Business & Commerce
After witnessing a downward trend in the last several sessions, indices of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Monday rebounded as investors remained active on sector-wise issues.After witnessing volatility, DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 12.38 points or 0.24 per cent to settle at 5,173....
The big, medium and small investors are expected to get benefits soon from the capital market as the government has taken various steps to give support to the bourses.Initiatives have already been taken to enlist state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the capital market to expand its size and creating ne...
City
A Dhaka court on Sunday exempted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir from the charges in a defamation case.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Arafatul Rakib passed the order; also exempting BNP standing committee members Amir Khasru Mahmud Choudhury,...
Over 2 lakh local and foreign tourists visited the Sundarbans in fiscal 2023-24, helping the government earn Tk 3.61 crore as revenue from the world's largest mangrove forest, officials said.While talking to BSS, Khulna Zone Conservator of Forest Mihir Kumar Doe said a total of 2, 11,057 tourist...
National,Front Page
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman today expressed the hope that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina would come back home and face the trial."If you all examine her statements, (you would see) her favorite line was - 'if you have the courage, come back and face trial.' It was her philosoph...
National,Back Page
Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Dr Shafiqur Rahman on Saturday said they want trial of killers of worthy sons of the soil under the same law and tribunal what they (killers) used to kill them illegally. "We don't want to take revenge of what repression they carried out on our party...
In view of the upcoming tourism season, Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to operate eight special trains to ferry tourists on the Dhaka-Chattogram-Cox's Bazar route from October 23 to 27."Bangladesh Railway is going to launch eight special trains on the Dhaka-Chittagong-Cox's Bazar-Dhak...
Country, Districts
Around nine lakh juvenile girls will be given Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines aimed at protecting them from being attacked with various diseases, particularly cervical cancer, in Rajshahi division.The girls aged between 10 to 14 years will be given the vaccines during the forthcoming 18-day HPV ...
Sports,Cricket
Bangladesh saw a golden opportunity to win their first ever Test series against South Africa given the visitors’ dismal record in Sub-continent.South Africa might have never lost a Test to Bangladesh but they couldn’t register any victory on Sub-continent in the last 10 years.The two tea...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has simplified foreign exchange rules through three separate circulars, allowing banks to remit different types of payments abroad without its approval.The rules will apply to banks making payments to accounts that handle lease rentals by airlines incorporated in Bangladesh.It w...
Omar Bin Nurul Abshar, a brilliant student of Bangladesh Airlines Training Centre (BATC), who completed 12 of the 13 modules of the three-year course, got an opportunity to work in US-Bangla Airlines.But the dream of the 24-year-old youth to become an aeronautical engineer was shattered as he sustai...
Due to the steps taken by the government, the price of egg at the retail level dropped by Tk 25 to 30 per dozen at different markets in the capital.To make egg affordable to people, the government has permitted its import with a reduced import duty. The 25 percent import duty has been cut to 5 perce...
Mahmudur Rahman, publisher and editor of the Daily Amar Desh has sought government support for republishing the vernacular daily.Preparations are going on for printing the daily by next December, he said at a press conference at Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Friday.Awami League government canc...
A total of 33,000 teenage girls will be brought under immunization in Khulna city during the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine programme beginning on October 24.All the girls aged between 10 and 14 will be vaccinated during the 18-day-long vaccination programme. The information was revealed during ...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday urged the international community to come forward to end the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh saying the crisis has been posing serious threat to the country’s economy .He made the call when the newly appointed Non-Resident Ambassadors of Belarus and Est...
Each family of those who sacrificed their lives in July-August anti-discrimination movement will be provided Taka 30 lakh for their rehabilitation."This money will be provided from July Shaheed Smriti Foundation," Mahfuj Alam, Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser, told a press briefing a...
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, on Thursday said that the government would also take a long-term programme for elephant conservation.Under the short-term programme, initiatives will be taken to improve the natural habitat of elephants, ensure their safe breed...
A two-day training on capacity building for district level resource pool members concluded at SKS Inn in Radhakrishnapur area under Sadarupazila in the district on Thursday.District Relief and Rehabilitation office arranged the training under the project of Child Centered Anticipatory Action for Bet...
The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) on Wednesday issued a directive to heads of all secondary level educational institutions throughout the country to reinstate separate three groups - science, humanities, and business studies - in class IX and Class X.A DSHE directive signed by...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday visited Dhaka University campus here to see the graffiti drawn by young revolutionaries during the student-led mass uprising in July and August.During the visit, Law Adviser Prof Dr Asif Nazul, Information and Broadcasting Adviser Nahid Islam, Yout...
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