AFP, Beijing : China’s consumer inflation rate slowed in September, official data showed Sunday, in a sign that demand remains fragile in the world’s number two economy. The slowdown comes as authorities have been seeking to boost domestic activity and shore up China’s ailing property sector, with officials on Saturday announcing plans for a significant fiscal stimulus package. The consumer price index (CPI), a key measure of inflation, rose 0.4 percent year-on-year in September, down from the 0.6 percent recorded...
Day: October 14, 2024
Business Report : NRB Bank Limited is a fourth generation bank which was approved in 2012 due to political considerations....
Business Report : The 55th World Standards Day will be observed today as the day is being observed every year for creating awareness on goods and services across the world. The theme of the day is ‘Our Shared Vision for a better world’.Bangladesh is also set to observe the day in line with the theme like other countries in the world with due importance, said a release on Sunday. To mark the day, Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has...
BSS : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed said India wants Awami League (AL)...
UNB : A 40-year-old fish trader, identified as Nur Nabi from Govinda Sri village in Netrakona’s Madan upazila, was tragically killed after being struck by a train in the Karwan Bazar area of the capital on Sunday evening. According to his colleague Jewel Kabir, Nur Nabi was crossing the road when he was hit by the train.They rushed him to Dhaka Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead around 7pm. Inspector Md Faruk, in charge of the police outpost at...
Staff Reporter : The Ministry of Public Administration has announced that the gazette notification for the 43rd Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) recruitment is expected to be issued soon. All preparations for this announcement have reportedly been completed.Rahima Akhtar, joint secretary of the Recruitment, Promotion, and Transfer (APD) Subdivision, told the media: “The recruitment notification for the 43rd BCS will be issued very soon. We have finished our work and hope to release it within this week. We understand the eagerness...
Staff Reporter : Members of the law enforcement agency arrested an Awami Swechhasebak League central leader from the city’s Mirpur area Saturday night on charges of his alleged involvement in the killing of Md Ashraful Islam during the anti-discrimination student movement. The arrestee has been identified as Tarique Afzal Sabuj, a central leader of Swechhasebak League.Inspector (investigation) of Mirpur Model Thana Md Sazzad Ramon confirmed the matter to the media saying that police conducted a raid on a nearby area...
Staff Reporter : Durga Puja, the largest religious festival for Bangali Hindus, comes to a close on Sunday with the immersion of Goddess Durga’s in water across the country, marking the end of five days of devotion, celebration, and community bonding. In Dhaka, thousands of devotees have begun gathering along the banks of the Buriganga River, where idols from temples and neighbourhoods are being transported on brightly decorated trucks for immersion. The ritual, which symbolises Goddess Durga’s return to her...
Staff Reporter : In the last 24 hours, four more people have died from dengue in Bangladesh, according to a report from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Sunday. On Saturday, the DGHS reported nine deaths from the mosquito-borne disease. This brings the total number of dengue-related deaths to 51 in the first 13 days of October and 214 so far this year. The DGHS stated that in the past 24 hours (from 8 AM Saturday to 8...
Staff Reporter : In a fiery address on Sunday, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqur Rahman labeled the Awami League (AL) as the country’s “number one terrorist organisation,” demanding that its leaders be tried under the very “black laws” they had introduced during their extended rule. Dr. Rahman made these remarks at a member council (Rokon) meeting of Jamaat’s Dhaka North City unit, held at the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Center in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. He emphasised the need for justice against the...
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