM Akram Ali were...
A two-day international workshop on "Non-profit Leadership-Maximising Impact" jointly organised by United Nations University of Peace for Executive Education (UNUPEE) and Institute of Hazrat Mohammad (Sm) begins today (Monday) at 8:30 am at the Banani Institute in the city.A large...
BANDARBAN, Mar 29 (UNB): The newly appointed Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Development Board Chairman Bir Bahadur, MP took his charge Sunday.Bir Bahadur also worked as Chairman of the Board during the 1996-2001 Awami League regime.He also said to work for...
The qulkhwani of Md Sirajul Islam (Babul) will be held today (Monday) after Asr prayer at his residence at 7, Zindabahar Lane in the city.Babul, a businessman, died on March 26, 2009 at 2:30 pm.He was 57. He left behind...
FE ReportKey parliamentary (Jatiya Sangsad) bodies Sunday called for limiting the government's unnecessary expenditures in the budget for the next fiscal year. They also suggested higher budgetary spending on agriculture, employment generation, social safety-net and industrial development against the backdrop...
FE Report Though belated the city witnessed heavy rainfall accompanied by hailstorm and gusty winds Sunday that came as a welcome relief to the city dwellers. However, it partially disrupted normal life, temporarily halted economic activities in the capital and...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has decided to stop supplying fuel to Bangladesh from April 1 as the government has not yet taken any decision relating to KPC's new conditions. KPC, which supplies 3.8 million tonnes of...
FE ReportDhaka stocks tumbled Sunday with the DSE benchmark index plunging below 2500-mark for the second time in last three months.Factors like continued bearish trend, bleak economic scenario painted by policymakers and economists, lower than expected dividend declaration by the...
The Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has defended the changes in the civil service as ones necessary for the government to deliver on its promises and priorities, reports bdnews24.com.She told top media managers Sunday that many of the transfers were necessitated...
Kurigram, Mar 29 (UNB): Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad's motorcade bound for by-election campaign was attacked allegedly by a group of Awami League supporters in the district town today (Sunday), leaving five wounded, including MP from Gaibandha-1 constituency Col (retd)...
FE ReportBangladesh Bank governor Dr Salehuddin Ahmed warned Sunday that the scorecards of banks would be affected if they failed to support woman entrepreneurs."The central bank has earmarked Tk 1.05 billion for woman entrepreneurs under a refinancing scheme at 10...
FE ReportThe State Minister for Energy Shamsul Hoque Tuku Sunday said the fulfiment of the government's promise for a change by building a digital Bangladesh hinges on mitigating the electricity crisis."If electricity crisis could not be overcome, the government's promise...
Siddique Islam Import orders for capital machinery have plummeted by 30 per cent in the first eight months of the financial year, signalling a clear slowdown in industrial activities in the coming months, officials said Sunday. Letter of credits worth...
The newly-elected Members of Parliament (MPs) from the reserved women seats were sworn-in at the oath-room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban Sunday. Speaker M Advocate Abdul Hamid administered the oath to the 45 female lawmakers from Awami League, BNP and...
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Sunday urged the top officials concerned for taking necessary measures to hold the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams, scheduled to begin April 16, in a complete copy-free atmosphere. A total of 6,18,308 candidates from...
The government is to undertake a massive programme to re-excavate rivers and canals across the country to restore navigability of the watercourses to facilitate irrigation in lean period and drain out water during monsoon as well. A project styled "Rehabilitation...
Two million children in Bangladesh suffered from acute malnutrition because of food price hikes last year, a United Nations study said Sunday, describing the problem as a "silent emergency", reports AFPFood prices in Bangladesh almost doubled in 2008 after the...
FE ReportThe constitution of the country has endorsed its citizens' right to work and now it is the government's responsibility to ensure that by enactment of necessary law, speakers said at a seminar Sunday.The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised...
VINA DEL MAR, Mar 29 (Reuters): Center-left world leaders including Britain's Gordon Brown and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Saturday called for global financial reforms at next week's G20 summit, but the US warned against over-regulation. Meeting in the...
Industries Minister Dilip Barua Sunday said the price of sugar would not see further hike in next 90 days and the government would strictly monitor the 'sensitive' issue, reports UNB."I can assure you all that price of sugar will be...
The CID investigation officer (IO) in the Peelkhana BDR carnage case summoned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Barrister Abdur Razzaq into its Malibagh headquarters at 10 am Monday for exclusive interrogation over the terrible mutiny, reports UNB.Abdul Kahar Akand, assistant police superintendent and...
The government will increase the tax on cigarettes and tobacco products in the next budget, reports UNB.National Board of Revenue (NBR) chairman Muhammad Abdul Mazid disclosed this at a view-exchange meeting with Unnayan Shamunnay at the NBR conference room Sunday."According...
Parliament Sunday passed a bill on the long-awaited Right to Information Act to guarantee free flow of information in the country, reports UNB.Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad moved the Right to Information Bill 2009 that was passed by voice vote.In...
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