Though all over the world the price of consumables has come down to pre Ukraine-Russia war level, or even at the pre-pandemic level, for Bangladesh the scenario is opposite. People who go to markets to buy groceries know that in recent days, every consumable item is selling at a very high price. Yet the government is not admitting its failure and shifting the blame for high food inflation on the war and pandemic. While most people are finding it...
Diplomatic Correspondent :Bangladesh is expecting to raise the Teesta water sharing issue with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in New Delhi in the next week. Foreign Ministry stated that as the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would attend the G-20 Summit and it is expected that she would raise the unresolved issue of Teesta water sharing along with other issues with Narendra Modi. “We have been discussing the issue of Teesta water sharing...
AFP :North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrapped the year with fresh threats of a nuclear attack on Seoul and...
City Desk :Bangladesh Awami Jubo LeagueLeaders and activists of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, Rangpur district unit distributed sarees, lungis and cash as Eid gifts among 500 popor, distressed and needy people of Rangpur city. The Eid gifts were distributed in a function arranged on Thursday in front of the mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangbandhu Sqaure on the DC Mour area in the city. Rangpur District Jubo League former Joint Convener Laxmin Chandra Das...
AFP, Mumbai :Arjun Tendulkar made his Indian Premier League (IPL) debut on Sunday bowling for Mumbai Indians, the team once...
News DeskBangladesh Bank (BB) has introduced a ‘market-based’ US dollar exchange rate, setting a cap on the maximum rate for H1 of the new fiscal year 2023-24.The central bank is selling dollars to commercial banks at Tk108.85 per dollar, increasing Tk2.85 from the previous rate, reports UNB.Through the regulator selling dollars at a market-based rate, the price of dollars in interbank transactions has also been fixed at a maximum of Tk 109.However, the foreign exchange market is still volatile and...
City Desk :The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested seven dacoits from Rampura area while they were taking preparation for committing robbery using fake identities of DB and the elite force RAB.The arrested people were identified as Md Jalal Uddin alias Captain Jalal, Md Badal Hossain Sheikh alias Badal Majhi, Syed Monir Al Mahmud, Md Khokon, Shahdat Hossain, Md Babul Miah and Md Mahidul Islam Sheikh, reports BSS. The plain clothed police recovered a toy...
Staff Reporter A total of 355 people were killed and 620 others were injured in 341 road, rail and waterway accidents during Eid-ul-Fitr. Of them, 328 people were killed and 565 injured in 304 road accidents. 27 died and 55 suffered injuries in 27 railway accidents and 5 were killed and 22 went missing in 10 waterway accidents. Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury, secretary general of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, revealed the information at a press briefing at Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan Parishad...
BSS : Existing units on the industrial estates belonging to Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) generated employment for 14,724 people, both male and female, during the first nine months of the current fiscal. The people got the jobs in various fields like enterprise development, skill development and training, industry ownership transfer and establishment of new industries. There are 1,027 units on 2,481 allocated plots in 19 industrial estates in around 471.28 acres of land in the country’s northwest...