The government has agreed, in principle, to offer seven deals to Russian oil giant Gazprom for energy exploration in both offshore and onshore blocks.These include exploration work in the Chittagong Hill Tracts under block 22, signing strategic agreement with Petrobangla, conducting 2D seismic survey in offshore blocks in the sea,...
Read moreAt least four people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Joypurhat, Munshiganj and Gazipur districts on Saturday, reports UNB.In Joypurhat, two motorcyclists were killed and another was severely injured in a head-on collision with another motorbike on Panchbibi-Kamdia Road.The deceased were identified as Tabibur Rahman...
Read moreThe World Bank has suggested that the revenue board move away from the conventional way of reconciling taxpayers' audit and adopt investigative and analytical approach to get better results.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) should focus on capacity building of the income tax and VAT officials to conduct taxpayers' audit...
Read moreThe country's overall natural gas supply crossed the 3,200 million cubic feet mark a day (mmcf), boosted by the imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG).The lone operational floating, storage, re-gasification unit (FSRU) is currently re-gasifying around 511 mmcfd equivalent of LNG, which is the highest quantity of LNG re-gasification from...
Read moreALMATY, Mar 23: Kazakhstan renamed its capital Astana as Nur-Sultan on Saturday in honour of veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev, who unexpectedly resigned this week after almost 30 years in power. It is the fourth time the city's name has been changed within six decades. The windswept city of one million...
Read moreA team of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) recovered 48 gold bars from a garbage basket at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) early Saturday. Tipped off, a team of CIID recovered the gold bars weighing 15.738kg from nine packets wrapped with tape near a washroom around 1:30am, said Director...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, Mar 23: Assistant High Commissioner of India in Chattogram Anindya Banerjee said on Saturday around 1.45 million Bangladeshi nationals visited India in 2018 on tourism, medical and business purposes. — UNB
Read moreSmelling of fresh paint, the two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch where a gunman killed 50 worshippers last week reopened their doors on Saturday, with many survivors among the first to walk in and pray for those who died, report agencies.At the Al Noor mosque, where more...
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