Bangladesh received all-time high earnings from agricultural product exports in the just-passed fiscal year (FY), 2018-19, riding on processed food shipments.Business insiders have attributed this to massive development in 'compliance issues' of the country which put a positive impact on export receipts.The country fetched $909 million, 35 per cent up...
Read moreThe World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO in its latest meeting decided not to keep the Sundarbans on the World Heritage in Danger list, Prime Minister's energy adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury told newsmen on Wednesday.The Rampal 1,320-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant at Bagerhat would not be harmful to the Sundarbans,...
Read moreBangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC) declined to receive the mobile operators' last quarter's payment without value-added tax (VAT), mobile operator's organisation - AMTOB said Wednesday. Mobile Network Operators of the country was supposed to make their last quarter's (April - June, 2019) payment of different charges including revenue sharing, social...
Read moreCOX'S BAZAR, July 10 (UNB): Bodies of seven people were recovered from Cox's Bazar sea beach on Wednesday as a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal amid storm.Police recovered seven bodies of the fishermen from different points of Cox's Bazar sea beach in the district town while eight others...
Read moreMuhammad Jahangir, a noted media personality and executive director of Centre for Development Communication, died at a hospital in the city early Wednesday. He was 68, reports UNB.Jahangir, a journalist and younger brother of Nobel laureate Dr Yunus, died around 12:40am at Asgar Ali Hospital in the city, said Tanbirul...
Read moreAbout 1,000 tonnes of stone aggregates from Bhutan are the first waterways consignment that will be ferried to Bangladesh via the Brahmaputra river, according to a report published on http://www.kuenselonline.com/.The consignment is lifted Tuesday from Dhubri Port in Assam in India. In three days, it will reach the Narayanganj Port...
Read moreSpeakers emphasised on Wednesday the need for more research and collection of categorical data to attract more private investments in the biomass energy sector of the country.They also observed that if there had been sufficient information and data available with the government, then entrepreneurs of the country could enter the...
Read moreShowering praise for Bangabandhu and his family, Chief Executive of the World Bank Kristalina Georgieva said on Wednesday the family of Bangabandhu is the symbol of freedom and struggle across the globe, reports UNB.She made the remarks at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the sidelines of the...
Read moreCUMILLA, July 10 (UNB): Three people, including a woman and her 12-year-old boy, were stabbed to death allegedly by a man who was subsequently beaten to death by local people at Radhanagar in Debidwar upazila on Wednesday.The three victims were identified as Anwara Begum, 45, wife of Shah Alam, her...
Read moreRickshaws plying the DIT Road in the city’s Shahjahanpur area on Wednesday as they were allowed back on the roads that were earlier made off-limits to them — FE Photo
Read moreBangladesh General Students' Rights Protection Forum staged a protest rally on the Dhaka University campus on Wednesday against killing, rape and corruption — FE Photo
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