MUNICIPAL MAYORAL RACE : BNP on the lookout for 13 candidates

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party might choose mayoral candidates for 13 municipalities where nomination papers of it candidates were cancelled while the ruling Awami League had mayoral candidates for all the 234 municipalities.

All blocked apps, sites unblocked : Tarana

The state minister for post and telecommunications, Tarana Halim, on Monday said she had instructed unblock all blocked communication apps and social networking sites.

B’desh pvt sector needs to be strengthened

World Bank senior vice-president and chief economist Kaushik Basu on Monday said the Bangladesh’s private sector should be strengthened more to promote lifestyle of the people.

Now access to Skype, Tweeter, Emo blocked

The Bangladesh Telephone Regularity Commission on Sunday instructed the IIG and mobile phone operators to block access to social media services Skype, Tweeter and Emo in Bangladesh.

WB chief economist for easing B’desh business process, increasing investment

World Bank senior vice president and chief economist Kaushik Basu on Sunday said Bangladesh has to ensure easy business process and speed up the investment-GDP ratio to increase economic growth to eight per cent from the existing of 6.50 per cent or 6.70 per cent.

Muhith unveils IDCOL’s new logo

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Monday unveiled the new logo of Infrastructural Development Company Limited at a hotel in the capital.

Journalist Faruque killed in road accident

Former deputy editor of Bangla daily Kaler Kantha Abdullah Al Faruque died at Square Hospital on Sunday morning after being hit by a truck in the city’s Kakrail area early Sunday. He was 53.

Martyred Intellectuals Day today

The nation commemorates today the countless intellectuals who embraced martyrdom in the hands of Pakistani occupation army and its local killing squads on this day in 1971.

Keep country safe from BNP-Jamaat hyenas: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday urged all to strengthen the hands of Awami League so that the country cannot go under the grip of hyenas like BNP-Jamaat. ‘Let the hands of Awami League be strengthened so that the parties of hyenas cannot play with the fate of people,’ she said.

Khaleda asks party leaders to go to local areas for electioneering

Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia Saturday night asks party leaders to go to their local areas to take part in electioneering in the upcoming municipal polls, and stay in the race till last moment.