RANGPUR, Nov 09 (BSS): Journalists can play a crucial role in dispelling misinformation about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and increasing registration in hard-to-reach areas to make the HPV campaign successful. Health officials and experts expressed the view on Saturday in...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
SYLHET, Nov 09: Mohan Robidas, a farmer in Komolganj upazila of Moulvibazar district, has achieved a success unparalleled in his neighbourhood by producing high-priced paddy varieties.Robidas boasts the unique returns that came from his producing 11 different varieties of high-value...
While Bangladesh celebrates women's contributions to the economy, it is time to confront the persistent obstacles that undermine their safety and equality. Women make up around 60 per cent of the workforce in the ready-made garment (RMG) sector, playing a...
The use of glass in pharmaceutical packaging offers numerous benefits. First, glass is highly resistant to temperature changes, a crucial property for the pharmaceutical industry, where products often require specific temperatures to ensure stability and efficacy. This allows glass to...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
The lack of reliable data has long been a major problem in Bangladesh that hindered the effort to accurately assess the demand and supply of various goods, evaluate macroeconomic performance and set evidence-based policies. For instance, according to the Department...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Be it a political, social or even religious issue that attracts the headlines of the daily newspapers, money matters almost everywhere. People ultimately want to know how they can enhance their earnings and reduce the costs of living. Beyond their...
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has apparently come up with more credible inflation data, but those are not helpful either for government or the hapless average consumer. And, while it is certainly welcome news to learn that the dollar...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the first ever summit of BRICS+ from October22 to 24 in Tatarstan, capital Kazan -- a beautiful city also considered as the third capital of Russia. The 16th BRICS summit hosted by Russia is believed...
Asad Islam | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh recently witnessed a powerful student-led uprising initially aimed at addressing unfair job quotas in the public sector. This movement, which ultimately contributed to the ouster of a government, has highlighted core issues relating to governance, education, and job creation...
Simon Mohsin | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Name a few of the greatest villains in movies. The current Gen Z, and even those not members of this generation, will name Thanos, Doctor Doom, Magneto, Joker, and many more, which are part of the fantasy series movies of...
Mohammad Alauddin | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Solar energy stands as the planet's most abundant energy resource, offering an endless supply of renewable power to humanity. Of all renewable energy sources, the inexhaustible solar one is the most dispersed form of energy that can be captured and...
Mustafa K. Mujeri | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and cottage enterprises (CEs) which are mostly managed by own-account workers together provide a vast majority of employment for the country's enterprise sector. Latest available statistics of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)...
IG Chowdhury | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
It was my first morning in London. I had a long flight of over eighteen hours from Dhaka. I was residing in a hall of residence of the university. The breakfast hours were fixed. I got up and made my...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Business enterprises struggle to keep production running for several reasons including shortages of natural gas supply. The incumbent interim government has taken some initiatives to increase gas supply for urea fertilizer production and electricity generation. On 20 October 2024, Mohammad...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
There were contradictions and paradoxes galore in the Indo-Bangladesh relations during the Awami League rule led by Sheikh Hasina between January 2009 and July 2024, which apparently demonstrated a myopic, communal, divisive, and fascistic outlook of the ruling quarters in...
Social media has attained a wide range of dynamics over the years.In various countries these dimensions have included maintaining general security and using it for civil and criminal investigation. At the same time, footage of citizen-documented police brutality and other...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Public choice theory has been defined as the application of economic analysis to the study of politics. In other words, its subject is political economy in the classic sense. But one has to hasten to qualify this statement and say...
Syed Abul Basher and Salim Rashid | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
A one-of-its-kind political changeover in Bangladesh offers an opportunity to anatomize the policies of the fallen Awami League (AL) government, which governed the country for 15 years until imploded. Some scholars argue political stability is a prerequisite for developing countries...
Matiur Rahman | 2024-11-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh's financial services landscape has significantly transformed over the past decade, with the rapid shift from traditional cash-based transactions to digital payments. This evolution is particularly pronounced in microfinance, which has long been crucial in addressing financial inclusion, poverty alleviation,...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-09 12:00:00
Monno Agro & General Machinery, a subsidiary of Monno Group of Industries, posted a net profit of Tk 7.74 million for FY'24, registering a 2.0 per cent year-on-year decline.As a result, the company's earnings per share (EPS) dropped to Tk...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-09 12:00:00
The benchmark equity index continued its upward trend this week, extending gains for a second consecutive week as the government's decision to lower capital gains tax came as a relief for individual investors.This week, the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
IG Chowdhury | 2024-11-09 12:00:00
It may not be an exaggeration to say that laziness is a national disease of this country. Most of us, professionals in particular, detest physical work unlike the western world. For them it is dignity of labour or unavailability of...
Rain/Thunder showers is likely to occur at one or two places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions. Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met...
The students participating in the University Day 2024 at the BSMR Maritime University, Bangladesh posed for a photo seesion during the event on its Mirpur campus in the capital on Thursday . — Press Release
A BRTC double-decker bus has caught fire while it was being parked beneath a flyover on the capital's Kuril Bishwa Road, reports bdnews24.com.The incident was reported around 1:42 pm on Friday, according to Rashed Bin Khaled, duty officer at the...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-09 00:00:00
Eggs were hurled at theatre activists rallying outside Dhaka's Shilpakala Academy on Friday, as they protested against the recent suspension of the play 'Nityapuran'. Organised by the Bangladesh Group Theater Federation, the rally denounced the recent interruption of the performance...
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested one Md Arman, alias Boma Arman, from Geneva Camp in the capital's Mohammadpur area, reports UNB.Shihab Karim, senior assistant superintendent of police (media) of RAB-2, confirmed the matter on Friday.Arman was...
Five people died of dengue in the last 24 hours until Friday morning throughout Bangladesh, report agencies.Another 466 dengue patients were hospitalised in the same period, according to data from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).As many as 242...
The government has formed the two expert committees at the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) and the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) as part of the special measures to strengthen prevention activities amid an increase in the prevalence of dengue...
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Hasan Mahmood Khan left Dhaka for China on Friday on an official visit, reports UNB.The visit, scheduled from November 9 to 15, is at the invitation of the Commander of the Chinese People's...
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