Chattogram Bureau : Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden visited various projects under National Urban Poverty Reduction Program. On his four-day...
Day: March 21, 2024
Staff Reporter : The cabinet committee for procurement has approved three project of local government division-Dhaka environmentally Sustainable Water Supply, 67 government primary school cum flood shelters and Development of flyover roads and physical infrastructure in Haor area worth Tk1735 crore. The committee approved the projects on Wednesday chaired by Finance minister Abul Hasan Mahmud Ali. Later cabinet division Coordination and Reform SecretaryMahmudul Hossain Khan informed it to the reporters. He said, ” The meeting has approved the increase in...
News Desk : Bangladesh registered a 31.17% implementation of the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the July-February period of the ongoing 2023-24 fiscal year, which is the lowest implementation rate in over a decade. The ADP implementation rate was 32.10% during the government’s austerity drive in the last fiscal year, reports media. The implementation rate was the lowest among the ministries and departments that received the highest allocation, including the shipping ministry, the Health Services Division, and the Directorate of...
Business Desk : With the majority of workers lacking formal contracts, a new international study revealed the extensive use of...
City Desk : Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Muhammad Faruk Khan has laid emphasis on ensuring a coordinated public-private efforts...
Staff Reporter : The government has introduced a mandatory new pension scheme titled “Prottoy” under the Universal Pension Scheme (UPS)...
Business Report : After witnessing a downward trend in the last session, stocks rebounded on Wednesday in the Dhaka and Chittagong stock exchanges as investors remained active on sector-wise issues. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), went up by 58.49 points or 1.01 per cent to settle at 5,872.58. Two other indices also ended higher with the DSE 30 Index, comprising blue chips, rose 12.17 points to finish at 2,032.28, and the DSE Shariah Index (DSES)...
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Business Desk : The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) today urged German retail company Otto Group for sourcing more high-value garment products from Bangladesh. BGMEA President Faruque Hassan made the plea at a meeting with the senior officials of the group held at the BGMEA’s office at Uttara in Dhaka. A delegation of Otto Group, including Sergio Bucher Rodriguez, member of the executive board for retail and brands at Otto Group; Heidi Sabina Stevens, CEO at the Otto...
Staff Reporter : There is no alternative to preventing tobacco-related deaths and reducing illness caused by tobacco use without strengthening the tobacco control law, Health Minister Dr. Samanta Lal Sen said this on Wednesday during a meeting with a delegation from PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) and ATMA (Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance) at the Secretariat in the capital. The Health Minister also was hailed the initiative to amend tobacco control law as time-befitting one. Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul, Senior Journalist, Mortuza Haider Liton,...