Day: February 8, 2024
Staff Reporter : Amid the ongoing conflict in Myanmar, Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister, Obaidul Quader, declared on Tuesday that Bangladesh would not entertain a new influx of Rohingya refugees and emphasized that there is no room for generosity in this regard. Speaking at a press briefing held at Setu Bhaban in Banani, Quader stated, “We will not allow Rohingyas to enter Bangladesh again. Earlier, we opened the border showing generosity. Now there is...
Entertainment Report : Every year on the Valentine’s Day, filmmakers, directors and actors bring the best productions for their audiences...
News Desk : A Joypurhat court has sentenced 17 people to life imprisonment for murdering a man over a land dispute in 2009. Additional District and Sessions Judge Abbas Uddin delivered the verdict in the presence of 16 defendants on Wednesday, according to state prosecutor Nripendra Nath Mandal. Each convict was also fined Tk 10,000, while five others were acquitted in the case, he said. Details of the convicts were not immediately available. According to the case dossier, they had...
Staff Reporter : There are over 530,000 vacancies in the public administration sector, Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain informed the parliament on Wednesday. His statement came in response to a question from ruling Awami League MP Md. Mamunur Rashid Kiron of Noakhali-3 (Begumgonj). The session, presided over by Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, included a question-and-answer segment. Minister Hossain revealed that, as per the latest figures from the 2022 Ministry of Public Administration’s report on government servants, there are 503,333...
Staff Reporter : The 28th Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF), the country’s biggest trade show, witnessed a huge crowd as visitors are coming to the venue by BRTC special buses. Dhaka city’s visitors are also able to go there easily thanks to two expressways. Every day 64 BRTC buses are carrying visitors only from Dhaka city. Of the buses, 40 start journey from Kuril while 24 from Farmgate. However, on Fridays and Saturdays the number of buses increased to 161....
Staff Reporter : Professor Syed Manzoorul Islam of Dhaka University said only job oriented education cannot establish peace in the...
Staff Reporter : In a desperate bid for safety, at least 63 individuals from Myanmar, including members of its Border...
Business Report : The government will procure three LNG cargoes from two companies of Singapore with around Taka 1,274.12 crore to meet the growing demand of energy in the country. The approval came from the 3rd meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) in this year held on Wednesday at Cabinet Division at Bangladesh Secretariat with Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Division additional secretary Sayeed Mahbub Khan said...