Day: May 26, 2024
Staff Reporter : Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister, Obaidul Quader, reaffirmed the government’s commitment to public and national interest by stressing the necessity of taking decisive action against wrongdoers. Quader assured that the government harbors no agenda to arbitrarily incarcerate political leaders or activists, including those from opposition parties. “Persons who are miscreants, offenders, and wrongdoers must land in jail,” Quader stated firmly. “If anybody is involved with crimes, he or she must be indicted...
Staff Reporter : Banks and financial institutions in Bangladesh are losing people’s trust due to various issues, including liquid crisis and non-performing loans, say experts. As a result, the country’s economy is gradually getting damaged. Moreover, the financial institutions are not succeeding in gaining the trust of local and foreign investors, the experts highlighted during a discussion at the EMK Center in Dhaka on Saturday (25 May). Speaking at the discussion titled “Development Opportunities in Emerging Economies”, Former IMF Assistant...
BSS : Leaders of Bangladesh Federal Union of Newspaper Press Workers (BFUNPW) on Saturday demanded forming the 10th wage board immediately for journalists and newspaper employees and workers. They also urged the owners of the newspapers to implement the 9th wage board award and pay the dues of journalists and sought government’s intervention to realize the dues, said a release. They made the demand while addressing a meeting on the occasion of handing over charges to newly elected BFUNPW committee...
BSS, Chuadanga : A two-day long birth anniversary celebration of rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was begun in the district on Saturday. In his life time the national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam spent a few months at Karpashdanga in Damurhuda upazila of the district with his family. Ali Asgar Tagor, MP, and the Deputy Commissioner of Chuadanga Dr Kissinger Chakma placed floral wreaths at the portrait of national poet this morniing, who was born on May 24 in...
Staff Reporter : Anwarul Azim Anar, Member of Parliament for Jhenaidah-4, has been killed after two previous failed attempts, according to Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid, Additional Commissioner of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). Addressing a press conference at the Minto Road DB office in the capital on Saturday afternoon, DB Chief Harun-or-Rashid disclosed, “The killers had attempted twice before finally succeeding in the third round. However, the specific motive behind the murder remains unclear yet.” He went on...
Dupchanchia (Bogura) Correspondent : The project titled Temple-based Children and Mass Education (TBCM) Program (6th phase) implemented by the Hindu Welfare Trust under the Ministry of Religious Affairs is working relentlessly along with responsibility to spread the moral education of the tender children of Hinduism across the country. Today’s child is tomorrow’s future. Therefore, those who are engaged in great professions like teaching in this project should be more diligent and responsible. The district workshop on the role of temple-based...
Sylhet Bureau : Bapex, the state-owned oil and gas exploration company, has discovered new gas reserves in at least four...
City Desk : Telenor, Grameenphone (GP), and Plan International have joined forces in empowering more than 2.35 million marginalised women and youth through “Digital Inclusion: Safe Digital Space for Girls and Youth Project”. The initiative aims to enhance digital literacy, skills, resilience and create a safe online environment for the women and youth who often face socio-economic challenges, reports UNB. As a part of this project, a team from Telenor, Grameenphone, and Plan International made a three-day visit to Savar,...
AFP : Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, including Rafah, on Saturday, despite an order from the UN’s top court for it to “immediately halt” its military offensive in the southern city. At the same time, renewed efforts are getting underway in Paris aimed at securing a ceasefire in the war sparked by Palestinian group Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 resistance campaign on Israel. In a case brought by South Africa alleging the Israeli military operation amounts to “genocide,” the International Court...