National,Bank & Insurance,Politics
Bangladesh Bank has revised its foreign exchange policy to ease local borrowing for foreign-owned or foreign-controlled companies operating in the country.In a circular issued by the Foreign Exchange Policy Department on Wednesday, the central bank announced an increase in the allowable debt-equity ...
National,Politics
Vice-Chairman of the National Consensus Commission Professor Ali Riaz on Wednesday said there is no disagreement among political parties regarding the reinstatement of the caretaker government system.“There is a clear and specific consensus on this issue (caretaker issue),” he told repor...
Country
Administrator of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Md Firoz Sarkar said that KCC has been making all-out efforts to prevent urban flooding during the rainy season. He made the remarks while visiting the Alutala Dashgate area, in the southern part of the city to see himself the ongoing silt removal ...
Defying unemployment and social stigma, Hasibur Rahman Emon, a 27-year-old educated youth from Bagerhat's Fakirhat upazila, has turned his life around by building a successful online-based fish business that is not only changing his fate but also creating jobs for others.Emon, now a resident of ...
BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Ahmed on Wednesday said, holding local government elections under an interim government is an unrealistic proposal.Speaking to the media following a meeting of the National Consensus Commission, he said, "The tenures of local government bodies, such as u...
National,Politics,Jobs
Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Adviser Asif Nazrul on Wednesday said, there is a hype going around that Malaysia will recruit 1 to 1.2 million workers, but in reality, the country will recruit no more than 30,000 to 40,000 workers from Bangladesh in the coming year.Speaking at a seminar ...
On the second day of a month-long "Desh Garte July Padayatra" (July Walkathon for Building the Nation) campaign, the National Citizen Party (NCP) continued its political march across northern Bangladesh on Wednesday.They held a series of street rallies in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat before pr...
National,Business,Politics,City,Country
Stone traders and workers in Sylhet on Wednesday announced a transport strike from Saturday, 5 July, if their five-point demand, including the reopening of closed stone quarries, is not met by Friday.The announcement came from a protest rally held at Court Point in the Sylhet city.The five demands a...
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Wednesday urged his party leaders and activists to remain alert against any conspiracy aimed at preventing voters from exercising their rights to elect public representatives through the ballot in the next national election.“We want this message to r...
National,Business,Politics,Chattogram
Shipping Adviser Brigadier General (retd) Dr M Sakhawat Hussain on Wednesday said the government has recommended Bangladesh Navy to operate Chittagong Port New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) for the next six months.He revealed this while exchanging views with journalists after a meeting on Chittag...
The government has declared August 5 a nationwide public holiday in honour of those who sacrificed their lives during the July uprising in 2024.The day will be marked as ‘July Mass Uprising Day’, said a gazette notification of the Cabinet Division, issued on Wednesday, signed by Addition...
World
Ukraine is moving forward with early plans to jointly produce weapons with some of its international allies, officials confirmed, even as the United States announced a halt to certain promised arms shipments intended to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia.The developments come at a critic...
Iran’s president on Wednesday ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American and Israeli airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities, likely further limiting inspectors' ability to track Tehran's program that had been ...
Hamas on Wednesday indicated it is open to a ceasefire with Israel but reiterated that any agreement must include a full and permanent end to the war in Gaza. The group stopped short of accepting a new U.S.-backed proposal presented earlier by President Donald Trump.In remarks on Tuesday, Trump anno...
Iran made preparations to potentially block the strategic Strait of Hormuz following Israel’s missile strike on June 13, according to a Reuters report citing two US officials.The officials revealed that Iran's military loaded naval mines onto vessels operating in the Gulf shortly after the...
US President Donald Trump has announced that Israel has accepted the "necessary conditions" to finalise a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said all sides would work together to end the war during the proposed pause in fighting, though he did not elaborate on ...
The anti-discrimination student movement demanding reinstatement of the 2018 circular scraping the quota system in government jobs got momentum on July 3, spreading to educational institutions across the country. After the vacation of Eid-ul-Azha, the university campuses and other educational i...
National,Business,Oil & Energy
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) on Wednesday reduced the price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) at the consumer level. The new prices will come into effect at 6 pm today.BERC Chairman Jalal Ahmed stated that for the month of July, the price of a 12 kg LPG cylinder has been se...
A case was filed on Wednesday in connection with the death of six-year-old girl Riya Gope who was shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing on the roof of their home during the anti-discrimination student movement last year. Abu Raihan, sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Sta...
Shipping Adviser M Sakhawat Hossain on Wednesday said no agreement compromising national interests will be signed with any foreign entity.“There’s been no deal with any foreign company to operate Chittagong Port so far. The present government will never sign any anti-state contract,&rdqu...
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