NEC clears biggest ever ADP

The National Economic Council on Thursday approved the biggest ever Tk 97,000 crore Annual Development Programme for the next fiscal year.

Govt’s 6.51pc GDP growth calculation raises eyebrows

The country’s economy has posted a growth of gross domestic product (GDP) by 6.51 per cent in the current fiscal year (2014-15) despite political unrest for three months of the second half of the fiscal year, according to a provisional estimate of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Interpol alert for Salah Uddin Ahmed.

Interpol’s Dhaka unit has sent a red notice to India, requesting it to arrest the man who claims to be BNP leader Salah Uddin Ahmed, reports Indian daily The Telegraph.Ahmed, 54, who identified himself as a Bangladeshi national,

Businesses seek transit fee imposition on India vessels.

Business leaders and experts on Wednesday suggested imposition of transit fees and service charges on the Indian vessels plying through Bangladesh and introduction of multimodal transport facility under the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade between the two countries

Khaleda calls on govt to release BNP men.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Wednesday demanded the release of leaders and activists of the opposition through immediate withdrawal of ‘politically-vindictive false cases’ and expedite the release of ailing senior leaders

Housewife, in-law murdered inside city apartment,

A housewife and her husband’s uncle were hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside their apartment in the capital’s Pallabi area Wednesday afternoon.The victims were Sweety Khatun, 27, and her in-law Aminul Islam, aged around 50.

Annisul slates police attack on protesters.

Dhaka north city mayor Annisul Huq on Tuesday lambasted the police for attacking protesters against sexual harassment of women on Pahela Baishakh.The protesters went to besiege the metropolitan police headquarters on Sunday..

SE Asia urged to save thousands of migrants.

Thousands of migrants believed to be stranded at sea without food and water could die unless Southeast Asian governments act urgently to rescue them, migrant groups and the UN warned Tuesday

Another blogger hacked to death.

Another blogger was hacked to death in Sylhet city on Tuesday morning triggering protests.The killing Sylhet unit Ganajagaan Mancha organiser Ananta Bijoy Dash, 33, took to four the number of bloggers killed since 2013,