Zofeen EbrahimFor as long as Hatal Bibi, 50, can remember, women in her village, Ahmed Khaskheli, 250 km east of this port city, in Sindh province's Sanghar district, spent hours fetching water from a canal four km away and used...
Francesco Guerrera in New York and Jenny Wiggins in LondonCOCA-Cola and PepsiCo are stepping up efforts to recycle plastic containers amid a growing backlash against the sale of bottled water in the US and the UK.Authorities including San Francisco's city...
BNP Secretary General Khondoker Delwar Hossain Thursday questioned the authority of the Election Commission (EC) to register the political parties, reports UNB. "EC has no jurisdiction to register the political parties. It is the function of the parliament to decide...
The government Tuesday asked private television (TV) channels to follow a set of nine guidelines in airing talk shows. "We did not issue any notice for talk shows. We just gave some unofficial guidelines so that nobody gets in trouble",...
The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday granted government's application for leave-to-appeal seeking to overturn the High Court (HC) ruling on stringent Emergency Powers Rules (EPR), 2007. The HC, after inviting a legal debate over the dilemma following revocation of its right,...
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed who will address the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27 will highlight reforms and election roadmap, duty free access of LDCs' products and free labour movement, reports UNB.Briefing journalists, Adviser for Foreign Affairs...
Detained former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has asked the government to send her sick younger son Arafat Rahman Koko to Singapore or Bangkok for treatment. BNP chairperson's lawyer Ahmed Azam Khan broke the news...
A meeting of the Awami League presidium members will be held today (Friday) at the Gulshan residence of the party's acting president Zillur Rahman, reports UNB.Talking to reporters Thursday, AL presidium member Begum Motia Chowdhury said the presidium meeting would...
The Afghan Foreign Ministry Thursday sent a communiqué to Bangladesh Foreign Ministry expressing 'optimism' about BRAC employee Nurul Islam, kidnapped in Afghanistan. At a press briefing, Adviser for Foreign Affairs Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said the government would make all out...
KHULNA, Sept 20 (UNB): A tribunal here convicted a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and his three associates and sentenced them to six years imprisonment in two separate extortion cases.Judge of the Speedy Trial Tribunal M Kamal Hossain pronounced the...
FE ReportThe World Bank (WB) has asked the government to strengthen its Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) and set up a full-fledged power distribution company in the country's southern zone if it wants to receive a $100 million power sector budgetary...
FE ReportThe government's tax-revenue collection registered a 14 per cent growth during the first two months of the current fiscal over the corresponding period of last fiscal, despite a significant shortfall against the target.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) collected...
Shakhawat Hossain A move is on to extend the deadline for submission of income tax returns for the current assessment year by at least one month, sources said.However, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) has not yet taken a firm...
FE Report Former adviser to the caretaker government Wahiduddin Mahmud said Thursday the country's democracy will be strengthened only if the economy moves forward."One does not need be a genius to figure out this simple linkage between economy and democracy...
FE Report Myanmar's private sector exporters are interested to export to Bangladesh 100 thousand (1 lakh) tonnes of rice at Free on Board (FoB) price of about US$270 per tonne, official sources said. The commerce ministry has already told the...
FE ReportThe Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka welcomed Thursday the decision of the Bangladesh Bank not to pursue the action plan under its mid-year monetary policy statement (MPS) which was announced on July 12 last. "The Bangladesh...
A special court in Dhaka Thursday sentenced former National Board of Revenue (NBR) member ATM Sarwar Hossain to eight years in jail in his absence for evading taxes and tampering with income tax (IT) returns, reports bdnews24.com.The court simultaneously slapped...
A Dhaka court Thursday refused to accept a bail appeal for former prime minister Khaleda Zia in GATCO corruption case taken under the cover of emergency powers rules (EPR), reports bdnews24.com. Dhaka metropolitan senior special judge M Azizul Haque asked...
The government has decided to appoint Debapriya Bhattacharya, executive director of Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Offices in Geneva, said an official announcement, reports UNB.Born in 1956, Bhattacharya...
Amy YeeFT Syndication ServiceNEW DELHI: Citigroup has become the first foreign bank to receive a merchant banking licence in Bangladesh, reflecting keen interest in offering advisory services to a promising economy led by high-growth industries such as garment manufacturing. The...
CHITTAGONG, Sept 20 (bdnews24.com): A madrasah administrator Thursday filed a defamation case against the editor, publisher and freelance cartoonist of Bangla daily Prothom Alo with a Chittagong court. Patiya Al Jameya Al Islam Madrasah's administrative officer Mohammad Reza filed the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved the investigating officer's (IO) application to bring the Tk 30 million (3.0 crore) graft case filed against detained former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and six others under the Emergency Powers Rules (EPR), 2007 with...
A Chinese company will set up a casting manufacturing industry in the Karnaphuli Export Processing Zone (KEPZ). The company, M/s Bangladesh Vilia Casting Pvt Ltd, will invest US$ 4.16 million (41.6 lakh) and produce casting, which includes lampost, grill, steel...
A decision would be taken soon for expansion of the Banani graveyard in the city in order to solve the burial problem. A government handout Thursday said Rajuk would hand over about 12 bighas of land, recovered from land grabbers...
M Azizur RahmanSoaring petroleum prices in the international market have put the government in a difficult situation as the losses of the cash-strapped Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) are mounting."The BPC has already incurred a fresh loss of over Tk 6.50...
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Director General (DG) Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed Thursday said prices of essentials have become stable now and would come to a reasonable level by December or January next, reports UNB."The prices were at an exorbitant level at...
FE Report The Ministry of Finance (MoF) Thursday advised the central bank to instruct all the commercial banks for maintaining relationship with their clients neutrally, official sources said.The Bangladesh Bank will is expected to issue a circular to the commercial...
FE ReportThe stock prices on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) continued to surge for the second consecutive day Thursday due to buying spree by the investors.A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a brokerage house told the FE that the prices...
David Pilling FT Syndication ServiceTOKYO: Sentiment among big Japanese businesses improved in the three months to end-August, according to figures released on Thursday, suggesting that companies have not lost confidence as a result of recent market turbulence.The finance ministry data,...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday submitted charge-sheet against 25 individuals including two former ministers and three ex-secretaries and RAJUK officials in a case filed for selling 18 RAJUK houses in the city's posh areas at very low prices, reports UNB."Charge...
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