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Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on Sunday said by implementing the HCFC Phase Out Management Plan (Stage-2), Bangladesh is expected to reduce the consumption of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) by 67.5 percent by 2025. "The government is working towards the ...
National,Front Page
Minister of Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan has said that there is no alternative to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for building Bangladesh as a developed nation."There is no alternative to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina building a developed and enlightened Bangladesh," he told a gathering after...
A Dhaka court on Sunday allowed a prosecution plea to produce three foreigners, including a former FBI agent, to testify in Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and seven others.The three foreigners are- former supervisory special agent Debra LaPrevotte Grifith of Federal Bureau...
A Dhaka court on Sunday placed six people including four doctors on different terms of remand in a case lodged over the leakage of question papers of centralised medical college admission test.Of the six, founder of Three Doctors' Coaching Centre Dr Md Yunusuzzaman Khan Tarim, 40, Dr Animesh Kum...
The ekShop, an innovative initiative of Aspire to Innovate (a2i), has won the United Nations (UN) 'SDG Digital GameChangers Award' in recognition of reducing the distance between villages and cities by reaching e-commerce services to the remote areas of Bangladesh.The United Nations Developm...
Business & Commerce
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 9.26 points or 0.15 per cent to settle at 6,311.29. Two othe...
City
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud has said his party would come to power again through free and fair elections as he exchanged views with Bangladeshi expatriates in Canada.“A section of people and groups, who don’t like co...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Road Transport and Bridges Ministry on Sunday asked the ministry concerned to probe how the same contractor gets the works of the tenders again and again.The recommendation was made in the 21st meeting of the committee held at the JatiyaSangsad (JS) Bhaban wit...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam has said the existing local government institutions are very much important for elevating the fate of the grassroots people."The local government system has been playing a pioneering role towards implementing the projects related to rural physica...
A total of 18 dengue patients died and 3,122 were admitted to different hospitals in the country during the last 24 hours till 8 am on Sunday. On September 2, Bangladesh recorded 21 dengue-related deaths, the highest number in a single day, this year, while the country reported 20 dengue-linked...
Country, Districts
A total of 180 small and marginal farmers on Sunday got seeds of Mashkalai (Black gram) and fertiliser as incentives for boosting its production in Gopalganj Sadar upazila under the 'Incentive Programme' during the current Kharif-2 season.Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has t...
Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque on Sunday said local government institutions are working tirelessly to provide better civic services at the doorsteps of people.“The bond between the local government and mass people will be strengthened and service delivery will b...
Art& Culture
A total of 14 meritorious students in 12 departments under Arts Faculty in Rajshahi University (RU) were given dean's award as recognition to their significant achievement in their respective academic fields. Each of the award-winners, who obtained first class first in graduation (honours) ...
Entertainment & Glomour
The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Jann Wenner, has been ousted from his seat on the board of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation for comments blasted as racist and sexist, US media reported Saturday.Wenner's removal from the board of the foundation came only a day after his remarks...
Sports,Football
Bangladesh Women's Football Team head coachSaiful Bari Titu said their realistic target is to earn victory against Nepalin the 19th South Asian Games scheduled to be held from September 23 toOctober 8 in Hangzhou, China."We've a good training session in the last one and half month for t...
National
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on Sunday morning for New York, USA to attend the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)."A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the premier and her entourage members departed from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at...
Canadian Parliament's Upper House's Human Rights Committee Chair Senator Salma Ataullahjan has praised Bangladesh's unprecedented development under dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she met with Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud in a Toronto hotel....
US Republican Congressman Anthony P. D'Esposito said he would ask the State Department and Homeland Security Department how Rashed Chowdhury, a death-row convict fugitive of Bangabandhu killing case, is staying in the USA.“After returning to Capitol Hill, I will talk to my colleagues, Stat...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday said the government believes in people's mandate, not in muscle power or conspiracy."We do not believe in any conspiracy. I don't believe in any muscle power or gun power. We only believe in people's mandate. We believe in people'...
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