Our CorrespondentCHITTAGONG, July 24: The package of recommendations in the Master Plan of Chittagong City, has not yet been implemented excepting a few due to lack of co-ordination between Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) even after...
LAXMIPUR, July 24 (UNB): Two people have been awarded death sentence by the Additional District and Sessions Judge in the sensational Khokon murder case in the district.The convicts are Nurul Amin, son of Mansur Ahmed of Tumchar village and Abul...
FARIDPUR, July 24 (UNB): Pirates looted valuables worth over Tk 2.0 million from the passengers of a trawler in the Padma river near Char Vhadrashan Upazila Monday, leaving five passengers injured. Police said when a Dohar bound trawler from Gopalpur...
Secretary general of KPSP and member of International AIDS Society (Geneva, Switzerland) Md Imran Hasan recently left Dhaka for Australia. Md Imran Hasan will participate the 4th ISA Conference on HIV Pathogenesis Treatment and Prevention at Sydney.International AIDS Society (Geneva,...
Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina's sister Sheikh Rehana Tuesday came down hard on the emergency government for implicating her in an extortion case. United Kingdom resident Rehana told the bdnews24.com by phone from London: "The caretaker government is not...
The overall law and order situation in the country improved compared to any period of the previous governments though there were a few killings in the city in recent times.Adviser for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, and Information Mainul Hosein...
President Iajuddin Ahmed urged all concerned to take appropriate measures for building skilled human resources so that the country can efficiently face the challenges of the 21st century.The President said this while addressing the inaugural session of the seventh international...
Some student protesters Tuesday brought out a procession near Kuwait Moitree Hall of the Dhaka University and burned an effigy of Adviser for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, and Information Mainul Hosein, reports UNB.Campus sources said the protesters staged the...
The caretaker government constituted a 15-member ad-hoc Bar Council, a statutory body regulating country's lawyers, pending its election, reports UNB.An official announcement on the formation of the Bar Council Tuesday said, "The Attorney General of Bangladesh will act as its...
Shakhawat Hossain The National Board of Revenue (NBR) is in a dilemma whether or not to pay heed to hundreds of appeals for extension of time for declaring undisclosed income by paying normal rate of tax, in addition to five...
The police Tuesday submitted a charge sheet to the CMM Court against Awami League president Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and her cousin and former minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim in an extortion case, report UNB/bdnews24.com. Managing Director of...
Detained ex-premier and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina Monday said she is not scared of 'death' after surviving the August 15, 1975 carnage and the August 21, 2004 grisly grenade attack on her, reports UNB."By the grace of Almighty Allah,...
Siddique Islam The government is considering a move to allow some enterprises located in the export processing zones (EPZs) to sell a maximum of 10 per cent of their products in the local market, on fulfilment of some criteria. The...
Doulot Akter MalaThe government has taken a fresh move, seeking removal of non-tariff and para-tariff barriers on export of Bangladeshi products to India. A Bangladesh team left for New Delhi Tuesday to negotiate with Indian officials on elimination of such...
M Azizur RahmanA District Judge's court issued an injunction Sunday on the oil company Chevron Bangladesh, for preventing it from approaching the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) to settle its dispute with Petrobangla over payment of gas.The...
Javier Blas, FT Syndication ServiceLONDON: The falling US dollar is lowering the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' purchasing power by up to a third, making the powerful oil cartel more reluctant to increase production and cut prices. Although oil...
A kingpin of so-called 'Aggyan (unconscious) party', who was reportedly trained in India to dope people unconscious, was arrested from Mohammadpur area in the city Tuesday. He has been identified as Aziz, son of late Hazrat Ali, of Arigaon village...
The total power generation in the country rose Monday to its peak of 3,880.1 megawatts, the highest in recent times, as all the power generation units got rolling, reports UNB. According to a report of the Power Division, the maximum...
FE ReportThe caretaker government is set to initiate formal talks with Myanmar for importing natural gas to meet the country's growing demand for both domestic and industrial use."A high-powered delegation from Myanmar will visit Bangladesh August next to discuss the...
The sudden flooding in large parts of the country might ease with water levels of most of the major rivers receding, reports bdnews24.com quoting a flood forecast official.Three rivers that crossed the danger mark are still overflowing at four points,...
A Z M AnasNon-governmental organisations (NGOs) have made a resolute appeal to the caretaker government to rethink about the new rules regulating the foreign funds utilisation, fearing those could impede the future inflow of external aid, thus delivering a blow...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The number of Bangladesh-bound consignments from feeder ports in Singapore, Malaysia and Colombo has declined over the last few weeks, which the shipping sources claimed, was a clear indication of the slow down in import trade. The...
FE ReportIndices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Tuesday climbed as the investors are buying issues after profit taking.Market operators said stock prices are regaining as the investors are coming with their money after a short spell of profit taking.On...
The long-awaited hearing of a government appeal against the High Court judgment on the dispute over demolition of the much-talked-about 22-storied Rangs Bhaban began at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today (Tuesday), reports UNBThe High Court, in its...
FE ReportThe US dollar weakened further against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Tuesday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market with stable demand for the greenback, fund managers said.The exchange rate of the dollar against the BDT ranged between Tk 68.56 and...
Shakhawat Hossain A meeting of the coordination council decided Monday to bring down the growth rate of broad money (M2) to 15 per cent from existing 19.21 per cent aiming to contain inflation below 7.0 per cent, official source said.Chaired...
FE ReportThe World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed in principle to provide the government US$650 million for financing the construction of the proposed Padma Bridge at a meeting Sunday, official sources said.According to sources, the lending...
Grassroots activists are mounting pressure on the party to launch a movement to free Sheikh Hasina from jail, according to acting Awami League (AL) president Zillur Rahman, report agencies. "Activists want to launch a movement. But I have told them...
Pro-reform BNP leaders harshly criticised Khaleda Zia Monday for her accusation that the party Secretary General Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and others have "an agenda to split the BNP," reports bdnews24. com. The BNP chairperson accused Bhuiyan of becoming a divisive...
The process of completing separation of the magistracy from the executive control apparently hit fresh bureaucratic hassles as government sought more time from the Supreme Court to do it, reports UNB. When the six-member full court of the Appellate Division...
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