B’desh can accelerate growth using youth bulge: UNDP report
Bangladesh is now a home to 10.56 crore of working-age people, creating an excellent opportunity for the country to accelerate its growth by properly utilising the demographic dividend.
Defaulted industrial loans post 17.77pc rise in H1
The total amount of defaulted loans in the industrial sector in the July-December period was Tk 2,980.03 crore higher than that in the same period of the previous fiscal year, 2014-15, due to a dull business environment and a lack of effective loan recovery measures by the scheduled banks and the non-bank financial institutions.
Chhatra Union’s 64th founding anniv observed
Bangladesh Chhatra Union on Tuesday observed its’ 64th founding anniversary on Dhaka University campus.
RU professor murder: Madrassah teacher, imam held
Police arrested the imam of a mosque and a madrassah teacher in connection with the murder of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee from the slain teacher’s village home at Baghmara on Tuesday.
LGBT magazine editor killing: No arrest yet
Two cases were field for the killing of Xulhaz Mannan, one of the editors of the country’s first LGBT magazine Roopban, and his friend Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy in Xulhaz’s Kalabagan apartment in Dhaka on Monday, but none was arrested.
LGBT mag editor, friend hacked to death
The country’s first LGBT magazine Roopban’s one of the editors Xulhaz Mannan and his theatre activist friend Khandaker Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were hacked to death by a group of youths at Xulhaz’s Kalabagn apartment in the capital on Monday.
Most banks yet to install ATM anti-skimming devices
Most of the country’s scheduled banks have missed the deadline for installing anti-skimming devices at their automated teller machines (ATM) to prevent fraud.
RU teacher murder: MP Badshah finds police negligence
Police is yet to unearth the mystery behind the killing of Rajshahi University’s English professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee even three days into the murder.
Tonu rape, murder: Students observe half-day strike
Seventeen students were detained and over 100 injured during clashes with police as two left-leaning students’ alliances observed a countrywide half-day strike on Monday protesting the government’s failure to arrest the killers of Sohagi Jahan Tonu.
Teachers help leaking question: Nahid
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Monday said that a section of teachers were helping to leak question just before beginning of exams.
