Our CorrespondentKUSHTIA, Mar 25: The law and order situation in Kushtia has worsened causing grave concern among the people of the district. Safety and security of life and property of people are hostage to thugs in the six upazilas here...
SYLHET, Mar 25 (UNB): The target of Boro paddy production may not be achieved in the current season in greater Sylhet region due to lack of rain.Farmers said they cannot irrigate their land as most of the deep and shallow...
A nine-day art exhibition by two Nepalese artists Jupiter Pradhan and Saurganga Darshandhari will begin at La Galerie of Alliance Française de Dhaka in the city Friday, reports UNB.
DU CorrespondentDhaka University (DU) senate elections will be held at the TSC and the gymnasium ground on May 23, 30 and June 7. Nomination forms will be available at the DU registrar’s office on payment of Tk 100 each from...
FHM Humayan KabirInstallation of the planned 450-megawatt (mw) power plant at Bheramara has become uncertain as the Petrobangla has failed to give assurance about the supply of gas before 2016, officials said Wednesday. "When we had requested Japan to provide...
Shahiduzzaman KhanThe cancellation of 55,000 calling visas by the Malaysian authorities points to the declining trend of migrants' movement to the receiving countries. Against the backdrop of global economic meltdown, this is a sad incident for Bangladesh -- a country...
FE ReportDhaka stocks continued to slide in a market fluctuating heavily Wednesday with the benchmark index of Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) sinking to a six-week low.The benchmark DSE General Index (DGEN) shed 1.47 per cent or 37.85 points to close...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday called upon Bangladeshis to unite with one purpose in forging a modern and developed nation, reports bdnews24.com. "No country can prosper amid fear and intimidation," said Sheikh Hasina, as she handed over the 2009 Independence...
The nation celebrates the 39th Independence Day today (Thursday) with a fresh pledge to build a prosperous Bangladesh with equal opportunities for all to realise the dreams of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to free the motherland from the...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK: Mar 25: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will overhaul its lending policy to help emerging nations battered by the furious gale raging in the financial markets throughout the world. IMF said it would bring in new...
War crimes, committed during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war, will be tried under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973, said the law minister Wednesday. "The government has made a final decision for trial of the accused under this Act," Shafiq...
Secretary of Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry Syed Mohammad Jobayer died at the United Hospital in the city Tuesday midnight. He was 54. He was admitted to the hospital on February 27 with various ailments, including heart disease and kidney...
A parliamentary watchdog has uncovered evidence of graft worth Tk 11.32 billion (1132 crore) within the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) during the last eight years, reports bdnews24.com.The parliamentary standing committee on public undertaking gave the authority 10 days Wednesday to...
FE Report The micro-credit regulatory authority (MRA) has given micro-finance institutions (MFIs) six more months to fulfil required criteria for receiving licences. The decision was taken at a meeting held at the central bank Wednesday with its chairman and the...
Commerce Minister Faruk Khan Wednesday said agents from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Scotland Yard of the UK would again visit Bangladesh soon to assist Bangladesh further in the probe into the carnage inside the BDR headquarters,...
A Z M AnasThe Irish oil group Tullow will jack up gas output by nearly 30 per cent in early May in an effort to ameliorate the surging supply crunch, officials said Wednesday.Its Bangladesh subsidiary will add between 25 and...
Bangladesh security forces are investigating a link between a British-based charity and an Islamic school where a huge cache of weapons and a bomb-making factory were found, police said Wednesday.Police in southern Bangladesh conducted the raid on the Islamic seminary...
M Azizur RahmanThe government has initiated a fresh move for setting up a US$1.0 billion nuclear power plant to meet the mounting demand for electricity in the country, a minister said Tuesday.The country's chronic energy problem has prompted the government...
THE Bangladesh chapter of the Transparency International, the global anti-graft watchdog, last Sunday made known at a roundtable the findings of a recent study on the problems of the country's transport sector. The findings do largely relate to the operational...
Syed Fattahul AlimJute is now in double jeopardy. Though once known as the Golden Fibre because it brought hard currency for the nation, it has now become an ailing sector. In the past jute industry was also a big source...
Mohammad HossainCONSUMERS in Bangladesh have been oppressed by the activities of producers of adulterated and sub-standard goods and fake products of reputed companies. But such oppression had some limits in the past. But in recent times, the carefree activities of...
It was reported in the papers that a few thousand Bangladeshis are finding jobs in Libya each month. The Libyan Ambassador in Dhaka told reporters recently that they were issuing about 300 visas on an average daily to skilled, semi-skilled...
There are lots of non-government organisations (NGOs) working for the betterment of the people, society and for the country. But the workers (particularly related to loan operation) are going to die trying to collect repayment installments (kisty) from the people...
Much of the woes of city dwellers arise from lack of coordination between different service-providing entities.It is an accepted fact that we have an acute shortage of power. This has made us abjectly accept frequent but very bothersome loadshedding imposed...
Professor Mahfuz R. ChowdhuryTHE world is currently gripped in a severe economic downturn. In fact, based on the economic outlook, many economists would venture to compare the current predicament with the Great Depression of the 1930s. The world is definitely...
Mahmud ur Rahman ChoudhuryTHE FBCCI on March 23 in a pre-budget meeting of the business body suggested that the government and the State ought to turn a blind eye to "black" money and permit by some means for its "whitening"...
K. M. MuktaSEPARATION of judiciary has the prime and pivotal role to ensure good governance and the rule of law. There is no better platform except an independent judiciary to uphold constitutional and human rights.There is a historical struggle by...
GENEVA, March 24 (AFP): The World Trade Organisation said yesterday that global trade would show its biggest fall since World War II this year due to the financial crisis, with a 9.0-per cent contraction expected. "The collapse in global demand...
PARIS, March 24 (AFP): US President Barack Obama called today for the world's leading countries to take "bold, comprehensive and coordinated action" to stem the global economic crisis when they meet at a G20 summit next week. "We are living...
WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (Reuters): US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will face tough questions from lawmakers on Tuesday as he spells out the basics of the Obama administration's plans to reshape financial regulation at a high-profile congressional hearing.Geithner faces back-to-back sessions...
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