Day: February 1, 2024
UNB, Dhaka : Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza has decided to take a break from the ongoing Bangladesh Premier...
City Desk : The month-long Amar Ekushey Book Fair-2024 begins today at Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan premises as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the country’s largest book fair. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the fair at 3 pm today,” said Bangla Academy Director General poet Mohammad Nurul Huda, reports BSS. The premier also confer the Bangla Academy Literary Award-2023 on the winners along with unveiling the covers of some books including ‘Collected Works of Bangabandhu Sheikh...
Staff Reporter : Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company’s revenue saw a massive 82% jump year-on-year in the first half of the ongoing fiscal year 2023-24 (FY24) owing to gas price hikes. The company posted a revenue of Tk17,184 crore during the July 2023 to December 2023, compared to Tk9,842 crore in the same period in FY23,according to Titas Gas’s half-yearly financial report. In January 2023, the Energy and Mineral Resources Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral...
Staff Reporter : Research organisation over migration, Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit-RMMRU said migrant workers’ confidence on banking sector has to be returned for increasing remittance. “Migrant workers prefer sending their earnings home through hundi – an illegal cross-border transaction system – due to a hassle-free higher exchange rate, and a lack of confidence on the banking channel,” RMMRU Founding Chair Dr Tasneem Siddiqui said it while revealing a report on migrant workers for 2023 at a press conference...
Child Labour : Child labour refers to a crime where children are forced to work from a very early age. It is like expecting kids to perform responsibilities like working and fending for themselves. There are certain policies that have put restrictions and limitations on children’s work. The average age for a child to be appropriate to work is considered eighteen years and more. Children falling below this age limit won’t be allowed to indulge in any type of work...
JU Correspondent : The common students of Jahangirnagar university fear clashes over constituting hall committees with the signature of university unit general secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League Habibur Rahman Liton, who was declared persona non grata by his followers a week earlier. JU BCL President Aktaruzzaman Shohel and General Secretary Liton declared Sheikh Russel Hall and Sheikh Hasina Hall units committee at around 7:00pm on Wednesday. After the declaration of committees, this correspondent talked to several students. They expressed their...
City Desk : Dhaka’s air was very unhealthy, according to the Air Quality Index. India’s Delhi and Ghana’s Accra occupied the first and second spots on the list, with AQI scores of 241 and 226, respectively, reports UNB. When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 101 and 150, air quality is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, between 150 and 200 is unhealthy, between 201 and 300 is said to be very unhealthy, while a reading of 301+ is...
Staff Reporter : Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain said there is no scope to comments on Transparency International-Bangladesh (TIB. He said it while talking to reporters at ACC headquarters in the capital’s Segunbagicha area on Wednesday. According to TIB, Bangladesh’s placement in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2023 has dropped by two positions, now standing at 149th among the 180 countries evaluated. ACC secretary said following eight institutions survey the TIB has published its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)...
DU Correspondent : The first-year undergraduate admission test for the academic year 2023-24 of 24 universities under cluster-system have been rescheduled and will begin on April 27. The decision was taken at the third meeting of coordinated committee of GST cluster universities in the conference room of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Wednesday. As per the new schedule, the admission test will start from April 27 by holding the ‘A’ unit (Science) admission test. The admission test for ‘B’...