bdnews24.com Finance Minister AMA Muhith believes access to information technology can help beat corruption in sectors like land management, police and judiciary. “Corruption still persists in the society. Information technology can be effectively used for reducing corruption,” said Muhith, while…
Month: December 2012
Ghulam Azam retrial argument continues at ICT
bdnews24.com The first war crimes tribunal of Bangladesh on Wednesday allowed former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam’s defence counsel one more hour to complete his argument praying for his retrial. This is first of the three retrial applications that the Jamaat…
Suu Kyi offers help on Rohingya issue
bdnews24.com Kolkata, Dec 26 – Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung Sang Suu Kyi has told a British minister that she is willing to facilitate the process of reconciliation between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas in the troubled Rakhine state (former Arakans),…
Textbook distribution from Jan 1
bdnews24.com Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Wednesday said textbook distribution among the students of primary and secondary schools, Ebtedai Madrasa (primary level) and Dakhil Madrasa (secondary level), and vocational institutions for the academic year 2013 will begin across the…
Schoolgirls to help safe rural births
bdnews24.com The Health and Family Welfare Minister on Wednesday floated the idea of engaging schoolgirls in identifying pregnant women in rural Bangladesh to ensure safe births. “We should see whether we can engage girl students of the ninth or 10th…
Movement till caretaker restored: Khaleda at mass contact
bdnews24.com Opposition chief Khaleda Zia on Wednesday urged the government to table a bill in Parliament for reinstalling non-partisan caretaker government and warned that the anti-government movement will continue until the demand is agreed to. “I would like to tell…
‘More strikes if essentials become costlier’
bdnews24.com BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia finally swung the pitch of her movement towards popular concerns on Wednesday when she threatened more strikes if the price of power, gas and fuel were hiked. Addressing a rally at Dhaka’s Kawran Bazar as…
Khaleda’s set for mass contact rallies
bdnews24.com BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to address a number of street rallies in the capital on Wednesday to press the government for a non-partisan body to oversee the next national elections. She is scheduled to attend the first…
PM wants media to be more ‘responsible’
bdnews24.com Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called on the mass media to be more ‘responsible’ even as it enjoyed its professional freedom. The Prime Minister was inaugurating the programme marking four decades of state owned Bangladesh Television (BTV). At…
Govt to welcome rally if ‘peaceful’
bdnews24.com Home Minister MK Alamgir on Tuesday said the government would welcome BNP’s road rally in the capital provided it is ‘peaceful’. “If they (BNP) does not violate people’s rights, don’t torture people, does not explode bombs or vandalise vehicles……
Nirmal Sen on life support
bdnews24.com Senior politician and journalist Nirmal Sen has been on life support at the capital’s LabAid Hospital since Monday midnight. His nephew Kangkan Sen told bdnews24.com that his condition was critical and he was under intensive care. “He was brought…
Over one kilo heroin seized in Chittagong
bdnews24.com The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday seized 1.3 kilograms of heroin from a trafficker in Chittagong’s New Market area. RAB-7 SP Sakhawat Hossain told bdnews24.com that the seizure was made from one Mushfiqur Rahman, 30, who was apprehended…
27 die in Kazakh military plane crash
Bdnews24.com/Reuters A military transport plane crashed in southern Kazakhstan on Tuesday, killing all 27 people on board, the RIA news agency quoted a senior Kazakh emergencies ministry official as saying. “The plane has burnt up, only some of its fragments…
Indo-Pak cricket war after five years
bdnews24.com India and Pakistan resume their cricket rivalry with their first limited-overs series in five years on Tuesday. The two-match T20 and three-match ODI series has been squeezed in between India’s ongoing full series against the England cricket team, which…
Colder days ahead
bdnews24.com After a moderate cold wave in the beginning of the winter, the met office forecast the temperature is likely to remain colder for two more days. “The temperature is dropping for the cold breeze from the north. Moderate to…
Bird flu: 1.5 lakh chickens being culled
banglanews24.com KALIAKOIR, GAZIPUR: Some 1, 50, 000 chickens are being culled at a poultry farm in Telirchala area in the upazila on Monday night following detection of bird flu. Upazila Livestock officer Dr. Mezbah Uddin Khandakar told banglanews, “Some chickens…
Tiger kills fisherman in Sundarbans
banglanews24.com KHULNA: A fisherman was in a attack of tiger at Marki Lake of Sundarbans in West Division Arua Shibsar area of the district on Tuesday noon. The deceased was identified as Oliur Rahman, 18, son of Abdur Rashid, hailed…
Worker-cop clash injures 30 in Savar
banglanews24.com SAVAR: At least 30 workers were injured in a clash between the garment workers and police on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said the RMG workers blockaded the Dhaka-Aricha highway demanding payment of their due salaries around 11:30am.…
Student chopped dead in Kishoreganj
banglanews24.com KISHOREGANJ: Assailants chopped to death a Madrasa student in Kharampotti area of the district town on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Rakib, 24, a student of Fajil (hons) of Jamia Kashemia Madrasa in Narsingdi and son of…
Chetia handover after SC disposes of case
banglanews24.com DHAKA: India and Bangladesh are scheduled to sign the much-awaited extradition treaty next month in Dhaka. However, Ulfa general secretary Anup Chetia will not be handed over to India until his petition seeking asylum in a third country other…
Rokeya Prachi, Asif Nazrul detached!
banglanews24.com DHAKA: Noted actress Rokeya Prachi is no more on good relations with Professor Asif Nazrul to whom she got married following death of her first husband. Sources said this well-known celebrity couple has been living singly since September in…
Robi organizes SME meet in Ctg
banglanews24.com DHAKA: Mobile-phone operator Robi Axiata Limited has recently organized a meet for their Robi Udoy SME (small & medium enterprise) customers in Chittagong. The event was held Monday at a hotel in the port city. The event was arranged…
Dhaka asks Seoul to invest more
banglanews24.com DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni categorically said that Bangladesh and South Korea are bound by time-tested friendship that span over diverse areas of mutual ‘interest’. The mnister came up with the observation when the newly appointed South Korean…
For treaty on mercury
Unep The Network of Women Ministers and Leaders for the Environment met on 4 December 2012 in Doha, Qatar on the margins of the UNFCCCC Cop 18. The meeting was attended by over 40 members of the Network that included…
From brown to green economy
PSA Climate Change The concept of green economy is increasingly find its way from the ivory tower of environmental economics to minstream policy discourse mainly due to widespread disillusion with the present economic paradigm which delivers material wealth at the…
Bid to delay trial: Shafique tells Turk minister
bdnews24.com Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on Monday said the people who were against the trials of the war criminals and criminals who committed crimes against humanity were making desperate attempts to delay them. During a meeting with former State Minister…
‘Try war criminals in AL, family’
bdnews24.com BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday called for trying what she said the war crimes suspects in the family of the Prime Minister and her party for a transparent war crimes trial. She made the call at a programme…
EC’s wants to get rid of less qualified lawyers
bdnews24.com The Election Commission has targeted senior advocates at the Supreme Court for constituting its panel of lawyers as it deems those who applied for the position as ‘less qualified’. Election Commissioner Md Shahnewaz said the commission, in a recent…
DSE starts week lower
bdnews24.com The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange opened the week’s trade 30.23 points lower with a relatively lower Tk 1.97 billion turnover. The DSE General Index slid 0.72 percent to close at 4144.54 points on Sunday amid fluctuations.…
Tagore letter found inside book
bdnews24.com A letter written by Rabindranath Tagore has been found surprisingly inside a book, an Indian businessman has claimed, according to a media report. The hand-written letter by the Nobel laureate addresses no one and now hangs within a booklovers’…