Bangladesh has ranked 47th in the Global Gender Gap report 2017, jumping 25 notches from its previous position and topping the list of South Asian countries.Bangladesh scored 0.719 (with complete parity at 1) in the gender parity index and ranked the highest among the south Asian nations. The Maldives (0.669)...
Read moreThe Income Tax Fair 2017 in the capital drew a huge number of visitors on Friday, the third day of the weeklong event, as it was a public holiday.Most of the people visiting the fair on the day were service-holders and businessmen, who could not come on other working days....
Read moreThe Commissioner of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi laid emphasis on ensuring security, establishing human rights and rule of law for repatriation of the displaced Rohingya people in Rakhine state of Myanmar, reports BSS. "Security and the establishment of human rights and the rule of...
Read moreThe government is likely to ask the deputy commissioners (DCs) for taking necessary steps to keep the onion price stable and ensure its supply considering the interests of consumers, officials said.Besides, it will ask them to monitor onion price and ensure its supply at all times as its price shows...
Read moreWASHINGTON, Nov 03 (Reuters): Beset by challenges at home, President Donald Trump on Friday embarks on the longest trip to Asia by an American president in more than a quarter century, looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from a nuclear crisis.Trump's tour of Japan, South Korea,...
Read moreThe police made two arrests in the Badda double murder case while a Dhaka court granted remand for two over another double murder at Kakrail, report agencies.Police arrested a couple from Mohammadnagar area of Khulna city early Friday in connection with the killing of a man and his daughter in...
Read moreThe nation observed the Jail Killing Day on Friday with due solemnity commemorating the 1975 killing of four national leaders inside the Dhaka Central Jail, reports UNB.On November 3, 1975, the four national leaders and heroes of the country's Liberation War -- Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain Mansur Ali...
Read moreCustoms Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials recovered gold bars and contraband cigarettes from two passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital on Friday morning.A total of 258 grams of gold and 60,000 sticks of cigarettes, worth about Tk 3.0 million, were recovered from the passengers, returning...
Read moreSteel rods jutting out of the road in front of Petrobangla office at Karwan Bazar in the city speaks of the quality of work done. This photo was taken on Friday. — FE photo
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