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The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has carried out development work worth about Tk. 30,000 crore across the country during the tenure of the present government, which is almost double the amount spent during the BNP-Jamaat government’s (2001-2006) rule. The LGED implemented development work worth Tk. 14,061 crore during

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will not launch a tough movement at this movement on the issue of non-party caretaker government. The party’s standing committee discussed the issue at a meeting held at the BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office at Gulshan in the city on Saturday night. Begum Zia sat with the committee members to work ... Read more

London appears to have made up its mind to go ahead with a financial bond worth about Tk 3.6 lakh (3,000 pound) for some high-risk Bangladeshis seeking British visa. Nationals from five other countries – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and Ghana – will also be subject to the visa bond.  Under the planned pilot

Illias Ali Mukti Sangram Parishad has announced a dawn to dusk hartal in the district on August 29 demanding the return of the missing Central BNP Organising Secretary M Illias Ali. On Saturday noon, Sylhet District BNP General Secretary Adv Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury called the hartal in a meeting at Chouhatta Point after a rally.

At least three passengers were killed and 10 others injured in a road accident at Surikhali Battola of Rupsha-Bridge By-pass road near Chhachibunia under Batiaghata police station of Khulna district on Saturday noon. Being informed, the Batiaghata thana police rushed to the spot and with the help of local people, recovered the dead bodies and ... Read more

A local activist of Jubo League was chopped to death by unknown miscreants in Raojan upazila on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Mobarak Hossain, 38, a resident of Noapara Chowdhuryhat area in the upazila. Witnesses said a gang of armed terrorists swooped on Mobarak and chopped him with sharp weapons when he was ... Read more

Discussants at a programme here on Saturday stressed the role of mass media in strengthening relations between Bangladesh and India. They said media can highlight the problems and potentials of the two countries, remove misunderstanding and ignorance, open the eyes

A physically challenged youth, who was beaten up by some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Savar on Saturday morning. The victim was Shamim, 25, son of Faroque Hossain of Foardnagar area under Damrai thana. Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Savar Police Station

Most of them do not take approval from primary institutions More than 3,000 public university teachers, mostly without approval, take classes in private universities, ignoring their primary institutions that hugely hampers academic activities in universities, University Grants Commission officials said. The commission in its latest annual report said, ‘Some of the public university teachers spend

Postal Service Waiting for a turnaround For centuries, postal services around the world reigned supreme as the most popular mode of communications. But with the advances in communications technologies and emergence of private courier services, people’s reliance on the traditional postal service has significantly declined. The only way the postal service in any country can ... Read more

In efforts to regain its lost glory, Bangladesh Post Office has launched a number of new services and plans to introduce some more. Co-branding with Sonali Bank, which allows its 60,000 postal cash card holders to use the ATM booths of 26 banks for money transfer, is the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday called upon all pro-liberation forces to forge a greater unity across the country for building a non-communal Bangladesh as dreamt by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “A greater unity among all pro-liberation forces is very vital at this time against those who opposed the national independence and sovereignty back in ... Read more

Restrictions in ME countries main reason Manpower export in the first half of this year has dropped significantly compared to the corresponding period of last year, mainly in the fallout from restrictions imposed by some Middle Eastern countries over the years. An estimated 2,08,340 Bangladeshi workers have migrated abroad in the first half of this ... Read more

The police on Friday recovered the bodies of an officer of the Special Branch and his wife from their residence in the capital’s Chamelibagh. The couple — Mahfuzur Rahman , 48, inspector of SB, and his wife Swapna Rahman, 40 — were hacked to death 24-48 hours back, the police suspected

Sufferings of patients at the burn and plastic surgery unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital further aggravated as they had to pay at every step for the service they need. Even no dressing is done there without money. But this service is supposed to be given to the patients free of cost. The patients at ... Read more

Lack of campaigns and the counselling of mothers about nutrition and hygiene are responsible for malnutrition, experts said. They are of the opinion that the lack of hygienic practice, such as washing hand before feeding the child or preparing baby food, causes drainage of nutrition form the children’s bodies and

Osman Gani, a former chief conservator of forests who hogged the headlines as a ‘forest gobbler,’ now passes his days in the Dhaka central jail where none of his relatives but a distant nephew bothered to meet him. He has already passed six out of the 12 years he was sentenced to imprisonment, keeping an ... Read more

New York-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch on Friday said the trial of the former chief of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islaami, Ghulam Azam, at the International Crimes Tribunal was ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘did not meet international fair trial standards.’ In a press release posted on its website, the HRW said it had found four major concerns about

Biman Bangladesh Airlines are in a confusion over the actual number of Hajj pilgrims this year as the Saudi authorities are likely to issue some new regulations in the wake of spreading of a virus that may restrict the Bangladeshi pilgrims who have respiratory problem. The Saudi government has taken some cautionary measures for Hajj ... Read more

Syed Ashraf slates celebration of Khaleda’s birthday Ruling Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday dismissed any possibility of compromising or sitting in a dialogue with the main opposition BNP to resolve ongoing political crisis. “It is not possible for us to compromise with those [BNP] who celebrate fake birthday on the death anniversary ... Read more