Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Thursday hunger has already been eradicated from the country and vowed afresh to make a poverty-free Bangladesh, reports UNB."We've been able to make the country free from hunger. So, now we'll have to make it completely poverty-free," she said while inaugurating the weeklong PKSF...
Read moreGrameenphone (GP) has agreed to pay Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Tk 2.0 billion in two installments from its claim for Tk 125.79 billion in dues.The leading local telecoms operator said this to the appellate division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday.Its payment offer came following a charter of...
Read moreA wheelchair helper of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines went from Dhaka to Chittagong illegally on a Biman flight on Thursday morning when he was helping a passenger in boarding.The wheelchair helper, named Ataur, is now under the Biman security custody.The incident has again created much concern and criticism about the...
Read moreThe government has adopted a new strategy to combat trade-based money laundering and illicit financial outflow from the country with the incorporation of a few stringent provisions into it, officials said.It has been included in the 'National Strategy for Preventing Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism 2019-2021'.Three national strategies...
Read moreFinance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Thursday assured the country's taxpayers of eliminating irregularities from the tax system. "I assure you that there will be no more irregularities," he said while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of a weeklong tax fair 2019 which began at the Officers' Club in Dhaka...
Read moreFormer democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named Wednesday in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis, reports AFP.Rohingya and Latin American human rights groups submitted the lawsuit...
Read moreThe government urged on Thursday the media to publish objective news on sensitive issues involving important personalities, politicians, businessmen, government officials and various institutions, reports BSS."The publication of misleading news on important personalities, politicians, businessmen, government officials and various institutions is being noticed in print and electronic media which is...
Read moreA Dhaka court fixed on Thursday December 1 for delivering its verdict in a case over the death of two college students in a road accident on Airport Road in the city on July 29, reports UNB.Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court Judge Imrul Kayes fixed the date after the end...
Read moreStudents of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on Thursday announced that they would not go back to their classes and would not sit for examinations until their three-point demands, which include permanent expulsion of Abrar's killers, were met. Aniruddha Ganguli, a computer science and engineering (CSE) student of...
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