Business & Commerce
The country's GDP growth in the 3rd quarter (January-March) period of the last fiscal year (FY24) reached 6.12 percent at constant prices mainly riding on good performance of the industry sector.The GDP growth rate in the 1st quarter (July-September) of the last fiscal year (FY24) was 6.01 perce...
Mongla Port, the second largest seaport of the country, has earned Taka 319 crore revenue in the financial year 2023-24.A total of Taka 302 crore revenue was collected in the financial year 2022-23 whereas Taka 319 crore revenue has been earned in the financial year 2023-24 which has increased by 28...
Nagad and Huawei Technologies will work together to transform people's digital transaction experience. To this end, the two parties signed an agreement, which will provide world-class smart transaction experiences to the country's people through Nagad.In presence of Prime Minister Sheik...
City
Awami League (AL) leaders and activists on Tuesday paid rich tributes to former AL Presidium Member Adv. Sahara Khatun by placing wreaths at her grave in the city's Banani. Turag Thana unit of AL leaders and activists paid homage to Adv. Sahara Khatun's grave in the morning, marking the...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday set September 4 to submit a probe report in the case lodged over Bangladesh Bank (BB) reserve heist that took place in 2016. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury set the date as the investigation agency Criminal Investigation Department (CID) failed to submit ...
Planning Minister Major General (retd) Abdus Salam asked the concerned officials to strengthen further the Statistics and Informatics Division through working with honesty and transparency imbued with patriotism.He also directed the officials to work more fruitful manner through reorganization of th...
National,Front Page
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached in Beijing on Monday on a four-day bilateral visit at the invitation of her Chinese counterpart.The visit is believed to elevate the relations between Bangladesh and China to "comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership" from "strategic partner...
State Minister for Finance Waseqa Ayesha Khan on Monday said that international trade digitization would play an important role in expansion of international trade and ensuring sustainable and inclusive development of Bangladesh.She said traditional trade involves a lot of documents and processes.&n...
Stock markets on Monday 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 5.69 points up at 5,564.63. The Sha...
Speakers at a seminar stressed on boosting revenue collection by expanding the tax net which will enable the government to borrow less from the market as foreign borrowing increases vulnerability to external conditions and potential currency depreciation. To increase reserves, they also said in...
SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), in collaboration with Welthungerhilfe, today commenced a three-day seminar titled 'Expert Consultation Meeting on Accelerating Transformation Process for Sustainable and Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems in South Asia'.The event is being held from July 8-10, at...
The Information Commission Bangladesh today heard six complaints under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and all of those were disposed of.Chief Information Commissioner Dr Abdul Malek and Information Commissioner Shahidul Alam Jhinuk held the hearing in line with the RTI Act, said a press release....
The general point to point inflation rate in June, 2024, has slightly declined to 9.72 percent due to the downtrend in both food and non-food inflation.According to the monthly consumer price index released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the general point to point inflation rate ...
A 15-member high-level delegation of the Chinese Textile and Apparel Industry, led by Huang Liansheng, Chairman of China CTEXIC Corporation visited the Executive Office of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Dhaka on Sunday.Welcoming the delegation, BEPZA Executive Chairman Major Ge...
National,Back Page
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government has taken measures to make armed forces more developed and global standard as they are the symbol of Bangladesh's sovereignty."Armed forces are the symbol of our sovereignty---we have already taken measures to make the armed forces,...
A nine-day Ratha Yatra, the chariot festival of Sri Jagannath Dev, which is one of the major festivals of the Hindu community, began across the country on Sunday amid due religious fervor and festivity.According to Hindu calendar, the festival begins on Dwitiya Tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of...
Entertainment & Glomour
"A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things" by Northern Irish director Mark Cousins won the top Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary film festival on Saturday, organisers said.Cousins's documentary "explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the mysteries of creativ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the children to take preparation from now on to make them worthy as they can go to the moon in future."We will go to the moon one day. So, you have to take preparation from this moment," she said while opening "Bangabandhu Corner&qu...
A nine-day Rathajatra, the chariot festival of Sri Jagannath Dev which is one of the major festivals of the Hindu community, begins today (Sunday).According to Hindu calendar, the festival begins on Dwitiya Tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of Aashar.The festival will come to an end with Ulto Rath...
Country, Districts
A three-day agriculture fair began on the Debiganj Upazila Parished premises of the district to raise awareness about Kandal crops among farmers and boosting their production by using modern agricultural technology and equipment.Parliament Member from Panchagarh-2 constituency Adv Nurul Islam Sujon ...
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