MYMENSINGH, Dec 30 (UNB): Four members of a family, including two minor girls, died after being electrocuted in Birghoshpala village under Nandail upazila of Mymensingh on Saturday, leaving the entire village in shock.The deceased were identified as Jamal Uddin, 32,...
Dr Debapriya Bhatta-charya, convener of Citizen's Platform for SDGs, Bangladesh and Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), has raised significant concern regarding the misuse of state resources and lack of transparency in the political sphere, reports UNB. During...
BENGALURU, Dec 30 (Reuters): India's blue-chip Nifty 50 and BSE Sensex rose around 20 per cent in 2023, their second-best year since 2017, and were among the top-performing stock indexes globally.The rally was driven by sustained domestic mutual fund inflows,...
IFIC Bank inaugurated 'Blanket Distribution Programme 2023-2024' on Thursday at the bank's head office in the capital, aimed to support the underprivileged across the nation. The programme was officially inaugurated by Shah Alam Sarwar, managing director and chief executive officer...
M. Khorshed Anowar, DMD and head of Retail and SME Banking, Eastern Bank (EBL), and Ziaul Hoque Khan, chief business officer of CPDL, a real estate company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the former's head office in Dhaka...
Babul Barman, Mohammad Mufazzal and Farhan Fardaus | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
Equity-based securities worth 60 per cent of the total stock market value have remained trapped on the floor this year. The lowest stock prices set in July last year to avert free fall of the index made the market suffer...
The 33rd death anniversary of Comrade Moni Singh, founder president of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), will be observed today (Sunday), reports BSS.Comrade Singh was a member of the Advisory Council of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh during the Liberation...
LALMONIRHAT, Dec 30 (UNB): A replica 'boat' installed in a public spot by Awami League supporters as part of their electioneering was set on fire allegedly by supporters of an independent candidate for the Lalmonirhat-1 constituency in Hatibandha upazila in...
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 30 (BSS): Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Saturday said BNP is destroying public properties, carrying out arson attacks on public transports and killing people in the name of...
Election Monitoring Forum arranged a training workshop for the election observers for the upcoming 12th parliamentary election at the National Press Club in the city on Saturday — Focus Bangla
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General (DG) AKM Nazmul Hasan on Saturday said that they would work with professionalism to maintain law and order during the upcoming 12th national parliamentary election scheduled for January 7, reports UNB.He said this while...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 30 (UNB): The election camp of a Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM) candidate from Chapainawabganj-3 constituency was set on fire at Shankarbati in Chapainawabganj municipality area on Friday.The miscreants set the election camp of BNM candidate Maulana Abdul Matin...
Ganatantra Mancha, an opposition platform opposing the election under the Awami League government, on Saturday said the ruling party would lose interest in staying in power once the foreign powers show it a 'red card' after the January-7 lopsided national...
KUSHTIA, Dec 30 (BSS): Awami League Joint General Secretary and its nominated candidate for Kushtia-3 constituency Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Saturday said that the time for dialogue with BNP has passed so there is no chance to sit for dialogue...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Saturday said BNP has taken the path of sabotage after failing in regular movement, reports BSS."We are getting news that messages are being sent from London instructing to carry out assassinations, if...
Google has agreed to settle a US lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in "private mode", reports BBC.The class action sought at least $5bn (£3.9bn) from the world's go-to search...
The 52nd annual general meeting (AGM) of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) was held at the ICMAB Ruhul Quddus Auditorium, ICMA Bhaban, Nilkhet on Friday, said a press release. Md Abdur Rahman Khan, president of...
Aramit PLC approves 25pc final cash dividendAramit Cement holds 27th AGMAramit PLC, a unit of Aramit Group, a leading industrial conglomerate of the country based in Chattogram, approved a 25 per cent final cash dividend for the year ended June...
Dinajpur, Dec 30 (UNB): The production at Barapukuria Coal Mine remained suspended from yesterday (Friday) on a temporary basis, said authorities at the coal mine.The production at the coal mine will resume within February after relocating all machinery in new...
IFIL distributes warm clothesAs a part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Islamic Finance and Investment Limited (IFIL) has recently distributed blankets. IFIL Managing Director & CEO Mohammed Mosharaf Hossain inaugurated the programme by distributing blankets among the destitute and cold-hit...
RIYADH, Dec 30 (Arab News): In the transformative landscape of 2023, Saudi Arabia's travel sector has not only met but exceeded expectations, prompting a substantial recalibration of its Vision 2030 ambitions.This year saw the Kingdom scaling up its initial target...
For Bangladesh cricket fans, the sting of the Tigers' early ouster from the 2023 ICC World Cup might still linger. But a broader look at the year reveals a different story, one of steady progress and improved performance report agencies.Unarguably...
An upbeat Bangladesh looked determined to come all guns blazing as they will take on New Zealand for the third and final T20 International in a bid to seal the series at Bay Oval in Maunt Maunganui today (Sunday), reports...
KYIV, Dec 30 (Reuters): Russia drew sharp criticism at the UN Security Council on Friday for launching massive missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, after Kyiv and its supporters called for an urgent meeting of the 15-member body to address...
GENEVA, Dec 30 (AFP): The WHO called for urgent action Friday to tackle the deepening health and humanitarian crises in Sudan and asked the international community to step up with financial aid.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health...
GAZA, Dec 30 (BBC/AFP/Reuters): Fierce Israeli tank fire and air strikes have been continuing in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, which Israel sees as a stronghold of Hamas. Residents have reported intense gun battles between Israeli troops and Hamas fighters...
In the past few years, we were busy dealing with Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, deadly diseases like AIDS have not received much attention. As a result, a record number of AIDS patients have died and been identified this year in the...
More than 8,663 Palestinian children have reportedly been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7. Thousands more are missing under the rubble amid relentless bombardment. An overwhelming number of more than 21,000 people have been killed in the...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
In the last decade, the country has seen a huge surge in the movement of local tourists. Significant improvement in communications and comfortable transportation services, introduced mostly by the private sector, are instrumental in boosting tourist activities.But most of the...
Asjadul Kibria | 2023-12-31 00:00:00
There is a misperception that any price increase is inflation, so there is a tendency to compare the inflation rate with the increased prices of various commodities. The rise in the prices of several commodities is not inflation, although the...
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