City
Dhaka has expressed its keen interest to work with Brazil to further strengthening the political and economic ties for the benefit of both the nations and to take the existing bilateral relations to a new height.This was observed when Brazilian ambassador to Bangladesh Paulo Fernando Dias Feres paid...
A Dhaka court on Friday placed former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on seven-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of Daffodil International University student Ramij Uddin Rup in the capital's Karwan Bazar area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.Dhaka Metropolit...
Country, Districts
Wildlife Olympiad was held at Nilphamari Government High School ground in the district on Friday to create awareness about wildlife protection.Rezaul Karim of Nilphamari Forest Officer inaugurated the Wildlife Olympiad as the chief guest this morning with Nalini Kanti Roy head teacher of the Nilpham...
All preparations have been completed for the celebration of the Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, from October 9 in the city as elsewhere in the district, with due religious fervor and enthusiasm. Sources at District Puja Udjapan Parishad said the Durga...
World
President Kais Saied, elected democratically before staging a power grab in 2021, sees himself as a man on a divine mission for Tunisia, but critics see him as ushering in a new authoritarian regime.Clean-shaven, with an unwaveringly upright and slender figure, Saied has a stiff demeanour and no soc...
Of all Nobel Peace Prizes, the one awarded 30 years ago to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is among the most controversial, featuring a laureate branded a terrorist, a jury member's resignation and a bloodbath.On October 14, 1994, a year after the signing of the Oslo Accords, the Peace Pri...
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will be celebrated at 106 mandaps in all seven upazilas of the district this year.The festival will begin on October 9 with due respect and religious fervor across the country and end on October 12 with immersion of the idol...
Water levels in all the three major rivers of Chapainawabganj district mark further rise during the last 24 hours. Water level rose seven centimetres in Padma, seven centimetres in Mohananda and 11 centimetres in Punarvaba during the last 24 hours, according to District Water Development Board ...
Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (RWASA) is planning to install meters in its service connection points aimed at reducing system loss.All water connections will be metered to ensure equity and reduce wastage upon successful implementation of the metering system.RWASA authority revealed t...
National,Back Page
Newly married Bithi Khatun never think about cruel fate of her life as she spent honeymoon period with her husband Ashiqur Rahman.Irony of fate is that Bithi could not celebrate her first marriage anniversary because her husband Asiqur Rahman sustained bullet injuries during the anti-discrimination ...
Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Thursday said the government has taken an initiative to strengthen exploration work for natural gas aimed at mitigating the prevailing energy crisis. "The energy crisis is being created due to declining gas reserves ...
Business & Commerce
Bangladesh and South Korea have expressed strong interest in advancing negotiations to conclude an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), aimed at addressing the growing trade imbalance between the two countries.This was highlighted during a meeting between South Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Park ...
Foreign Adviser Md Touhid Hossin on Wednesday expressed optimism for enhanced solidarity among Arab nations and the broader international community in their collective efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict. He made the remark while Egypt ambassador to Bangladesh Omar Mohie Eldin Ahmed F...
Md Shahin, a student of class IX of Polashihata High School and College in Fulbaria of Mymensingh, who was injured in the anti-discrimination student movement on August 5, is passing agonizing days in the hospital.With excruciating pain in his leg, Shaheen looks despondent thinking about his future,...
Art& Culture
The top 10 universities of the United States (US) have expressed their keenness to cooperate in improving the quality of higher education and research in Bangladesh through the University Grants Commission (UGC).A delegation of Public Diplomacy Section officials of the US Embassy in Dhaka on Wednesd...
Preparation for celebrating the forthcoming Durga Puja, the largest religious festival for the Hindu community, is going on everywhere in Rajshahi division.Idol makers commonly known as Pauls are passing their busy days in the final touch works of idols of Hindu deities. With only ten days left, the...
From now on, Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) will be able to take up to Tk10 lakh loan from banks based on bank-customer relationships without collaterals."To widen the financing facilities, it has been decided that banks can extend loans to NRBs for bonafide purposes on banker-customer relati...
Foreign Adviser Md. Touhid Hossain has urged European businessmen to explore Bangladesh's growing potential in trade and technology transfer, emphasising interim government's commitment to addressing challenges those foreign investors may face.He made the remark while a 25-member delegation ...
Country's both the bourses-- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) – on Wednesday plunged further due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 132.29 points or 2.37 percent to 5,453.99. Two o...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in collaboration with other development partners - the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), USAID, and the UK's FCDO - is assisting the task force formed by Bangladesh Bank (BB) to address vulnerabilities in the financial sector."The IMF, which ha...
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