The verdict on a graft case against former President and Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad over installation of digital telephone exchanges has been deferred to February 2, 2009, reports UNB.Divisional Special Judge Md Golam Mortuza Majumder Monday shifted the...
A delegation of the International Press Institute (IPI) called on Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina at her residence Sudhasadan Monday and discussed the role of media during the election time, reports UNB.The Vienna-based IPI delegation led by its Director...
Our Correspondent FARIDPUR, Dec 01: At least 25 candidates of four-party alliance led by BNP, Awami League, Bangladesh Jamaat Islami, CPB, LDP, Islami Andalan Bangladesh, Jaker Party, Jatiya Party, Tarikat Federation and some independent ones have submitted their nomination papers...
The High Court (HC) Monday asked the law-enforcement agencies to report to the court within 72 hours the whereabouts of Liakat Hossain, a former Jubo League leader and one of the 23 top-listed terrors, said to have been held recently,...
BNP leader and former law minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed was freed on bail from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Monday afternoon, reports UNB.DIG (Prisons) Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told UNB that the ex-minister of the...
FE ReportOver 0.8 million Bangladeshis found overseas jobs in the first 11 months of this calendar year as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) alone employed nearly half of them, official sources said.The Middle Eastern country recruited 393,201 Bangladeshis in the...
Garment manufacturers and exporters have taken a programme to protect their workers from the risks of HIV/AIDS infection, reports BSS. Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has already trained 66,000 of its 2.4 million (24 lakh) workers under a...
BARISAL, Dec 1 (UNB): Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) arranged an 11-day special steamer service in addition to normal service on Dhaka-Barisal-Khulna routes for the homebound passengers on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Azha.Fare of BIWTC vessels would remain same...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Dec 1: Defying all rules and regulations, different brickfields on the bank of the Karnaphuli river are carrying on their business with impunity, concerned sources said.Massive erosion behind the port area has been caused because of unhindered extraction...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, Dec 1: About 200 daily basis appointed third and fourth-class employees of the Rajshahi University (RU) Monday began an indefinite strike on the campus wearing shrouds demanding regularisation of their jobs.Earlier, the agitating employees yesterday early morning...
The University of Asia Pacific (UAP) organised a seminar on 'International Cooperation in Higher Education- Quality Education' in the city recently with Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Abdul Matin Patwari in the Chair, said a press release.University Grants Commission of Bangladesh...
The offices of all newspapers and news agencies will remain closed on December 8, 9 and 10 on account of Eid-ul-Azha, reports UNB.No newspaper, therefore, will be published on December 9,10 and 11, says a press release of Newspapers Owners'...
FE Report Bangladesh is set to move away from the traditional industrial park concept to a mixed type of zoning regime as it has approved an ordinance, allowing at least four types of economic zones to operate in parallel. Under...
Doulot Akter MalaThe revenue board has undertaken a special action plan to net the big tax evaders in the capital during the month of December aiming to strengthen the tax-base before the next elected government assumes office. The NBR has...
FE ReportThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will urge the central bank for enhancing the lending capacity of the brokerage houses to increase fund flow to the market.Currently, as per Bangladesh Bank Rules 2001, a broker is allowed to give...
FE ReportDhaka stocks surged Monday as the investors cheered the move of the securities regulator to stimulate the market that had been suffering a bear run for long. Trading at the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) opened with a higher note...
Jasim Uddin Haroon Homebound city people contemplating to celebrate the Eid-ul-Azha with their near and dear ones have been facing difficulties in getting bus, launch, train tickets as most of tickets have been sold in advance. Hundreds of people are...
Jatiya Party (JP) leaders Monday met Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina and confirmed their share of 50 seats from the AL-led grand alliance to contest in the upcoming election to the 300-seat parliament, putting an end to hard bargains,...
Election Commissioner Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hossain Monday said the Election Commission (EC) would look into the legal notice against former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia after having the allegation against her, reports UNB.A Supreme Court lawyer...
Shakhawat Hossain The finance ministry has initiated formulation of an economic roadmap for the next elected government to help it tide over a deepening global financial crisis, official said Monday.It will prepare such a roadmap in line with suggestion of...
FE Report Bangladesh taka (BDT) has been depreciated marginally by 0.48 per cent against the US dollar over a month following a rise in the demand for the greenback in the market. The depreciation of BDT has started since October...
Zafar Osman has been elected president, MS Shekil Chowdhury senior vice president and Md Sirajuddin Malik vice president of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) for 2009-2010, says a press release.Zafar Osman, a former vice president and senior...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury Monday admitted that there had been pressure on his Commission and there had been efforts to influence its activities, reports UNB."There has been pressure (on the Commission). There have been efforts to influence...
The government is planning to set up a commodity stock exchange here in the wake of global financial crisis and the price volatility of major international commodities. Commerce Ministry has already launched a study to examine the feasibility of setting...
Senator John McCain, who was Republican nominee for the last US presidential election, is likely to arrive here today (Tuesday) but official confirmation was not available. "Previous schedule is still on…Arrival time may be changed but we can confirm it...
Brazil will open a resident mission in Bangladesh "soon" as bilateral trade increases. "This offer has been made in a note received from the government of Brazil by the ministry of foreign affairs," foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said Monday....
M Azizur RahmanThe government is set to adopt the country's first renewable energy policy aiming to explore the untapped resources for meeting five per cent of the total electricity demand by 2015 and ten per cent by 2020, officials said...
Philip StephensWe are watching a bonfire of the old orthodoxies as well as of the vanities. Late last month Barack Obama promised to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayers' dollars to prop up the sinking US economy. Gordon Brown's British...
FE Repot BTRC Monday published a draft guideline of providing licences to domestic VSAT-HUB operators with a view to increasing internet penetration in rural and urban areas and help bank, insurance, embassies and corporate entities to establish an integrated data...
FE Report Traders have started bringing in sacrificial animals in the city's makeshift markets much ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha festival, which begins on December 9.The markets are scheduled to formally start operating from December 6, three days ahead of the...
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