Staff Reporter :The World Bank (WB) will give Bangladesh $300 million to boost employment opportunities for 900,000 disengaged rural youths. The WB and the Bangladesh government signed an agreement to this effect on Sunday. The agreement was signed by Sharifa Khan, Secretary, Economic Relations Division and Abdoulaye Seck, World Bank Country Director for Bangladesh and Bhutan on behalf of their respective organizations, said a press release issued by the WB on Sunday. As per the signed a $300 million financing...
Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj : Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) , Astogram President has filed a case with Astogram Police Station in connection the chase-and-counter-chase incident centering on the procession of upazila BNP in Astogram of Kishoreganj. In the case, Upazila BNP President Syed Saeed Ahmed has been made the main accused along with 71 named people and 300-400 unnamed people. The case was lodged On Sunday noon. Other accused in the case include – Upazila BNP general secretary Zakir Hossain Mukul,...
News Desk :The eminent director died at United Hospital in city’s Gulshan area around 11:53 PM. He left behind a...
Reuters :The US House of Representatives is due to vote on Wednesday on a bill to lift the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, a critical step to avoid a destabilising default that could come early next week without congressional action.Republicans control the House by a narrow 222-213 majority, but the bipartisan deal will need support from both Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Republicans and President Joe Biden’s Democrats to pass, as members of both parties object to significant parts of the bill....
Agency :The 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup (WC) in Budapest kicked off on Friday with a resounding splash as...
AFP :At least 800,000 people in Myanmar need emergency food aid and other assistance after Cyclone Mocha slammed into the conflict-torn country earlier this week, the United Nations said on Friday. Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of up to 195 kilometres per hour to Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh on Sunday, with Myanmar’s junta saying 145 people had been killed and media reports suggesting the number was far higher.The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) described “a trail of devastation” across...
Business Desk :Ring Shine Textile, a listed firm on the stock market, has cancelled its declared dividend for the shareholders for the 2019-20 fiscal.Informing the cancellation owing to incurring losses, Ring Shine Textile said, the 1% cash and 1% stock dividend will be revoked and will consider as no dividend for 2019.Ring Shine Textile declared the dividend on October 2020 based on its annual profit in the 2019-20 fiscal. Now, the board of directors has decided no cash and stock...
Entertainment Report :From Nusraat Faria and Apu Biswas to Mahiya Mahi and Bidya Sinha Mim, the list of Bangladeshi actresses...
UNB :A court here sentenced eight people to death on Monday in a case filed over killing a BCL leader in 2013. Judge Amina Farhin of Laxmipur Additional District and Sessions Judges Court handed down the judgment. The condemned convicts are Ali Hossain Bachchu, Md. Mostafa, Md. Khokon, Abul Hossain, Mubarak Ulla, Kabir Hossain Ripon, Zafar Ahmad and Hizbur Rahman Swapan. Seven of the accused were present at court while Hizbur Rahman Swapan absconding. Victim Mehedi Hasan Jasim was Literature...
Ishwardi (Pabna) Correspondent : Honey collection is going on in the field. Field after field of golden grain mustard fields...
News Desk :The nation is set to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day today (Thursday) to commemorate the intellectuals killed systematically by Pakistan occupation forces and their local collaborators at the fag-end of the Liberation War in 1971. On this day in 1971, the country’s renowned academicians, doctors, engineers, journalists, artists, teachers and other eminent personalities were dragged out of their homes, blindfolded and taken to unknown places and then brutally tortured and murdered. Their bodies were later dumped at Rayerbazar...