Jute goods export from state-owned jute mills in Khulna-Jessore industrial belt has registered a sharp fall in the just concluded fiscal year compared to its preceding fiscal. Industry insiders said export from Khulna and Jessore’s state owned jute mills fell...
Jamila Begum, 35, wife of a day-labourer, Mominul Islam, is now at the threshold of eradicating her long-lasting poverty through household-based chicken rearing through modern method. Jamila, mother of three daughters and a son and a resident of Bargachhi village...
Joypurhat police claim to have rescued a schoolgirl who was abducted after miscreants killed her elder brother on Friday night. ‘Shipon’ who is said to have masterminded the abduction has already been arrested. Miscreants kidnapped the young girl from her...
Police have recovered the body of a poultry trader from Dhaka’s Mirpur. ‘Sohel’, 18, was found dead on Sunday at the foot of a multi-storey Mirpur-10 City Corporation Market, Pallabi police station’s Sub-Inspector Munira Akter said. He had a poultry...
If you are a shift worker, donating blood could be an easy way to reduce the risk of heart disease, says a study. The high incidence of heart disease seen in shift workers could be due to the tiredness resulting...
The Bangladesh government has proposed a law that would impose draconian restrictions on already beleaguered nongovernmental organisations, Human Rights Watch in a statement said on Saturday. Bangladesh’s donors should publicly express concerns about restrictions that are aimed at silencing government...
Advanced train tickets ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr will be available from July 20, the Railway Minister has said. Md Mozibul Hoque said tickets can be booked until July 24. He made the announcement on Sunday at the Rail Bhaban in...
The national cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has denied making any threat to quit playing Tests and ODIs for Bangladesh. He made the comment on arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) International Airport from London on Sunday morning. Earlier, the ace all-rounder,...
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Stocks ended lower for the four consecutive days on Sunday with turnover dipping below six- week low as investors continued to remain in selling mood amid cautious stance. The market started with a positive note, but could not sustain as...
Three members of a family were injured in an acid attack by miscreants at Gopalpur village adjacent to Islamic University in Kushtia town on Saturday night. Witnesses said a gang of miscreants threw acid on Saleha, 60, her daughter Sonia,...
New bank notes of different denominations, worth Tk 160 billion, will be released on Monday. The central bank took the decision last week to release the new notes before Eid-ul-Fitr to meet the growing demand for currencies ahead of the...
Akkasuddin Mollah and Alhaj Md. Sanaullah Shahid were elected chairman and vice chairman respectively of Executive Committee (EC) of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited in the 198th Meeting of the Board of Directors held recently. Mr Akkas Uddin Mollah is the...
Private hospital physicians in Khulna city have gone on a 48-hour strike, protesting vandalism and abduction of a fellow hospital doctor. Several doctors’ associations – Bangladesh Medical Association, Bangladesh Private Medical Practitioners Association and Bangladesh Private Clinic and Diagnostic Owners’...
Land Minister Shamsur Rahman Sharif, MP, has asked the field level officials to take proper decision on the vested properly related matters and discharge their duties with utmost sincerity and honesty to this end. He said the issues of morality...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday alleged that World Bank cancelled its funding in Padma bridge project being provoked by the United States and a vested quarter in the country. ‘The World Bank cancelled the fund being provoked by a...
A workshop on “SME, Ethical Banking, ERM & Green Bnking” organized by Pubali Bank Dhaka North Region was held recently. Managing Director and CEO of Pubali Bank Ltd. Helal Ahmed Chowdhury was present as Chief Guest. Additional Managing Director M....
Ministers are afraid of Tarique Rahman, says acting BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. ‘We can gather from the remarks of ministers that they are afraid of the party’s senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman. The government has failed to...
BASIC Bank’s former Managing Director Alauddin A Majid has been appointed the new chairman of the graft-hit bank. The finance ministry issued a circular to this effect on Sunday. Another circular dissolved the bank’s board. On Saturday, Finance Minister AMA...
The tremendous success achieved in the digitisation process has already turned Bangladesh into a digital country accelerating its economic progress and easing civic life. The common people, youths, students, Information Technology (IT) specialists and educationists believe that digitisation has created...
The Cabinet Purchase Committee, the highest body to approve any public procurement, on Sunday rejected a French company’s tender for installing a new online system of collecting value added tax (VAT). It asked the authorities concerned to call for new...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasna is scheduled to open a 3-day conference of Deputy Commissioners (DCs) in Dhaka on Tuesday. Cabinet Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the DCs will call on President Abdul Hamid after their meeting with the Prime Minister...
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday expressed profound shock at the death of former Justice and Law Commission member M Sirajul Islam. Sirajul Islam, also the youngest brother of former finance minister and BNP standing committee member M Saifur Rahman,...
A supreme court lawyer has served a legal notice, seeking ABM Altaf Hossain’s permanent appointment as a High Court judge. The notice by Md Idrisur Rahman was sent to the secretaries of law ministry, president and prime minister’s secretariat, and...
A fire broke out at the Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited’s (IBBL’s) Mawna Chourasta branch in Shreepur upazila of Gazipur on Sunday, burning down some of its furniture and windowpanes. Fire service officials said the fire originated from an electric short...
Global economic activity should strengthen in the 2nd half of this year and accelerate in 2015 although momentum could be weaker than expected, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said on Sunday, adding that the Fund did not expect a sharp slowdown...
President Abdul Hamid on Sunday stressed the need for taking steps to create awareness about cancer as the number of cancer patients has been increasing in the country. The President said this when a delegation of Bangladesh Cancer Society led...
An indefinite strike in all private clinics, hospitals and diagnostic centres in the Khulna city protesting Wednesday’s attack on Gazi Medical Collage Hospital by Khulna University (KU) students entered the second day on Sunday, causing untold sufferings to the patients....
BNP spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir claimed that Awami League has become an abandoned political party after the January-5 election. “Awami League can’t face the opposition politically as it has become a deserted political party after the January-5 election. It...
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Sunday observed that the quality of products should be of international standard to remain in the export market competition. “To remain in the competition of the export market, the quality of produces has to...
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