Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi speaks as the chief guest at a roundtable on 'Strengthening US-Bangladesh economic and trade relations' at a city hotel on Wednesday. US-Bangladesh Business Council organised the event. — PID
Standard Chartered announced the rollout of enhanced global parental leave benefits on Wednesday. From September 1, the bank will standardise the amount of parental leave it offers, providing parents the option of undertakingmore equitable caregiving responsibilities for their children, says...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 30: A portion of Elevated Expressway Chattogram will be opened to traffic by this November with intent to ease vehicular movement through Bangabandhu Tunnel, another mega project.Work on the first elevated expressway of the port city will be...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday suspended licences of as many as seven money changers, following allegations of their involvement in charging higher prices for foreign exchanges, particularly in US dollars required by travellers heading abroad. Besides, the central bank has...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
IFC, the largest global development institution, funded a record US$11 billion for a total of 108 projects in Asia and the Pacific in fiscal year (FY) 2022-23, registering a 10 per cent year-on-year increase. The amount comprised $4.7 billion in...
ISTANBUL, Aug 30 (Reuters): Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia soon to discuss the collapsed United Nations deal that had allowed Black Sea exports of Ukrainian grain, a spokesperson for Turkey's ruling AK Party said on Monday.The UN- and...
Gold was perched atop a three-week high on Wednesday as traders positioned for more U.S. economic readings that could further alter the odds of another interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, reports Reuters.Spot gold rose 0.1 per cent to...
Managing Director of Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited Md Rafiqul Islam greets newly appointed Secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources Division Md Nurul Alam with a bouquet recently.
Karmasangsthan Bank held a view-exchange meeting on its services with the stakeholders at the Sylhet Zilla Parishad conference room on Tuesday. Managing Director Shirin Akhter attended the meeting as the chief guest and Assistant General Manager at Chittagong Divisional Office...
LONDON, Aug 30 (Reuters): Oil prices extended gains on Wednesday after industry data showed a large draw in crude inventories in the US, the world's biggest fuel consumer, and as a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico kept investors on...
'Deliberate wrongdoing' among possible causesof plane crash that killed Prigozhin: Kremlin MOSCOW, Aug 30: The Kremlin said Wednesday that "deliberate wrongdoing" is among the possible causes of the plane crash that killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last week. Speaking to...
KYIV, Aug 30 (Reuters): Ukrainian drones struck targets in at least six regions deep within Russia on Wednesday, including an airfield where they destroyed military transport planes, in one of the broadest volleys yet of Kyiv's campaign to turn the...
NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters): The US and South Korean militaries want to more closely integrate their systems for tracking North Korean missile launches, an effort that may soon see more cooperation with Japan as well, US Space Force officials...
BEIJING, Aug 30 (BBC): Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has defended talks with Chinese officials in Beijing, telling the BBC it would not be "credible" to disengage. After meeting China's vice president, Mr Cleverly said the trip, the first by such...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 30 (AP): Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan will remain in a high-security prison for at least another two weeks despite being granted bail the previous day, as a court extended his detention Wednesday in a case involving...
DAKAR, Aug 30 (AP/AFP): Mutinous soldiers in Gabon said Wednesday they were overturning the results of a presidential election that was to extend the Bongo family's 55-year hold on power.The central African country's election committee announced that President Ali Bongo...
LONDON, Aug 30 (AFP): Manchester City striker Erling Haaland scooped the PFA Players' Player of the Year award on Tuesday after his stellar first season with the treble winners.England and Aston Villa star Rachel Daly won the women's prize, voted...
NEW YORK, Aug 30 (AFP): Former US Open champion Stan Wawrinka on Tuesday became the oldest man to win a match at the tournament since 40-year-old Jimmy Connors in 1992.Wawrinka, 38, earned his first win in New York in four...
Captain of Bangladesh National Football team Jamal Bhuyan arrived Dhaka from Argentina on Wednesday to play two FIFA Tier-1 International Friendly matches against Afghanistan in the city, reports UNB.Bangladesh national team will play two FIFA Tier-1 International Friendlies against Afghanistan...
Bangladesh is poised to commence their Asia Cup journey with a face off against Sri Lanka in Kandy today (Thursday).They have made the Asia Cup final three times but are still searching for their first trophy. However, they want to...
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug campaigns arrested 47 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday, reports BSS.The DB in association with...
BENAPOLE, Aug 30 (UNB): Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested three suspected smugglers along with 4 gold bars weighing 2.9 kg from Daulatpur border of Benapole in Jessore district on Wednesday morning,The arrestees were Saidur Rahman Majed, 33, son of Mohiuddin...
KHULNA, Aug 30 (UNB): Patients at Khulna Medical College and Hospital (KMCH) have been struggling to receive proper treatment due to overcrowding and manpower shortage.The authorities of KMCH have been scrambling to provide treatment due to bed shortage as the...
GAIBANDHA, Aug 30 (BSS): The water level of the Brahmaputra, one of the mighty rivers in the country, crossed its danger mark in the district on Wednesday morning inundating the river basin areas.The Teesta, another major river of northern region...
FAWZIYAH FARIHA | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
A Dhaka University Moot Court Society (DUMCS) team comprising Oishe Rahman, Rafid Azad Saumik, Fiaz Rabbani, and Tanha Tanzia emerged as champions in the Asia Cup 2023, held at the United Nations University, Japan recently. Earlier, the team had qualified...
SABIT IBTISAM ANAN | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time," said Carl Sagan, an American astronomer.Books have the ability to defy time and space...
TAHSIN TASNIA SIMI | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
The word "emotion" is usually assigned a negative connotation in regular conversations in Bangladesh, especially when used as an adjective. "She's very emotional", indicates that a person is perceived to be weak, irrational, and immature. "Don't act emotionally", "Don't think...
A wide range of products is now offered through telemarketing. However, in most cases, it causes nothing but a disturbance to mobile phone users. These calls are made at any time of the day caring little about our privacy. It...
Genetically modified (GM) crops are getting popular nowadays. These crops possess many properties including herbicide and virus tolerance, resistance to drought and salinity. The use of GM crops is often considered as a solution to several food and agricultural problems....
Dementia is a disease with the symptom that the patients cannot remember anything. Because of this disease, many people forget the work done a little earlier. This disease can make a person's normal daily activities miserable. The condition can turn...
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