After a lapse of nine years, the government has finally decided to construct the Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre at Purbachal at a cost of Tk 13.03 billion, up by 374 per cent from the original cost.Presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council...
Read moreBangladesh has no plan to provide Rohingyas with the status of refugees, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque said on Tuesday."Bangladesh and many other countries in Asia are not the signatory to the 1951 convention on refugee. As per the instruction of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina we still keep our border...
Read morePrime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered on Tuesday Singapore a 500-acre of land initially in a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Bangladesh to set up their businesses, especially agro- and food-processing industries, reports UNB."Initially, we'll give you a 500-acre land in a Special Economic Zone," the Prime Minister said when a...
Read moreBetween January 1991 and May, 2018, some 11772 farmers could not be traced even after warrants of certificate cases were served. As a result, over Tk 415.39 million disbursed as agri-loan has remained unrealised.Banking sources said the number of certificate cases against missing borrowers is high in river erosion-prone areas."Borrowers...
Read morePublic posturing has its own agenda. The news that 3000 more schools are to be built is an obvious posture suggestive of local business as well as the accrued spin-offs from a whole range of products ranging from uniforms to school meals. What has been left out is investment in...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, July 10: A mobile court seized a good number of dead chickens from a city hotel on Tuesday.Magistrate Shirin Akhter conducted a mobile court drive at Zaman Hotel in the city's Muradpur area and found some dead chickens just before cooking.Hotel boys confessed to her that the owner buys...
Read moreA young man died after falling reportedly from the level-8 of Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in the city's Panthapath area on Tuesday, reports UNB.The deceased was identified as Sarjil Ahmed Onim, 22, a pharmacy salesman and son of Md Abdul Awal at Imambari of Keraniganj.Quoting witnesses, police said security guards...
Read moreThe three navy Seals and a doctor, who had been with the Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in a Thai cave, emerged safely from the cave several hours after the rescue of the boys, reports The Guardian.With their emergence from the cave the 18-day mission came to an...
Read moreShops, set up occupying the land under an electricity pole, lying there for long without any intervention as is seen in the photo taken on Tuesday from the Khilgaon kitchen market adjacent to the railway line in the city — FE photo by KAZ Sumon
Read moreTeachers of non-MPO (monthly payment order) schools continuing their non-stop hunger strike in front of the National Press Club in the city on Tuesday to press for their inclusion in the MPO list — FE photo
Read moreAbout 90 per cent people have now access to electricity against 47 per cent in 2009, said state-owned Power Development Board (PDB) on Tuesday, reports UNB.In a statement, it said the number of electricity consumers has reached 29.9 million and the overall access to electricity has been augmented to 90...
Read moreWASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters): More American workers voluntarily quit their jobs in May, government data showed on Tuesday, a sign of confidence in the labor market that economists say will soon boost wage growth. In its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, the Labor Department said the...
Read moreState Minister for Health Zahid Malek speaking at a press conference in the city on Tuesday ahead of today's World Population Day — PID photo
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