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With a call to ensure housing for all, the World Habitat Day-2019 was celebrated in Dhaka as elsewhere in the country and the world through holding various programmes on Monday. This year’s theme of the day was fixed as “Frontier Technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to w...
Business
State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Mojumder today asked the officials of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) to settle all investment related files within a week.“We will take necessary steps against the corrupt officials of the Industries Ministry and its subord...
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Indian government lifted onion export ban to Bangladesh, as the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the sudden step was causing “difficulties” to her people. On Saturday while attending an India-Bangladesh Business Forum in Delhi, held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, the...
The government has formed a ‘Procurement Cell’ in order to bring transparency in public procurement activities. The government formed the cell facing widespread criticism that commodities bought for different development projects are overpriced. Besides overseeing the public procurement ...
The government is working constantly to bring stability in the market by creating sustainable competition in the economy and also to protect consumer rights. To suppress the country's illegal business syndication for bringing market equality the government passed the Competition Act 2012. The il...
Spread of dengue has been decreasing across the country but the situation is still grave as per the experts’ observation. A total of 269 new dengue patients have been admitted in different hospitals across the country recently, confirmed Aysha Akhter, Assistant Director of the health emergency...
On the pretext of high production costs, local pharmaceutical companies are raising prices of essential drugs as per their whims without following the drug administration guidelines. These private pharmaceutical company representatives lure retailer pharmacy shops into selling drugs at high prices. ...
Country’s lakhs of people still live without houses in slums, embankment, roadside, railway platforms, under flyovers and in open spaces. River erosion and natural disasters continued to destroy households of thousands of people every year rendering them homeless. Only river erosion renders ov...
All Section,City
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), both Manchester City and Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will work jointly. Both cities will formulate plans their respective plans by September 2020. Manchester City and Brac University will gradually formulate the plan. This information ...
Onion prices that skyrocketed during the last week decreased further at the main wholesale market of the spice at Khatunganj in Chattogram on Saturday also.Onion prices at Khatunganj reduced by Tk 30 to 40 during last 24 hours. Two days ago, Indian onion was Tk 90 and Myanmar onion was Tk 80 on whol...
Direct flights between Dhaka and Manchester would be launched by January 2020. Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Md Mohibul Haque made this comment while speaking at a meeting with Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and British High Commissioner Robert C. Dixon at the Hotel Intercontinental in...
Scores of high-ups from different strata of society fell victim to harassment and blackmail at the hands of ‘underworld don’ Salim Pradhan, said sources. It is learnt that inviting distinguished people to his den, Salim recorded their ‘intimate moments’ with hired women ...
Bangladesh has now acquired an effective position to further modernise its Public Finance Management (PFM) system, increase government’s efficiency, and encourage investment in transformative social and infrastructure projects.The observation was made by discussants at a recent daylong worksho...
Though the Urban Primary Health care Centre (UPHCC) is supposed to promote community primary health care through awareness creation and implementing health support activities in urban areas, such centres are being found facing dearth of delivering services to the people.Thirty–year-old Nasima ...
Awami League lawmaker Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Saturday questioned why the President of Jubo League’s Dhaka South unit Ismail Hossain Samrat and former BASIC Bank Ltd Cchairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu have not yet been arrested. “Though the prime minister asked to arrest casino kingp...
At least 30 more top ranking leaders and their cadres, including Dhaka City (South) unit Jubo League’s general secretary Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Somrat, linked with illegal casino and gambling businesses still remain untouched, although several key persons linked with such illicit business ar...
Passenger harassment and sufferings at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) have not stopped as yet, allege both incoming and outgoing passengers.HSIA deals with 80 percent of the country's air traffic as most people like to use this airport. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina repeatedly has ...
Zishan, one of the most wanted top terrors of the country, arrested in Dubai city of United Arab Emirates (UAE), will be brought back home immediately, police headquarters confirmed on Friday. UAE police arrested him from Dubai city on Wednesday. In the face of massive crackdown against the notoriou...
Speakers at an international entrepreneurship summit on Friday blamed lack of technical skills, market or business knowledge, legal and bureaucratic constraints, political instability and non-cooperative attitude of banks and other institutes as major barriers on the way to expected development of e...
Foolproof security measures have been taken across the country on the occasion of the Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community. Additional number of personnel from police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Ansar other law enforcement agencies have been deployed in and...
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