The premier business chamber of the country Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) Tuesday elected its new executive committee with Syed Nasim Manzur as its new president. The managing director of Apex Footwear Ltd, Manzur has also investments in...
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Tuesday told the House that the country's women entrepreneurs are getting maximum Tk 5.0 million as loan at 10 per cent interest from different banks and financial institutions as part of the women economic empowerment....
The SAARC foreign ministers have stretched their meeting beyond schedule Tuesday to get at least one deal signed during the summit beginning Wednesday. Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told Bangladesh journalists at about 6.30pm that they would meet again...
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia sat in a meeting with pro-BNP professionals, including teachers, doctors, engineers, journalists and lawyers, Tuesday night to discuss the country’s latest political situation. The closed-door meeting began around 8:30 pm at the BNP chief’s Gulshan office,...
‘Koishorer Agrodut’, an adolescent radio listeners’ club, was launched in Dhaka on Tuesday. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu was present at the launching programme as the chief guest. Inu also inaugurated the website of the club on the occasion, according...
Bangladesh Tuesday strongly protested the recent adoption of a resolution by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Provincial Assembly of Pakistan concerning the conviction of perpetrators of the crimes against humanity and genocide during the country's War of Liberation in 1971. The...
The government does not have the exact amount of money laundered abroad, says the finance minister. During a question and answer session at Parliament on Tuesday, AMA Muhith said Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit was constantly working to stop money being...
RANGPUR, Nov 24 (BSS): The landless char people, small, marginal and riverside farmers have been cultivating various Rabi crops now on vast tacts of the dried-up riverbeds and char lands in the riverine areas of the northern districts. Sowing of...
NARAIL, Nov 24 (BSS): Farmers are passing busy time while Aman harvest is going on in full swing under three upazilas of the district. According to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) office in Narail, a target was set to...
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KHULNA, Nov 24: The export of produced goods of 8 betelnut factories of Mongla EPZ has been suspended due to indecision between Customs and exporters concerned, sources said. Betelnut containers are kept waiting at the port yard for exporting. As...
RAJBARI, Nov 24 (UNB): A sexagenarian woman was crushed to death under the wheels of train in Dry-ice Factory area in Rajbari sadar on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Halima Bibi, 60, wife of Mozahar of the area. Witnesses...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 24 (BSS): Beans cultivation has become an effective means of bringing fortune for many farmers in the vast Barind tract comprising Rajshahi, Chapainawabgonj and Naogaon districts. Large numbers of farmers are now engaged in bean cultivation commercially in...
NARSINGDI, Nov 24 (BSS): Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) Narsingdi has distributed 1,188 tonnes of Boro seeds (BRRI-28 and BRRI-29 varieties Dan) of the district to make the current Boro cultivation programme a success. The BADC sources said the 1,138...
Manabik Shahajya Sangstha (MSS) conducted a recovery from cataracts (RFC) camp at Balia union of Thakurgaon district on Friday to provide free eye treatment and cataract surgery for local people, says a press release. MSS did it as part of...
SYLHET, Nov 24 (UNB): A man was killed in an accident at Mohajon Potty area in city on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Ahsan Habib Babu, 40, resident of Doulatpur in Kushtia district. Witnesses said the pick up...
JESSORE, Nov 24 (UNB): A youth died falling from a tree at Churmonkati village in Sadar upazila on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Masud Rana, 16, resident of the village. The victim's father Ibrahim Hossain said Masud suddenly...
10 on way to India rescued in Benapole Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 10 people, including two women and a child, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border point in Jessore on Sunday night. The...
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The country's largest-ever Tuna fish weighing 55 kilograms was caught by fishermen from the Bay of Bengal thanks to their access to the deep sea following victory over maritime disputes with Myanmar and India. Fishermen have confirmed the record of...
SINGAPORE, Nov 24 (AFP): Oil prices rose in Asia Monday before a crucial meeting of the OPEC cartel later in the week that will discuss whether to trim output, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for January delivery was...
MUMBAI, Nov 24 (Reuters): Indian soybean futures rose on Monday to their highest level in three months on thin supplies in spot markets amid healthy export demand for soymeal. Rapeseed and soyoil also rose on lower-than-expected crushing of new season...
Nobel Laureate José Roberto Moreira on Tuesday urged Bangladesh to focus on energy efficiency and conservation (EE&C), aiming to save power. The Nobel Laureate said Bangladesh has to rely on conventional energy sources, but the global society requested it to...
KABUL, Nov 24 (AFP): Survivors of a horrific suicide attack which killed 57 people at a volleyball game in eastern Afghanistan told Monday how the blast ripped through a crowd of spectators enjoying the final moments of the match. In...
NEW DELHI, Nov 24 (AFP): India's new premier heads to his first South Asia summit this week seeking stronger regional integration in the face of growing Chinese influence, but experts see little hope of progress while tensions with Pakistan persist....
VIENNA, Nov 24, (AFP) Iran and world powers looked likely Monday to miss a midnight deadline to agree a long-awaited nuclear deal, with a Western diplomat saying they would agree an extension and meet again next month. "Given progress made...
TOKYO, Nov 24 (AFP): Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party showed a strong lead in opinion polls released Monday ahead of Japan's general election next month, despite a majority of respondents giving a thumbs down to his economic blitz. Japan's...
Doctor is Italy's first case of Ebola ROME, Nov 24: An Italian doctor has contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone and is being repatriated for treatment, the health ministry said Monday. The ministry said the doctor, the first Italian to contract...
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