THAKURGAON, Dec 8 (UNB): Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a Bangladeshi farmer and injured another one at Bujrukh frontier in Haripur upazila early Saturday.Sources said when some 8/10 farmers went near border pillar No 358 for harvesting, the...
Triangle Bangladesh Society of North Carolina (TBSNC) and Bangladesh Medical Association (BAMNA), North Carolina Chapter donate US$ 31,600 to Chief Adviser's Relief Fund, reports UNB.Responding to the appeal by Bangladesh Embassy in USA, many organisations and individuals from all over...
Chairman of the United News of Bangladesh Amanullah Khan left Dhaka (Saturday night for Singapore en route to Bandung, Indonesia to attend the three-day Fifth AsiaNet Forum, beginning on December 16, reports UNB.The Forum is likely to discuss regional sales...
An Indian naval ship, 'INS Chita', arrived at the Chittagong port with huge relief materials for Bangladesh's cyclone victims, reports UNB.Two other Indian naval ships, 'INS Kumvi' and 'INS Mohish', are scheduled to reach the port with relief materials on...
Sadrul Alam DuluBANGLADESH'S biggest surface water irrigation project is in trouble. The Teesta Barrage Irrigation Project has a precarious existence. Why? India's unilateral withdrawal of water using Gozaldoba Barrage in the upstream of the Teesta river is causing problem to...
Ripan Kumar BiswasPedestrians busy grabbing the Thanksgiving sale were stuck by news clips on a giant TV screen at Times Square, New York. This was more severe than the last Hurricane, Katrina, the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history....
S M JahangirThe government will launch next week its first phase of an extensive agri-rehabilitation programme for the country's Sidr-hit southwestern districts giving priority to the cultivation of 'Boro' crop and vegetables.A sum of Tk 662.80 million has been earmarked...
Jonathan Watts, FT Syndication ServiceBEIJING: The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of grain comes under more pressure than at any time in 50 years, one of the world's...
FE ReportThe 'Bangladesh Better Business Forum' (BBBF) has convened its maiden meeting next week to discuss the public-private platform's work plan, while navigating its course ahead, a well-placed source said. Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed is expected to chair the meeting,...
FHM Humayan KabirThe country's power generation is unlikely keep pace with the growing demand as the implementation of new projects fails to get momentum.Among the 17 public sector generation projects planned for implementation by the government, only two power stations...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has convened a series of meetings with the commercial banks and NGOs to devise an appropriate mechanism for providing loans to the Sidr-hit people, so they can restart their economic life, reports UNB."The meetings are called to...
FE ReportPower Division says a move to build hydropower plant in neighbouring Myanmar and bring in electricity through a cross-border transmission line is stuck up due to lack of further initiatives.Sources at the Power Division said the two countries agreed...
Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka has said his total assets as made public by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) did not match what he had declared in the statement to the top graft watchdog, reports bdnews24.com.The ACC Thursday...
Jasim Uddin Haroon The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is planning to tighten movement of some feeder vessels as they have been carrying a small number of containers to, and from, Chittagong port over the past three months. The CPA officials...
LONDON, Dec 06 (Internet): Oil prices are back above $90, as the US government seeks to sustain pressure on Iran over its nuclear plans. A barrel of New York light crude was up five cents at $90.28, while in London,...
Two gunmen were killed in a mob-lynch attack, as they were fleeing after shooting a grocery shop owner at Par Gendaria in South Keraniganj area near the city Friday. Witnesses said, four gunmen, allegedly led by Jahangir, sprayed bullets on...
Bangladesh Forest Development Industries Corporation (BFIDC) earned Taka 543.6 million by selling rubber, harvested in its seven gardens, during the last two years. During the period from July 2005 to October 2007, BFIDC produced 5,692 tonnes of rubber, and sold...
The inaugural flight of the newly launched Air Slovakia (AS) left the city Friday for Italy via Slovakian capital Bratislava. The first AS flight, a 757 Boeing aircraft with 200 passengers’ accommodation, left the Zia International Airport at 10:30 am...
The Coal Policy Review Committee is likely to invite experts from the law ministry to hear their opinions on coal royalty issue, reports UNB.Despite holding its 17th meeting Sunday, the Coal Policy Review Committee could not settle the royalty issue...
PIROJPUR, Dec 7 (UNB): Communications Adviser Major General (retd) MA Matin Friday asked the local administration to take legal action if any NGO tries to forcibly collect loan installments from cyclone victims.Addressing a press briefing at Majher Char under Mathbaria...
NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (bdnews24.com): The two-day SAARC foreign ministers' meeting, beginning Friday in the Indian capital New Delhi, will focus largely on creating of a fund aimed at poverty alleviation and infrastructure development as well as prospects of starting...
Speaker of the legislative Parliament of Nepal Subash Chandra Nemwang said, Bangladesh Single Country Fair in Kathmandu would encourage the business communities of Nepal and Bangladesh to move ahead and further strengthen the existing bond of economic and trade relations...
COMILLA, Dec 7 (UNB): A seven-member delegation, led by joint secretary of the Liberation War Affairs Ministry Humayun Kabir Khan, left for the Indian Sate of Tripura Friday to bring back the remains of Liberation War hero Sepoy Hamidur Rahman....
The Rapid Action Battalion Thursday seized corporate documents and files from Grameenphone apparently to unpack its alleged links to illegal VoIP business, reports bdnews24.com. In another closely-timed raid, RAB officers busted some equipment, believed to be used for VoIP operations,...
Victor Mallet, FT Syndication ServiceNEW DELHI: Sheila Dikshit, chief minister of the Indian capital territory of Delhi, looks neither fat nor nervous, but she was disarmingly frank this week about the difficulties of coping with an annual influx of half...
FE ReportAB Bank Limited signed a contract with Millennium Information Solution Ltd (Millennium) for implementation of Sharia-based Online Islamic Banking Solution - Ababil Thursday.Under the agreement, AB Bank will manage operations of Sharia-based online banking for all of its Islamic...
Freedom fighter Mohammad Fazlur Rahman has said the recent remarks of Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed on war criminals inspired him to file the sedition case against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders, reports bdnews24.com"The Chief Adviser in a recent meeting with editors of national...
NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNB): Foreign Affairs Adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury has said Bangladesh sees the SAARC region as a zone of peace and development, emphasising that "regional cooperation should be intensified to meet the aspirations of our peoples." He...
NEW DELHI, Dec. 7 (UNB): Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta informed Foreign Advisor Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury they were continuing efforts to seek the release of abducted BRAC employee Nurul Islam.During a meeting on the sidelines of the SAARC Ministerial Council,...
NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (UNB): Foreign Advisor Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury held talks with Pakistan Foreign Minister Inam Ul Haque at his hotel suite Thursday evening and discussed bilateral relations on the sidelines of the SAARC Council of Ministers meeting in...
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