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The government has asked the private sector to import 327,000 tonnes of rice within one month, aiming to further control the price of the food grain in the retail market in the country.A total of 59 rice importers have already got government approval to import the aforesaid amount of rice.Of the tot...
A permanent travel ban has been imposed on former managing director (MD) and CEO of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Taqsem A Khan over allegations of corruption. Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Jakir Hossain passed the order on November 13, allowing a plea from the Anti-Co...
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In a major recruitment drive, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has appointed 1,299 government law officers to courts across 25 districts from November 3 to 13.This includes Government Pleaders (GPs), Additional Government Pleaders, Assistant Government Pleaders, Public Prosecut...
British Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific Catherine West will arrive in Dhaka tomorrow (Saturday) for a two-day on November 16-17 to discuss ways to strengthen ties with Bangladesh on key fronts.She is expected to meet Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and Foreign Affairs Advis...
More than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide -- almost twice as many as previous estimates have suggested -- and more than half of those aged over 30 who have the condition are not receiving treatment, according to a new study.In 2022, there were around 828 million people aged 18 years and o...
Workers of a garments factory on Thursday blocked the Jaina Bazar-Kawraid regional road in Gazipur's Sreepur area, demanding arrears.The protest began around 8:00am in the Jaina Bazar area of Telihati union, with over 200 workers participating.As of 12:00pm, they were still protesting, reports o...
Md Abdullah, a student of Shaheed Suhrawardy College in the capital who was shot on August 5 during the student-led mass uprising; has lost the protracted battle for life while undergoing treatment.Abdullah breathed his last at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka on Thursday morning, abo...
Bangladesh army recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition in a raid on a Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) hideout in Ruma Upazila of Bandarban on Thursday.Army personnel recovered these arms and ammunition from the jungle near Munlai Para, a remote hilly area in Ruma, during the operation, acc...
The government has ordered the removal of Mohammed Kamrul Islam, a counsellor at the Labour Wing of the Bangladesh Mission in Switzerland, following an incident where Law Advisor Asif Nazrul was harassed at the Geneva airport.A locally hired staff member at the mission has also been dismissed, forei...
Dhaka University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the BNP, has announced its full committee comprising 242 members.Ganesh Chandra Roy Sahos, a student from the 2010-11 session of the university, was made the President and Nahiduzzaman Shipon, a student from the 2011-12 session, ...
City
Land ministry has issued a notification saying that field level employees will not continue at the same workplace or position or department over three years.Transfer instructions have been given to the employees of Union, Upazila, District and Division level Land Revenue Administration and Land Reco...
Speakers at a seminar on Thursday underscored the need for strengthening tobacco control law along with raising taxes on tobacco related products to protect people, particularly youths, from tobacco-related diseases. They were speaking at the seminar titled “Tobacco Control Law and Increa...
Entertainment & Glomour
Celebrated singer Baby Naznin returned to Bangladesh after spending the last eight years in the United States. The news has created excitement among her fans, who have eagerly awaited her return.Baby Naznin, a legendary figure in the Bangladeshi music scene, has enjoyed a successful career spanning ...
Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum faced strong protests on Wednesday while visiting victims of the July-August mass uprising at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka.After the incident, the protesters took to the streets, demanding pro...
The Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) has expressed concern over the cancellation of the accreditation cards of 10 permanent members of the organisation.They are among the 118 journalists whose accreditation cards have recently been revoked by the Press Information Department.In a joint statemen...
A total of 161 stranded irregular Bangladeshi migrants returned home on Wednesday from Libya and Tunisia separately. The repatriation has taken place under the joint initiative of the foreign ministry, Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), a fore...
The chief arboriculturist of the Public Works Department, Md Kudrat-E-Khuda, sent a rejoinder to the daily Bangladesh Post.In his rejoinder, he stated that "on November 4, the daily Bangladesh Post published a news article titled 'Graft allegation galore against Chief Arboriculturist,&...
The Bangladesh Army has arrested 2,500 individuals and seized more than 6,000 illegal weapons in ongoing operations aimed at stabilising law enforcement across the country, following its recent granting of magistracy powers.Colonel Intekhab Haider Khan, Colonel Staff of the Military Operations Direc...
The United States has called for upholding and protecting "freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and association" for all, including dissenting and opposition voices in Bangladesh."Upholding and protecting these freedoms for all Bangladeshis is necessary to ensure a true democrati...
A writ petition has been filed with the High Court, challenging the legality of the power deal signed between the Bangladesh government and the Adani Group of India.A Supreme Court lawyer on Wednesday (November 13) filed the writ petition, seeking directive of the higher court on the government to r...
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