Business & Commerce
Bangladesh is ready to be a global leader in sustainable development by emphasising collaboration and innovation in adopting a gender-responsive and inclusive circular economy, speakers have observed at a workshop.The National Workshop on 'Adoption of Gender-responsive and Inclusive Circular Eco...
Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Monday expressed his keen interest to expand trade and commerce with Sri Lanka. He made the remarks while Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Dhaka Dharmapala Weerakkody paid a courtesy call on him at foreign ministry here, a press release said. During the...
Country's both the bourses-- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) - on Tuesday plunged further due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 51.52 points or 0.85 percent to 6,006.88. Two other ind...
City
Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen called for reaching health services to the marginalized people to lessen the gradually mounting pressure on the hospitals."Pressure on the medical college hospitals will never be reduced if we fail to provide healthcare to the marginalized p...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday ordered High Court to dispose of a writ petition filed regarding National Board of Revenue’s (NBR) claim of more than Taka 600 crore as income tax for seven tax years from Grameen Kalyan, a nonprofit social business company founded by...
National,Back Page
Maksuda Begum, 38, an inhabitant of village Chatragacha under Sadullapur upazila in Gaibandha. Mother of four young girls, Maksuda once started cursing her fate as she was finding it really tough to maintain a family of six with little earning from her rickshaw-van driver husband. Little did Ma...
Sports,Football
The Bangladesh U-16 national women's football team returned home yesterday (Monday) with a head high after winning the crown of the just concluded SAFF U-16 Women's Championship in Nepal.A Bangladesh Biman flight, carrying the women's football team, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal Internation...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) and Maersk Bangladesh Limited, one of the leading companies in the shipping industry, have collaborated to digitalise their freight collection via the state-of-the-art Omni Collect solution of HSBC.The signing ceremony held recently, which...
Soil management with liming and organic matter can be the best ways of boosting crop yield by 25 percent on an average in the high Barind area because most of its lands have turned into acidic at present hampering crop production badly.Acid soils are a major agricultural constraint for crop producti...
Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain on Sunday said that the incumbent government will provide job opportunities to about 20 lakh youths every year. "Awami League's election manifesto in the 12th National Parliament election mentioned that employment will be ensured. For that ...
Textiles and Jute Minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak on Sunday said stern action will be taken if anyone increases prices of commodities during the holy month of Ramadan."Law enforcement agencies will take action if anyone increase price of commodities," he told the inauguration function of dis...
The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) and the JSC Foreign Economic Corporation 'Prodintorg' under the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to import essential items.TCB Chairman Brigadier General M Ariful Hasan and Genera...
The research on diagnosing of the tigers of the Sundarbans and the animals considered as tiger food started last night under a project titled “Sundarbans Tiger Conservation Project” with a view to gain a better understanding regarding the diseases of tigers and the bacteria and virus aff...
Sports
Bangladesh's Abdul Motalib (King Kong) defeated India's Mohammad Azhar in a ten-round fight for the WBA South Asia lightweight title held at Hotel La Meridian in the city on Friday evening. Besides, Sabiul Islam (King) of Bangladesh defeated India's Shubham Yadav in a six-round match in ...
Country, Districts
Community engagement and integrated efforts of concerned organizations can be the best way of exterminating sexual harassment and exploitation against children, said academics and experts on Saturday.They called the children as the driving force to take the nation forward, saying utmost emphasis sho...
Responsive role of the youths and the students in particular is vital to raise voice against the big carbon emitters to protect the region, particularly in its vast Barind tract, from the adverse impact of climate change. Adverse impacts of climate change have triggered recurrence of natural ca...
Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury paid a courtesy call on French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on March 7.The Speaker met the President there on the occasion of the ‘Women Speakers Summit’ organized by the National Assembly of France....
The Bangladesh Embassy in Washington D.C. has observed the historic 7th March, commemorating Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's landmark speech in 1971. The fiery speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the greatest Bangalee of all time, on March 7 at a mammoth rally i...
Lutfun Nessa Hoque Bokul Under-15 Inter-district Women’s Athletics competition inaugurated on Friday at Dhanmondi Sulnata Kamal Women’s Sports Complex in the city. Bangladesh Olympic Association’s Secretary General Syed Shahed Reza formally inaugurated the two-day meet as the ...
Sports,Cricket
Bangladesh will be looking to seal their first ever T20 series against Sri Lanka when they take on the Island nation in the third and final match at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium tomorrow (Saturday).The match starts at 3.30 PM and will be aired live on T-sports and Gazi Television.The series ...
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