Agency : Top seed Iga Swiatek overcame a gritty challenge by world number four Elena Rybakina to take home the...
Day: February 19, 2024
Sports Reporter : After one-day recess, the Ispahani Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Cricket resumes at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium...
News Desk : Kuwait has decided allow its government employees to work only four hours, with additional provisions for grace periods during the upcoming month of Ramadan. Women will receive two 15-minute grace periods, and men will receive one, reports Gulf News. The report says that female employees can come to the office 15 minutes after the start of working hours and leave 15 minutes before the end. Male employees have the opportunity to come 15 minutes late in the...
Anisur Rahman Khan : The effective functioning of several commercial banks is severely impaired as the positions of Deputy Managing Directors (DMDs) remain unfilled for an extended period-owing to bureaucratic inefficiencies causing stagnation in administrative processes. A total of 32 senior officials from various banks underwent interviews between December 17 and 19 last year in pursuit of promotion to fill 14 vacant DMD positions. Despite this, as per multiple sources, the promotion file has been languishing with the Financial Institutions...
Al Jazeera : Ground and air assaults by the Israeli forces have now rendered Gaza’s second-largest hospital nonoperational. The besieged...
Deutsche Welle : The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said it was joining forces with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as well as other smaller parties. Together, the parties would have enough seats to command a majority in the 265-member parliament. The PML-N has nominated former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz Sharif’s younger brother, to lead the new government. The newly declared coalition echoes the 2022 alliance that ousted then-Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government...
Staff Reporter : Equity and Justice Working Group (EquityBD), a national platform of CSO and NGOs in Bangladesh, organised a seminar in Dhaka on Sunday to discuss the possible position of the Bangladesh Government delegation on the eve of the Thirteenth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization. The seminar is co-organized by Coast Foundation, and Our World is Not for Sale, an international network working against the unjust global trading system. Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad chaired the seminar, while...
Staff Reporter : Barguna Sadar’s Purba Hajar Bigha Battola Senior Madrasa is under MPO, but the bills (salaries) of some teachers and staff have been delayed. Consequently, Abdus Salam, principal of the institution, has been lobbying best since long to get the teachers due bills. In this situation, two people who identified themselves as Deputy Secretary and Program Officer of the Department of Madrasa Education contacted the principal. A total of 14 lakh taka was taken in several rounds in...
Staff Reporter : Local Government Minister Tajul Islam announced in Parliament on Sunday that each Member of Parliament will receive a fund of 20 crore taka to address development needs in their respective constituencies. During the parliamentary session, Jatiya Party Secretary General Mujibul Haque Chunnu raised concerns about the allocation for development work in MPs’ constituencies, given the change in government. He questioned whether there would be continued support for such projects. In response, Tajul Islam affirmed the natural inclination...
Staff Reporter : Donald Lu, the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs of the United States, has issued a caution to both Dhaka and Delhi regarding the escalating security challenges stemming from the Rohingya crisis and ongoing instability in Myanmar. He expressed concerns over the stagnant situation in Myanmar, warning that without improvement, it could further deteriorate and adversely affect neighboring countries, including Bangladesh and potentially India. These concerns were voiced during a high-level meeting held...
Court Correspondent : The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court will hear arguments from the Newspapers Owners Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) while holding a hearing on two separate leave to appeal petitions filed against the High Court judgment that declared the recommendation made by the Cabinet Committee in Ninth Wage Board Award for journalists and workers of newspapers and news agencies, about income tax and gratuity, illegal. The Appellate Division bench headed by Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan passed the order...
UNB : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged world leaders to stop genocide in the Palestinian city of Gaza. “Bangladesh...