A worker busy making blanket at Goshaibari in Dhunat upazila of Bogura district as winter has set in. The photo was taken on Saturday — Focus Bangla
BRAHMANBARIA, Dec 02 (UNB): A cloth trader was crushed under the wheels of a train at Shimrail Kandi area in Brahmanbaria district on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Md Kabir Alam, 32, a resident of Nasirnagar upazila's Gujiakhail village.Sub-inspector Md...
MIRSARAI, Dec 02 (UNB): A 6-year-old madrasha student was killed and another injured as a pickup van hit an auto-rickshaw carrying them at South Maghadia Ghona in Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Arifa, daughter...
NARAYANGANJ, Dec 02 (UNB): A woman and her son sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out in their house from gas leakage at the Nitaiganj Mollapara area in Narayanganj's Sadar upazila on Saturday.The injured were identified as Sima Begum,...
RAJSHAHI, Dec 02 (BSS): Close collaborations between the government and non-government organisations (GO-NGO) can be the effective means of successful implementation of grassroots level development activities.Simultaneously, the role of NGOs is very important towards the successful implementation of the government's...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
BENAOLE, Dec 02: Vegetable farmers in six districts of Jashore agricultural region have seen their hopes shuttered this winter season for various factors, including absence of heavy rainfall, storms, widespread attack of insects and outbreak of diseases.Still now the farmers...
OUR CORRESPONDENTCOX'S BAZAR, Dec 02: Miscreants removed nuts and bolts of the railway line on the Cox's Bazar-Chattogram route which delayed the Cox's Bazar Express train's journey for half an hour on Saturday.The incident occurred in Kahatia Para of Rashidnagar...
Export Import Bank of Bangladesh Limited inaugurated its 151st branch at Chandraganj, Laxmipur; today (December 02, 2023). Managing Director and CEO of the Bank Mohammad Feroz Hossain inaugurates the branch as chief guest while Additional Managing Director of the Bank...
Mercantile Bank PLC. donated agricultural machineries a Abdullahpur in South Keraniganj, Dhaka today (Saturday, 02 December 2023). Five power tillers had been distributed to 5 Farmers of Keraniganj area from the special CSR fund of the Bank. M. Amanullah, Sponsor...
IFIC Bank PLC recently (26th November 2023) hosted "IFIC Bank Remittance Road Show 2023" at Bradford, United Kingdom, to increase the inflow of remittance to Bangladesh through legitimate banking channels. The occasion highlights swift, convenient and secure remittance delivery services...
Eastern Bank PLC. (EBL) arranged "Annual Risk Conference-2023" today at its head office in the city's Gulshan area. Around 140 executives of the bank including DMDs, head of the divisions, senior managers and branch managers attended the conference. The risk...
BABUL BARMAN | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Export-focused shoemaker Craftsman Footwear and Accessories looks to get listed on the SME board three years after beginning production, as it secured an exponential growth in profit between FY21 and FY23. Sadat Hossain Salim, who founded the organisation from his...
SABANG, Dec 02 (Reuters): Some 170 ethnic Rohingya people arrived in Indonesia on Saturday, head of a provincial fishing community said, in the latest boat arrivals in recent weeks that have brought more than 1,000 from Myanmar's Muslim minority to...
CALIFORNIA, Dec 02 (AP): South Korea launched its first military spy satellite into space Friday, a little over a week after North Korea claimed to put its own spy satellite into orbit for the first time as tensions rise between...
ISLAMABAD, Dec 02 (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, currently in jail facing myriad charges he says are rigged to keep him from contesting elections next year, was replaced Saturday as head of the party he founded, officials said.Khan...
KHAN YOUNIS, Dec 02 (AP/BBC): Israel pounded targets in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, intensifying a renewed offensive that followed a weeklong truce with Hamas and giving rise to renewed concerns about civilian casualties."This is going to be very...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Argentina elected Javier Milei as its new President on Sunday a week before (November 19) who describes himself as “anarcho-capitalist” and believes in the classical model of free market above all other things. He won by a wide margin of...
The escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip is having a catastrophic impact on children and their families. Children are dying at an alarming rate - more than 5,000 have reportedly been killed and thousands more injured. Well over 1.7...
Construction work contributes to a nation's development efforts. However, the safety of the construction workers does not seem to be a priority in our country. Most workers in Dhaka city's construction sites work in risky conditions. Lack of safety equipment...
Being a BCS (Bangladesh Civil Service) cadre is a dream job in Bangladesh. It is the most prestigious job status one can have in this country. Every year, thousands of candidates -- from engineers to doctors to social science students...
Anisur Rahman | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Samuel P Huntington said in his book 'Clash of Civilisations' that people's cultural and religious identities would be the primary source of conflicts in the post-Cold War era. That does not mean he wanted conflicts. He just alerted the world...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-12-03 00:00:00
Food security worldwide is declining and becoming a matter of major concern. There are many reasons behind the decline in food security or rise in food insecurity. Even before the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, the world had witnessed the...
The fact that financial reporting by public sector enterprises in this country, in most cases, has always been opaque and it could hardly help the policymakers concerned to design suitable plans and programmes for improving their performance, financial or otherwise....
The United Nations has said they do not deploy observers to elections like Bangladesh one, noting that they rarely do that without a specific mandate, reports UNB. "The UN is not deploying observers to these elections. We don't… we rarely,...
WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (TASS) :The Board of Directors of the World Bank made the decision to approve the extension of a $1.2 bln loan to Ukraine, the World Bank's press service said.Money will be allocated to support 29 social aid...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 1, (AFP) : Meta filed a lawsuit late Wednesday arguing that US regulators planning to change the terms of a 2020 privacy settlement are overstepping their authority and should be stopped.The Silicon Valley tech giant, known as...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 01: One worker was killed in an accident at GPH Ispat factory at Sitakunda in Chattogram at around 8 pm on (Friday).The victim was identified as Md Fallat (35).Sources said, Md Fallat was killed when an iron sheet...
KATHMANDU, Dec 1 (Reuters): A new group is among the two political parties chosen by Bhutan's people to contest its fourth free vote since democracy was established 15 years ago, while the outgoing ruling party was knocked out, the Election...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
In response to a surge in fire incidents and other disasters in recent years, the government has decided to construct 59 more fire stations across the country by spending nearly Tk 24 billion in the next four years, officials said.These...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-12-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh has requested China to extend loan-availability period for the Padma Bridge rail- link project by one year as the project execution trails the train, already on commercial run. Officials say the lending timeline has been requested to be extended...
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