UNB, Dhaka The officially stipulated campaign period for nearly 650 Union Parishads across 47 districts of the country ends at midnight, 32 hours before voting opens on Thursday. All types of rallies, processions and showdowns will remain prohibited in the election areas from Tuesday midnight to Saturday midnight. “No one can carry out any type…
UNB, Dhaka The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday arrested a a man posing as a director of the commission on Tuesday. An ACC team detained the fake director Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury from the city’ Khilkhet area, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
UNB, Dhaka BNP on Tuesday suggested quizzing the authorised officials of the Bangladesh Bank in connection with the heist of $101 million from the Bangladesh Bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to unearth its mystery. “The mystery behind the heist will get debunked if the authorised persons, having the password, physical…
UNB, Mymensingh The upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Trishal was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Boilor in the upazila on Tuesday afternoon. Officer-in-charge of Trishal Police Station M Moniruzzaman said the accident took place as a bus hit the motorcycle of UNO Rashedul Islam, 37, from behind around 5:45pm while he…
UNB, Dhaka The board of Biman Bangladesh Airlines has been reconstituted with former Air Force chief Air Marshal (retd) Muhammad Enamul Bari as its new chairman. The 13-member Biman board has been reconstituted in light of the Bangladesh Biman Corporation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2007, the Company Act, 1994 and Article of Association of Biman Bangladesh Airlines…
UNB, Dhaka The Center for Excellence-Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CFE-DM) has appreciated Bangladesh’s efforts in significantly improving its disaster preparedness terming Bangladesh a ‘regional example of courageous progress’. “Despite the vulnerability of Bangladesh to cyclones and other natural disasters, the country has made a significant progress in improving its disaster preparedness,” said Director of…
UNB, Sherpur A speedy tribunal here on Tuesday convicted four men and sentenced three of them to death and the other life term imprisonment for killing a schoolboy after abduction in Sherpur on August 2, 2015. The condemned convicts are Abdul Latif, uncle of the victim boy, Aslam Babu and Rabin Hossain while the lifer…
UNB, Dhaka The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Tuesday approved eight development projects with an outlay of Tk 1,442.42 crore, including one to set up the second campus of the Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University involving Tk 238.87 crore. The approval came from the 25th Ecnec meeting of the current…
UNB, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Satrasta to Ramna Thana part of the ongoing Moghbazar-Mouchak Flyover Project on today. The inaugural ceremony will be held at Officers’ Club in the city. The 8.25-km flyover is being constructed in three parts — from Holy Family Hospital to Tejgaon; Kakrail to Rampura, and Mouchak…
BSS, Dhaka A new four-storey Barrack Complex for the President Guard Regiment (PGR) has been inaugurated in the capital. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally opened the newly-constructed Barrack building through unveiling its plaque at Ganobhaban Complex here on Tuesday. The barrack has been constructed at a cost of Taka 8.42 crore allocated as a special…