RAJSHAHI, May 26 (BSS): Concerted efforts of all the government, non-government and other stakeholders can be the vital means of safe production, harvesting, ripening, transporting and marketing of the mango.Mango farming can be made safely and easily by practising some...
KHULNA, May 26 (BSS): Speakers at a journalists orientation workshop here today underscored the need for making the National Vitamin A plus Campaign-2022 scheduled to be held from June 4 to 7, a total success.'They were addressing the workshop held...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 26: Police arrested driver and helper of a bus for trying to rape a RMG worker Wednesday night. The arrested persons are identified as driver Mohammed Tipu and helper Jony Das. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police...
SYLHET, May 25 (UNB): Due to continuous erosion of the Nayagang and Saburi rivers, roads, houses and crop lands in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet have gone into the gorge of the rivers. Thousands of acres of arable lands, including hundreds...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00
SYLHET. MAY 26: The recent floods have caused damage to many roads in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, disrupting communication.Additional Chief Engineer of the R&H, Sylhet zone, Fazle Rabbi, informed the divisional disaster management committee meeting that 10 roads in Sylhet...
As we are witnessing rains, it is learnt that cases of dengue are reportedly increasing at an alarming rate in Dhaka city. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), at least 37 dengue patients are now undergoing treatment...
Our Test cricketers' performance graph is not at all stable. Sometimes, it goes up. Sometimes, it goes down. One of the main reasons behind their wavering performance is a lack of strong leadership. Mominul Haque, who has been captaining Bangladesh...
During our liberation war of 1971, many people just could not believe that we would be able to defeat the then Pakistani army, one of the well-trained militaries in the world that time. We made the impossible, possible. The same...
Zahid Huq | 2022-05-27 00:00:00
A section of government officials, particularly those in the upper echelon of the administration, are ready to go to any extent to secure foreign trips at the cost of the public exchequer. There are stories galore about how these officials...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-27 00:00:00
Passionately called the lungs of an ailing Dhaka City, Hatirjheel outwardly looks smart and healthy. But it is so more like those of a cancer patient. Without the best of cares, revival of its health is a distant dream. The...
It is still not certain whether excessive siltation in the major rivers of greater Sylhet is responsible for the unprecedented flooding of the vast swathes of farm and non-farm lands in the district. Although the onrushing waters from the upper...
It happened 165 years ago, in May. Some Bengali soldiers of the British-Indian army in Meerut refused to use the new breech-loading Enfield rifle. The cartridge of the rifle was greased with pork and beef fat and had to be...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-05-27 00:00:00
The least he could think that destiny would make him an integral part of the blood drenched 21st February Language Movement of 1952. In his early youth, Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury was still a student of Dhaka College, located then in...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2022-05-27 00:00:00
The Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) leaders opposed the recommendation of the technical evaluation committee of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) for increasing bulk electricity price by 58 per cent. BERC made the recommendation during...
Farzana Nahid and Nahin Sultana | 2022-05-26 12:00:00
Startups are never about ultimate perfection, rather are an interactive process of continual development. The founders do not know it all from the beginning but learn in the process as they grow. While innovation is the soul of startups, scalability...
With hills, hillocks, tea gardens, waterfalls, wetlands, swamps, marshes called haors and beels in this part of the world, Sylhet has a unique and contrasting topography. Although haors experience flash floods of varying intensity almost every year, the highlands there...
The family of Hadisur Rahman, the naval engineer who was killed after a projectile hit the ship in Ukraine amid Russia's invasion, will get $500,000 in compensation.The Board of Directors of Bangladesh Shipping Corporation learned about the development in a...
FE Report | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
Thirty-six per cent of the female domestic helps who use personal mobile phones including feature phones do not avail digital financial service, despite having accounts, reveals a survey.The baseline survey conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) under a project 'Shuchona'...
Members of Santal community bring out a procession in Gaibandha's Gobindaganj on Wednesday to demand that the authorities concerned scrap the plan of constructing Export Processing Zone (EPZ) on their ancestral land — Focus Bangla
ISLAMABAD, May 25 (Agencies): As PTI's Azadi March began on Wednesday, tensions in Punjab rose after police made use of tear gas and arrested several PTI marchers in cities across the province as activists attempted to remove shipping containers blocking...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to publish a gazette notification asking Prashanta Kumar Halder and nine others to appear before it in a case filed over amassing a huge amount of money.The former managing director of...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal Wednesday urged the countrymen to help enumerators of national population census to complete the headcount successfully. "Please help us, help enumerators to complete the census as it is not possible to complete quality census without...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
A Dhaka court Wednesday doubly jailed nine persons, including former Managing Director of the state-owned Sonali Bank Humayun Kabir, on two counts of charges of "embezzlement" and "cheating". They were sentenced to 10 years in jail in one case filed...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
Proximity to industrial areas tends to provide more employment opportunities in the manufacturing sector, especially for female workers, bridging the gender gap, a study has found.Participation of the women living in distant districts from industrial belts like Dhaka, Gazipur and...
Saif Uddin | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
Residents of the city's Kamrangrichar area have been suffering after the Titas Gas authority cuts off gas supply there in a bid to prevent illegal connections and recover arrears.They are in a fix, since there is no clear deadline on...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
Diesel import from India through an under-construction cross-border pipeline is set to begin by October, propping up drives for feeding growing fuel demand in Bangladesh. A high-powered delegation from the state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) will visit India next week...
Square Pharma fire costs Tk 500m revenue The recent fire at the factory of Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd at Kaliakoir will reduce the company's revenue and profit by about Tk 500 million and Tk 80 million respectively, the company claimed. A...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
In a bid to enhance the supply of edible oils in the domestic market, the government has moved to withdraw value-added tax (VAT) on imports of all kinds of refined cooking oils, officials said.The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) recently requested...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-05-26 00:00:00
Tasked with pooling higher funds for financing steadily increasing national budget, the revenue authority now moves to automate the corporate tax-return filing for the ease of business taxpayers. Officials say that effective from fiscal year 2023-24, the 'corporate e-return' system...
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