Grameen Bank started out with a tiny initiative in the village of Jobra in 1976. In 1983 it became a formal bank. Now in 2014 it has over 8.5 million borrowers. Right from the beginning we paid attention to two things: 1) borrowers build the habit of savings by putting money every week in

DHAKA: Police detained four fake DB police personnel from Banani mosque area in capital on Monday morning. The detainees are- Mamun, Abu Bakar, Mostafa Kamal and AL-Amin Dipu.  Sources said that a man was returning office around 11:00am withdrawing money from an ATM Booth. Then the

DHAKA: The International Youth Leadership Summit 2014 is going to be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in the city from Wednesday. Following the programme, Youth Leadership center organized a press conference at national press club VIP lounge in the city on Monday.

DHAKA: Five additional justices of the High Court have been regularized in the services on Monday.  President Abdul Hamid has confirmed the service of the judges with the consultation of Chief Justice according to Article 95 of the Constitution.  Ministry of law on Monday published

DHAKA: Peoples’ most favorite seasonal fruit mango turned to be poisonous itself following use of formalin and other chemicals, reveals a number of investigations carried out by banglanews teams. The contamination causing serious health hazards starts in growing level of mango and

DHAKA: Ahmed Hossain Khan, Director General of the Directorate General of Food has been sued for taking illegal financial advantages from consultant of a project funded by the World Bank.  Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed the case with Shahbagh Thana on Monday. Besides,

NAOGAON: Lightning claimed lives of a man and his wife when a thunderstorm swept Azul village under Mahadevpur upazila of the district on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Abdul Matin, 27 and his wife Benu Begum, 22.  Sources said that lightning struck the victims while

HABIGANJ: Rapid Action Battalion recovered huge amount of arms and ammunitions from deep forest of Satchhari in the district on Sunday night. Huge amount of arms and ammo including 54 anti-tank shells of canon, a barrel of machine gun and 633 rounds bullets of machine gun and rifle were

MUNSHIGANJ: A youth was shot dead by robbers in Shekhernagar Bazar area under Sirajdikhan upazila of the district on Monday morning. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.  Sources said that some 15/20 robbers started looting the houses in the area around 3:30am.

DHAKA: Bangladesh is likely to give an agreement proposal to neighbour Myanmar about Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP) to reduce dispute and tension in the border line of the two countries.   Bangladesh will raise the issue in a director general level meeting of Border Guard

FENI: In a latest development in Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul killing case, police arrested another accused, who incepted the car of Ekramul, from Birinchi area of the district town on Sunday night. The detainee is Saiful Islam Papan, 17. Confirming the matter, Feni Model Thana

MANIKGANJ: Three people were killed when a truck overturned in Shibaloy upazila of the district early Monday. The deceased were identified as Khalil Uddin, 60, Shamidul, 30 and Soyra, 40 of Alokdia char of the upazila. The accident took place around 5:00am, reported our Manikganj

DHAKA: Five people, including two members of Rapid Action Battalion, were held while they were grabbing land for a person illegally. The detained RAB men are Abdullah Al Mamun and Mizanur Rahman. Later, they were handed over to Uttarkhan Thana police. Uttarkhan Thana Officer-In-Charge

FROM PARLIAMENT: Commerce Minster Tofail Ahmed on Sunday said the existing law would be made tougher by amending to stop misuse of formalin. The minister made the assertion in response to a question from Chittagong-2 constituency lawmaker Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari standing on a point

DHAKA: Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud on Sunday said India was formally invited for a meeting of the Joint River Commission.A meeting in this regard would be held and the Teesta deal would be signed soon, he said.The Jatiya Party lawmaker came up with his hopes while talking

DHAKA: The government has given approval the recruitment rules for the investigation organization’s officer and employee of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT). The approval came from a meeting of the secretary-level committee on administrative development on Sunday. Cabinet

MOULVIBAZAR: Two siblings drowned in a pond at Raipur village of Kanakpur union under Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday noon.  The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately but their ages were between 7 and 8.  Local sources said a brother and her sister drowned at

DHAKA: Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on Sunday said the country’s alem-ulama (Islamic scholars) would no longer be able to cheat mothers over taking family planning by issuing ‘fatwa’. Nasim was addressing a program tilted “Lunching Ceremony of Update Union

FROM PARLIAMENT: State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said there is plan to make Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) an independent force as the force is an organizational unit of police. The elite force is being controlled by the Home Ministry. The home minister came up

CHITTAGONG: Nine people, including a senior superintendent and the jailer of Chittagong Central Jail, were sued over the death of a prisoner in the district on Sunday. Plaintiff Yakub Kaisar, younger brother of Zakir Hossain, 30–a convicted kidnapper who allegedly committed suicide