Anisul Islam Noor :Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) surprisingly has been showing a same unemployment rate since 2010.Though around 22 lakh workable people are included in the country’s labour markets each year, the similar statistics the BBS is showing.Experts said the real unemployment is around 20 percent though the present unemployment rate is shown 4.2 percent.The BBS conducted a survey in 2010 to know the real labour force. The survey found that the total labour force is around 5.67 crore...
risingbd.com: Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu has said that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may be arrested in murder case. The...
Staff Reporter :BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Khandaker Mahbub Hossain on Thursday said that Khaleda Zia cannot be freed unless the government so wishes.He made the remarks after meeting with Khaleda Zia outside the old Central Jail of Nazimuddin Road on Thursday afternoon.Khandaker Mahbub said if she gets bail in one another case comes to the fore filed against the BNP chairperson, by the government.He said said the government has implicated Khaleda Zia in many cases. If the government...
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has “a last chance” to halt an army offensive that has forced...
Staff Reporter :While authorities piece together clues on the $81 million dirty money that slipped through the Rizal Commercial Banking...
Staff Reporter :The State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Sunday said that more use of the LPG in the residential quarters will help increase gas supply in the industrial sector.The government has a plan to replace the CNG with Auto-Gas for motor vehicles as well. Even LPG could be used in small and medium industries, he said.The Minister has hinted of replacement of household gas by 70 percent by LPG in next to years. He...
Staff Reporter :Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque on Thursday said that poet, columnist and stance critic of...
Staff Reporter :One suspected militant was killed in a suicidal blast during the law and orkder department’s ‘Operation August Bite’ into Hotel Olio International at Panthapath, about 300 metres from the Bangabandhu Museum where mourners gathered to pay tribute to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the city’s Dhanmondi on Tuesday morning. The victim has been identified as Saiful Islam, 21, a student of BL College, Khulna. He is son of Abul Khayer from Dumuria upazila of Khulna district, Police said....
US President-elect Joe Biden has warned that “people may die” if his incoming administration continues to be impeded by incumbent Donald Trump.Mr Biden said co-ordination was needed to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.He called President Trump’s refusal to acknowledge he lost the election, despite calls to do so from both sides, “totally irresponsible”.The Trump campaign launched a flurry of legal challenges in the wake of the 3 November vote to contest ballot counts.The president’s team is trying to have courts overturn...
Staff Reporter :An alleged mugger was killed and another received bullet injuries in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in the city’s Lalbagh area on Thursday evening. The deceased was identified as Abdul Baten, 38. The injured was Abdul Barek, 40, , said SI Bachchu Mia, In-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police outpost. Acting on tip-off, a team of RAB-10 conducted a drive in Bakshi Bazar area near Dhakeshwari Temple where five to six muggers were staying with...
An alleged mugger was killed in police firing and his two associates were arrested, one with bullet wounds, after a chase by the law enforcers from the city`s Dhanmondi area Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Sagor, 27, hailing from Faridpur district. AB Siddique, officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station, said a team of police while on patrol chased off some criminals in a private car in Purana Paltan area around 5.30am suspecting them to be in a mugging bid....
‘Muggers’ snatched away a truck loaded with 16 cattle from a group of cattle traders at Manik Mia Avenue in the city’ s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area early Saturday.Four of the cattle traders-Masum, Sujon, Thandu Miah and Tanjirul –were injured by the muggers and two of them-Sujon and Azizul-reportedly went missing.The injured were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).Quoting the injured traders, DMCH sources said, they had bought 16 cattle from Jhenidah and were heading towards Merul Badda of the...