DHAKA: The Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh (AMTOB), the platform of all six cellular operators’ in the country, announced Ziad Shatara, CEO of Banglalink and Vivek Sood, CEO of Grameenphone as Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of the association’s Executive

DHAKA: A prescheduled meeting between visiting Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has been cancelled as Hun fell sick on Tuesday.The minister, meanwhile, visited the ailing Hun at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka Hotel in the city.After

DHAKA: A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident in city’s Uttara House Building area on Monday evening. The deceased was identified Mokhlesur Rahman Abir, 40, hailed from Bhuapur upazila of Tangail district. Quoting witnesses, Assistant Sub Inspector of Uttara West Thana Hafiz,

TONGI: An 8-year old minor girl was killed after a wall of a school collapsed upon her in Faydabad area of Dakkhinkhan Thana in capital on Monday. The deceased was Rakiba, daughter of Ripon Mia of the area and student of Faydabad Primary School. Sources said a wall of Faydabad Model

DHAKA: Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Benzir Ahmed on Monday categorically said they would file attempt to murder cases against those involved in mixing formalin in the food items. The city police chief came up with the assertion in a discussion meeting on the occasion of

FROM JATIYA SANGSAD: Bifurcated Dhaka City Corporations (North and South) have some Tk 195.43 crore due for municipal taxes.  Of the total amount, South has Tk 60.52 crore due while the North has Tk 135.91 crore municipal tax due. These include residential and business taxes. Local

DHAKA: In a latest development in the public administration, some seven no-cadre officials were made as assistant secretaries.Ministry of Public Administration issued a circular in this regard on Monday. The newly promoted assistant secretaries are health ministry’s personal official

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali is going to visit Saudi Arabia on Monday to join the 41st Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of Islamic countries. The session will be held in Jeddah on June 18-19, for ‘Exploring Areas for Islamic Cooperation’. Wishing

DHAKA: A deal has been signed as per which Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will lend Tk 9,196 crore for five projects of Bangladesh. Secretary M Mesbah Uddin of Economic Relations Department (ERD) on behalf of Bangladesh and Mikio Hatada from JICA signed the agreement in a

JESSORE: Twin sisters drowned in a pond at Dhalda village under Sharsha upazila of the district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Rimi and Jhimi, three and half years old and daughters of Shahidul Islam of the area. Family sources said the two siblings went missing around

NILPHAMARY: A district Court on Monday awarded death penalty to seven people and jailed two others for life in over sensational Abdul Jabbar murder case. Additional District and sessions Judge Reza Md Alamgir Hasan passed the order at noon. They also fined Tk 10,000 each, in default to

DHAKA: Ibrahim Hossain Khan, an OSD (officer on special duty) of Public Administration Ministry, has been made new administrator of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC). Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification in this regard on Monday afternoon. Ibrahim Hossain

FROM MALAYSIA: Once the Bangladeshis were treated with some negative body language as ‘Bangla’ in Malaysia but those neglected Bangalees have built Malaysia a dream land for the last two decades by dint of their labor and merit.   The contribution of the Bangladeshi labors to making

DHAKA: It has been proved over the years that women entrepreneurs return their loans properly. So, the government can provide soft loans to them. The government can also establish a specialized bank for women with a view to involving the section of populace in business. This will be

DHAKA: At least 11 people including three of a family were killed and scores injured in separate road accidents in Chittagong, Bandarban, Sirajganj and Dinajpur districts on Monday.   Banglanews district and local correspondents report as bellow- CHITTAGONG: Three persons, including

DHAKA: The cabinet on Monday has approved the draft of Coastguard Act-2014 keeping the provision of death penalty, the highest punishment of mutiny.  Cabinet secretary Mosharrf Hossain Bhuiyan made the disclosure after a regular meeting in the noon. BDST: 1453 HRS, JUN 16, 2014

DHAKA: The government fixed 9:00am to 3:30pm with a 15-minute break from 1:15pm to 1:30pm as the office hours for all public, autonomous, semi-autonomous office during the month of holy Ramadan. The decision was taken at a regular meeting of cabinet in city on Monday.  The Supreme

DHAKA: Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed urged USA for duty and quota free access in its market for the RMG at a seminar at Harvard University on Saturday.    He also urged the US government to waive the hefty tariff imposed on Bangladesh’s RMG products. Tofail made the urge at an

DHAKA: The government knows nothing about the arrest of Nur Hossian, the prime accused of Narayanganj 7-murder, by Kolkata police.   Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) minister Syed Ashraful Islam came up with the claim in response to a query of journalists after inaugurating

DHAKA: A delegation of US embassy to Dhaka visited the Bihari camp at Kalshi in city's Mirpur area on Monday morning. The team went to the spot around 10:30am and talked to the victims and relatives of the incidents. Earlier on Friday, ten people, including six member of a family, were