Business Report : Mutual Trust Bank PLC (MTB) announced the launch of its Bancassurance service, marking a milestone in the banking and insurance sector in Bangladesh. Syed Mahbubur Rahman, managing director & CEO, Chowdhury Akhtar Asif, additional managing director & GCRO and Md Khalid Mahmood Khan, additional managing director & CBO of MTB alongside the bank’s senior management team, inaugurated the service at a ceremony held at its corporate head office recently. Customers will be able to access the Bancassurance...
Day: June 29, 2024
AFP : Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday urged investors to get behind cutting-edge climate technologies he says would drive...
Reuters : Iranians started voting on Friday for a new president following the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter...
Staff Reporter : Residents of southern Bangladesh are experiencing acute load shedding in the scorching hot weather following the shutdown of one of the two units of the 1,320 MW Payra Thermal Power Plant on Monday. Load shedding has increased in the Barishal Division and nearby Faridpur since the shutdown and commencement of maintenance work on the power plant unit on Wednesday, sources said. Shah Mani Ziko, assistant manager of the power plant, stated that the maintenance work on the...
National Desk : A day-long seminar on informing the implementation progress of the National Gene Bank establishment project was held on Thursday (June 27, 2024) at the conference hall of the National Institute of Biotechnology, Savar in Dhaka. National Gene Bank Establishment (1st Revised) project and National Institute of Biotechnology (NIB) was organized the seminar and Minister for Science and Technology, Architect Yafes Osman was present as the chief guest. Biotechnologist Dr. Anwar Hossain spoke as a special guest on...
Prof Rayhan Ahmed Tapadar : The G-7 conference was held in Italy. This year’s conference focused on aid to Ukraine,...
TASS : Russia, as a major power, remains an important pillar of the United Nations’ work, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...
Abu Jakir : The Awami League (AL) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Bangladesh’s two major political parties, are set to hold parallel rallies in Dhaka on Saturday, June 29. BNP will hold a rally in front of its Nayapaltan headquarters demanding the release of its chairperson, Khaleda Zia, who is currently undergoing treatment in a city hospital. Simultaneously, the ruling Awami League will hold a rally in front of its headquarters on Bangabandhu Avenue to commemorate the party’s 75th...
Sylhet Correspondent : The flood victims of Sylhet Region were suffering from various waterborne diseases, including diarrhoea, dysentery, jaundice, typhoid and skin diseases, across the division due to the prolonged flooding. In the last 8 days, 9,826 people had been affected by the waterborne diseases including diarrhoea, respiratory tract infection, eye inflammation, skin diseases in the flood affected areas of Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj and Habiganj district, according to the statistics of Sylhet divisional health office. Only on Thursday, a total...
Agency : Bangladesh Vice-Captain Taskin Ahmed urged everyone not to dwell on the negative side only after their recent performance...
FIDE Master Manon Reja Neer of Bangladesh Navy maintained his solo lead in the points table with five points after the sixth round of SAIF POWERTEC 48th Chess Championship held at Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room on Friday. GM Ziaur Rahman, GM Niaz Murshed and International Master Mohammad Fahad Rahman of Bangladesh Ansar shared the second place with four points each. Three players shared the third position with 3.5 points each. They are reigning champion Grandmaster Enamul Hossain Razib & FM...
Al Jazeera : Russian scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for about 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind. Found by chance by residents in the far northeastern region of Yakutia’s Abyysky district in 2021, the wolf’s carcass is only now being properly examined by scientists, the Reuters news agency reported on Friday. “This is the world’s first discovery of a late Pleistocene predator,” said Albert Protopopov, head of the...