ISLAMI UNIVERSITY, Oct, (BSS): The offices of the Islami University (IU) will remain closed on the occasion of the holy Shab-e-Qadr, Eid-ul-Fitr and Durga Puja from October 6 to 22, reports BSS.The offices will be resumed on October 23 while...
SATKHIRA, Oct 4 (BSS): The construction work of the alternative ring embankment at the breaching point of the encircled embankment of the BWDB at Hariskhali area under Pratapnagar union was completed.About one thousand local people in cooperation with army personnel...
Religious Affairs Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman today said the government would extend all kinds of security and support to the Hindu community like every year so they can celebrate the upcoming Durga Puja smoothly, reports BSS."I urge the Hindu community...
RANGPUR, Oct 4 (BSS): District Information Office (DIO) has conducted massive awareness building publicity campaign during the past three months throughout the district in which local people participated with great enthusiasm.The DIO has organised various programmes at upazila and union...
NABABGANJ (Dinajpur), Oct 4 (BSS): Speakers at a meeting at Nababganj stressed the need for bringing all tuberculosis (TB) patients under the direct observe treatment short-course (DOTS) programme for eradicating the TB from society.BRAC and Nababganj Upazila administration jointly organised...
SYLHET, Oct 4 (UNB): Explosion of an abandoned mortar at Dholoipara near Jalalabad Cantonment left two women and a minor boy severely wounded Wednesday afternoon.The victims, Shanti Patra, Radhamoni Patra and Sukhdev Patra were rushed to Osmany Medical College Hospital....
KHULNA, Oct 4 (UNB): Captain Shariful Ahsan, chief of Mongla port harbour, was suspended Wednesday for various charges including corruption. Mongla Port Authority Chairman Ashraf Mohammad Iqbal told the news agency Thursday that Shariful Ahsan was suspended on charge of...
A manager of an engineering workshop was shot by armed miscreants at Dayaganj in the city's Sutrapur area Thursday, reports UNB.Witnesses said four to five youths came to Aftab Engineering Workshop at about 4:30pm and fired on workshop manager Abdul...
An independent NGO Commission should be formed immediately to ensure transparency in the country's NGO sector, which has become by and large corrupt due to institutional irregularities and for lack of proper monitoring, reports UNB.Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) made the...
Naim-Ul-KarimA fresh ban imposed recently by the Malaysian government on manpower import from Bangladesh will affect over 1.0 million local job-seekers to be hired there, a senior government official said."For the time being, we won't be taking in Bangladeshi workers,"...
The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday stayed Sunday's High Court (HC) order granting bail to former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the GATCO scam case, reports UNB.The Supreme Court's order cleared the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) and the...
Shakhawat Hossain The government has held a first quarter review on the current budget that saw influx of revenue through a drive against tax dodgers and formation of a macroeconomic unit and separation of tax policy unit from the National...
Chief Adviser (CA) Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Thursday reiterated that the next general election would be held before or by December 2008, reports UNB.He said, the goal of the Caretaker Government (CG) was not only to hold the next general election...
FE ReportThe National Board of Revenue (NBR) Thursday relaxed the operation of a frozen bank account held by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to enable her pay Tk 0.7 million as income tax.The date of filing individuals tax return will...
FE Report The growth of inward remittances was recorded at around 26 per cent in September last over the previous month due to onset of the holy month of Ramadan. "The inflow of remittances increases ahead of the Eid-ul Fitr...
Anna Fifield in Seoul and Daniel Dombey in WashingtonFT Syndication ServiceNorth Korea will disable the reactor at the heart of its nuclear weapons programme by the year's end and will provide a full account of its nuclear activities by that...
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) writ was filed Thursday with the High Court seeking a court direction to ask the Election Commission to hold parliamentary polls by February 28, 2008 after completion of the final voter list. Abdul Wadud Khondker...
Final results of the first year and second year SSC Examinations - 2006 under Bangladesh Open University (BOU) have been published Thursday, showing a pass percentage of 38.27. This year, the number of listed students was 1,12,297 in 1st and...
The low over the west central Bay and adjoining north-west Bay intensified into a well marked low over the same area Thursday morning. It is likely to intensify further and move in a north-westerly direction at about 9am, said a...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expects to bring discipline in the country's merchant banking operation by the end of this month through new margin rules."We have just sent the newly approved rules to the government press and the...
FE ReportStock prices bounced back on Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Thursday after two-days' fall resulting from profit-taking."Investors again went on buying spree to jack up the market led by shares of Trust Bank and other banking issues," a market operator...
M Azizur RahmanScottish oil company Cairn Energy has initiated drilling of exploratory well for discovery of gas in the offshore Magnama structure under block -16 in the Bay of Bengal from Wednesday last."The company will continue drilling at a shallow...
FE Report The government has disbursed a record amount of cash incentive worth Tk 3.28 billion against the export of selected items in 2006-07 fiscal year, sources said.The highest amount of incentive worth Tk 1.1 billion was disbursed against frozen...
FE Report The government signed Thursday an agreement with the International Development Association (IDA) on credit worth US$ 75 million, which will help finance part of the FY08 budgetary resource gap incurred as a result of the floods, said a...
Awami League Thursday demanded lifting the state of emergency forthwith to set off the process of polls at the earliest, reports UNB."We were informed that local-body elections would start to be held from January next, so the government should lift...
David Pilling and Mariko Sanchanta FT Syndication ServiceTOKYO: A price war aimed at Japan's 100m mobile phone users could have a significant impact on the core consumer price index, potentially prolonging the country's brush with deflation, economists warned last Wednesday.Any...
FE Report A six-member high-powered delegation from Bangladesh Railway will visit India next week to discuss the Kolkata-Dhaka passenger train service that is caught in a row between India and Bangladesh over wire fencing, according to an Indian newspaper report....
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to introduce a system of "reward and reprimand", for the first time, to improve the services of the country's central bank.Five officials from different sections will receive rewards for 2007 as recognition...
The roadblocks to holding the first major international exhibition of Bangladeshi archeological masterpieces, scheduled to begin at Guimet Museum in Paris on October 23, are lifted as the Supreme Court (SC) Thursday stayed the High Court order halting for next...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered to extend all kinds of technical and financial supports for implementing the Phulbari Coal Mine project, long stalled over the issue of mining method, reports UNB.A high-profile visiting delegation of the multi-lateral donor...
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