Country, Districts
The government has taken a scheme to distribute seeds of Boro hybrid paddy among 35,000 farmers, who were severely affected by floods at all seven upazilas here.Sources said Aman paddy on 68,000 hectares of land was damaged due to back-to-back floods, causing severe misery for farmers living in the ...
National,Politics
A Dhaka court on Wednesday exempted eight people, including BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, from extortion charges accepting a final report filed by the police in the case. Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanaullah passed the order in the morning.The seven other people, who have b...
City
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said some troublemakers and instigators are making evil attempts to destroy freedom of the press and freedom of expression.“It is very unfortunate that a dangerous matter has begun, which is launching attack o...
National,Back Page
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman said though dictator has fled the country, her allies are still hatching conspiracy.“Though dictator has fled but allies are still in the country. Conspiracies are still going on,” he said while addressing virtually a day-...
Business & Commerce
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged top executives of multinational companies operating in Bangladesh to team up with the government to advocate and promote Bangladesh to potential investors and ensure business opportunities expanded in the country."As a team, we have to wor...
Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Bangladesh Essa Yousef Essa Al Duhailan has laid emphasis on widening the scope of bilateral trade and commerce with Bangladesh.The envoy made this remarks while meeting with President of Commonwealth of Independent States-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry ...
After witnessing a downward trend in the last three sessions, indices of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) on Tuesday rebounded as investors remained active on sector-wise issues.After witnessing volatility, DSEX, the prime index of the DSE, went up by 7 points or 0.14 per cent to settle at 5,143.13. T...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched its Environment Action Plan 2024–2030 presenting a road map for addressing the impacts of the triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, pollution, and climate change in Asia and the Pacific.Under the plan, ADB aims to expand the scale and scope...
Farmers, particularly the commercial ones, have started selling green tomatoes to get more money in the region, including its vast Barind area, for the last couple of days.Many of the consumers are purchasing the newly harvested vegetable at exorbitant prices for its taste.In the present wholesale m...
Sports,Cricket
Mominul Haque became the third Bangladeshi player to reach the milestone 10,000 runs club in the first class cricket.His feat came during the course of his 50 runs knock in Bangladesh's first innings against West Indies at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua yesterday.Tushar Imran, who played...
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has taken several initiatives to improve the facilities and support for Women’s cricket with an aim to bring it closer to the Men’s cricket in all facets.By doing those things step by step, the BCB would ensure women’s team an equal opportunity, somet...
National,Business & Commerce,Politics
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Tuesday received another complaint of genocide and crimes against humanity over Hefazat-e-Islam's protest at Shapla Chattar in the capital's Motijheel area in 2013 against more than 50 people including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.The other p...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today said the interim government is committed to carrying out sweeping labour reforms in an effort to attract more foreign buyers to the country.The chief adviser made the comments when a big United States labour and brand delegation called on him to discuss l...
Dhaka has called upon on redoubling the world’s efforts and calibrating the strategies towards the full universalisation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction. Dhaka made the urge today at the...
The Economic Relations Division (ERD), Ministry of Finance, has recently signed a grant Agreement worth € 3 million with the International Labour Organization (ILO).The Project entitled "Supporting a Talent Partnership with Bangladesh" will be implemented from 2024-2027 (three years) ...
In a significant initiative to enhance and simplify investor services, the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) on Monday signed separate Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Sylhet City Corporation, Rangpur City Corporation, Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited and Southeas...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Monday said those who are making evil efforts to mislead the people by raising question whether election is needed first or reform, they have different purposes."BNP has no discord with the interim government over reform progr...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Monday approved a total of five projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 5,915.99 crore including one for improving the sewerage system of Chattogram (catchment 2 and 4) with around Taka 5,152.55 crore.The approvals came...
National,Politics,City
The government has called upon students to remain calm and not to get involved in any clash."If any instigation is found behind such clashes, strict action will be taken," Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said today in the wake of clashes that occurred among students of se...
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