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Ctg Port sets another record in container handling

CHITTAGONG, Jan 02: Chittagong Port has set yet another milestone in container handling with 2.346 million TEUs of containers handled in the last calendar year 2016. Official data showed that the port handled 0.322 million more TEUs of containers last year than that of the previous year. In the year...

Prison riot kills 50 in Brazil

At least 50 people have been killed in a bloody prison riot in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, a Brazilian security official told the Globo TV network on Monday, reports Reuters. Sergio Fontes, the head of security for Amazonas state, said he fears that more dead will be found...

Textbook Festival --- quantitative prelude to fruitful education

As in other years, the dawn of the New Year sparked a festive mood among millions of school children in the country. Dubbed as the Textbook Festival, it has already become the most enthralling occasion for students at public primary and secondary level educational institutions. They receive new textbooks as...

Hackers take down four .bd websites

Hackers have launched a brazen attack on as many as four dot bd (.bd) domain websites in a virtual mockery of Bangladesh's digital security arrangements, reports bdnews24.com. Search engine giant Google's dot bd version is among the sites affected. The other sites are - robi.com.bd, banglalink.com.bd and ittefaq.com.bd. Although telecom...

OIC to discuss possible action plan Jan 19

Member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will come together in Kuala Lumpur on January 19 to discuss possible action plan on the Rohingya issue, reports UNB. This is going to be an 'extraordinary' meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers, a senior official told the news agency...

Regulator summons insurers to reveal performance reports

The regulator has summoned all 32 life insurers to appear and account for their business performances in the year closed in December, so that any misdirected financial function of theirs could be averted in the new year. Officials said a series of meetings of the life-insurance firms with the Insurance...

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Govt to develop web-based ‘SDG Tracker’ by April

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan The government is working to develop a web-based data repository called ‘SDG Tracker’ for online monitoring of implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other national development goals, Planning Commission officials have said. A prototype of the system has already been developed, while the full system...