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Syed Lutful Haque, a leading artist and journalist, was accorded lifetime achievement award recently by Rotary Public Image recently at a colourful event in the capital.Rotary also accorded lifetime achievement award at the same event to two other renowned personalities at an international conferenc...
With an aim to ensure quality education and building future leadership for the country, Jaflong Valley Boarding School (JVBS) celebrated its 1st founding anniversary on October 17 at the La-Vita Hall of Lakeshore Hotel in Gulshan. Hafiz Ahmed Mazumder, lawmaker from Sylhet-5 constituency, was t...
National,Back Page
Ekushey Padak winner and internationally-reputed painter Kalidas Karmakar passed away at a city hospital in the capital on Friday. He breathed his last at around 3:00pm at Labaid Specialised Hospital in the city following a cardiac arrest at his Eskaton residence, Fine Art Faculty Dean Professo...
The Indian government is providing free artificial limbs to physically challenged Bangladeshi in the course of a medical camp in Dhaka marking the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.The Indian High Commission started 'Jaipur Foot Artificial Limb Fitness Camp' on September 28 with the ...
National,Front Page
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday issued strong words of warning against those who would torture children.“I want to make my stand clear that our government intends to offer children a better life free from torture, barbaric behavior, drugs, militancy and terrorism,” she said.Sheikh...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has invited the German car manufacturers like Mercedes, BMW and Volkswagen to set up their assembly plants at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Shilpanagar in Chattogram, says a press release.He explained about the Special Economic Zones set up by the government of Banglade...
A special administrator is expected to be appointed to realise Tk 13,446.95 crore in dues with Grameenphone (GP) and Robi.The Post and Telecommunication ministry on Thursday approved the appointment and directed Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to proceed in the formalities....
Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders, including its acting President Al Nahian Khan Joy and acting General Secretary Lekhak Bhattacharya distribute copies of the book titled Unfinished auto-biography of Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. About 500 students of Dhaka University were given the bo...
Bypassing the government’s stand on cutting down unnecessary foreign tours, over 2961 officials of the power division travelled different foreign countries what they say for ‘gathering experience’ under several projects in the last three years.This was disclosed at the meeting of t...
Business
Experts at a marketing festival observed that lack of modern marketing strategy and skilled manpower in this field causes failure of a huge number of entrepreneurial initiatives every year. The remarks came up in the concluding ceremony of two-day ‘PranPotatos-DIU Marketing Fest-2019&rsqu...
Saudi Arabia based company, ACWA Power has agreed to invest around $2.5 billion to build 3,600MW gas based power plant in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) and ACWA Power signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this end on Thursday at Intercontinental Hotel in the capital.B...
The Malaysian labour market for Bangladeshi workers is likely to be opened by November this year, indicating a possible end to the existing standoff in Bangladeshi workers’ access to the Malaysian job market. To break the deadlock, both Malaysian and Bangladesh are keen to focus on removing al...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday summoned nine employees of the Health Services for interrogation about their suspected involvement in irregularities. The summoned employees include, Dhaka Medical College secretary Anower Hossain, Gopalganj 250 bed General Hospital administrative officer ...
Indiscriminate bus parking in front of Sayedabad inter-district bus terminal causes severe traffic congestion as well as sufferings to city dwellers. Hundreds of buses from different districts like including Cumilla, Chanpur, Feni, Noakhali, Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and many others are using the ...
Terming the country’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as the driving force behind economic growth, employment generation and poverty alleviation, experts on Thursday said it has a multi-dimensional contribution to a nation’s development. The experts came up with these statements at a...
Sports,Cricket
The logo and trophy unveiling ceremony of Bangamata Asian Senior Women’s Central Zone International Volleyball Championship-2019 was held at Hotel Westin in the city on Thursday.This is for the first time Bangladesh Volleyball Federation is going to organise the international women’s vol...
The board of directors of Northern Jute Manufacturing Company Limited has recommended 100 percentcashdividendfor the year ended on June 30, 2019, official sources said. The final approval will come during the annual general meeting (AGM) scheduled to be held on December 8 in the city.The company is ...
All will have to come forward in order to uphold the image of Bangladesh properly in the international index for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), said planning minister MA Mannan on Wednesday said. “We are now in better position in the international index. We have to work proper...
Bangladesh has reduced hunger by a significant margin and ranked above neighbouring India and Pakistan, according to a report published by Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019. With a score of 25.8, Bangladesh ranked 88th in the index, among 117 qualifying countries while Pakistan ranked 94 with 28.5 poin...
Different vested quarters at home and abroad are plotting to destabilise the country’s harmony through spreading propaganda only to disrupt the ongoing development work, speakers said on Wednesday. Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder, MP, Md. Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru,MP, State Minister, Minist...
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