Country, Districts
Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) began a tree plantation campaign on its office premises in the town on Tuesday.District Commandant of Ansar and VDP Md Mizanur Rahman inaugurated the plantation programme by planting saplings.Under the directives of Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP M...
Shortly after receding flood water farmers in the district have begun planting of T-Aman (Transplanted Aman) seedling in full swing.Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said farmers already cultivated T-Aman on 5,200 hectares of land till Monday of which high yielding variety on ...
The government has set a target to procure 24,850.62 tonnes of rice and 6,657 tonnes of Boro paddy from the seven government food godowns of the district during the current 2024-2025 season this year.Procurement of Boro rice and paddy has started in all the seven government food godowns on May 7 wit...
Business & Commerce
All banks will run their operations as per their normal schedule -- 10am to 6pm -- from today (Wednesday).Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Tuesday issued a circular in this regard.As per the regular schedule, transactions will take place from 10 am to 4 pm starting from tomorrow.However, the banks will remai...
Revenue collection by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) witnessed a healthy 15.40 percent growth in the last fiscal year (FY24) bagging Taka 3,82,562 crore.Although the revenue collection witnessed growth in the last fiscal, but it still fell behind the revised fiscal revenue collection target of ...
Country's both the bourses-- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)-- on Tuesday plunged due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 60.72 points or 1.13 percent to 5,269.53. Two other ...
City
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) President Omar Faruque on Tuesday demanded the formation of a special tribunal to try the miscreants involved in the vandalism and arson attacks on the state establishments during quota reforms movement across the country."A total of four journalis...
People of the city including its surrounding areas got a four-lane airport road with a median for the first time as its elevation and construction work were completed successfully in June 2024.The Department of Roads and Highway has implemented the project of elevating the pavement from Rajshahi to ...
More than 700 more distressed and other low-income people were given food support in Rajshahi city on Tuesday aiming to mitigate their sufferings during the current unrest.Each of the beneficiaries was given a food packet containing five kilogrammes (Kg) of rice, two-kg of flour, one-kg of pota...
Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has formally handed over the 'Instrument of Accession' to the Netherlands foreign affair ministry's for formally becoming a party to the "Convention on Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization of Foreign Public Documents" or Apostille Conventi...
Mild Heat wave is sweeping over two divisions and three districts and it may abate from some places."Mild Heat wave is sweeping over Rangpur and Sylhet divisions and the districts of Rajshahi, Tangail and Kishoreganj and it may abate from some places", said a met office forecast for the ne...
The Dhaka University (DU) authorities urged all concerned, including the law enforcement agencies, to ensure that no harassment takes place on any of their innocent student, said a DU press release.The university made the call amid different media reports that actions were being taken against variou...
Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif on Monday said BNP-Jamaat launched destructive activities in the country using students as shield. "BNP-Jamaat targeted on isolating Dhaka city from rest of the country snapping communication networks," he said at a discuss...
Stocks on Monday extended its losing streak as the risk-averse investors preferred to book profit on quick-gaining shares.DSEX, the key index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), closed the day with 53.48 points down and settled at 5,330.24 points. The DS30 index, comprising blue chips, fell 18.51 poi...
E-commerce brings enormous business opportunities for women as it makes 24/7 business possible. The growth of e-commerce helps the women entrepreneur to generate new ideas and work from home. There is tremendous growth of women entrepreneurs in e-commerce sector.E-commerce impacts on business and pr...
The High Court (HC) has ordered the authorities concerned to investigate the allegations of embezzlement of more than Tk 100 crore of the clients of Homeland Life Insurance Company Limited and submit a report on it on August 27. A High Court division bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder an...
Planning Minister Major General (retd) Abdus Salam on Sunday visited capital’s different damaged infrastructures, including Dhaka Elevated Expressway toll plaza, BRTA main office, Setu Bhaban, the Department of Disaster Management Office, BTV building and Kazipara metrorail station.During his ...
National,Front Page
The import and export operations alongside customs procedures have gained momentum at all the country's seaports and land ports after the mayhem centering over the recent quota movement and subsequently disruption of internet facilities.But, with the improvement of situation including law and or...
National,Back Page
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Jamaat-Shibir terrorists initially maintained low profile intruding in-guise into the quota reform movement “but afterwards they appeared dangerously in the front cashing in on the movement”.She said this while Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh ...
A daylong training for children on safeguarding and reporting mechanisms was held in Rajshahi city on Sunday aiming to protecting the children from all sorts of violence and exploitation.The Association for Community Development (ACD) organised the training in its conference hall supported by the EC...
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