The National Citizen Coordination Cell for Enforcement of Vested Property Return Act today called for immediate implementation of the verdict given by the Vested Property Return Appeal Tribunal.
The coordination cell, an alliance of nine organisations, made the demand at a press conference held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU).
“The government has enacted ‘Vested Property Return (amendment) Act, 2011 in the parliament on December 11 in 2011 as demanded by the minority community, victims and
citi...
Barely one year into the previous hike, the government has planned to further increase prices of gas for household use.
Monthly prices of gas supplied to single-burner stoves have been proposed Tk 1,000 instead of the existing price of Tk 600 and for double-burners Tk 1200 has been proposed instead of the existing Tk 650. Every unit of compressed natural gas (CNG) for vehicles has been proposed to increase to Tk 58 from Tk 35.
The Bangladesh Energy Regulat...
Teachers and students of Rajshah University English department continued their demonstration on the campus on Saturday, the 56 days of the murder of killing Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, demanding justice into killing.
At 11am, teachers and students of the department brought out a silent procession from 
Shohidullah Khola building on campus which ended at a brief rally in Mukul Monch, a makeshift platform set up after nick name of slain professor.
Addressing the rall...
Tomorrow (June 06, 2016) is the second death anniversary of Mahbubul Alam, former editor of English daily The Independent.
Alam, also a former caretaker government adviser, began his journalism career in the mid-1950s and was deeply associated with the profession till his death. He passed away in 2014
at the age of 78.
The veteran journalist also worked as minister (press) at the Bangladesh mission in Washington DC and London and as Bangladeshi ambassador to Bhutan.
He was also managing directo...
Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) and BURO Bangladesh jointly organized a workshop for commercial expansion of banana fiber-based products on 29 May 2016 at Regional Cooperative Institute at Doghoria in Narsingdi district under the project ‘Socio-economic empowerment of women through promotion of natural fiber-based products from agricultural wastages’. BWCCI in partnership with BURO Bangladesh has been implementing the project to build capacity of 2000 women entrepreneurs for producing handicrafts from banana and pineapple fiber, thus to reduce poverty and empower women with the funding support from European Union and Ministry of Industries, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh under its Bangladesh INSPIRED programme.
Ms. Gulshan Nasrin Chowdhury...
Bangladesh Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BWCCI) and BURO Bangladesh organized a workshop on Commercial Expansion of Banana Fiber Based Products on 24 May 2016 at Conference Room of Human Resource Development Center, BURO Bangladesh at Registrypara, Tangail. The project ‘Socio- economic empowerment of women through promotion of natural fiber-based products from agricultural wastages’ under Bangladesh INSPIRED programme funded by European Union and Ministry of Industries, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has been being implemented by BWCCI to build capacity of 2000 women entrepreneurs for producing handicrafts from banana and pineapple fiber, thus to reduce poverty and empower women where BURO Bangladesh is the partner of BWCCI for the project.
