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The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday began gathering information about the investments made by former Bangladesh Chhatra League general secretary Siddique Nazmul Alam abroad and the sources of his earnings. ACC secretary Mohammad Delwar Bakht said at a news conference that after information coll...
Cloud is shrouding over the Education Act draft, banning private tuition, coaching, all kinds of note-guides and supportive books, as it has not been finalised.Keeping in view to enhance the capacity to learn and a lifelong willingness to face new things, in September 2017, the education ministry fi...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to investigate the casino kingpins, extortionists and tender manipulators across the country. The investigation will be carried out to extract information about their source of income, an official of the ACC told Bangladesh Post on Tuesday. In the wake of ...
The government has decided to closely monitor the activities of all field level administrative officers including DCs and UNOs. Government will mainly depend on reports from different intelligence agencies in this regard, sources said. The decision was taken recently at a meeting of the Cabinet Divi...
A heavy, late-autumnal downpour Tuesday, swamped the capital Dhaka, triggering water-logging in many areas and causing immense sufferings to city dwellers. The rains also crippled life in Dhaka as most of the roads in different parts of the capital went under ankle to knee-deep water. Roads in a num...
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Professor David B Sachar, a former icddr,b scientist, has been awarded with the Golden Goose Award 2019. Sachar was recognised for his over fifty years old research - ‘The Frog Skin That Saved 50 Million Lives’ conducted in Dhaka (then Dacca, East Pakistan) that led to the development of...
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Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday said the gross domestic product (GDP) growth of Bangladesh will reach 8.3 percent after the end of the current fiscal year 2019-20. The minister also said Bangladesh will reach double-digit GDP growth by 2024 as the government has taken massive developmen...
Despite decade long association, Papon says he has no idea about the activities of Lokman, chief of personal security of Khaleda Zia, but the picture below is the burning testimony of who Lokman is. Now the alleged involvement of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) President Nazmul Hasan Papon is coming ...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has continued its special eviction drives in different areas under its jurisdiction to free the roadsides and footpaths from encroachers. DNCC authorities on Monday conducted eviction drive in city’s Karwan Bazar, Farmgate, Uttora, Khilkhet and Mirpur ar...
With the government implementing huge socio-economic development programmes to hammer home the plan for earning Bangladesh the development status, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Sunday expressed his optimism that the country will be freed from the ills of hunger and poverty by 2030. Expressin...
Keeping the farmers’ interest and boosting of food output in mind, the government is planning to reduce the fertilizer price to help enhance the food exports and increase food grains' productivity in the country. Notably, the government did not increase any fertiliser prices in the last 11...
In seven years, the country has saved at least Tk 5,100 crore by properly following the existing public procurement system in purchasing different materials and equipment needed for implementing various development projects, said a study report of the World Bank on Sunday. World Bank released the re...
LGRD minister Md Tazul Islam has said that the government is mulling over bringing village court under revenue sector permanently to make the initiative more effective. He further said that if the village court continues to run under project, it will face gradually increasing difficulties to ensure ...
In less than a year casino godfathers have smuggled an estimated thousand crore taka abroad through various illegal channels, including hundis. The financial detectives of various law enforcing agencies have prepared a preliminary list of 36 people, including a dozen Jubo League leaders. Many of the...
The parliamentary standing committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry on Sunday heavily came down Biman Bangladesh Airlines asking the concerned ministry to submit the list of corrupt official before it. They expressed grave concern over the incident of taking $45 from sick passengers for usin...
The government has taken an initiative to set up 45 terminal pontoons at different river ports to develop the ports and improve the passenger services. State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury inaugurated the construction work of the pontoons at Ananda Shipyard at Meghnaghat in Narayngonj...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has decided to continue different programmes all the year round in a coordinated way to control mosquito-borne disease dengue. Apart from forming special governing body and rapid action team, the corporation has scale up survey, evaluation and research capabil...
The University Grants Commission (UGC)’s probe body has found the allegations against the vice-chancellor of the in Gopalganj based Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) are true. The probe body, formed to investigate allegations of sexual harassment, co...
All movable and immovable properties of 13 business institutions of the kingpins of “casino” business in the capita are going to be confiscated immediately, sources said Their bank accounts details will also be summoned. And the banks will also be instructed to provide all information wi...
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Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal hoped that 100 percent employment opportunity would be created for the people within next five years.He said the economic dynamism that will be created in the next 5 years, would contribute to create employment opportunity for percent of people within the year 2030...
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