GAZIPUR, Aug 20 (BSS): A mobile court in Kaliganj Bazar of the district fined nine business establishments Tk 21500 for irregularities.Executive Magistrate Umme Hafsa Nadia, who is also Upazila Assistant Commissioner (land), led the drive conducted different places in Kaliganj...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 20 (UNB): An unidentified woman was crushed under the wheels of a running train at Bhatiari Rail Station in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram district on Sunday.Salauddin Al Noman, sub-inspector of Chattogram Railway Police Station, said local people found...
KHULNA, Aug 20 (UNB): Three doctors of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) have been missing for the last two days.Dr Luis, Dr Tisha and Dr Sharmistha are missing since last Friday, confirmed Dr Sheikh Baharul Alam, president of Swadhinata Chikitshak...
RAJSHAHI, Aug 20 (BSS): Professor Jahangir Alam has joined Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) today as its new Vice-chancellor (VC) after the post remained vacant for over one-year.Prior to the new assignment, he was in the department of...
GEO textile bags rolling down into the riverbed as erosion washed away a number of structures. The photo was taken from Goyatola village in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali district — Focus Bangla
MEHERPUR, Aug 20 (UNB): The body of a Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corpo-ration (BSCIC) officer was recovered from the premises of the corporation's local office in Sadar upazila of Meherpur on Sunday .Shamsuzzaman Mithu, 56, was deputy managing director...
Karmasangsthan Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Skill Development Authority (NSDA) of the Prime Minister's Office at the NSDA Conference Room on Sunday for providing loans to trained youths on easy terms and at low interest...
LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters): Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices rose this week to the highest level in five months, as the risk of possible industrial action at some Australian LNG facilities raised concerns over supply.The average LNG price...
US, Japan and Australia plan joint navydrills in disputed South China SeaMANILA, Aug 20: The United States, Japan and Australia are planning a joint navy drill in the South China Sea off the western Philippines this week to underscore their...
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (AP): Phil Durst recalled clawing at his face after a chemical from a commercial dishwashing machine squirted into his eyes, causing "the most indescribable pain I've ever felt - ever, ever, ever."His left eye bore the brunt...
MOSCOW, Aug 20 (BBC): Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say. It was Russia's first Moon mission in almost 50 years.The craft was due to be the first ever to land...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 20 (Reuters/AP): Eleven labourers were killed in a militant attack in Northwestern Pakistan, caretaker prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said on Sunday in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.Security and police officials in northern...
NIAMEY, Aug 20 (BBC): Niger's coup leader has promised to return the West African nation to civilian rule within three years. Gen Abdourahamane Tchiani made the announcement after meeting mediators from the West African regional bloc Ecowas in the capital,...
Water is the basis of all life. We know how important water is for our survival. It is impossible to think of a day without water. This is why we often say that the other name for water is life....
Public health is a discipline of medical science. It is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. Basically, community medicine, hospital management, reproductive health care, child health care etc. are related to public health....
Neil Ray | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Few people in this country are aware that yesterday was the World Mosquito Day. But at a time when the country --- not just Dhaka City which alone mostly grappled with dengue in the past, but other cities and towns...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Changes in weather pattern are affecting food production globally. In South Asia, India is experiencing the driest August in a century. This is bad news not only for the Indian people, but also for the rest of the world. For...
The potential of exporting skilled manpower from Bangladesh remains depressingly untapped. Two basic reasons --- low skill level and lack of proficiency in languages of the manpower importing countries on the part of workers --- are responsible for that. The...
Muhammad Zamir | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Latin American Amazon nations sharing the Amazon paradigm recently met in the Brazilian city of Belem to review existing environmental policies and also identify common factors that need to be addressed carefully pertaining to deforestation. The participants sought to agree...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Several big names have applied for setting up digital banks in Bangladesh, the first of its kind in the country. These names include four state owned banks -Sonali, Agrani, Janata, and Rupali . Apart from them, e-commerce outfits such as...
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills in British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, as seen from Kelowna. Evacuation orders were put in place for areas near Kelowna, as the fire threatened the city of around 150,000. Story on page...
KARACHI (Pakistan), Aug 19 (Reuters): Pakistani opposition leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi was detained on Saturday, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said, just hours after he said it would challenge any delay to the country's election in the courts.Party spokesman Zulfi Bukhari...
MUMBAI, Aug 19 (Reuters): India will impose with immediate effect a 40 per cent export duty on onions up to Dec. 31 in an attempt to improve domestic availability of the vegetable, the ministry of finance said in a notification...
At least 150 people, including several cops, were injured as the activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and police locked into a clash in Shaestanagar area of Habiganj town on Saturday afternoon, reports UNB. Ajay Dev, officer-in-charge (OC) of...
The trial run of a rail truck was conducted on newly installed Dhaka-Mawa rail tracks, which is part of the Padma Bridge rail link project, on Saturday. The rail truck runs from Ganderiya to Mawa. Later, it crosses the Padma...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has moved to blacklist Marshal Agrovet Company Ltd due to alleged fraudulence in the import of BTI, an organic pesticide used to eliminate the larvae of dengue-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, reports bdnews24.com.In an order...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 19: Country's first-ever tunnel under the Karnaphuli River named 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel' will be opened for traffic on October 28 this year. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the tunnel which is her gift for the...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
The Russian contractor has installed a trestle crane at unit-1 for loading and unloading of fuel and heavy equipment at Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP) in north-western Bangladesh.The trestle crane was manufactured in Russia and delivered to the Rooppur NPP...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
Framers in the ongoing Aus season have been able to harvest paddy in just 100 days by cultivating a new rice variety named 'BRRI Dhan 98'.The paddy variety took 40-60 days less than that of earlier varieties, heralding the way...
Brokers not incentivised enough to help retail investors buy debt securitiesIt is not retail investors' lack of appetite, rather brokerage firms' lack of interest that has kept bond trading limited to institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Brokers do not...
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