Agency : Bayer Leverkusen staged a remarkable late comeback to move into the Europa League final with a 2-2 draw at home to AS Roma on Thursday as they won 4-2 on aggregate and set the longest unbeaten run in all competitions including European matches. Leverkusen were 2-0 down on the night in the 82nd minute when Roma defender Gianluca Mancini put through his own goal before late substitute Joseph Stanisic pulled the hosts level after Leandro Paredes netted two...
Day: May 11, 2024
Business Report : Mobile financial service provider bKash logged a massive 504 percent year-on-year rise in profit in 2023. It was to the tune of Tk 103.9 crore. In 2022, the amount was Tk 17.2 crore. This substantial jump in profit is an impressive feat considering the fact that this subsidiary of BRAC Bank had suffered losses for three years in a row till 2021. “During the early stage, customer-centric fintech companies like bKash with a sustainable business model need...
Business Desk : A high-level delegation from Singapore during a meeting with Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) has showed keen interest in investing in Bangladesh. The meeting was held on Thursday at the BIDA conference room, chaired by DrAzizul Islam, Executive Member (Additional Secretary) of BIDA, to explore investment prospects in Bangladesh’s tourism, jute, and related sectors. DrAzizul Islam, at the meeting, underscored Bangladesh’s conducive investment environment, particularly highlighting its safety and potential in various sectors, said a press release....
AFP : Heatstroke has killed 61 people in Thailand so far this year, more than in all of 2023, the...
City Desk : Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked 3rd on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI index of 156 at 9am on Friday. Friday’s air was classified as “unhealthy”, according to the air quality index, though the last day’s air was “very unhealthy” with the top position among the worst polluted cities, reports UNB. When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and 100, air quality is considered...
City Desk : Late Squadron Leader of Bangladesh Air Force Asim Jawad was buried with state honour at the Manikganj Sadar Cemetery after his third namaz-e-janaza on Friday. People from all strata, including representatives from district administration, political leaders and freedom fighters, attended the janaza after Jummah prayers. The funeral parade of Squadron Leader Muhammad Asim and the second namaz-e-janaza were held at the parade ground of Bangladesh Air Force Base Bashar in Dhaka Cantonment. At this time, he was...
Staff Reporter : The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) asserted on Friday that public support for the ruling Awami League government has drastically declined. “Public support for the government is virtually non-existent as evidenced by the low voter turnout in the first phase of the Upazila Parishad elections held on Wednesday,” stated Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, a member of the BNP Standing Committee, during a rally in front of the party’s central office in Nayapaltan, Dhaka. Roy criticized the recent elections, claiming,...
Business Desk : Enamul Hoque, a teacher of Bheramara upazila in Kushtia, received a cash voucher worth of Tk1 lakh after he had purchased a Walton refrigerator under the local brand’s nationwide ongoing ‘non-stop millionaire’ benefit, under the brand’s “Digital Campaign Season-20.” On Wednesday, popular film actor and Walton’s Senior Executive Director Amin Khan officially handed over the cash voucher to Enamul at a program held at ‘Sunrise Enterprise’, one of the distributors’ showrooms of Walton, at Godown more area...
Staff Reporter : The United States, through USAID and the State Department, has announced an additional $30.5 million in aid to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and the surrounding region. As Bangladesh hosts nearly one million refugees from Myanmar, primarily from the Rohingya ethnic minority, this funding is essential for addressing the urgent needs of those living in densely populated refugee camps, according to a State Department announcement on Thursday. The new funding will bolster efforts by U.S. government partners,...
Al Amin : Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government’s upcoming budget for fiscal year 2024-25 may...