FE Report The 36th death anniversary of martyred freedom fighter Sheikh Mejbahuddin Md Faruq will be observed today.Faruq was caught and killed by the occupied Pakistani army on June 22, 1971. In observance of the day, the Weekly Bartoman Sanglap...
SAVAR, June 21 (UNB): Eleven people, including three of a family, fell sick after eating jackfruit at the bank colony in pourasava area Wednesday night.Local sources said poultry feed trader Iqbal Hossain bought three jackfruits for entertaining relatives who came...
GAZIPUR, June 21 (UNB): Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda said Thursday their aim is to hold an election where competent candidates would be elected through the real practice of democracy."The situation of the country will also be better if...
Awami League presidium member Tofail Ahmed Thursday said it was better to be run by an army-backed caretaker government than going back to the pre-January 11 days, reports bdnews24.comTofail said the current caretaker government was the result of the absolute...
The caretaker government has appointed 10 deputy attorneys-general (DAG) and 39 assistant attorneys-general (AAG) drawn from the Supreme Court Bar under the current reshuffle in the headquarters of law officers. "The President, in exercise of his powers, has made the...
FENI, June 21 (BSS): Sujan, a non-government organisation (NGO) working for good governance, has stressed the need for strengthening the ongoing reforms in the electoral system for holding free, fair and credible elections in the country.The current electoral reforms would...
The government is contemplating appointing administrators to district and upazila parishads to make these two local government institutions more dynamic.However, no such decision has been taken to this effect so far, LGRD and Cooperatives Adviser Mohammad Anwarul Iqbal told BSS...
COMILLA, June 21 (UNB): Former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain was allowed two days police remand today in a case of attack on and ransacking the house of an Awami League leader about five years ago.The court rejected his bail petition...
Former acting secretary of Labour and Employment Ministry M Nurunnabi and former principal of Dhaka Home Economics College Suraiya Begum took oath as members of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (BPSC) Thursday, reports UNB.Chief Justice M Ruhul Amin administered the...
NATORE, June 21 (UNB): Hannan Shah, a close associate of executed Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, JMB second-in-command, was arrested from Pirgachha village of Naldanga police station under Sadar Upazila Wednesday night.Police said Hannan Shah (45) of Kamalpur village in the...
PABNA, June 21 (bdnews24.com): An extortion case was filed Wednesday against former BNP lawmaker KM Anwarul Islam and three others. Islam was the former BNP lawmaker for Pabna-3 constituency as well as Chatmohor Upazila BNP president. Magistrate Yusuf Abdullah accepted...
COMILLA, June 21 (UNB): A case was filed against former Jamaat-e-Islam lawmaker Syed Abdullah M Taher, his brother Syed Ekramul Huq and 33 other Jamaat leaders and activists Wednesday night on corruption charges.Police said Abdul Khaleq, a sawmill owner of...
Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury has hailed the first verdict in the corruption case filed by the ACC in the Special Court at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban."We were waiting for that verdict. We are pleased that the...
All small shops mainly selling grocery items including rice, pulses, vegetables, meat, fish, milk, bread, pastry, sweets and fruits will remain open after 7 pm as those have been kept out of the purview of the ongoing evening peak hour...
THE latest survey of the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) has identified Bangladesh as the cheapest place for doing business in Asia. This rating was possible on the basis of comparative evaluation of wage rate, social security burden, utility charges,...
Syed Ishtiaque RezaINDOOR politics is unlikely to be allowed soon. But a sort of politics is going on. All the parties including the two big parties are drafting their reform proposals. When various aspects of reform measures are being discussed...
Andrew EnglandAlgeria plans to hold a bidding round for new hydrocarbon exploration blocks before the end of the year, with an eye to attracting companies that bring new technology to the sector and are able to help the national oil...
INTERNATIONAL Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and Cairn India signed this week a community development agreement that will open up business opportunities to firms in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, giving local people...
SHELTER is a basic human need recognised in the present -day world. We achieved independence 35 years back but could not arrange shelter for a huge number of people. In Bangladesh, the poor people in rural areas cannot afford to...
There are services which are extremely important for the simple reason that these involve human life. The same are the medical services and for the obvious reasons no compromise can be allowed in running them properly or in their standards....
Karen J. Greenberg For Americans, it should be startling to see the word "detainee" suddenly appear in a different country, on a different continent, and referring not to alleged jihadi terrorists but to a group of Americans. After all, "detainee"...
Bill BerkowitzIn recent appearances on two U.S. cable news networks, he was slinging and zinging -- the well-rehearsed pitchman for the Biblical "End Times" was dead certain that "Iran is going to have to be attacked" before 2008. He also...
Antoaneta BezlovaAn unfolding national scandal on the large-scale abuse of child labourers in the brick kiln industry raises questions on the adequacy of planned labour laws that are supposed to take on sweatshops and protect workers' rights.The first signs of...
Clive FreemanIn a powerful display of womanpower, more than a thousand businesswomen from 91 countries took part in the 17th Global Summit of Women in Berlin over the weekend. The central theme was "Global Opportunities and Challenges." That this was...
SEOUL, Jun 21 (AP): The chief US nuclear envoy made a rare trip to North Korea Thursday in a surprise bid to accelerate international efforts to press the communist government to abandon its nuclear weapons programme. Assistant US Secretary of...
RAMALLAH, Jun 21 (AP): Closing ranks against Hamas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has invited the Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit next week, Palestinian officials said Thursday. The regional gathering is the biggest show of support yet...
BAGHDAD, Jun 21 (AP): A suicide truck bomber struck the city hall in a predominantly Sunni area in northern Iraq Thursday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 70, an Iraqi commander said. Several mortars or rockets slammed into the...
GENEVA, Jun 21 (AP): The number of people driven from their homes by violence, natural disasters and poverty increased last year for the first time since 2002 and is almost certain to rise further due to deepening conflicts across the...
ISLAMABAD, Jun 21 (AFP): A Pakistani minister who caused outrage by remarking that author Salman Rushdie's knighthood justified suicide attacks said Thursday that he is set to visit Britain next month. Religious Affairs Minister Ijaz-ul Haq made the comment about...
BRUSSELS, Jun 21 (AFP): A crucial EU summit aimed at outlining a new treaty to reform the institutions of the 27-member bloc opens here Thursday, with Polish and British objections threatening to scupper an agreement. German Chancellor Angela Merkel formally...
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