City

HC suspends DU notice to keep female students’ faces uncovered

The High Court (HC) has suspended a notice of the Bangla Department of Dhaka University for six months, which stipulated female students keep their face and ears visible during examinations and presentations.The High Court bench of Justice KM Kamrul Kuader and Justice Mohammad Ali passed the order o...

National

BGMEA bldg to be demolished in scientific way: Minister

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) complex at Hatirjheel will be demolished in a scientific and modern way, Housing and Public Works Minister SM Rezaul Karim said Wednesday.“It won’t be demolished manually as that may pose risk of casualty,” he t...

Sports

Belgium thrash Tunisia 5-2 in style

Belgium routed Tunisia, 5-2, in Moscow on Saturday, burnishing its credentials as a World Cup favorite. RomeluLukaku scored twice, tying Cristiano Ronaldo at the top of the Golden Boot standings with four total goals. Eden Hazard also had two goals for Belgium.Lukaku now became Belgium’s all-t...

Bank & Insurance

BD a role model for saving Tk 15b in school banking

In order to reduce poverty and inequality problem in Bangladesh, the government has to promote savings mentality.Bangladesh Bank and other financial institutes are doing good job regarding this issue. School banking and mobile banking has made a revolution in Bangladesh as 18 lakh school banking acc...

Supplement,Travel & Tourism

Bangladesh needs to dev 3.6m young professionals for tourism sector

By the year 2036, a total 32.1 million passengers will transit through Bangladesh’s main international airports and to meet the capacity, the country needs to develop 3.6 million young professionals for sustainable growth of the industry.With the present trend of growth, the rising trade in to...

Supplement,Oil & Energy

Australia, China deny ban on coal imports amid tensions

China and Australia yesterday denied reports Australian coal was being blocked from entering the Asian country, with Canberra seeking to quell fears that worsening diplomatic tensions are damaging the nations’ crucial trading relationship, report agencies.Industry experts have noted recently t...

Supplement,Oil & Energy

250MW electricity from Sembcorp Energy India

Sembcorp Energy India is likely to bag a tender for supply of 250 megawatts of electricity to Bangladesh after it bid the lowest tariff. It wasn’t immediately known as to how much Sembcorp had bid.Sources with direct knowledge of the development said Sembcorp Gayatri Power, a subsidiary of Sem...

National

102 yaba traders surrender

A total of 102 yaba traders, who have been kept at a police safe house, formally surrendered to police on Saturday.The surrender programme began at Pilot High School ground in Teknaf at 11am in presence of Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan as the chief guest while Inspector General of Police Dr Javed P...

Country

Dinajpur farmers busy with sale of winter veg

Farmers of different upazilas of Dinajpur including Birampur are now very busy in nurturing and selling of winter vegetables. Local farmers are benefiting from higher prices of the vegetables by selling them in advance.While visiting on spot it was seen that the farmers are tending to their fields o...

National,Front Page

Mamata’s fate decider polls held

The high voltage by-election in the Bhawanipur seat and two other constituencies of West Bengal Assembly - Bidhan Sobha held Thursday amid tight security and stringent Covid-19 measures.Voters’ turnout was 76.12 % at Jangipur and 78.60 % in Samserganj constituencies of Bengal. Bypoll to the Bh...

Editorial

Villages with modern facilities to lead economic boost

Government has come up with groundbreaking initiatives to decentralize our economy and make the rural areas more developed for sustainable development of the nation. To maintain its position among the developing countries and become a higher middle income country by 2031, we will need strong in...

Supplement,Oil & Energy

Tesla overtakes VW as world’s 2nd most valuable carmaker

Tesla Inc has overtaken Germany's Volkswagen as the world's second most valuable carmaker behind Japan's Toyota, as the meteoric rise in the US electric vehicle maker's shares reshuffles the global market, report agencies. Tesla's stock has more than doubled in value in the ...

World

1 in 5 boys married before 15: UNICEF

A first-ever study into the incidence of child grooms has found that as many as 1 in 5 boys around the globe was married before the age of 15. The data revealed that a shocking 115 million boys and men are married before reaching the legal age. Twenty-three million among them married before the age ...

National

Huge carbon reserve in Sundarbans: Survey

There is a reserve of 5.6 crore tonnes of carbon in the Bangladesh part of the Sundarbans, according to a survey of the Forest Department. This carbon worth Tk 18,816 crore could be extracted without causing any harm to the world’s largest mangrove forest, experts said calling for taking steps...

Back Page

Navy chief leaves for New York

Navy chief Admiral Aurangzeb Chowdhury left Dhaka for New York on Wednesday on a 4-day official visit to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters.Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Operation) Rear Admiral M Makbul Hossain and Naval Administrative Authority Dhaka Commodore M Musa saw the naval chief off at ...

National

Antibiotics in BD rivers alarmingly high

Rivers in Bangladesh contain antibiotics up to 300 times higher than ‘safe’ levels, said a new global study.Sites studied in the research where antibiotics exceeded ‘safe’ levels by the greatest degree were in five countries, including Bangladesh.The others are Kenya, Ghana, ...

Bank & Insurance

Seminar on national digital architecture of LICT held

A seminar on ‘Bangladesh National Digital Architecture’ was held for the secretaries of different ministries organised at CIRDAP International Conference Centre on Sunday.Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance Project under the ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh organis...

National

Japan pledges biggest ever investment

Japan pledges to sign a Tk 2.5 billion annual development assistant agreement with Bangladesh during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s scheduled visit next week.This would be an increase of 35 percent against last years’ annual development assistance.The deal would be inked through the ...

Bank & Insurance

NOVOAIR to allow discount to BRAC Bank cardholders on online ticket purchase

BRAC Bank Limited and NOVOAIR Limited signed an agreement that provides special privileges to the bank’s cardholders on online ticket purchase.Under the agreement, all BRAC Bank debit and credit cardholders will enjoy 10 percent discount on base fare while purchasing air tickets online from ww...

Oil & Energy

BP, SOCAR sign deal to build new Azeri oil exploration platform

Oil major BP and Azerbaijan's state energy company SOCAR signed an agreement on Friday to build a new exploration platform for the South Caucasus nation's three major oilfields, BP-Azerbaijan said in a statement, report agencies. The Azeri Central East (ACE) platform, the latest phase o...