DHAKA: The World Day Against Child Labour will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe Saturday with an urge for tackling underlying poverty that breeds child labour, a problem Bangladesh finds hard to resolve.Some 80 lakh children are engaged in different jobs in the

DHAKA: A suspected criminal died Friday after his arrest by Rapid Action Battalion personnel in the capital a day before, police said.The deceased was identified as Biplob, 38, hailed from Gupinathpur in Gopalganj district.Uttara thana SI Kamrul Islam said they found Biplob after Juma

DHAKA: The Daily Amar Desh eventually couldn’t see the light of the day Friday for police action although the management, armed with a High Court order, took initiative for resuming its publication. Tejgaon Thana police kept the press locked since Thursday midnight though the High Court

Dhaka: The ruling Bangladesh Awami League is observing Friday the second anniversary of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s release from jail during the political topsy-turvy under the post-1/11 state of emergency.To mark the day, executive, presidium and advisory panel members of the party

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion personnel Friday found a local arms factory and recovered huge arms manufacturing materials at Horarbag village in Boalkhali upazila.Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-7, led by ASP Saidul Islam, raided the clandestine ordnance factory in the morning and

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion personnel Friday found a local arms factory and recovered huge arms manufacturing materials at Horarbag village in Boalkhali upazila.Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-7, led by ASP Saidul Islam, raided the clandestine ordnance factory in the morning and

JESSORE: Assailants slaughtered a local Awami League leader in Panchpukur Kadamtala area of Sharsha upazila early Friday amid an alarming turn in the incidence of crime in the area.The victim, Mujibur Rahman Maju, 25, was a local leader of the ruling party.Quoting family members police

DHAKA: The government increased budgetary allocation for developing country’s information-technology sector with a view to building ‘Digital Bangladesh’ that will board the whole of the country on the global information superhighway.In his budget speech in parliament Thursday,

Box:     Total outlay                 Tk 1,32,170 Cr             Revenue Income         Tk    92,847 Cr            Revenue Expenditure  Tk   93,670 Cr            Deficit                          Tk   

Dhaka: Undertaking newer schemes for the farm-sector development, the government proposed a total budgetary allocation of Tk 7,492 crore for the agriculture sector- both development and non-development combined-- for the FY 2010-11 with a subsidy of Tk 4,000 crore.While unveiling the

DHAKA: The government proposed to raise the prices of both cars and their fuel in the 2010-11 financial year, commencing next month, as a monetary measure to ease the ever-increasing traffic jam in the capital city.Finance Minister AMA Muhith made the twin-proposal to raise the price of

Dhaka: A proposal to allocate Tk 61.15 billion, 61.5 percent higher than the revised budget in energy and power sector, has been made for the 2010-11 fiscal year as the field is in urgent need of huge funds for tapping fuels.Finance Minister AMA Muhith in his budget announcement on

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith took exception to the state of country’s media and said the standard of professionalism in the field fell short of expectations. “At times, the level of professionalism in this field falls short of expectations and I feel saddened at the lukewarm

DHAKA:  The High Court Thursday reprimanded Jahangirnagar University Vice- chancellor Sharif Enamul Karim for blurting out “irresponsible comment” and disclosing the name of a victim of sexual harassment.The VC got the stick as he along with varsity Registrar Abu Bakr Siddique

Comilla: Two people were killed and four injured as a bus rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Homna road in Baldarampur area Thursday.Witnesses said a Dhaka-bound bus from Homna crashed into the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction at about 11:30am, killing the two on

DHAKA: Industries Minister Dilip Barua Thursday urged local entrepreneurs to come forward for flourishing homegrown industrial enterprises to build an industrially developed Bangladesh.The minister made the call while inaugurating an industrial promotion exhibition styled ‘Amar Ponya

DHAKA: Four people, including a police ASI of Pallabi thana, were wounded by bullet in separate encounters in Kadamtali and Pallabi areas of the capital early Thursday.  Official sources said Kadamtali police, taking an arrested “miscreant” named Gopal with them, went to Shyampur

DHAKA: To the cheers of Amar Desh journalists, the High Court Thursday stayed for three months the government decision canceling the declaration of the Bengali daily. As the legal bar is lifted, the newspaper is likely to go on print Thursday, its City Editor Syed Abdal Ahmed told

DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith is to table the new national budget in parliament in few hours, likely with a total outlay of Tk 132,000 crore—a substantial quantum of the money could be reckoned as deficit finance.This will be the 39th National Budget of the country and 2nd for the

Comilla: At least 17 minority people were injured and their dwellings damaged in an attack by neighbours at Adda village in Barura upazila on Wednesday night.Police and witnesses said Kalpana Das, wife of Gouranga Das of the village, had an altercation with neighbour Ohab Ali on Wednesday