Country, Districts
A total of 80,000 tonnes of potatoes are stored in 19 cold storages in the district. There is a demand of 40,000 tonnes of potato in the local consumer level. After meeting the demand, 40,000 tonnes of potato will be surplus in the district.Rahela Parveen, Deputy Director of Department Agriculture E...
The Right to Information (RTI) Act can be the crucial means of boosting the level of confidence of the marginalized women side by side with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Living and livelihood conditions of the grassroots marginalized women can be improved immensely after the bes...
Business & Commerce
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday urged all concerned to come up with thought provoking reform ideas to bring more remittances in the country for enriching the foreign currency reserve."More and more people are going abroad, but remittances do not commensurate with the number of expa...
Mohammad Ali Khokon, chairman of Maksons Group, has been re-elected as the unopposed president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) on Sunday for the 2023-25 tenure. Abul Bashar, chairman of the election commission and managing director of Abul Bashar Spinning Mills Ltd, announced the name...
The Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has taken elaborate programmes marking the ‘Community Policing Day,’ scheduled to be held on October 28 in the city in a befitting manner.The decision was taken in a view-exchange meeting with KMP officials and City Unit of Community Policing Committe...
Art& Culture
The three-day long 2nd international conference on 'Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development' was ended at Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP).On the last day of the conference, three researchers were awarded in the category of 'Innovative and Timely ...
Country's both the bourses-- Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) -- on Sunday plunged due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 28.81 points or 0.46 percent to 6,280.93. Two other indices also...
National,Front Page
The government has made mandatory the submission of tax return by November 30, according to the Income Tax Act 2023. The Income Tax Act, 2023 received the President's assent on June 22. The Income Tax Ordinance, 1984 was repealed and this new law was enacted.For informing about the news to ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Washington DC, the USA capital city, on Saturday afternoon (Washington DC Time) after joining the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session and other high-level side and bilateral events in New York.She reached Washington DC from New York by road at ...
The Election Commission (EC) will organise a workshop titled 'Free Rights of Voting: Role of Candidates and Polling Agents' next month with former chief election commissioners and former election commissioners on the role of polling agents in elections.According to EC sources, this workshop ...
The Birth and Death Registration Office authorities have been directed to resolve issues in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) used on the website of the office within the next 7 days and send a report to the Digital Security Agency (DSA) in this regard.The directive was given at a review mee...
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday said none should be excited on the US visa policy as the policy is applicable against the persons who would create any obstacle to hold free and fair election.“The cooperation and multidime...
National,Back Page
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Sunday asked the Information Commission, Bangladesh (ICB) to take necessary measures for creating awareness at the grassroots so that the people can know about the proper use and enforcement of the Right to Information (RTI) Act."Access to information is a basi...
Bangladesh has exceeded 900 dengue deaths as 16 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours till 8am on Sunday, while 3,008 were admitted to different hospitals during the same period.On September 20, Bangladesh witnessed 21 dengue deaths, the highest in a single day this year and it also saw the ...
Railways Minister M Nurul Islam Sujan on Sunday said modern luggage van facilities have been linked with railway communications aiming to provide diversified services to the common people.“Modern luggage van has been equipped with intercity train as fresh vegetables, seasonal fruits, flowers, ...
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent five people, including two police constables, to jail in a case lodged over snatching of Taka 20 lakh from inside a bank in the capital's Paltan area. The five accused are- Demra Police Lines constables Mahabub Ali and Asif Iqbal, their cohorts Shahajahan, Hrido...
Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested two youths along with three firearms from Begumganj upazila of Noakhali district on Saturday night.The detainees were identified as Ariful Hasan Antu, 24, and Nazrul Islam, 23, residents of Anantapur village of Begumganj upazila.On a tip-off, a tea...
Sports,Cricket
New Zealand leg-spinner Ish Sodhi who was instrumental in New Zealand's 86-run win over Bangladesh in the second ODI was impressed with the hosts' gesture as they called him back despite, he was out at the non-striker. The dismissal, considered as Mankad, which many people believe, does...
National
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in Washington DC, the USA capital city, this afternoon after joining the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session and other high-level side and bilateral events in New York.She reached Washington DC from New York by road at 6pm.On her arrival in Washin...
President Mohammed Shahabuddinon Saturday asked all pro-Liberation forces to remain alert against the anti-independence quarters so that they cannot come to power in any way."Stay alert so that no anti-Liberation force can come to power," the President told the opening ceremony of the &quo...
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