FROM PARLIAMENT: Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance Ministry submitted much-talked-about Grameen Bank Bill-2013 by keeping the provision to appoint chairman and managing director of the bank by the government after approval of central bank.Chairman of the Committee Lotus Kamal

KUSTIA: Two minors drown in a pond near Naokhadamipur area under Mirpur upazila of the district on Monday noon.The deceased were identified as Nazmul Islam, 7, son of Mujibur Rahaman Sarker and his cousin Jisan, 7, son of Ekramul Haque Sarker.  Locals and family sources said that the

DHAKA: The cabinet approved the draft of ‘Formalin Control Act-2013’ in a bid to stop mishandling of formalin with provisions for a maximum 10 years and minimum two years imprisonment and Tk 500,000 fine for violations.The approval came from a regular meeting of the cabinet held at

CHITTAGONG: A readymade garments official was killed in an accident as pickets chased a vehicle in the port city on Monday.The deceased was identified as M Zakir, son of Ali Hossain of Khulshi Dampara. He was a commercial manager of readymade garments of the city.Sources said pickets

DHAKA: The government has given approval the draft of the ‘Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust-2013’.The approval came from a regular meeting of the cabinet held at Secretariet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.After the meeting, cabinet secretary M Mosharraf Hossain

DHAKA: Pickets blasted two cocktails at Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) and Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court yards on Monday afternoon.The incident took place at 2:45pm, the first day of 60-hour nonstop hartal called by BNP-led 18-party alliance.Sources said hartal supporters

RIYADH: The law enforcement agency of Saudi Arabia arrested five Bangladeshi expatriates working at hotel Hilton in Madinah as the validity of their visa was over.Sources said Saudi authority arrested them when they were going to their workplace hotel Hilton. However, hotel Hilton

DHAKA: Election Commissioner M Shahnewaz on Monday categorically said army would be deployed in the next general elections to maintain law-and-order situation.The election commissioner came up with the disclosure while talking to journalists at his Election Commission Secretariat office

DHAKA: Some 157 bodies were identified after testing DNA of the unidentified 322 people died in Rana Plaza collapse at Savar.National DNA Profile Laboratory of Dhaka Medical College Hospital made the tests.Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment Mikail Shipar made the

DHAKA: A critically burnt passenger of CNG-run auto-rickshaw, which was blazed by hartal supporters Sunday night, died in the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Mostafizur Rahman, 35, purchase officer of Biswas Synthetic

NETROKONA: A Netrokona court on Monday sentenced lifetime imprisonment to 15 people, including four siblings, for their involvement in the killing of one Salam.Additional Session Judge Abdul Hamid passed the order at around 11.00am. The Judge also fined Tk 20,000 to each of the lifers. On

DHAKA: Second bilateral talks on ‘Defence and Military Strategy’ between Bangladesh and USA are set to be held from Tuesday (November 5) to Thursday (November 7) in Dhaka.US embassy in Dhaka confirmed the matter to banglanews.Sources from US embassy said that the talks will include

DHAKA: Main opposition BNP will hold a rally at Suhrawardy Udyan on Thursday afternoon to mark the National Revolution & Solidarity Day.The rally will be held at around 2:00pm.BNP office in-charge joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed made the disclosure in a press release on

NEW YORK: QuickBooks is an accounting software package, popular among small business owners who had no formal accounting training. The use of QuickBooks is very popular in United States of America and training in the usage of the software helps to get jobs quickly.Center for Human

GAZIPUR: A 14-year-old boy was completely burnt as hartal supporters set on fire at a covered van in Chandana intersection of the district on Monday morning.The victim is identified as Moniruzzaman of Kaliakoir upazila in the district.Witnesses said Moniruzzaman’s father was waiting for

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday claimed that journalists enjoy absolute freedom during the regime of Awami League.She came up with the observation while addressing an inauguration ceremony of the newly built 8-storey building of Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB) in the city this

NETRAKONA:  A passer-by was killed and a child injured after a tree, cutting by hartal supporters to create roadblock, fell on them in Kendua upazila of the district on Monday morning.  The deceased was identified as Abdus Salam, 40 of Ramnagar village of the upazila.The injured child

JAHAGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY: A section of teachers of Jahangirnagar University started sit-in demonstration at the residence of vice-chancellor professor Anwar Hossain demanding his resignation. Earlier, the protesting teachers went to VC’s residence at around 10:00pm Sunday and demanded

DHAKA: Britain is scrapping a plan to force visitors from six "high risk" countries to pay a cash bond of £3,000 (about R48,000), the interior ministry said on Sunday (UK time).The government had been preparing to pilot a scheme requiring visitors from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,

BRAHMANBARIA: Rail communications on Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Sylhet and Chittagong-Sylhet routes resumed after a 2-hour halt for faulty rail track on Monday morning.Some nuts and bolts of rail track had been loosen in Chinayr area of the district that halted rail communications on the