Special Correspondent : The newspaper industry is currently grappling with severe financial challenges, hindering its ability to sustain publications and pay journalists’ salaries due to the non-payment of outstanding advertising bills. Editors and publishers have appealed for government intervention and cooperation, particularly from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the state minister for Information, to help sustain the newspaper industry. It has come to light that more than 700 media-listed newspapers in the country are owed approximately Tk 2,500 crore for...
Day: June 1, 2024
Ishwardi (Pabna) Correspondent : The use of nuclear energy is not new for Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been successfully using nuclear...
Staff Reporter : Police have rescued Preeti Khandaker Halima, a woman vice chairman candidate in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria, two days after her reportedly going missing while campaigning for votes. She was found from the Kanchpur area of Narayanganj on Thursday (May 30) morning and was later taken to Bijoynagar Thana for questioning regarding the matter. Bijoynagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Asadul Islam confirmed the matter to the media. Earlier, Preeti Khandaker’s husband, Masud Khandaker filed a GD with Bijoynagar...
BSS, Dhaka : Bangladesh women’s football team take on upper ranked Chinese Taipei in the first match of the two-match...
Nilphamari Correspondent : The Joint Action Nutrition Outcome (JANO) Project introduces a new era for community clinics, transforming health services in Nilphamari in northern Bangladesh. Under the JANO Project, each community clinic’s area is divided with Community Support Groups (CSGs) spreading health and nutrition awareness. These diverse groups connect communities to vital healthcare resources. Partnering with the government, the JANO Project has facilitated infrastructural enhancements in community clinics, including the installation of tinsets and the provision of diagnostic aids for...
Hindustan Times : Twenty-one people were killed and 40 injured after a bus carrying passengers from Kurukshetra in India’s Haryana...
Lohagara Correspondent : A syndicate is illegally extracting sands from several canals including Lohagara Dhulu, Sarai, Chanda, Saraiya in the upazila. For the past 10 years in Lohagara, illegal sand extraction has been going unabated allegedly under the leadership of Sramik League leader Nurul Haque Nunu. Nunu’s daily earning exceeds a huge amount of money counting about Tk 3-4 lakh through illegally extracting sand and extorting toll from sand carts. This extortion work is rampant in front of Putibila Union...
Business Report : LG Electronics Bangladesh proudly announced its annual LG Ambassador Challenge program winners on 29 May, 2024. The...
Reuters : Four people have been arrested in Ukraine and Armenia and more than 100 internet servers taken down or disrupted in a major sting operation targeting international cybercrime that has impacted thousands of people, Europol said on Thursday. Carried out between May 27 and 29, the European Union’s law enforcement agency called it “the largest ever operation against botnets, which play a major role in the deployment of ransomware”. Dismantled botnets included IcedID, Smokeloader, SystemBC, Pikabot and Bumblebee, it...
City Desk : Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister M Faruk Khan on Thursday said the newly built third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) will be fully operational by the end of this year. “I am satisfied with the progress… It is likely to be fully operational by the end of this year or early next year,” he told reporters at a briefing after visiting the new state-of-the art terminal in the capital, reports BSS. The minister said the...
Business Report : Bangladesh may receive $1.15 billion in the third instalment of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) loan in...