Bangladesh wants to sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Philippines to boost trade between the two countries, Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said on Tuesday. Tofael, now in Manila, conveyed the interest during his meetings with the leaders of…
Members of Criminal Investigation Department of police on Tuesday arrested a man along with 50 kg explosives from Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital. The arrestee was identified as Swapan, 40. Contacted, Deputy Commissioner (Public Relations) Masudur Rahman of…
A three-member delegation of Associated British Food, led by its Company Secretary and Legal Affairs Director Paul Lister, met Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at office on Tuesday.
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited Bogra Zone organised a daylong workshop on Women Entrepreneurship Development in Bogra recently. Mizanur Rahman Jodder, General Manager of Bangladesh Bank, inaugurated the workshop as the chief guest. Presided over by Md Mosharraf Hossain, Executive Vice-president…
Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Tuesday said necessary steps will be taken to stop piracy so that people return to movie houses. He made the remarks during a meeting with the executive committee members of Bangladesh Cine Journalist Association…
Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Tuesday called for reforming the income tax ordinance 1984 for increasing tax revenue. “We must go for reforming the income tax ordinance 1984. I don’t understand why the ordinance has not been made an…
India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already told the home ministry to set up a new department to combat illegal migration from neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Pakistan. Modi has told Home Secretary Anil Goswami to set up the…
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against deputy general manager (sacked) of Sonali Bank AKM Azizur Rahman for providing false information in his wealth statement hiding an amount of Tk 1.71 crore. ACC deputy assistant director and investigation officer…
Another case was filed against Narayanganj city councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the seven-murder case, and five of his associates on charge of killing a schoolboy about eight years ago. Kazi Aktar Hossain, father of victim Tipu Sultan,…
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Tuesday refuted the rejoinder issued by Dr Kamal Hossain & Associates on Monday, saying it tried to suppress the truth and was a heinous act to distort history. The PMO, in a rejoinder signed…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed charge against juvenile Khadiza Akter Sumi, domestic help of slain Special Branch Inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and his wife Swapna Begum in a case filed in connection with the murder of the couple. Judge Zakia…
Transactions in Bangladesh’s capital market have declined to eight-month low after witnessing some stability at the beginning of the year, just after the general elections. Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Tuesday recorded lowest ever transactions in last eight months. Analysts…
Effective value chain system can ensure fair price of the locally produced dairy and handicraft products through linking the producers and traders under one umbrella minimizing middlemen interference in the process.
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is going to install solar street light and LED lights in the metropolis for eco-friendly infrastructural improvement and to lessen the gradually increasing pressure on electricity.
Construction of a sluice gate on the embankment of the Alai River in Daldalia area under Shaghata upazila began on Monday amid much enthusiasm to the locals.
Speakers at a human chain here have stressed for launching social movement against social erosions, fundamentalism, unhealthy culture, drug abuse, gambling, rape and violence against women and human trafficking.
Two people were killed and fiver others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Shalikha and Sadar upazilas on Monday evening.
Police recovered the body of a young man with the throat slashed from a water-body in Gorkumalpur in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira on Tuesday.
arrested six activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir from Shibganj and Sadar upazilas early Tuesday
If you want to see the Giant Earwig of St Helena you may already be too late.
Sir Paul McCartney has had to cancel the rest of his tour of Japan due to illness, organisers have said.
Spaniards are swooning over a president – but not their own.
About 90% of workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant fled at the height of the meltdown crisis in 2011, a Japanese newspaper has reported.
Thailand’s acting PM has issued a plea for the army to act peacefully and within the constitution following its imposition of martial law.
Leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday demanded withdrawal of army personnel from Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for the sake of protecting the image of army. “The government should immediately withdraw all army personnel from the RAB. We want the…
Facebook has been working for several months on the planned video-chat app, which would allow users to send short video messages using a touch-screen, the FT said, citing people familiar with its plans.
By Stephen Beckett With each galactic jaunt potentially costing hundreds of millions of pounds and demanding decades of planning, it’s hardly a surprise that we’re not all reaching for the nearest astrophysics textbook.
Phulgazi Upazlia Chairman Ekramul Haque was killed as attackers shot him and set his car on fire in Feni town on Tuesday, accoirding to police accounts. Ekramul Haque came under the attack around 11 am near the Bilash Cinema Hall…
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has sharply reacted to a news published on the police’s website about withdrawal of several members of the crime-bursting agency from duty. The news published on Monday morning on ‘DMP News’, operated by Dhaka Metropolitan Police,…
Authorities have closed down Sylhet Nursing College for an indefinite period and asked students to vacate dormitories by 5pm on Tuesday. The move comes after Monday’s incident in which intern doctors at MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital had reportedly…