The Election Commission (EC) has reduced the Eid-ul-Azha holidays from three days to one day for all its officials and employees due to parliament and upazila polls. The EC officials and employees will enjoy holiday only on Eid day, an...
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed underwent a minor surgery at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka Tuesday. "The chief adviser underwent a minor surgery in the afternoon. He is now well," his Press Secretary Syed Fahim Munaim said. — BSS
The High Court (HC) Tuesday asked the advertisers to refrain from publishing media advertisements on suspected melamine-tainted powdered milk Dano, Red Cow, Diploma, Nido and Anlene until January 3 next. —UNB
FE Report Finance adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam said Tuesday there is unlikely to be 'a dramatic increase' in international aid the poorer nations as world leaders meet in Doha this week to navigate a way-out for development financing. He,...
There is no easy way to abuse Section 91E of the Representation of the People Ordinance, nor any way to defer Upazila elections, said Election Commissioner M Sakhawat Hossain on Tuesday, addressing two separate concerns of BNP and Awami League,...
From Fazle RashidNEW YORK, Nov 25: Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced a fresh lending programme Tuesday to restore confidence in the financial market and to unlock the frozen loan markets.The government introduced a pair of new programmes Tuesday...
FE ReportA fire gutted some documents and computers at a brokerage house of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) early Tuesday.The fire broke out at around 7:30 am at the Mona Financial Consultancy and Securities Ltd on the third floor of...
FE Report The country's leading businessmen Tuesday suggested that the next elected government ensure social and political stability, improve the law and order situation and lend strong policy support. They also opined against 'hartal,' which does a lot of damage...
At least 30 people, including four teachers, were injured in a violent clash Tuesday between Habibullah Bahar University College students and Karnaphuli Garden City businessmen over non-payment of fast-food bills, reports UNB.The police said four students of the college went...
Mayors of City Corporations and municipalities will have to stand down to contest the upcoming national elections but councilors can run for their seats in parliament holding their posts in the local bodies, said an Election Commissioner Tuesday, reports UNB."Those...
Awami League (AL) will participate in the December 29 polls even if its archrival BNP stays away from the crucial race, AL chief Sheikh Hasina said Tuesday during a meeting with a high-level UN delegation supervising Bangladesh's pre-election scenario, reports...
A UN appraisal team took an overview of election affairs in a meeting with three advisers of the caretaker government (CG) Tuesday and expressed the hope that the state of emergency would be lifted before the parliament elections now slated...
CHITTAGONG, Nov 25 (bdnews24.com): A court Tuesday jailed four militants, including a commander of banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, each for 20 years for trying to bomb a court in 2005.Shafiqul Karim, judge of the Chittagong Divisional Speedy Trial...
DU CorrespondentSpeakers at a seminar Tuesday expressed doubt whether a free and fair national election is possible keeping the mass media under chain of a 'code of conduct' by the Election Commission (EC).Criticising the EC for initiating a code of...
BNP began selling nomination forms for 263 Jatiya Sangsad (JS) seats among the party contenders Tuesday, leaving out 37 seats earmarked for its allies prior to the cancelled 2007 polls, reports bdnews24.com.BNP office secretary Rizvi Ahmed said Tuesday, "We have...
NEW DELHI, Nov 25 (bdnews24.com): The US's Cold War ally United Kingdom (UK) also tried to persuade a top advocate of Bangladesh to help roll back the country's liberation struggle in 1971, citing future threats from "Hindu majority India", says...
Speakers at a roundtable Tuesday demanded setting up an independent National Commission on Biotechnology to identify research and commercial areas relevant to the country's needs as well as to find out existing manpower strength, reports UNB.The demand came during a...
The Election Commission (EC) has shortened the holidays of Eid-ul-Azha from three days to one day for all officials and employees of the EC due to parliament and upazila polls, reports BSS.The EC officials and employees will enjoy holiday only...
THE price-hike of food grains and fuel oil was causing serious fiscal strains in both rich and poor countries across the globe. The price of fuel oil, which about quadrupled in five years between 2003 and 2008, did make a...
Billy AhmedThere are major environmental groups who have received major grants to convince the public that 'clean coal' is just around the corner and that we should be investing many billions of dollars each year in 'clean coal'.These groups include...
Dr Abdul MatinYES, it is all about the Bangladesh Rooppur nuclear power project which was conceived in the early 1960s. I was one of the many scientists and engineers recruited for the project in 1962. We got our specialised training...
Firoz RahmanBANGLADESH needs to be alert against getting overburdened with climate change assistance without receiving the benefits from such expenditure.Bangladesh has been identified as one of the countries to be worst affected by climate change caused by the activities of...
POLITICAL parties in Bangladesh continue to be dominated by cult and family where the services of competent and enlightened members of civil society at the highest positions of these parties are practically barred. As long as the democratisation of the...
A unit of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) carried out a raid in the Mirpur area of Dhaka sometime ago and unearthed the certificate forgers' racket that has been active since long. The arrested ring leader of the gang confessed that...
A. B. M. Nurul HuqTHE Department of insurance under the Ministry of Commerce is abolished under the new Insurance Ordinance 2008, on the date on which the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) is established.All business, assets, rights, powers, authorities and privileges...
Barrister M. A. Muid Khan BANGLADESH has been under a state of emergency since January 2007, led by an interim government which replaced a previous caretaker government established, in accordance with the constitution, to govern the country during the campaigning...
Andrzej Zwaniecki TO push its environmental agenda, San Francisco is discarding an old business model and inviting businesses and residents to build a new one.Wade Crowfoot, the director of climate protection initiatives in the mayor's office, said the old dogma...
YANGON, Nov 24 (Xinhua): Myanmar and India held its 9th round of consultations between foreign offices of the two countries here yesterday, agreeing to cooperate in a wide range of areas of mutual interest and promptly implement the bilateral agreements...
BANGKOK, Nov 24 (AFP): Thailand's economic growth slowed to four per cent in the third quarter of 2008, a state body said today, lower than expected amid falling tourist arrivals and the global financial crisis. Gross domestic product growth was...
LONDON, Nov 24 (AFP): British business leaders will call for urgent government help today as the country teeters on the brink of its first recession in over 15 years as a result of the global credit crunch. The annual conference...
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