Staff Reporter : Again Jatiya Party (JaPa) has faced a split as Ghulam Muhammed Quader, the younger brother of Late H M Earshad and Raushan Ershad, the wife of JaPa’s founder president, are racing to obtain party chief. The rift came into light when GM Quader on Sunday expelled its co-chairman Syed Abu Hossain Babla of all party posts for breaking party discipline by exercising the power bestowed upon him by the party charter. On the other hand, Raushan made...
Day: February 19, 2024
Business Report : Bangladesh Chamber of Industries (BCI) has demanded immediate action against extortion in the transport sector, saying that illegal toll collection by different groups is pushing up food prices. “Although Bangladesh is self-sufficient in food, food inflation is the highest. One of the reasons behind it is extortion in goods transportation,” said BCI President Anwar-ul Alam Chowdhury (Parvez) when he was leading a delegation to meet Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at his office at the ministry on Sunday....
Ishwardi (Pabna) Correspondent : Ishwardi Upazila and Municipal Chhatra League have started an operation to clean the waste pile left by the municipality for a long time at the entrance of Ishwardi. It is reported that BCL leaders and activists started this cleaning campaign on Saturday on the instructions of Pabna-4 Constituency MP Ghalibur Rahman Sharif. Newly elected MP Ghalibur Rahman Sharif led the campaign. Upazila Jubo League President Shirhan Sharif Tamal was in overall supervision. Acting Chairman of Upazila...
Pranto Chatterjee : Bangladesh, a nation crisscrossed by an intricate network of rivers and adorned with rolling hills, holds within...
UNB : Ahead of Holy Ramadan, the prices of broiler chicken and Sonali cocks have increased by Tk10 to 30...
Business Desk : Dilshad Ahmed has been appointed as an independent director of Peoples Insurance Company Limited. His selection came...
The recent revelation of Bangladesh’s GDP growth figures for the last financial year paints a worrying picture of economic stagnation, with the nation experiencing one of its slowest paces of expansion in over a decade. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the economy grew by 5.78 per cent, a significant drop from the previous year’s already diminished 6.03 per cent. This sluggish growth trajectory is concerning on multiple fronts, reflecting a combination of factors including dwindling consumption, exacerbated...
Al Jazeera : Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump has made an unusual stop a day after a...