Slain BRAC employee Abdul Alim was buried at his village home in Tangail district Wednesday, reports UNB. Earlier, the body of Alim was brought back to the country from Kabul on an Emirates Airlines flight at 11:00 am. Family members...
Sixteen more deaths were reported in flood-related incidents like drowning, snakebites and waterborne diseases in the last 24 hours until Wednesday, reports UNB.According to Health Department, the death toll climbed sharply to 970 during the period from 954 in the...
FE ReportWith the support of United Nations Development Pro-gramme (UNDP), Bangladesh Scouts has started distributing a good number of vegetable seeds as part of post-flood rehabilitation programme Wednesday.The seeds include reddened vegetable, sweet pumpkin, bean, okra, etc. A total of...
The Election Commission (EC) will allot electoral symbols to the political parties permanently just after finishing the process of political party registration as part of the ongoing reforms.Election Commissioner M Sohul Hussain said this at a press briefing at his...
The United States (US) supports free and fair elections in Bangladesh so people will have confidence in an elected government. The US 'is not dictating' measures for the restoration of democracy in the country. US Deputy Assistant Secretary John Gastright...
Awami League (AL) extended the time for party presidium member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, heading a one-member probe committee, to investigate the September 12 incident of heckling of pro-reform leaders by a group of AL adherents by a month.The AL presidium...
Secretary General in-charge of the breakaway BNP faction Ashraf Hossain Wednesday asked the government to completely lift the ban on politics for a BNP council to take place, reports bdnews24.com. The leader said for a big political party such as...
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh has condemned the daily Prothom Alo for publishing an objectionable cartoon in its supplement, 'Aalpin', hurting the religious sentiment of Muslims.In a joint statement Wednesday, Jamaat Ameer Matiur Rahman Nizami and Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid said...
Bangladesh sought United States (US) assistance in releasing Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) employee Nurul Islam who was kidnapped in Afghanistan recently.Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury made the request during a meeting with US Deputy Assistant Secretary John...
Dhaka Sub-Editors Council (DSEC) has expressed deep concern over the shut down of Bangla daily Ajker Kagoj, reports UNB.In a statement Wednesday, DSEC President Shah Muhammad Mutasim Billah and General Secretary Masum Billah said such a decision taken by the...
Our CorrespondentBRAHMANBARIA, Sep 19: Brahmanbaria district Collectorate and Fourth Horse Bangladesh Army jointly arranged a conference on the preparation of voters' list with photographs and national identity card' in the conference room of district collectorate office Sunday.Deputy Commissioner (DC) Md...
Prothom Alo's freelance cartoonist Arifur Rahman was sent to jail with a pending proposal for one-month detention, a day after he was arrested on charges of hurting religious sensibilities with a cartoon story, reports bdnews24.com. Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Fattah issued...
Shahiduzzaman KhanBTTB subscribers could never find the mystery behind large overbloated land phone bills despite the fact that call rate has been reduced considerably. So have been the line rent and the long distance call charges. When the customers began...
Siddique Islam The Bangladesh Bank (BB) is going to take a hard-line against the commercial banks that are maintaining over 5.0 per cent spread between lending and deposit rates, official sources said.The central bank will impose restrictions on some major...
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday said the main goal of the caretaker government (CG) is to hand over power to an elected government through holding a fair and acceptable general election within or ahead of the set deadline, reports...
FE ReportState-owned Jamuna and Meghna petroleum companies have enhanced their paid-up capital ahead of their listing on the bourses.The paid-up capital of Jamuna now stands at Tk 450 million and that of Meghna Tk 400 million as against their previous...
A group of lawyers are soon going to file a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of placing under the Emergency Power Rules (EPR) the corruption case against detained former premier Khaleda Zia, her younger son...
Shakhawat Hossain The ministry of communication (MoC) has handed over the responsibility of dealing with issues related to transit facilities to India to the ministry of foreign affairs (MoFA), sources said.A committee headed by secretary of the MoFA from now...
Raphael Minder in Manila and Isabel Gorst in MoscowFT Syndication ServiceChina and seven countries in and around central Asia have reached a preliminary agreement to build a $19.2bn (£9.6bn) modern-day equivalent to the historic "Silk Road" trade route between China...
Bangla daily Ajker Kagoj was closed Wednesday by its owner, citing 'financial crisis' as the reason behind the decision. Arif Rahman, a senior reporter of the daily, said management of the daily announced the decision at its regular meeting with...
Justice MA Matin, who was elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court superseding his senior, took oath of office Wednesday. Chief Justice M Ruhul Amin administered the oath at a simple ceremony. Judges of both the divisions of...
The scheduled hearing on the legality of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) notice asking detained former premier Sheikh Hasina to submit her wealth statement was held back Wednesday for a week. A division bench, comprising Justice Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman...
M Azizur RahmanThe Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) has planned to develop seven small gas fields through the state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) in a bid to strengthen the latters' capacity in hydrocarbon exploration."We have...
The council of advisers of the caretaker government (CG) Wednesday decided to open the sky in the country's three international airports for three months for quick journey of foreign-bound passengers, particularly Bangladeshi expatriates, amid a heavy rush, reports UNB.The open-sky...
FE Report The Japanese Toray Group might sign a deal on its planned multi-million-dollar investment in the textile sector next month. The Tokyo-based corporation, billed as the world's largest textile producer, is supposed to invest initially around US$90 million at...
LIMA (Peru) Sept 19 (Bloomberg): A possible meteorite strike may have sickened more than 150 people in southern Peru, the country's health ministry said. People who ventured near the site of the Sep. 15 strike by the ``supposed'' meteorite were...
Mohamed El Baradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has assured Bangladesh of technical support for peaceful use of nuclear energy, reports UNB.A mission of the IAEA officers would soon be dispatched to Bangladesh to assist the...
FE Report Crops cultivated in about 0.35 million hectares of land has been totally damaged following early September floods in the country, according to sources of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). Sources said the flood damaged transplanted Aman (T-Aman),...
FE ReportThe stock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Wednesday bounced back after three days of fall due to fresh buying-spree by investors.Market operators said it is a normal movement of the market that the share prices will eventually...
FE ReportThe US dollar was steady against the Bangladesh taka (BDT) Wednesday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market with stable demand for the greenback. The inter-bank call money rate also remained unchanged in an active market, fund managers said.The exchange...
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