Intimate Apparel Ltd (IAL), a Chinese (Hong Kong) company, will set up a ready-made garments (RMG) manufacturing industry in the Karnaphuli Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) investing about $6.0 million. The cent per cent foreign-owned company will produce intimate wear for...
Chief Adviser's Relief and Welfare Fund has allocated Tk 26.7 million gratuitous relief and Tk 96.5 million for house building for the flood-affected and erosion-hit people in 43 districts. The money was allocated on September 21 as per the demand...
M Azizur RahmanThe Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) has requested the state-owned enterprise (SoEs) to purchase their requirement of hard rocks from the state-run Madhyapara granite mine to sustain the mine's commercial viability.The EMRD request came in an inter-ministerial...
The government has decided to increase the number of special courts in Dhaka from existing five for quick disposal of graft cases, reports BSS.Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Secretary Mokhles-ur-Rahman Monday said, the government has felt the necessity to raise the number...
FHM Humayan KabirThe government is likely to make a formal appeal to the donors early next month to support its post-flood rehabilitation programme after apprising them of the infrastructure and economic losses sustained during the recent floods, official sources said.In...
FE Report The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has asked the commercial banks to maintain normal banking activities with the businesses without taking into consideration the matter of corruption or criminal proceedings that might have any connection with them."The banks have nothing...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Monday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) is reluctant to contact the party to join its proposed reform dialogue following objections raised by its expelled leaders, reports UNB."But Khandaker Delwar Hossain-led BNP is the main stream...
Shakhawat Hossain The government has started the process for separation of tax policy department from administration in the National Board of Revenue (NBR), official sources said.The Ministry of Finance (MoF) decided to form a committee headed by a joint secretary...
Myanmar govt warns monk protesters YANGON, (Myanmar) (AP): As many as 100,000 protesters led by a phalanx of barefoot monks marched Monday in the most powerful show of strength yet from a movement that has grown in a week from...
FE Report Qulkhwani of Qazi Huamyun Azad Bakhsh, the senior editorial consultant of the Financial Express and former acting chairman of the Bangladesh Tariff Commission, will be held today (Tuesday).The qulkhwani will be held after Asr prayer at the deceased's...
Food and Disaster Management Advisor Tapan Chowdhury said Monday that funds allocated for post-flood rehabilitation could not be utilized properly as the flood hit the country for second time, reports UNB."The government had taken tremendous rehabilitation programmes to overcome the...
FE ReportThe Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Monday gave preliminary approval for enlistment of Trust Bank Ltd."The DSE board will sit today (Tuesday) to give full approval to the listing of the bank and announce the debut trading date for the...
FE ReportThe US dollar maintained its stable level with downward bias against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Monday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market, as the demand for the greenback was steady. The foreign exchange market was active due to trading...
Narayanganj, Sept 25 (UNB) - Agitated garment workers Tuesday morning put up barricade on Dhaka-Sylhet highway and damaged a number of vehicles following the death of a female garment worker in a road accident in Sonargaon upazila. Unruly workers also...
Dhaka, Sept 25 (UNB) - Senior ministers of Khaleda Zia’s government showed up at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Tuesday in connection with the container handling corruption case filed by ACC against the former Prime Minister. Former Finance and Planning Minister...
People who do not get enough sleep are more than twice as likely to die of heart disease, according to a large British study released on Monday. Although the reasons are unclear, researchers said lack of sleep appeared to be...
BEIJING, SEPT 23 (AP): China is planning to build a new satellite launch site - the country's fourth - to boost its burgeoning space programme, state media reported Sunday.The facility will be located in Wenchang on the southern island province...
KABUL, SEPT 23 (AP): NATO helicopters, responding to a rocket attack at an Afghan army base, fired on a group of suspected insurgents, killing four and wounding 12 others in what may have been a case of mistaken identity, the...
Myanmar's junta faces rebuke at UN General Assembly UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (AFP): As protests intensify against the military generals in Myanmar, world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly are expected to push the ruling junta to adopt democratic...
The Awami League (AL) said Sunday that it was disappointed with the Supreme Court (SC) agreeing to hear appeals of the five detained death convicts, reports bdnews24.com. It said the ruling had fallen short of their expectations. Acting AL President...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda has called upon the government to allow indoor politics in different places of the country where the local government bodies' elections would begin from January like Rajshahi and Khulna city corporations.Speaking at a...
BNP Secretary General Khondoker Delwar Hossain claimed Sunday that the four-party alliance remained united but they could not hold any meeting among themselves or within the alliance due to closure of BNP central office, reports UNB.Talking to reporters at his...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 23 (UNB): Former state minister Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin and his son Mir M Helaluddin were produced before a court here today (Sunday) but charges were not framed against them in two tax-evasion cases.Hearing arguments of lawyers from both...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 23 (UNB): Deposition of witnesses began Sunday in the case filed against six Rajshahi University (RU) teachers for violation of the Emergency Powers Rules during the campus violence in late August.On the first day, Judge of the Rajshahi...
KUSHTIA, Sept 23 (UNB): Nine young men of Allahr Dal were jailed today for five years for militant activities. Speedy Trial Tribunal Court Judge Jalal Saifullah handed down the penalty to Najmul Hasan (22), Rakib Mondol (21), Shafiqul Islam Sumon...
Tofail Ahmed, a member of the policymaking presidium, said, "There hasn't been much coordination among the alliance partners in the past months because of a ban on indoor politics since the Emergency Rules had been clamped, reports bdnews24.com ." "The...
Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, Sept 23 : City dwellers here have become hostage to the rickshaw pullers and CNG drivers who are realising fares according to their whims as no prescribed rate of fare is now in force here for the journey...
Our CorrespondentRAJSHAHI, Sept 23: A group of medical students from various medical colleges of the country held a press conference at Metropolitan Press club here Friday where they made a call for the reintroduction of the previous system of professional...
Prof Mohabbat Ali, former chairman of Chemistry Department of the Dhaka University, died of old age ailments in the city Saturday night. He was 88, reports UNB.Namaz-e-janaza for Prof Ali will be held at Dhaka University Central Mosque at 10:30am...
JHENIDAH, Sept 23 (UNB): Two members of a family were killed and another injured in a tragic road accident at Barobazar in Kaliganj Upazila here on the Dhaka-Khulna highway Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Hafizur Rahman (35) of Pirojpour...
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