Business Report : The country’s premier bourse, Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), on Tuesday witnessed an upward trend as investors remained active on sector-wise issues. DSEX, the prime index of DSE, went up by 11.89 points or 0.23 per cent to settle at 5,247.53. The DSE Shariah Index (DSES) also advanced 4.43 pts to close at 1,142.74. But, the DSE 30 Index, comprising blue chips, closed the day with 4.43 points down at 1,852.56. At DSE, out of the day’s 397...
Day: June 5, 2024
Court Correspondent : As no response came from former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed’s side to the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) summons, it is unlikely that he would appear before court, said several sources. Although the ACC sent the summons notice to Benazir’s Gulshan residence last week, no one from Benazir’s family received the letter. Till Tuesday, the notice was at the guardroom of their Gulshan residence amid specific speculations that Benbazir and his family have already left the...
BSS, KHULNA : Khulna City Corporation (KCC) will open cattle market on June 10 for trading sacrificial animals on the Zoragate Bazar premises ahead of upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, held on June 17. The decision was taken in a meeting of the sacrificial animals conducting cattle market committee set by the KCC authority on Monday (yesterday) afternoon at the Shaheed Altaf auditorium of KCC building in the city, said a KCC press release today. Panel mayor of KCC-1 and the convener of...
City Desk : Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen has said that the health department is committed to fulfilling the prime minister’s pledge to eliminate leprosy by 2030. To this end, the Ministry of Health is working tirelessly with government, non-government and international partners, he said at a meeting with Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, at the Secretariat on Tuesday morning. Samanta informed Sasakawa that the Bangladesh government has made great strides in eliminating...
Business Report : Nestlé Bangladesh PLC, a Switzerland-originated company, held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) recently. Deepal Abeywickrema, chairman and managing director, chaired the AGM. During the meeting, the Company Secretary Debabrata Roy Chowdhury, presented the annual report of the company and the Finance and Control Director Gehan Yasith Attanayake, presented the financial report for the fiscal year from January to December 2023. After a discussion on the financial report, the audited financial report was unanimously adopted. The meeting also...
Court Correspondent : A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded Shilasti Rahman’s confessional statement in the case of kidnapping with intention to murder MP Anwarul Azim Anar. Extra Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka on Tuesday recorded the depositions of Shilasti, who is also known as a mastermind in the murder. Recording the statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the court sent Shilasti to the jail. On May 31, the court granted a 5-day remand to three accused...
Business Desk : IT, Digital and Appliances service platform 1000fiX has announced air tickets for the first winner of the upcoming fridge service campaign marking Eid-ul-Azha. The first winner will get a couple tour packages with a return air ticket from Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar for staying in the beach town for two days and one night, while the second prize is a rechargeable fan, and the third prize is a smartwatch. said a press release. Regarding the campaign, 1000fiX...
Reuters : Nadir Aslam, a German of Moroccan-Pakistani heritage, had been planning to vote Green in this week’s elections to the European Parliament. Instead, he will throw his support behind Mera25, a start-up leftist party with a clear pro-Palestinian stance. Aslam, 33, told Reuters it was a speech last November by a Green leader doubling down on German support for Israel, even as the Gaza death toll neared 9,000, which “destroyed” his support for the ecologist party, a member of...
Staff Reporter : The government has appointed an Indian company named Ernst and Young (EY) India to develop strategic foresight for the Smart Leadership Academy (SLA), which was set up to create well-turned-out leaders and promote a citizen-centric culture to find the way to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Sources said the World Bank financed the Enhancing Digital Government and Economy (EDGE) Project of the Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division and signed a contract with EY India for...
