Business & Commerce
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Saturday said that reforms are needed in the country's accounting system in order to meet international standards and also to comply with the suggestions of the development partners.The finance minister said this while addressing as chief guest a discu...
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Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Friday said her government has been implementing multi-dimentional programmes to make each of the countrymen economically solvent.“We have been working to make each of the people financially solvent by taking up multi-dimensional progr...
Social Welfare Minister Dr Dipu Moni has said that Europe is a proven friend and development partner of Bangladesh.“Europe is a proven friend and development partner of Bangladesh. Last year, Bangladesh-EU bilateral relations crossed 50 years,” she said.The minister said these while addr...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said if their party leaders and workers don’t stay in field, BNP will carry out terrorist activities in the name of holding rally.“BNP’s rally means arson attack, disorder and blood...
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday paid rich tributes and offered prayers at the mausoleum of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj.She paid homage by placing a floral wreath at Bangabandhu's grave and joined a prayer this morning seeking eterna...
Country, Districts
The National Nutrition Week-2024 began in the district like elsewhere in the country on Thursday.Civil Surgeon of the district Dr Abul Hadi Mohammad Shah Paran inaugurated the National Nutrition Week-2024 at a function in the conference room of the civil surgeon office in Shariatpur in the morning.T...
Farmers in the district have started harvesting of Boro paddy in full swing this year.Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said farmers already harvested 25,874 hectares of land till today which is 20 percent of the total land. The office said this year farmers brought 1,29,370 hectares...
The irrigation technology of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) has been reducing wastage of underground water coupled with boosting paddy yield making the marginalized farmers happy in the water-stressed Barind area.Naresh Pahan, 45, a farmer of Peerpukuria village under Niamatpur upazila in Naogao...
A week-long National Nutrition Week-2024 began in the district on Thursday.Civil Surgeon of the district Dr Muhammad Moshiur Rahman inaugurated the National Nutrition Week-2024 at the Civil Surgeon office in the morning.Presided over by the Civil Surgeon, the inaugural function was addressed by Addi...
Speakers at a view-exchange meeting in Chapainawabganj said social movement should be launched against child marriage, dowry, eve-teasing, drugs and militancy. Chapainawabganj sadar upazila parishad arranged the meeting at Char Anupnagar union on Thursday. Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Tas...
As a result of house-to-house cattle and goat farming practices everywhere, the district has become home of surplus sacrificial animals counting to around 1.65 lakh in the district compared to its demand. Local animal husbandry sector has marked a revolutionary boost in recent years following m...
The national budget for fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25) is likely to be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on June 6. "The national budget for FY25 will be placed in Jatiya Sangsad on June 6, 2024. Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali will unveil the budget in the JS on that day. The ministr...
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Squadron Leader Asim Jawad, one of the two pilots who were injured when a fighter training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed in Patenga area on Thursday morning, died at BNS Patenga Hospital in the afternoon noon. "Pilot Asim Jawad passed away around 12:30 pm while undergo...
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Wednesday visited the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Abu Dhabi Hub Office, which is the first overseas mission of AIIB, operational since September 2023.Welcomed by Yuanjiang Sun, Head of the Hub, and senior officials of the Bank, the Finance ...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday urged the founders and entrepreneurs of private universities to take necessary steps to upgrade their institutions to the international standard. The President, also the Chancellor of the universities, made the call when a delegation of the Private Uni...
Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Dr Abdul Malek on Thursday said women's rights have reached a respectable level in the country and it is gradually going up. "Today, Bangladesh is transforming into a Smart Bangladesh from Digital Bangladesh. People are getting necessary information...
Food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Thursday urged the consumers to stop eating the shiny polished rice in order to reduce the price of the staple food. "We are stopping this polishing process by making a new law. We have also stopped marketing rice under different names like miniket....
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said united work of Muslim countries could bring better and dignified position for the Muslim community in the world along with reducing misery of the Palestinians as she opened the Hajj Programme-2024. “Today, if all the Muslim countries worked t...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called upon the United Kingdom (UK) to help repatriate the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their motherland Myanmar. “Use your good office to repatriate Rohingyas to their country,” she said when UK Minister of State for the Indo-Pacific Ann...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has raised the policy rate by 50 basis points to 8.5 percent to bring down the runaway inflation.The central bank on Wednesday took the decision at a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at BB headquarters in the city.Abdur Rouf Talukder, BB governor, presided over the...
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