Staff Reporter : The plight of the Rohingya Muslims, driven out of Myanmar by a brutal military campaign in 2017, remains a stark reminder of unresolved human suffering. Nearly seven years on, their future remains uncertain in the congested environment of Cox’s Bazar, with repatriation efforts stalled and international support waning. On the occasion of World Refugee Day, local and international experts are advocating for the formal recognition of the Rohingyas as’refugees’ by the government of Bangladesh. They suggest following...
Business Desk : To support sustainable textile manufacturing and improve the sector’s resource efficiency in Bangladesh and India, IFC announced a partnership with EPIC Group, a leading player in the global apparel industry, to help finance its green capital expenditure program and create higher-skilled jobs. IFC is providing EPIC Group with a $100 million debt financing package in the form of a $70 million sustainability-linked loan and a $30 million green loan. This funding will support EPIC Group’s expansion in...
Staff Reporter : Grassroots vendors, who were hoping for higher prices to benefit the underprivileged, are dissatisfied despite tanners’ promises to purchase cowhides for more than Taka 800 and salt-preserved ones for more than Taka 1,000. Mahbub Ul Alam, an accountant in Brahmanbaria, expressed his disappointment, stating that no commercial collectors were willing to offer a higher price than Tk 150 for a bull they had purchased for Tk 91,000. Farhan, who sacrificed a cow purchased for Tk 2.1 lakh...
AP : President Joe Biden is taking an expansive election year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his own aggressive crackdown on the southern border earlier this month that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers. The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, in the coming months, allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship....
AFP, Moscow: North Korea’s relations with Russia have reached a new high point and President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Pyongyang will further strengthen ties, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Wednesday. Putin landed in North Korea earlier, in a trip set to boost defence cooperation between the two nuclear-armed countries as Moscow pursues its offensive in Ukraine. “Relations between our countries are entering a new era of blossoming, which cannot be compared even with the period of Korean-Soviet relations of...
NN Online Report: Banks in Bangladesh reopened with a new office timing today after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. From today, banks will remain open from 10:00am to 6:00pm and the transaction hour will end at 4:00pm. However, transaction has yet to get momentum as clients and bankers are still in festive mood, said bankers. A senior official of state-run Sonali Bank’s principal branch told that businessmen and other customers, who have urgent needs, are the ones coming to the branches today....
NN Online Report: Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday warned that no one will be spared if they are involved in corruption, no matter how powerful they are. “Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has declared ‘zero tolerance’ against corruption, and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has full freedom,” he said while addressing a press conference on contemporary issues at the AL President’s office in the city’s Dhanmondi, reports BSS. Quader said it is no...
NN Online Report: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday greeted all the Freedom Fighters (FFs) of the country on the occasion...
NN Online Report: BNP senior leader Mirza Abbas on Monday said there is no joy of Eid among the country’s...
NN Online Report: Like previous years, a total of five Eid congregations (jamaats) were held at the Baitul Mukarram National...
NN Online Report: Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has exchanged Eid greetings with her party leaders on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. Sheikh Hasina exchanged the greetings with the leaders of Awami League and associate organisations of the party at her official residence Ganabhaban on Monday morning, reports BSS. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and other top leaders of the party greeted the Prime Minister with flowers at about 9:30am. After that, the leaders of Dhaka South...
NN Online Report: Bangladesh qualified for the Super Eights stage of the T20 World Cup after a 21-run victory over...