The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) has been using Anwara Udyan in the city’s busiest area as metro rail project office and for keeping construction supplies with permission of the public works department. According to media reports, the metro rail authority is supposed to restore the park to its original state once the construction work is finished. The construction work of Uttara- Motijheel is now almost complete. Instead of doing so, DMTCL is planning to construct a metro rail...
Day: May 24, 2024
News Desk : The low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a well-marked low and it may gather more strength to transform into a depression. The system moved slightly northeastwards and was lying over west-central Bay and adjoining Southwest Bay, Bangladesh Meteorological Department said in a special bulletin on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com All fishing boats and trawlers over the North Bay and the deep sea have been advised to come close to the coast and proceed...
Staff Reporter : The mystery surrounding the death of ruling party MP Anwarul Azim has begun to unravel. On Thursday...
Business Report : Prime Bank, a second-generation private sector bank in the country, has received regulatory approval to establish a...
Court Correspondent : A Dhaka court on Sunday sets July 4 for submission of the probe report in a case filed over abduction of Awami League lawmaker from Jhenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar, who was murdered in Kolkata of India. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubul Haque of Dhaka passed the order accepting the First Information Report (FIR) submitted by police. On Saturday, Azim’s daughter filed the abduction case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station accusing unnamed people. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters the...
Business Report : Bangladesh’s foreign currency reserves have risen to $18.61 billion on May 21, an increase of $180 million from a week ago, central bank figures showed. It was $18.43 billion on May 15, according to a central bank calculation based on the International Monetary Fund’s Balance of Payment Manual 6. The Bangladesh Bank began calculating forex reserves in line with the new method in July last year as per suggestions of the lender, which approved a $4.7 billion...
Court Correspondent : A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered the authorities concerned to freeze and attach all moveable and immovable...
Entertainment Report : The Director’s Guild Bangladesh is the largest association of television drama directors. In their organisation, a meeting...
Court Correspondent : Four former Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) officials and the current Senior Vice-President Abdus Salam Murshedy have been...
Staff Reporter : The banking sector in the country has become monopolized due to a decline in governance, with financial oligarchs under crony capitalism using the sector to achieve their goals, according to Fahmida Khatun, Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). Speaking at a dialogue titled “What Lies Ahead for the Banking Sector in Bangladesh?” organized by the CPD at a city hotel on Thursday, Dr. Khatun emphasized the critical role of the banking sector in the...