City
The Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) has urged Bangladesh and its other member states to collaborate for observing July 6 as World Rural Development Day.The urged was made while newly appointed CIRDAP’s Director General presented his credentials to forei...
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Thursday said 45 percent corals of the Saint Martin’s Island have been bleached and the rest are likely to be damaged by 2045 if economic activities cannot be controlled.“Corals can be recovered through controlling eco...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Sarah Cooke on Thursday paid a courtesy call on Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed at his office in the Supreme Court in the capital.The British envoy, during the meeting, lauded different initiatives take by the chief justice recently to institutionalize the freed...
Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (RAJUK) with the assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), held the third Transit Oriented Development (TOD) seminar in the capital.The progress of the project activities and content of TOD policy were presented at the seminar titled "The Projec...
Country, Districts
City mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain said a dengue management center and a large dialysis center for kidney patients will be opened soon under the auspices of Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) in the city.\ Dr Sahadat revealed this to reporters after visiting Memon Maternity Hospital of CCC on Wednesday a...
Sports,Cricket
Bangladesh captain Najmul Hossain Shanto took the responsibility of a frustrating defeat to Afghanistan in the first of the three-match ODI series, saying that his dismissal led to a sensational meltdown that caused the side's 92-run defeat.After wrapping up Afghanistan for 235, Bangladesh looke...
National,World
Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossain today expressed confidence that there would not be a significant shift in the United States policy towards Bangladesh under Donald Trump's administration compared to the current Biden's government."There is no need to speculate. We will wait and engage ...
National,Politics
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Thursday said it is very important to unite all nationalist forces with the spirit of November 7 to ensure progress of democracy and protect independence and sovereignty of the country.He said this in a message on his verified Face...
Two brothers of Shaheed Abu Sayed, the first student killed during the July-August mass uprising, met Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in the capital on Wednesday. The brothers brought ‘Salam’ and a message of good wishes from their parents, ...
National,Back Page
A total of 183 Bangladeshis stranded in conflict-ridden Lebanon returned home on Tuesday night with the support of the Foreign Affairs and Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment ministries, Bangladesh mission in Beirut and International Organization for Migration (IOM).Of these returnees, ...
US Vice President Kamala Harris wrapped a day on the campaign trail Saturday with a surprise appearance on "Saturday Night Live," mocking her presidential election rival Donald Trump on the sketch show.Appearing in the long-running series's "cold open" -- the sketch before th...
Increasing women's participation in nation-building activities is essential for their empowerment in the process of building a youth-driven prosperous, discrimination-free and accountable Bangladesh.The opinion came on Tuesday at a women's rally organized by the District Information Office (...
Journalists are the pillar of the country and news is the mirror of society as only journalists can call and write white as white and black as black."We can see and know the image of the country and society through journalists," said newly appointed Divisional Commissioner Shahidul Islam i...
Business & Commerce
Newly joined Deputy Commissioner (DC) in the district Afia Akhter has said misdeeds committed during the previous fascist regime will not return."Victory of the anti-discriminatory student movement has generated scopes for doing better for the society and the nation as a whole and we will do th...
A court in Rangpur on Tuesday sentenced a man to death and seven others to life term imprisonment for killing a woman and her son in Ullapara upazila of the district in 2019.District Additional and Sessions Judge Mohammad Erfan Ullah handed down the verdict to Hafijul Islam, 40, a resident of Purba ...
The government on Wednesday approved separate proposals for procuring some two cargos of LNG, 50,000 MTs of wheat, 50,000 MTs of non-Basmati boiled rice and 30,000 tons of fertilizer to meet the growing demand of the country.The approval was given at the 11th meeting (2024) of the Advisers Coun...
Japanese auto giant Toyota kept its annual net profit forecast unchanged on Wednesday, despite logging a 26 percent drop for the first half of this financial year.The world's top-selling automaker said unit sales were hit by production cuts in its home market, related to a failure to fully compl...
Stock markets on Wednesday finished the session of the week flat as the major indices of the both Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges showed no significant rise amid lower activities of large-cap securities.The benchmark index of the Dhaka bourse closed the day with 17.93 points down at 5,347.08. T...
Bangladesh and the European Union (EU) started two-day introductory meeting in Dhaka on Tuesday setting the stage for future negotiations on a Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation Agreement aimed at elevating bilateral relations.Additional Foreign Secretary (Bilateral) Dr Md Nazrul Islam and De...
National,World,Politics
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Wednesday said the interim government hopes that the existing relations between Bangladesh and the USA will reach a new height during the tenure of newly elected US President Donald Trump. "We welcome this (his win). We hope Bangla...
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