Mir Mostafizur Rahman | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
Healthcare is a basic facility which needs to be ensured for all the citizens by the government. Constitution of the country makes its incumbent upon the government to ensure healthcare for every citizen. Every year, an allocation is made in...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
After decades of steady growth with cotton-made products, it is high time the Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) industry shifted its gears and strategically focused on man-made fiber (MMF) to drive further growth. A recent study conducted by Wazir Advisors Pvt...
Against the awful odyssey Bangladeshi migrants embark on en route to Europe, South Korean job market rather officially open to willing skilled workers of Bangladesh is indeed an window of opportunity. The latest news is that South Korea has offered...
Sir Frank Peters | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
March 7, 1971 is a date that's indelibly etched in the hearts and minds of Bengalis worldwide with due pride and justification. And if not, it ought to be.Momentarily forget Padma Bridge, the Metro, and suchlike. As great as they...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-03-07 00:00:00
A day before 7 March fifty-three years ago, as a student of Senior Cambridge in distant Quetta, Balochistan, where our family lived owing to my father's posting in the garrison town, I looked forward to listening to Bangabandhu's speech the...
Chattogram, the second largest city in Bangladesh and often referred to as the commercial capital of the country, is equipped with traffic police boxes strategically placed at intersections along the main thoroughfares of the metropolitan area. These installations are intended...
Weather may remain mainly dry with partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Wednesday), according to the Met Office. Day temperature may rise slightly and night temperature may fall by (1-3)°C over...
Workers of Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) installing underground cables at Baitul Mukarram area in the city on Tuesday. The ongoing development work progressing at a relatively slow pace, much to the inconvenience of the commuters as well as the...
Prominent social worker Sabrunnesa Begum, 89, passed away at a hospital in Chattogram on Monday, says a statement. She was mother-in-law of Bangladesh Steel Manufacturers Association President and GPH Group Chairman Mohammad Jahangir Alam. She left behind four sons and...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 57 people and seized 12 faulty gas cylinders conducting separate drives in the city's Wari and Kamrangichar areas on Monday night, reports UNB.Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Wari Zone) of the DMP Masudur Rahman on Tuesday told...
Dato' Rajah Rasiah, Professor of Economics and Executive Director of Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Dr Atiur Rahman, Professor Emeritus of Department of Development Studies at the University of Dhaka, IUB Vice Chancellor Tanweer Hasan and Pro Vice Chancellor...
SIRAJGANJ, Mar 05 (UNB): Two cases have been filed against Dr Raihan Sharif, a lecturer of Community Medicine department of Shaheed M Mansur Ali Medical College and Hospital in Sirajganj, over shooting a student inside a classroom.Victim's father Abdullah Al...
A nine member delegation led by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) Nitin Agrawal has arrived in the city to attend the five-day long 54th border conference at DG level in Dhaka's BGB headquarters on Tuesday, reports UNB.BGB...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen has expressed dismay over allegations of the doctors' unavailability in rural government hospitals as such a condition could deprive marginalised citizens from their rights of healthcare services."Our aim is to take the government healthcare facility...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the way for investors of the multi-level marketing company UniPay2U to get their money back.The court on Tuesday directed the transfer of Tk 4.2 billion deposited in a UniPay2U account...
SANGSAD BHABAN, Mar 05 (BSS): The Law and Order Disruption (Speedy Trial) Amendment Bill, 2024 was passed unanimously in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) aimed at making the provisional law enacted in 2002 a permanent one to contain vandalism and obstructions...
A court in the city on Tuesday set April 29 for holding hearing on charge framing in two cases, one for observing fake birthday on National Mourning Day and another for stigmatizing the War of Liberation, lodged against BNP chairperson...
Awami League (AL) has taken elaborate programmes to observe the historic March 7, a red-letter day in the country's history, on Thursday in a befitting manner, reports BSS.On this day in 1971, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,...
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat delivers a speech at the DC Conference - 2024 at the Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city Tuesday. — Focus Bangla
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sent BNP vice-chairman Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed to jail in case filed with Gulshan Police Station over obstructing police in perfoing duty and vandalism, reports UNB.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury passed the order when...
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has left fhe city for United Arab Emirates (UAE) on an official visit to attend 'The World Police Summit 2024' in Dubai, reports BSS.The IGP departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport last night,...
Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus was hosted by US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Peter Haas, at a dinner on March 4 to meet with Greg Nelson, Chief Technology Officer of Opportunity International, reports UNB.The organisation promotes and implements microfinance (MF) programmes...
BNP Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas has said that ruling Awami League (AL) retains power by killing people reports UNB.AL is using state apparatus to kill the taxpayers, alleged the BNP leader.He made the comments in a financial grant giving...
President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industries (FBCCI) Mahbubul Alam has expressed grief over a fire that ripped through a sugar refinery plant of S Alam Group in Chattogram on Monday.Such an incident is very shocking...
Banks will only be able to make transactions from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm for the month of Ramadan, reports bdnews24.com .Banks can continue to operate another one and a half hours until 4 pm for office work.Bangladesh Bank issued...
The fire at the S Alam Group-owned sugar refinery warehouse in Chattogram persisted for over 24 hours as of the report filing at 9:00 pm. Due to the flammable nature of sugar's raw materials, complete extinguishment of the fire proved...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
Apparel and textile makers seek a slew of tax benefits, including slashing source tax, in the upcoming national budget for facilitating the export sector's growth.Their proposals include adjusting or refunding advance income tax (AIT) upon return submission, value-added tax (VAT)...
Veteran journalist Sayed Kamaluddin, editor of the weekly Holiday, has passed away at a city hospital. He was 85, reports UNB."My father breathed his last at about 2:30 pm at Evercare Hospital on Tuesday. He was suffering from kidney-related complications,"...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
The river-training works for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge project are scheduled to be completed by August this year, according to official sources.Of the $2.9 billion allocated for the entire project, $1.1 billion was designated for the river training component -...
FE REPORT | 2024-03-06 00:00:00
Country's telecom operators have proposed that the revenue board amend income-tax provisions to relieve them of double taxation, which is contradictory to the main policy of the income-tax law.They said it is not possible to collect the Proof of Submission...
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