National,Front Page
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a media briefing on her China visit today.“The press conference will be held at the prime minister’s official residence Ganabhaban here at 4pm,” said a release of her press wing.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went to Beijing on Monday last fo...
The government will award 77 exporters with the National Export Trophy today for their outstanding performance in the country’s export earnings for the fiscal year of 2021-22.The award will be given to those who brought the highest amount of export proceeds in the country.“Prime Minister...
Country, Districts
Participants at a discussion here on Saturday said that awareness should be created among the people to prevent adolescent, a vital section of the society, from crime.They said that the people from irrespective of ages have the great responsibility for making congenial atmosphere so that adolescent ...
The harvesting of sesame is going on in full swing in all the seven upazilas of the district with a bumper production, the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said.DAE office sources said they had set a target of sesame cultivation on 3,850 hectares of land with a production target of ...
A seven-day long tree fair and tree plantation programme began in the district town on Saturday.Ragebul Ahsan Ripu, MP, inaugurated the fair in the town's Edward Park this morning. Later a discussion was held at Shaheed Tito Auditorium in the town on the occasion.Deputy Commissioner Md Siful Isl...
Construction works of the Raninagar-Santahar-regional highway are progressing fast, generating massive hope of reducing suffering faced by people in the surrounding areas.Site engineers and contractors are very much hopeful about completion of the scheduled works within the stipulated time maintaini...
Business & Commerce
Bangladesh joined the 35th Malaysia International Machinery Fair 2024 for the first time under the initiative of Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.The three-day fair began at Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Center on Thursday.A total of 780 institutions of 10 countries, includin...
City
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury has called upon the United Nations to be more responsive to the needs of developing countries, especially the most climate-vulnerable ones, in addressing the pressing challenges.He said climate issues like sea level rise, salini...
The H5N1 highly pathogenic avian flu virus may be more infectious to humans if passed on from cattle than directly from birds, the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun has reported, citing a team of researchers in Japan.The researchers, led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, director of the University of Tokyo Pandem...
More than 25,000 grassroots farmers are seen adopting climate-smart farming methods as they are being given ideas and knowledge related to adopting the methods for making their farming outputs profitable in the region, including its Barind area.Already, they have started attaining practical knowledg...
The government distributed a total of 3, 40,000 coconut saplings free of cost worth around TK 4.68 cr. among 68,000 marginal farmers in the last financial year.Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) officials said a total of 68,000 farmers got 3, 40,000 coconut saplings in four districts under K...
Harvesting of jute, which is known as the golden fibre of Bangladesh, has been going on in full swing in all 10 upazilas of the district during the last one week.Netrakona district is popularly known as "huge jute producing area" of the country.The cultivation of jute is increasing every y...
Bronze jewellery of Gopalganj has been recognized as a Geographical Indication (GI) product. This is the second product from the district to get this recognition.Earlier, Rosogolla from Gopalganj received GI recognition as the first product in the district.Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kazi Mahbubul Alam...
All Section,City
As part of the anti-drug drives in the capital, the members of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested a total of 20 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Friday.According to a release issued by the DMP, police conducted these operations again...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) today predicted light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over four divisions, at many places over other four divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy rain falls at places over the co...
National,Back Page
Bangladesh and China have agreed to elevate the relations to a "comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership" from "strategic partnership", said a joint statement.Bangladesh foreign ministry published the 27-point joint statement on its website after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasi...
Different Chinese media reported that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to China elevated bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.Almost all leading media published reports on the visit.Beijing based English-language news channel of state-run China Global Tele...
Art& Culture
A record number of 13,563 Bangladeshi students studied in the United States (US) last year, making Bangladesh the 13th highest sending country of international students to the country."This represents a 28 percent increase from the previous year, one of the highest worldwide, said US Embassy...
Family planning everywhere in society can be the crucial means of building a healthy nation together with taking it forward successfully.There is no alternative to equal participation of both men and women in family planning activities. Utmost emphasis should be given to reaching the existing family...
The government on Thursday approved a proposal for procuring refined fuel oil from state-owned enterprises of various countries under G to G basis for the second half (July-December) period of 2024 with around Taka 16,484.45 crore as per the premium and reference price. Besides, the government also ...
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