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BCG, Bidyanondo Foundation distribute relief in Munshiganj

Bngladesh Coast Guard (BCG) and officials of Bidyanondo Foundation have distributed relief materials among distressed people in char areas of Munshiganj district.  This relief distribution program took place at Gazaria Sadar, Ispahani Char, Vatibalaki and Char balaki area on Thursday, a press r...

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52 MPs urge a higher tobacco tax to earn more revenue

Members of ‘Bangladesh Parliamentary Forum for Health and Wellbeing’ in a meeting with Abu Hena Md. Rahmatul Munim, Chairman of NBR (National Board of Revenue) at the NBR office on Monday suggested the option of earning an extra Taka 3,400 crore in revenue through imposing taxes and VAT ...

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Bashundhara using PrismERP

Bashundhara Group is one of the largest and leading industrial conglomerates of Bangladesh. Bashundhara has been flourishing in their business ever since its inception in 1987. With sights locked on increasing the efficiency of its human resource management and implementing automation, Bashundhara h...

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Coast Guard seizes 3,800 kg of Jatka

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) Station in Pagla conducting a special operation in Swarighat and Narayanganj seized a speedboat (200 cc) with 3,800 kg (95 mounds) of Jatka on Tuesday. On the basis of secret information, the raid was carried out at Dhaka’s Soarighat, Narayanganj Po...

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BCG nabs 6 with 3000 kg Jatka

Personnel of Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested 6 with 3000 kilos of Jatka from Chandpur and Pagla area. Coast Guard officials of Monday conducted multiple drives and arrested the peddlers with a pick-up van, a press release said that.Recieving a tip-off, Station Commander Lieutenant M Asaduzzaman led ...

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‘Investment in research needed to boost renewable energy’

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said investment in research is needed to increase the prevalence of renewable energy. It is high time to discover new technology to reduce the amount of land needed for solar power. Investment and research in waste to power or wind ...

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BCG nabs 6 with 3000 kg Jatka

Personnel of Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested 6 with 3000 kilos of Jatka from Chandpur and Pagla area. Coast Guard officials of Monday conducted multiple drives and arrested the peddlers with a pick-up van, a press release said that.Recieving a tip-off, Station Commander Lieutenant M Asaduzzaman led ...

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Two-day math conference begins at DU

On the occasion of the centenary of Dhaka University and the Department of Mathematics, a two-day International Mathematical Conference was inaugurated on Saturday at the initiative of the Department of Mathematics. Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Md. Akhtaruzzaman inaugurated the confer...

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DU VC mourns Mita Haque’s death

University of Dhaka Vice-Chancellor Dr Md. Akhtaruzzaman expressed deep grief over the death of Ekushey Padak winning Rabindra Sangeet artist Mita Haque.In a condolence message on Sunday the Vice-Chancellor said that Mita Haque was a famous and popular Rabindra Sangeet artist and musician of the cou...

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Fire Service celebrates 40th founding anniversary

Fire Service and Civil Defense officials celebrated the 40th anniv of the department across the nation with maintaining hygiene and safety rules. Director General of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense Brigadier General Md Sazzad Hussain on Friday inaugurated the day by cutting a cake. Other o...

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Foreign diplomats praise China policy on Xinjiang

After a four-day visit to China’s Xinjiang region, foreign diplomats from 21 countries have concluded that Muslim residents there are not encountering any inhibitions towards freedom of religion.The 30 diplomats visited Nazarbagh town of Kashgar and interacted with locals from different classe...

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Project inception meeting of Dhaka CALLING held

The project inception meeting of the Dhaka CALLING project was organized on Thursday on an online platform considering the current pandemic situation of COVID-19. This interactive event was vibrant with the participation of 152 participants (Male- 92, Female- 51, Other Gender- 02, PWD-04, Indigenous...

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Massive reshuffle in West Bengal EC

Assembly elections are underway in India’s West Bengal state since April 1, and results will be announced on May 2, following the eight-phase election. The third round of the elections was held on Tuesday.On the same day, the Election Commission took a big decision regarding the voting. T...

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Coast Guard catches 1 with huge amount of cannabis

On Tuesday at around 4 pm Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) Station Maoa conducted a special operation at Kandipara Maoa Old Ferry Ghat area and arrested a drug smuggler along with about 24 kg of cannabis, stated a press release issued by BCG. It is learned on the basis of secret information that ca...

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Six of Bangladeshi family found shot dead in US

Six members of a Bangladeshi family were found shot dead in their home early Monday at Allen, a town of Texas is the United States. Police suspect two brothers -- Tanvir Towhid and Farhan Towhid -- gunned down their parents, sister and maternal grandmother before killing themselves sometime on ...

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BJP’s horse trading falls flat in West Bengal

The West Bengal state of India is going to the third phase of Legislative Assembly election today when voting will be held in 31 seats under 24 Parganas, Hawra and Hooghli districts.The three districts has been strongholds of the state’s ruling party Trinamool Congress (TMC) for the last one d...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping mourns Taiwan train crash victims

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, expressed condolences for the compatriots killed in a train derailment in Taiwan on Friday, the worst railway accident the region has seen in 40 years. The accident claimed at leas...

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Mamata may take the crop home

Watching  the unprecedented victory of the ruling BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, India, many thought that the BJP would win  the 2021 Vidhan Sabha elections  as well.But poll surveys conducted by various agencies on the eve of the polls have disproved the earlier notio...

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Factors indicate TMC victory in WB polls

Although the media are playing extra and partial roles in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), there are many grounds for the victory of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) led by Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, in the West Bengal Assembly elections-2021, say political analysts. ...

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UNHCR rushes support and aid to Rohingya refugees

An estimated 48,000 Rohingya refugees have lost their shelters and belongings in the blaze which devastated parts of the Kutupalong-Balukhali refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar last Monday (22 March). Sheltering more than 600,000 refugees, this is the largest refugee camp in the world, said a press ...