UNB :Local Awami League and its student body Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) activists vandalised Jaintapur Upazila Health Complex over the death of four BCL activists in an accident in the early hours of Saturday. Two ambulances, hospital furniture, and various emergency department equipment were vandalised, said Dr. Md Salahuddin, Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer. They also beat up the doctors on duty and torched a car parked in the garage of the hospital, he said. He also mentioned that...
BSS :ducation Minister Barrister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel has said the standard of education will be improved through the real empowerment of teachers. “Therefore, the facilities and capacity of the teachers should be enhanced. The government is going that way. It is the teachers who can make the students qualified and skilled and create the path to employment. If we want to survive, there is no alternative to building a smart Bangladesh by enhancing the responsibility of the teacher,” he...
Staff Reporter :The main opposition party-BNP- on Saturday said the political parties, who are participating in the ongoing street movement in a simultaneous manner, would not leave the streets until democracy was restored in the country. “We are on street movement to restore democracy in the country. We want to say clearly that no other system except democracy will ever work in Bangladesh. So the political parties are in the movement and they would not leave street until democracy is...
Staff Reporter :At least 10 persons, including four BCL leaders in Sylhet,have been killed and 30 others injured in separate...
Kamruzzaman Bablu :The Bangladesh government has officially announced to close of hajj registration for this year leaving 58 percent vacant quota even after offering a one-day “special opportunity” on Tuesday. Only 53 115 aspirants have completed their registration, against the total quota of 1, 27,198. That means 74,083 slots remain vacant of quota allowed for Bangladesh.Due to a poor response, the religious affairs ministry earlier extended the deadline for registration twice. Leaders of Hajj Agencies Association of Bangladesh (HAAB) and...
UNB :Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samiti (BJKS), a passengers’ welfare platform, on Saturday demanded the government introduce 5,000 new high-quality buses on the streets under a company with the government’s management by removing existing rickety vehicles from the capital . Secretary General of the BJKS Md. Mozammel Haque Chowdhury raised the demand in a press conference organised at the city’s Dhaka Reporters Unity on Saturday morning. In a written statement, he said that the current government has pledged that the country...
News Desk :A cold snap sweeping over the north and northeast of Bangladesh is likely to spread to other areas, according to a weather forecast.The cold wave may continue for two days, meteorologist Hafizur Rahman told http://bdnews24.com on Saturday, reports bdnews24.comThe feel of cold will also increase, he said. In the forecast, Bangladesh Meteorological Department said the mild cold wave was sweeping over the districts of Rajshahi, Naogaon, Dinajpur and Moulvibazar. Moderate to thick fog may occur over the country...
Staff Reporter :Describing the country’s loan disbursement procedure as not sustainable one, the DCCI President Ashraf Ahmed has expressed the apprehension that investment in private sector and development of the same would not be possible without an increase in lending capability and liquidity in the banking sector. “Though all the fundamentals of the country’s economic growth are still in a better position, an uninterrupted gas supply has to be ensured for keeping the growth on,” he said while speaking at...
UNB :Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday said Bangladesh-India relations are growing from strength to strength.“Look forward...
Staff Reporter :In the wake of an ongoing gas crisis in household and industrial sector, the government has issued a warning about potential disruptions in electricity production at gas-powered plants in the coming days. In a disclosure on Saturday, the Ministry of Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources said that technical glitches at the Maheshkhali LNG terminal have led to a crisis in gas-based electricity production. “There is a disruption in the supply of LNG at the terminal in Maheshkhali due...
News Desk : A butcher has allegedly knifed another during a squabble over selling beef at a lower price in...
Gulam Rabbani : Barrister Abdullah Al Mamun, lawyer of Nobel laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, claimed that fundamental provisions of...