Business & Commerce
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has set a target of reducing classified loans to below 8 percent from the country's total outstanding loans within June, 2026 for ensuring corporate good governance in the banking sector.To this end, the central bank has prepared a roadmap."The central bank aims at redu...
Stocks on Sunday witnessed upward trend as major indices of both Dhaka and Chittagong Stock Exchanges were found rising with higher activities of some large-cap securities.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went up by 66.74 points or 1.07 per cent to settle at 6,280.74. Tw...
City
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury on Sunday said the country's wetlands will be mapped in one year to conserve those."In addition, an inventory will be conducted for the proper use of water resources. Coordinated efforts should be made with a view to de...
Spouses of chiefs of different foreign missions stationed in Dhaka paid a courtesy call on Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury at the Oath Room of JS Bhaban in the capital on Sunday.The missions are World Bank, European Union, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Bay of Benga...
Country, Districts
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has opened one more newly constructed Secondary Transfer Stations (STS) today for modern waste management, taking the number to 16 in the city. RCC Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton inaugurated the 100-foot long and 30-foot wide STS at Sepoy para area as chief guest, ...
More than 1000 destitute rural people here Sunday received free treatment and medicines as a medical camp was held marking the first death anniversary of Md Anwar Hossain, former managing director of Khulna Newsprint Mills.Over twenty specialist physicians from the capital Dhaka contributed to the d...
National,Front Page
The European Union (EU) has expressed their willingness to strengthen partnership with Bangladesh in the coming days.European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen and European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic expressed this during their separate meetings with...
Urging the countrymen to remain alert, Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Saturday said BNP-Jamaat are patronizing militant organizations.Everyone should remain cautious against the militant groups as BNP and Jamaat are patronizing the outfits till now, he said replying to...
Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim on Saturday said BNP wants to gain political interest capitalizing on pubic sufferings.Nasim was speaking at a winter-clothe distribution programme in city's Motijheel areain the capital on Saturday.Referring to BNP's black flag p...
Sports,Cricket
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced the itinerary of the home series against Sri Lanka which will be held in March.The series includes three T20 Internationals, three ODIs and two Tests but none of the matches will be held in Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, considered as t...
Additional onion yield is expected as farmers of Jamalpur district brought more lands under its cultivation this year.Farmers and agriculturists expect more than 35,781 tonnes of onion will be produced from 2,721 hectares of land in the district during the current season.They also hoped that s...
Anuman Ara Begum, 35, wife of a day-laborer Abu Baker, is now at the threshold of eradicating her long-lasting poverty through household-based chicken rearing through modern methods. Begum, mother of three daughters and a son and also a resident of Muraripur village under Paba upazila of the d...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has invited his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to pay an official bilateral visit to Hanoi. The formal invitation was handed over to foreign minister Dr Hasna Mahmud by his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son at a bilateral meeting today on the s...
Mohchhena Begum, 50, had to get married to an expatriate when she was a ninth-grade student. But, she saw her reflection in her daughter and wanted to make her offspring established with higher education. Afroza Siddiqa, Mohchhena’s daughter who works as a freelancer, is also moving ahead...
State owned Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited (KGDCL) is installing prepaid meters for one lakh more residential customers in the city and in different upazilas of the district at a cost of Taka 291 crore.Talking to the journalists KGDCL Managing Director Engineer M Abu Saklain said the In...
Women are playing a significant role in capital raising activities for the country's trade and business by operating nearly 25 percent of the Beneficiary Owners (BO) accounts of the capital market.According to the Central Depository of Bangladesh Limited (CDBL) data, the current number of women ...
Chief of Air Staff of Bangladesh Air Force Air Chief Marshal Shaikh Abdul Hannan returned home Friday after an official visit to Morocco.During the visit, the BAF chief made a courtesy call on the Inspector General, Royal Moroccan Air Force, an ISPR release said.They exchanged views on bilateral iss...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over the south, South-eastern and north-eastern parts and at one or two places over Dhaka division."Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Barishal,Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Dha...
Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia are keen to work together on various bilateral and global issues, including women's empowerment, climate change, food security and blue economy.President Mohammed Shahabuddin and a delegation led by Speaker of Saudi Arabia's Surah Council Dr. Abdullah Muhammed Ibr...
India on Thursday made a record over Rs-6.21 lakh crore allocation to its Defence Ministry in the Interim Union Budget 2024-25. It is more than 4.72% for the 2023-24 fiscal year. This allocation comes out to be 13.04% of the total Union Budget. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today (Thursda...
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