UNB, Dhaka :Bangladesh does not want any assistance from anyone that tags harmful conditions for it, Prime Minister SheikhHasina on Tuesday told visiting World Bank regional vice president for South Asia Philippe Le Heuerou.The World Bank Vice President met the Prime Minister at her office.PM’s Special Assistant Mahbubul Hoque Shakil briefed reporters after the meeting.He said, the Prime Minister said Bangladesh always welcomes assistance from other countries or organisations, and each and every country of the world has its own...
Staff Reporter :A variety of winter vegetables, including cabbage, cauliflower, tomato, brinjal, radish, hyacinth bean, bottle gourd, pea, and radish are now available in the market as the season is at its peak. However, consumers must quest across the market to buy vegetables priced under Tk 60 on this list although the prices decreased slightly at the beginning of winter. The prices of some vegetables, including beans, gourd and brinjal, have increased by up to Tk 30 per kg than...
Staff Repoter :The BNP on Saturday questioned the government’s honest intension about the party Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s medical treatment.“Our party chief wanted to take treatment under her personal physicians. The laws also were in her favour in this regard. But the government did not favour. They staged a drama by taking her to hospital in the name of giving treatment,” BNP Senior Joint-Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said it in a press briefing in the party’s Nayapaltan central office.The...
bdnews24.com :The government has endorsed a proposed amendment to an agreement with New Delhi that will facilitate trade with a third country by using India’s land, water, and rail routes.The Cabinet cleared the amendment to the India-Bangladesh Trade Agreement on Monday at a meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.The government says the agreement will enable Bangladesh to transport goods to and from any third country like Nepal and Bhutan using India’s highway, waterway and railway.India can enjoy...
Kuala Lumpur (Thomson Reuters Foundation) : Malaysia is setting up a special court to tackle rising numbers of human trafficking cases, in a move welcomed by campaigners who said it would help deliver justice to victims.The Southeast Asian nation relies heavily on foreign domestic workers as well as laborers from countries including Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal for jobs shunned by locals including work on plantations and in construction.It has nearly two million registered migrant workers, according to government data, but...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Ambassador to the Philippines John Gomes on Tuesday said that it will “take a little time” before...
UNB, Dhaka :Awami League President Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the nomination seekers to work for the party-nominated candidates shunning personal conflicts in the coming 11th general election scheduled to be held on December 30.She gave the directives while addressing the nomination seekers at the beginning of the Awami League Parliamentary Board (ALPB) meeting at her official residence Ganobhaban.Talking to UNB, some nomination seekers said the AL chief asked the nomination seekers to strengthen the party through working for its...
Sports Reporter :Two centuries from Virat Kohli and KL Rahul powered India to pile up a massive total of 356 for the loss of two wickets in the allotted 50 overs on Monday (reserve day) at Ranasighe Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. Pakistan scored 93 for the loss of four wickets in 23 overs, till filing this report. Pakistan needed 264 runs in 27 overs to win, which is an impossible task for Pakistan. Thus,...
bdnews24.com :The anti-drug authority has started two cases after confiscating 390 bottles of liquor in a raid on controversial industrialist Aziz Mohammad Bhai’s home in the capital’s Gulshan.Three people are implicated in the cases initiated with the Gulshan police,said Khurshid Alam, assistant director at the Department of Narcotics Control or DNC. Aziz Mohammad has not been named in either case but his nephew Omar Mohammad Bhai is charged in one of them, according to the DNC.The suspects in the other...
UNB, Sunamganj :A deranged man allegedly killed his father, wife and daughter over a family feud at Brahmangaon in Dakhkhin Sunamganj upazila on Saturday night.The deceased were identified as Alauddin, 70, his daughter-in-law (son’s wife) Beauty Begum, 32 and her daughter Amina Begum, 2, of the village.Officer-in-charge of Dakhkhin Sunamganj Police Station Al Amin said the alleged killer, Alfu Mia, 45, had an altercation with his father, Ala uddin, as he refused to give him some money.At one stage, Alfu...