Wednesday, 27 September, 2017
Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed a list of the country’s top 100 loan defaulters in Parliament on Monday and said the classified loans in banks and other financial institutions stood at Tk…
Biman fails as authority, businesses suffer
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the sole authority of cargo and ground handling at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in the capital, is failing to properly carry out the job, thus harming the…
Estimating the costs of SDGs implementation
The SDG Need Assessment and Financing Strategy for Bangladesh was prepared by the General Economics Division (GED) of Bangladesh Planning Commission to provide a full-blown study of the estimation…
World Population Day today
Population control activities in the country have virtually nosedived due to inaction of the National Population Council (NPC), leaving the vital national task to the couples’ discretion.…
Over half a dozen of local and international companies are expressing their interests to set up LNG based power plants having combined capacity to generate 9483MW of electricity under unsolicited deals,…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday called upon all concerned to ensure the optimum utilization of service infrastructures at grassroots in the case of reproductive healthcare, family planning,…
The syndicate of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) approved the annual budget of Tk 282.42 crore for the fiscal year 2017-18. The budget was passed in the 312th syndicate meeting…
The wife of an army officer was prosecuted on July 2, for allegedly torturing their domestic help on June 30 at their apartment at the Mirpur Defence Officers’ Housing Society in the capital.…
They say that one man can’t make a difference, but Abdul Samad Sheikh, a 60-year-old rickshaw driver from Bangladesh, is a living proof that small contributions over a long period of time…
MOSUL: Iraqi forces fought to eliminate the last pockets of Islamic State group resistance in Mosul on Monday after the premier visited the devastated city to congratulate troops on securing victory,…
Indian Bengali writer Amit Goswami has painted a heroic picture of martyr intellectual Shahid Altaf Mahmud in his new biopic novel titled Altaf. The prolific writer has brought the guerrilla…
The players of Bangladesh National Cricket Team began their training camp on Monday ahead of Test series against Australia and their upcoming tour of South Africa in September-October at the Sher-e-Bangla…
RAJSHAHI: Speakers at a workshop here urged all stakeholders to motivate and encourage the poor people to skill development training for improving their living and livelihood condition, reports BSS.…
SEOUL: South Korea intends to build a museum in memory of wartime sex slaves for Japanese troops, a government minister said Monday, re-igniting perennial tensions in the two neighbours’ relationship,…
Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) fears that the government’s resource mobilisation plan for the current fiscal year might face a setback following suspension of the new Vat law for the next two…
