Tanners set rawhide price 28pc lower than last year
The leather sector leaders on Wednesday announced the prices of rawhide of sacrificial animals setting 26-28 per cent lower than the prices of last year citing fall in prices and slow demand in the international market.
TANGAIL KILLINGS : Police officer withdrawn still investigating case
A Kalihati police officer, who led a team during September 18 shooting in Ghatail and Kalihati and was withdrawn from the police station, was still serving at Kalihati and investigating one of two cases the police filed following the four killings.
Thousands leave capital
With Eid-ul_Azha only a day away, tens of thousands of people left the capital Wednesday,the last working day, by buses, trains and water vessels to celebrate the great festival of sacrifice at ancestral homes in the countryside.
PM flies to NY today to attend 70th UNGA
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina leaves for New York today morning on an eight-day official visit to the United States to attend the 70th United Nations General Assembly. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the prime minister and members of her entourage is scheduled to take off at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 9:45am.
ADB projects 6.7pc growth for FY16
Bangladesh economy may grow by 6.7 per cent in the current financial year 2015-16, up from a 6.51 per cent growth that the country achieved in the last fiscal year, the Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday.
14,117 SIMs registered with one NID, says Tarana
The government in its verification of SIM registration with national identity card has found that 14,117 SIM cards were registered with one NID and over 11,000 with anther NID, said telecom state-minister Tarana Halim on Tuesday.
QUESTION LEAK IN MBBS INTAKE : 3 physicians, 4 teachers held
Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday arrested seven people, including three physicians and teachers of two coaching centres, in from Rangpur city over question leak in the admission test for medical and dental colleges, while admission seekers continued protests for fresh admission tests for the fourth day on Tuesday.
Cattle traders face extortions on highways
Several cattle traders from different corners of the country said Tuesday that they suffered extortions on the highways while bringing sacrificial animals to the capital’s cattle markets by trucks.
CLIMATE VULNERABILITY : France, Germany express empathy
France and German foreign ministers on Monday expressed empathy for the vulnerability of Bangladesh in the face of climate change and hoped the next climate conference, scheduled for November in Paris, would come up with some concrete measures to address the concern.
Fakhrul returns home
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir returned home tonight (Monday night) after taking medical treatment abroad for nearly two months, report United News of Bangladesh. ‘Mirza Fakhrul arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport by a Singapore Airlines flight around 10:40pm,’ BNP chairperson’s media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB. Senior BNP leaders, including Abdullah Al Noman, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Asaduzzaman Ripon, Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu, Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal and Imran Saleh Prince, received him at the airport.
