In an effort to contain air pollution, the Environment Ministry has requested Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to remove the buses and minibuses older than 20-years as well as trucks and covered vans older than 25-years from the roads.
Besi…
Adviser for Shipping, Jute and Textile ministries Brigadier General (retd) Sakhawat Hossain expressed concerns regarding two recent fire incidents involving Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) vessels in Chattogram and urged to refrain from speculat…
Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md. Nahid Islam today said that the interim government’s key focus is to reduce the unemployment in the country through employment generation.
“The main goal of the current government is to…
Alauddin, a middle-aged migrant worker who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, faced a shocking reality last Thursday when he attempted to withdraw Tk 50,000 from the Bashabo branch of First Security Islami Bank (FSIB). Desperate to secure the funds …
The recent flood in eastern part of the country caused an estimated loss of around Taka 14,421.46 crore tantamount to around US$1.20 billion, a Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) study said today.
The private think tank presented the study report
The two-way traffic has been resumed in Daunne from today.
The transport service was disrupted after a section of the East-West highway at Daunne sunk due to inundation caused by incessant rainfall.
Deputy Superintendent of Police and Information Of…
The Nepali Congress (NC) and the CPN (UML) have each deposited Rs five million to the Prime Minister Disaster Relief Fund.
A delegation led by NC President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba handed a cheque for the assistance
Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) has recently hosted the first show of the puppet theatre titled ‘Invisible Stories’ by a duo of Bangladeshi artists, Diana Meriline and Md Farhad Ahmed, under French puppeteer Laurie Cannac’s direction of her very own…
