Yaba comes thru Indian border too
Yaba pills are being smuggled into Bangladesh through Indian border besides large scale smuggling through Myanmar border and sea route, causing fresh concerns among security officials during the ongoing anti-drug drives.
FID directs BB to punish errant leasing cos
Financial Institution Division has asked Bangladesh Bank to take actions against the errant non-bank financial institutions in the backdrop of growing allegations against them.
FM hopeful of resolving common river water-sharing issues with India
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday expressed the hope that Bangladesh and India would gradually resolve the water-sharing issues of all common rivers, including the Teesta, as the two countries had already solved some big issues.
90pc Dhaka residents victims of air pollution: green activists
Green activists on Saturday voiced deep concern that around 90 per cent of the residents in Dhaka city were affected by serious dust pollution and urged the authorities concerned to take effective steps to check it.
Donald Trump's long and dramatic history with Jeff Bezos
On Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took the extraordinary step of posting a personal essay alleging that the National Enquirer offered to bury embarrassing personal photos of him -- stemming from an extramarital affair -- if an investigator working for Bezos would stop referring
Death of girl, 10, shines spotlight on child abuse in Japan
The death of a 10-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands of her abusive father after authorities failed to respond to pleas for help, has prompted soul searching in Japan as the country comes to terms with a record number of child abuse cases.
‘Lebanon takes its time, and so it should!’
SO THE agony lingers on in Lebanon. Yet again, it is taking months to form a government acceptable to everybody, or which the government can sell to everybody.
100-year Delta Plan threat to deltaic equilibrium: experts
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 threatens the natural equilibrium that sustained the world’s largest delta for centuries, said geologists and hydrologists.
BNP to reconstitute front organisations by April
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party as part of its plan to revamp the party to overcome its debacle in the December 30 parliamentary elections, marred by flaws and fraud, has initiated a move to reconstitution three fornt organisations.
Vitamin A plus campaign today without ‘substandard’ Indian capsule
The national vitamin A plus campaign postponed about three weeks ago after problems were found in texture of vitamin capsules will be held today with locally produced vitamin capsules.
