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PM grieves Ershad’s death   

PM grieves Ershad’s death   

-- 2019-07-14 10:33:20

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of leader of the opposition in parliament and Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad. In a condolence message, Sheikh Hasi...

CA firms face music for professional misconduct

CA firms face music for professional misconduct

Mohammad Mufazzal 2019-07-14 10:23:52

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) has taken disciplinary actions against some auditors and CA (Chartered Accountant) firms for professional 'misconducts'. The council of t...

Minimum value for customs assessment made neutral

Minimum value for customs assessment made neutral

Doulot Akter Mala 2019-07-14 10:10:50

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has introduced a country-neutral minimum value for customs assessment from the current fiscal year (FY) with an upward revision for the majority of products. Min...

Jatiya Party chairman Ershad dies aged 90

Jatiya Party chairman Ershad dies aged 90

-- 2019-07-14 10:08:32

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad, who has been on life support for the last 10 days, has passed away. Ershad breathed his last at the Combined Medical Hospital in Dhaka around 7:45am on Sunday, bdnews...

Imran, Indira take oath of office

Imran, Indira take oath of office

-- 2019-07-13 20:35:10

Imran Ahmad and Fazilatunnesa Indira took oath of office as minister and state minister respectively on Saturday. Before taking the oath Imran was the state minister for expatriates' welfare and over...

Media industry loses four journalists in five days

Media industry loses four journalists in five days

-- 2019-07-13 19:43:02

Four eminent journalists of the country have died in a span of only five days, dealing a big blow to the media industry. Muhammad Jahangir, a noted media personality and executive director of Centre...

Water levels in 79 rivers rise

Water levels in 79 rivers rise

-- 2019-07-13 18:21:37

Water levels at 79 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises while 11 stations recorded fall. Among the 93 monitored stations, water levels at two rive...

Korean PM arrives in city

Korean PM arrives in city

-- 2019-07-13 18:09:04

South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a three-day official visit. Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen received the South Korean Prime Minister upon his arrival at Haz...

President can arrange dialogue to end rape, killing: BNP leader

President can arrange dialogue to end rape, killing: BNP leader

-- 2019-07-13 17:37:46

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday urged President Abdul Hamid to take steps for holding a national dialogue to get rid of the growing incidents of rape and killing across the c...

Lightning strike leaves four dead in Pabna

Lightning strike leaves four dead in Pabna

-- 2019-07-13 16:52:34

Four people, including three members of a family, were killed by a lightning strike in Bera Upazila of Pabna on Saturday. Bera Upazila Executive Officer (UNO) Afif Anan Siddiqui said the incident occ...

Researchers find 'presence of antibiotics' in milk, again

Researchers find 'presence of antibiotics' in milk, again

-- 2019-07-13 16:21:07

Researchers again claimed that they have found traces of antibiotics in 10 samples of pasteurised and unpasteurised milk produced by several companies. Ten samples - seven pasteurised and three unpas...

Major rivers cross danger level at 11 more points

Major rivers cross danger level at 11 more points

-- 2019-07-13 16:02:08

Major rivers overnight crossed danger marks in 11 more points across the country as all the four of the country’s major basins continued to rise, largely due to incessant downpours.  &ldqu...

Worker dies in Chattogram hotel fire

Worker dies in Chattogram hotel fire

-- 2019-07-13 15:00:22

A worker died after a fire broke out at Four Season Sonali hotel in Foy's Lake area at Khulshi in Chattogram on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Khokon Dutta, 53, of Anwara Upazila....

PM says all preparations taken to tackle flood

PM says all preparations taken to tackle flood

-- 2019-07-13 14:12:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the government has taken all sorts of preparation to tackle possible flood in the country. "We’ve our preparations everywhere, we can face any kind...

Keep vigilant against corruption, PM tells govt top brass

Keep vigilant against corruption, PM tells govt top brass

-- 2019-07-13 13:30:37

Reaffirming that corruption will not be tolerated, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked the top government officials to keep more vigil against corruption so that this menace does not affect...

Rangamati landslide kills two

Rangamati landslide kills two

-- 2019-07-13 12:49:26

Two autorickshaw passengers have died when a landslide, triggered by heavy rains, swallowed the moving vehicle in Rangamati’s Kaptai Upazila. The incident occurred in the upazila’s Kariga...

Imran, Indira set for oath taking

Imran, Indira set for oath taking

-- 2019-07-13 12:36:02

Imran Ahmad and Fazilatun Nessa Indira are set to be sworn in to their new positions in the cabinet on Saturday evening. Imran, currently the state minister for expatriates' welfare and overseas empl...

‘Murder accused’ dies in Natore ‘gunfight’

‘Murder accused’ dies in Natore ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-07-13 12:17:04

An accused in a college student murder case was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Lalpur upazila of Natore on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Manikuzzaman Manik, 48 of Ishwa...

20,000 families in Cox’s Bazar hills face landslide risks

20,000 families in Cox’s Bazar hills face landslide risks

-- 2019-07-13 12:06:10

Despite landslide risks, around 20,000 families have been living on the slopes of hills in Cox's Bazar town and elsewhere in the district. Growing rains with the advent of monsoon and unabated hill c...

National Life generates highest turnover

National Life generates highest turnover

FE Report 2019-07-13 10:23:03

Ten most traded firms accounted for 21 per cent of transactions on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) in the outgoing week, with the National Life Insurance Company bagging the top spot on the turnove...

Stocks keep sinking as investor confidence hits rock bottom

Stocks keep sinking as investor confidence hits rock bottom

Babul Barman 2019-07-13 10:20:13

Stocks suffered a big jolt in the outgoing week as investor confidence hit rock bottom, triggering panic selling that sent the benchmark index of the prime bourse reeling down in all five sessions...

Foreign brand stores branching out into Bangladesh

Foreign brand stores branching out into Bangladesh

Monira Munni 2019-07-13 10:14:47

Leading global brands that source textile and garment products from Bangladesh are setting their footprints with their own-label stores here. They are branching out into the country targeting t...

Sacrificial animals in surplus

Sacrificial animals in surplus

Sajibur Rahman 2019-07-13 10:04:31

Sacrificial animals are in surplus ahead of Eid-ul-Azha thanks to commercial and marginal farmers, officials concerned said. This year some 11.78 million cattle are available for sacrifice agains...

CPA warns against overstaying containers

CPA warns against overstaying containers

Syful Islam 2019-07-13 10:00:32

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has threatened to impose penal rent on fully-loaded containers (Full Container Load) to force the importers to get delivery immediately and free the port yard, of...

Full-scale digital security agency in pipeline

Full-scale digital security agency in pipeline

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2019-07-13 10:00:02

The government has initiated a move to establish a full-fledged national digital security agency (NDSA) to prevent cyber crimes and to ensure security of digital highway. The ICT Division under the M...

Two cabinet members to take oath Saturday

Two cabinet members to take oath Saturday

-- 2019-07-12 20:24:10

The Bangabhaban is set to hold an oath-taking ceremony for a new minister and a state minister on Saturday evening. President’s press secretary Mohammad Joynal Abedin on Friday said all necessa...

Heavy rain cripples life in Khulna

Heavy rain cripples life in Khulna

-- 2019-07-12 20:09:11

Incessant torrential rains began this afternoon took nearly two-third of Khulna city with severe water logging and paralyzing city life causing immense suffering to the citizens. Met office source sa...

Use 'substandard', not 'adulterated': Industries minister

Use 'substandard', not 'adulterated': Industries minister

-- 2019-07-12 20:02:12

Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has requested the media and the people concerned to use the word 'substandard' instead of 'adulterated' when describing Bangladeshi goods in any case. "...

RAB detains five for spreading rumour over Padma Bridge

RAB detains five for spreading rumour over Padma Bridge

-- 2019-07-12 19:45:56

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained five people for allegedly spreading rumour over the Padma Bridge construction. The arrestees are: Shahidul Islam (25) from Narail, Md Arman Hossain (20)...

Govt aware of possible flood situation: PM

Govt aware of possible flood situation: PM

-- 2019-07-12 19:24:05

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the government is aware about the current situation of looming flood in the country and collecting information from all sources. “We’re collecting inform...