Staff Reporter : The Bangladeshi tourists and business travelers can now pay a visit to Pakistan without any visa. The Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Syed Maroof, confirmed it while holding a meeting with the adviser to the Home Ministry Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday. The Pakistan government has recently brought changes in its visa policy from August 14, stating that tourists and business travelers from 126 countries will benefit from free visas to visit Pakistan....
Day: September 3, 2024
BSS : Education Adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday called for extending mutual cooperation in the field of education between Bangladesh and China as Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen paid a courtesy call on him at the latter’s Secretariat office here. “Mutual cooperation on education should be extended,” he said welcoming the Chinese proposal to improve the standard of technical education through “Luban Workshop.” The adviser also highly praised the Chinese education system and its universities. The Chinese envoy stressed...
Staff Reporter : The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the European Union (EU) to encourage Bangladeshi authorities to...
Business Report : Renata PLC, a listed drug maker in Bangladesh, has got approval from the European authority to market a tablet, Cabergoline 0.5 mg, used for the treatment of Hyperprolactinemia and Parkinson’s.The approval will enable Renata to access several European markets such as Ireland, France, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, and Spain and reach out to patients there, the drug maker said in a press release.“This milestone reflects Renata’s commitment to expanding its product offerings in the European...
Reuters : China has warned severe economic retaliation against Japan if it further restricts sales and servicing of chipmaking equipment to Chinese firms, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.Toyota Motor privately told Japanese officials that Beijing could react to the curbs by cutting Japan’s access to minerals required for automotive production, the report said.Several Chinese officials had repeatedly outlined the position with their Japanese counterparts in recent meetings, the report added.Toyota and the Chinese foreign...
Business Report : Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) Bangladesh has been awarded as the International Retail Bank of...
Business Report : Country’s both the bourses– Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) on Monday plunged due to mainly price fall in large-cap securities.DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went down by 25.66 points or 0.44 percent to 5,803.71. Two other indices also ended sharply lower with the DSE 30 Index, comprising blue chips, plunged 5.27 points to finish at 2,134.11 and the DSE Shariah Index (DSES) lost 9.08 points to close at...
AFP : Asian factories, including China’s manufacturing sector, showed signs of a tentative recovery in August and chip makers benefitted from firm demand, private surveys showed on Monday, but economic headwinds loom.Analysts say prospects of slowing US growth, which is likely to lead to interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve this month, and uncertainty over the outcome of the US presidential election cloud the trade outlook.China’s Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 50.4 in August from...
Probir Chandra Das : Universities must be at the centre of development goal since they are the cornerstone of higher...
WORKERS in the garment and pharmaceutical industries staged protests demanding better pay, regularisation of jobs, and a two-day weekend. As per media report published on Monday, these demonstrations disrupted production at numerous factories in and around the capital Dhaka. There may be some facts that our workers are getting deprived of under the rule of oligarchic kelptocracy for a long time. But it is quite distressing while we are to learn that the sudden nature of the protests has raised...
Entertainment Report : Even though the water has started to decrease, the suffering of the people of the flood-affected areas...
Sheikh Arif Bulbon : Famous musician of the subcontinent Runa Laila created a stir by singing the song written by...