Staff Reporter : A significant adjustment will be made to fuel oil prices in the country, while no gas connections will be given to any consumer located in designated areas without legal documents. This was said by State Minister for Power, Energy, and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid to the reporters following a visit to the Padma Oil Company Ltd. in Patenga, Chattogram, on Wednesday. Hamid revealed plans for a new automatic pricing system based on international market trends. Under this...
Day: March 7, 2024
Staff Reporter : PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress), a research and advocacy organization as well as a member of Stop Tobacco Pollution Alliance (STPA), has urged the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, sending letters to work together in banning cigarette filters and vaporizers to address plastic pollution. The letter upheld a landmark decision on the implementation of Article 18 (Protection of the Environment) adopted by the 183 Parties to the WHO...
Business Desk : EDOTCO Bangladesh and Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited signed an MoU to introduce advanced eco-friendly telecommunications tower made of Fiberglass Reinforced Plastics (FRP). The MoU signing was held at the world’s most coveted event, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, according to a press release on Wednesday. Through this collaboration, EDOTCO Bangladesh will become the first TowerCo in the country to offer the fiberglass tower solutions to the Mobile Network Operators. As a technology partner Huawei will...
Business Desk : Ud-ul-Fitr sales planning conference with distributors of cosmetics and toiletries manufacturer “Tasmia Cosmetics & Toiletries Ltd” was...
AFP : Southeast Asian and Australian leaders on Wednesday warned against actions that “endanger peace” in the South China Sea,...
Business Desk : Sonali Bank PLC launched its’ services with Meghna Bank PLC to collect pension scheme instalments, various charges, and fees through mobile financial service ‘MeghnaPay Wallet’ and internet banking portal by using Sonali Payment Gateway. Sonali Banl PLC CEO and Managing Director Md Afzal Karim and Meghna Bank PLC Chairnman H N Ashequr Rahman inaugurated the services at a city hotel on Tuesday, according to a media release. Under the agreement, Meghna Bank PLC customers can pay their...
City Desk : Dhaka’s air quality was marked ‘unhealthy’ this morning. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 157 at 9:11 am, Dhaka ranked 9th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality. Vietnam’s Hanoi, Iraq’s Baghdad and Pakistan’s Lahore, occupied the first three spots in the list, with AQI scores of 286, 176 and 184, respectively, reports UNB. An AQI between 101 and 150 is considered ‘unhealthy’, AQI between 201 and 300 is said to...
AFP : Two decades after her son went missing, Soledad Ruiz was handed a small coffin containing his remains, identified using DNA and the sweater he was wearing when he disappeared. Her face worn by grief and time, Ruiz wipes away tears as she clutches a composite sketch of her son, Apolinar, who was 25 when he left for work on a farm in San Onofre in northern Colombia in 1999, never to be seen again. The Caribbean region of...
Sr. Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj : The annual election of Kishoreganj Bar Association was held peacefully. Senior Advocate Abdus Shahid was...