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PM pays homage to Bangabandhu in Tungipara

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes and offered prayers at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara on Friday, reports BSS.She paid tributes to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his grave in the morning.After laying the wreath, she stood there in solemn...

Ensure non-stop power supply, cut import duty

Local sugar refiners requested the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to their units for continuing production of the item smoothly, officials said.The Bangladesh Sugar Refiners Association (BSRA) recently wrote a letter to the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to take steps in this regard. "We have recently received a letter...

They suffer to make hilsa available on your plates

The real income of the coastal fishermen have gradually been declining, forcing them to live in hunger and debt only to make Hilsa available on the plate of the Bangladeshi households. The marginal coastal fishermen have gradually been a poorer community amid lack of necessary compensations during the fishing ban...

Novelist Salman Rushdie stabbed in New York

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in New York on Friday and suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, according to New York State Police and an eyewitness, reports Reuters.A man...

Migrant workers get Tk 64m against insurance claims in last 3 years

Migrant workers received around Tk 64 million against their insurance claims in the last three years, according official data. The state-owned Jiban Bima Corporation (JBC) settled insurance claims made by 210 outbound Bangladeshi workers during the period of December 2019 to June 2022. The Wage Earners' Welfare Board (WEWB) introduced...

BD reports 2 more Covid deaths, 218 cases

Two more people died of Covid, and 218 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Friday morning, reports UNB.While the country's total fatalities reached 29,312, the new number took its caseload to 2,008,500, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The daily case positivity...

ACC sues BFIDC director for possessing Tk 76 lakh wealth 'illegally'

The Anti- Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday filed a case against the director (planning and development) of the Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC) for possessing money from "unknown sources of income and giving false information in wealth his statement.", reports UNB.BFIDC Director Sazzadul Islam did not give an appropriate wealth...

2022 sets record fire activity in southwest Europe: EU

PARIS, Aug 12 (AFP) : Blazes that have torched tens of thousands of hectares of forest in France, Spain and Portugal have made 2022 a record year for wildfire activity in southwestern Europe, the EU's satellite monitoring service said Friday.Amid a prolonged heatwave that saw temperature records tumble, the Copernicus...