Interest rates on savings tools to be re-fixed twice a year
The government will review and re-fix the interest rates on savings instruments twice in a year to tighten the widespread borrowing from the costly instruments as their skyrocketing sales put a dent on the economy.
7 YEARS OF AILA: 3,500 affected people still on embankments: greens
About 3,500 people in severely Aila affected areas of Dacope and Koyra upazilas in Khulna are still living on embankments even after seven years of the cyclonic storm that hit the country’s southwest region on May 25, 2009.
BUET VC Khaleda Ekram dies
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology vice-chancellor Khaleda Ekram died at a hospital in Bangkok early Tuesday at the age of 66.
Teachers face humiliation by MPs, ruling party men
Teachers are being subjected to humiliations and physical abuses by MPs and other politicians belonging to the ruling Awami League and its allies across the country.
Left without food, they look for relief
Thousands of people displaced by Cyclone Roanu that ravaged the Chittagong-Noakhali coasts on Saturday could not return to their badly damaged homesteads till Monday evening and were passing days without food.
Bangladesh exports to Turkey dip by 10pc in July-April
Country’s export earnings from Turkey in the July-April period of current financial year 2015-16 declined by 10.73 per cent to US$ 518.87 million from US$ 581.25 million in the same period of financial year 2014-15 due to fall of export of major item readymade garments.
Zafrullah for relocating Mujib’s grave to capital
Ganashasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury on Monday bemoaned that the army men in 1975 had not only made a terrible mistake by killing Bangabandhu but also done an unfair job by taking his body to Tungipara from the capital for burial.
Govt urged to announce 9th wage board for journalists
Sangbadik Sramik Karmachari Oikya Parishad leaders at a rally in the capital on Monday called on the government to announce the 9th wage board with a view to increasing the wages of journalists and workers working in the media houses.
Homeopath hacked to death, IU teacher injured
Three assailants riding on a motorbike hacked to death a homeopath and injured Kushtia University teacher in Kushtia on Friday morning when the victims were riding on another motorbike.
Cyclone Roanu may hit this afternoon
Cyclone ‘Roanu’, travelling over north and west central Bay of Bengal, is heading north-eastward towards Bangladesh and likely to cross the Barisal-Chittagong coast this afternoon.
