Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
The country's leading economists have all along raised questions about the authenticity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures provisionally announced by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), even claiming that growth rate figures have now assumed the shape of political numbers....
Many people in Bangladesh have different forms of disabilities. Yet, our society is largely oblivious of the needs of the disabled people, even though a number of them could become well-integrated and productive members of society. People with disabilities have...
The Essential Drug Company Limited (EDCL) manufactures quality drugs at an affordable price and supply them to the government hospitals and other health institutions. The state-owned pharmaceutical company is supposed to set up at least one factory in each administrative...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
According to a recent report prepared by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) titled `World Food and Agriculture Annual Statistical Booklet 2023', Bangladesh produced about 93.3 million tonnes of agricultural produce in FY2021. At the same time, the country...
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
The directive of the prime minister to prepare a master plan to protect cultivable land in all the upazilas of the country is not a new one. It may be recalled that months after assuming office of the current term,...
If one of the objectives of the government's yearly food grains procurement drive, as often told by officials concerned, is to ensure a fair price for farmers, then so far, the ongoing one for Aman crop cannot be said to...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2023-12-26 12:00:00
Bangladesh's cooking-oil refiners are moving towards becoming value-added producers by establishing soybean-crushing plants locally, producers and insiders said on Monday. This will reduce their import dependency on crude and allow them to supply raw materials to their own refining plants....
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-12-26 12:00:00
This year’s conference of parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) lost much of the headline- grabbing attention of media to the blood-curdling and mind numbing war unleashed by Israel on Gaza. Even then COP28 had...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Selim R. F. Hussain, Managing Director & CEO of BRAC Bank PLC, has been unanimously re-elected Chairman of The Association of Bankers Bangladesh Limited (ABB).The platform of the bank's top executives has announced the election of its new Board of...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Potato prices surged to Tk 80-100 per kilo on Monday, in a 25-40-percent spike during the peak harvest season, kitchen-market sources have revealed.Grocer Riad Hossain from West Dhanmondi said both stored and freshly harvested tubers were being sold at the...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 25 (UNB): Four people died and two others injured when a train crashed into a sand-laden truck on Shambhuganj level crossing in Mymensingh's Sadar upazila on Monday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.The accident occurred...
Fazlur Rahman, chairman of City Group and one of the country's leading commodity importers and processors, passed away at a hospital in the city in the early hours of Monday, reports BSS.He was 77."Fazlur Rahman, also chairman of Somoy TV,...
NAOGAON, Dec 25 (UNB): Supporters of Naogaon-5 independent candidate Dewan Sekar Ahmed Shishan allegedly set fire to five election camps of Al-backed candidate Barrister Nazim Uddin Jalil on Sunday night.The arsons were reported in Gostahatir more area of the town,...
The Election Commission has begun sending out ballot papers for the 12th national parliamentary election from Dhaka to the district level, with two weeks remaining before the polls, reports bdnews24.com.Ballot papers, postal ballot papers, forms related to postal ballots, and...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Cards of beneficiaries under different social safety-net programmes were being confiscated in an attempt to force them to vote on January 7, BNP senior joint secretary-general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed alleged on Monday According to Mr. Rizvi, ruling party leaders,...
The Election Commission will update the heads of embassies and missions, and UNDP representatives on the progress of the 12th parliamentary election a few days before the polls, reports bdnews24.com.Chief Election Commis-sioner Kazi Habibul Awal will hold a briefing at...
Fu-Wang Ceramic's Q1 profit grows 45pc on higher sales Fu-Wang Ceramic Industries saw its net profit for the first quarter (Q1) of FY'24 jump 45 per cent year-on-year to Tk 11.64 million, driven by higher sales and a decline in...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Nilufa Yasmin, a pseudonym, began taking medication for high blood pressure prescribed by her upazila health complex doctor six months ago. However, in August this year, she could no longer find her free medication at the community clinic in her...
GAZA STRIP, Dec 25 (AFP): Palestinians said they felt "no joy" this Christmas as Israel bombed the besieged Palestinian territory on Monday, with no end in sight to the war that Hamas says has claimed more than 20,000 lives.Festivities were...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Contentions between two government agencies over co-financing seem to have derailed and delayed construction woks on the southern metro-rail route styled MRT-5 Line under a US$4.8-billion project, sources said.The project--seen vitally important for its east-west train communications through the crammed...
Light rain/drizzle is likely to occur at one or two places over Sylhet and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the Met Office. Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy...
The female students are enroling in huge number in primary and secondary level in the country keeping pace with the male students as the government has taken different promotional policies to encourage women education, reports BSS.Experts said the presence of...
Dhaka ranks third on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, with an AQI score of 272 at 8:51 am on Monday morning, reports UNB.Dhaka's air was classified as 'very unhealthy', according to the air quality index.India's...
Bangladesh National Herbarium (BNH) has discovered four new plant species and four plant varieties through floristic research since 2009, having very important contribution to the country's flora, reports BSS.The newly discovered plant species were: Colocasia hassanii, Alocasia hararganjensis, Typhonium elatum...
The US Embassy in Dhaka has congratulated Bangladesh-born Sakib Jamal for making it to Forbes' prestigious 30 Under 30 List 2024 for North America, reports UNB. "Big congrats to Bangladeshi-born Sakib Jamal ... .well done," said the US Embassy in...
Christmas, the greatest religious festival of the Christian community, was celebrated on Monday in all the churches and Christian hamlets in the country with traditional zeal and religious fervour, report agencies.To mark the festival, all the churches were decorated with...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
In a quiet oval-shaped tent nestled near the Karnapara BR Bridge along the Karnatali river in Savar is a climate-resilient community, including a 27-year-old Ainal Huq and his three-member family.They have found a new home of 120 climate victims, including...
As part of the movement demanding the cancellation of a unilateral national election, a three-day mass contact programme, organised by Ganotantra Mancha, will begin in the city today (Tuesday), says a press release.The other demand of the alliance is participatory...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Habibur Rahman has said there is no specific threat of sabotage acts during the upcoming 12th parliamentary election, reports UNB."Casting vote is a democratic right of people and refraining from casting vote is also a...
GAIBANDHA, Dec 25 (UNB): Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader has urged the people to vote for the Jatiya Party in the next election for bringing change and peace."Vote for the Jatiya Party and help the party win to save the...
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