The women workers are busy arranging bottles to be cut into tiny pieces by a machine at a factory in Hazaribagh Beribadh area of Dhaka on Tuesday. The small pieces will then be sold to the plastic recycling industry for...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, June 08: Police on Tuesday night filed a case against eight officials of BM Containers Limited, a private container depot owned by Smart Group at Sitakunda, in connection with the deadly container fire. Sub-Inspector of Sitakunda thana Ashraf Siddiki...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
Income inequality in Bangladesh goes gaping to worst level after the pandemic as government's direct-tax measure proves futile in addressing the disparity, experts say.Despite Bangladesh having amongst the highest levels of corporate and income-tax rates in the region, corporate-tax turnover...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) has sought two more years to June 2024 to complete construction of an 8.5km road from Matarbari at Maheshkhali Island to Cox's Bazar, officials said on Wednesday.They said the expected second revision would also...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said a process is under way to mobilise an additional USD 1000 million as budgetary support to tackle future emergency situation and economic crisis caused by Russia-Ukraine war, reports UNB.She made the statement in...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
Helping out marginalised people from price surges and economic-growth rebound top targets in a Tk 6.78-trillion new budget the government unfurls today (Thursday) at a worldwide crunch time. Agriculture, health, human resources development, employment, and education are among the priorities...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions until 6:00pm today (Thursday), according to Met office.Mild heat wave is sweeping over the districts of Satkhira,...
Garbage dumped on a road turns out to be nuisance to commuters, including school-going students, and narrows spaces for vehicular movement, creating traffic jam. This has grown over a long time due to sheer indifference of the authorities concerned. The...
The High Court (HC) has issued a rule asking the authorities concerned as to why it shall not pass order to provide compensation to new mother in Barisal for botched c-section, where doctors stitched her womb leaving gauze bandage inside,...
RANGAMATI, June 8 (UNB): A Rangamati court on Wednesday granted bail to journalist Fazle Elahi in a case filed under the Digital Security Act.Rangamati Senior Judicial Magistrate Fatema Begum Mukta granted the bail and asked Elahi, editor of Dainik Parbatya...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
The High Court issues a guideline to particularly protect drivers and owners of vehicles from being unnecessarily and arbitrarily harassed or prejudiced by police members in the name of requisition.Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner can only requisition vehicles under the DMP...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested 44 members of an organised gang for their alleged involvement with mugging in Dhaka city.RAB-3 commander Lt Col Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed at a press briefing on Wednesday that the teams of the elite force...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a High Court order that granted anticipatory bail to Anjan Chowdhury, one of the key stakeholders of the Square Group, for six weeks in a case filed on charge of...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division, as of this May, has implemented over 92 per cent of the projects under the Revised Annual Development Programme (RADP) for the fiscal year 2021-22.This was revealed at a review meeting on progress...
Students pose for photograph at a programme on 'Career Counselling' organised by Chittagong Independent University Marketing Club on the CIU campus in the port city recently
Chief of Staff of the Qatar Armed Forces Lieutenant General (Pilot) Salem Hamad Al-Akil Al-Nabet reviewing President Parade at the Bangladesh Military Academy parade ground in Bhatiary of Chattogram on Wednesday, marking the commissioning of the officer cadets of the...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh can't reap benefits of duty-free market access fully in China in the absence of its aggressive export-promotion measures.In addition, the country's large concentration on RMG items and failure to meet the demand for high quality products serve as major...
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, June 08 (UNB): A union parishad member was arrested on Tuesday night for allegedly trying to rape a nine-year-old girl in the district's Sadar upazila.The arrestee has been booked for rape bid, said Mozaffor Hossain, officer-in-charge of Chapainawabganj Sadar...
Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy said the historic six-point demand or six-point formula was a Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan spearheaded by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which eventually led to the Bangladesh liberation, reports BSS. "Bangabandhu...
Some students of Dhaka University have formed a human chain protesting the remarks made by two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders defaming Prophet Muhammad (pubh), reports UNB.Under the banner of 'general students of Dhaka University', they formed the human chain...
The High Court on Wednesday ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to record the statements of the two children of former Chattogram police superintendent Babul Akter in his wife's murder case, reports UNB.A HC bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain...
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas on Wednesday reiterated his country's expectation to see a free and participatory election in Bangladesh with people's participation, reports UNB."The US doesn't care who wins the election and we just want an election where...
BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Wednesday alleged that the government has inflicted 'great misery' on the country's people by increasing the prices of all essential and food items, reports UNB."The prices of gas, power and daily essentials...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said the long-cherished Padma Bridge will open to vehicular movement on June 26, a day after its inauguration on June 25, reports BSS.He said this while exchanging views with public representatives...
A 'special mango train' will operate on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route from June 13 to transport mangoes at lower cost, reports UNB. The special train will start its journey from Rahanpur railway station in the afternoon on June 13, said Rajshahi Railway...
Benapole, June 8 (UNB): Transporters at Benapole on Wednesday embarked on an indefinite strike to press their three-point demand, including the transfer of an official of the land port.Azim Uddin Gazi, general secretary of Benapole Transport Agency Owners Association, made...
China will make port operations more efficient and hold more online trade fairs as part of a suite of new measures to ease pressure on the country's foreign trade, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said on Wednesday, reports Reuters.Export growth...
The Reserve Bank of India's key interest rate was raised by 50 basis points on Wednesday as widely expected, the second hike in as many months, in a bid to cool persistently high inflation in Asia's third-largest economy, reports Reuters.The...
The AIUB Social Welfare Club-Shomoy of the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry, organised a series of events to celebrate the World Environment Day 2022. The event was inaugurated on June 5 by Nadia Anwar,...
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters): Britain's financial watchdog will have powers to make onsite visits to oversee cloud computing firms like Amazon, Google and Microsoft that provide "critical" services to financial firms, the finance ministry said on Wednesday.Banks have moved some...
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