 |
|
| Sections | |
|
|
|
|
Front Page
|
|
Flood Rehabilitation Assistance
WB, ADB pledge $390m
Suggest formation of steering committee to ensure project quality
The World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have pledged $390 million in the first phase of post-flood recovery programme.
|
|
|
49 Iraqi troops, US diplomat killed
5 civilians die in Fallujah raid
Rebels ambushed and killed 49 unarmed Iraqi soldiers and, in a separate attack yesterday, killed a US diplomat in a mortar strike near Baghdad airport.
|
|
|
BB finds suspicious transactions by Al-Haramain
Probe unable to unearth alleged terror-link
A Bangladesh Bank (BB) probe has found transactions of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi Arabia-based Islamic NGO, to be suspicious and are in breach of regulations.
|
|
|
Inflated budget of Dhaka Eastern Bypass rejected
Ecnec approves Tk 2,530-crore dev work
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) yesterday sent back the project proposal for Dhaka Eastern Bypass to the communications ministry considering the costing to be too inflated
|
 |
SC Bar joins CJ's court, boycotts get together
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday started joining the Chief Justice's (CJ) court but boycotted a post-vacation get together of judges and lawyers in protest against the presence of 19
|
 |
Mosque stands in link road's way
Tk 32cr Doyaganj-Jurain road not opened 2 yrs into construction
The Doyaganj-Jurain link road, constructed about two years ago by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), is yet to be opened as the authorities are in dilemma over the relocation of a mosque on the road
|
|
|
1m to get Saudi citizenship
1.3m Bangladeshi expatriates may make most of new law
A ray of hope has sparked in Bangladeshi expatriates living in Saudi Arabia for over10 years as a newly amended naturalisation law offers such long-staying people citizenship of the kingdom as well as
|
|
|
Poor oblivious of OMS
Misappropriation of allotment alleged
The government's Open Market Sale (OMS) programme passed its fourth day yesterday with many poor people in Dhaka and other parts of the country expressing their ignorance of any OMS centres in their areas
|
|
|
US Muslim leaders pull for Kerry
Washington Post backs Bush challenger
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has received the backing of leaders of the estimated seven-million-strong Muslim-American community, but the endorsement was lukewarm at best.
|
 |
Project success to deflate propaganda
PM asks party men
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday urged her party leaders and workers to deflate the opposition's "propaganda" through a mass campaign projecting successes of the three-year-old government.
|
|
|
6 die in accident in Bogra
Six people including three women were killed and three more critically injured as a passenger bus hit a |axi and a rickshawvan in Bogra'{ Nandigram upazila yesterday.
|
|
|
Top Khulna criminal dies in 'crossfire'
A listed top criminal and arms smuggler was killed in crossfire between the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and criminals in Labanchhara yesterday, said a Rab press release.
|
|
|
Two JCD men nabbed for extortion at Bakshibazar
The Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate's court yesterday placed Buet unit Joint Secretary of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Zakir Hossain and his associate Moniruzzaman on one-day remand after their arrest
|
|
|
Cobra arrestee dies at DMCH
Mohammad Enayet, 25, arrested by Cobra on October 22 from Mirpur succumbed to his injuries allegedly from torture in police custody, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.
|
|
|
B Chy, Kamal hold third dialogue in Mymensingh today
Jatiya Oikya Mancha and Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) hold their third Mass Dialogue (Gono Sanglap) under the parties' Gono Ishtehar Karjyokrom at 2:00pm at the conference lounge of Hotel Amir International
|
|
|
Injured BCL leader dies
A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader beaten up earlier by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) activists succumbed to his injuries yesterday evening sparking off tension at Godagari upazila.
|
|
|
Eu Constitution
Britain to hold vote in 2006
Britain will have its promised referendum on the European Union's new constitution in early 2006, just weeks after the country ends its six-month presidency of the 25-nation bloc, a newspaper has reported.
|
|
|
Captors kill 2 failing to get ransom
Two persons abducted on Wednesday for ransom have been slaughtered at Nazirerbagh in Keraniganj.
Police said Nuruzzaman, 28 and Nasir, 30, both tailors, were abducted from Aminpara of Chunkutia.
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Advertisement
|
