Dhaka, July 1 (UNB) – Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Monday said the gas price hike will be another blow for an industry struggling for every penny. “On the basis of the information I have, the gas…
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PM Hasina flies to China on five-day official tour
Dhaka, Jul 1 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here on Monday afternoon for Dalian and Beijing on a five-day official visit, which is expected to bolster ties with Bangladesh and China. A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines…
Polls ticket trade imaginary: Why not air Swiss Bank Ac’s: BNP
Dhaka, June 30 (UNB) – BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Sunday termed imaginary Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comment that BNP’s ‘nomination trade’ during the 11th parliamentary election swelled Bangladeshis’ deposits in the Swiss banks. Speaking at a human-chain…
Writ for Rifat killers’ arrest to be placed in 3rd HC bench
Dhaka, June 30 (UNB) – Two High Court benches on Sunday declined to hear a writ petition filed seeking its directives to arrest the killers of Barguna youth Rifat Sharif within 24 hours. Supreme Court lawyer Advocate Eunus Ali Akond…
BD woman, minor kid found dead in Chittagong; husband held
Chattogram, July 1 (UNB)- Police recovered the hanging bodies of a mother and her daughter from their house at Sholoshahar in the city on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Laxmi Rani Sarkar, 22, wife of Nandan Sarker, and their…
Bodies of drowned migrant man, daughter back in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, July 1, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – The bodies of a man and his young daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to the United States were returned on Sunday to their native El Salvador.…
BD marks 3rd year of Gulshan café militant attack Monday
Dhaka, June 30 (UNB) – Bangladesh is set to observe the 3rd anniversary of the Holey Artisan cafe attack, the deadliest militant attack in the country’s history which claimed 22 lives, on Monday. Relatives and those close to the victims…
Nokia distances itself from boss’s warning on Huawei 5G kit
Dhaka, Jun 30 (UNB) -Telecoms giant Nokia has disowned the comments one of its senior executives made about rival Huawei, reports the BBC. Nokia’s chief technology officer Marcus Weldon told the BBC that the UK should be wary of using…
Trump becomes 1st sitting US leader to enter North Korea
Panmunjom, Jun 30 (AP/UNB) — With grins and handshakes, President Donald Trump welcomed North Korea’s Kim Jong Un at the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone Sunday, seeking to revive talks on the pariah nation’s nuclear program in a bid for a…
BD passes Tk 5tln budget appropriation bill for 2019-20
Dhaka, June 30 (UNB) – Parliament on Sunday passed the Tk 5,23,190 crore national budget for the fiscal year 2019-20, themed as ‘Bangladesh on a Pathway to Prosperity: Time is Ours, Time for Bangladesh’. Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal moved…
Gas price for cooking raised by 32.8 pc
Dhaka, Jun 30 (UNB) – The average gas price has been raised by 32.8 percent for the retail consumers in the country with effect from Monday (July 1). Chairman of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) Monwar Islam announced the…
30 BNP men sent to jail over 1994 attack on Hasina in Pabna
Pabna, June 30 (UNB) – A court here on Sunday sent 30 BNP leaders and activists to jail in a case filed over a bomb attack on a train carrying then opposition leader and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina in…
Spanish town hosts annual wine battle
Haro, June 29 (AP/UNB) — Getting drenched with red wine might not be everyone’s idea of fun, but it is the idea behind one of Spain’s most popular — and unusual — fiestas. The town of Haro staged the annual…
BNP decides to intensify movement seeking Khaleda’s release
Dhaka, Jun 29 (UNB) – BNP on Saturday decided take a series of action programmes to intensify its movement for ensuring the release of Khaleda Zia from jail. The decision was taken at a meeting of BNP standing committee members…
BD Finance Bill changes stocks, textiles tax proposals
Dhaka, June 29 (UNB) – Parliament on Saturday passed the Finance Bill 2019 with some changes in the proposals over the capital market, VAT and handloom industry. For the first time in Bangladesh’s history, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina moved the…
No dev work that damages environment: experts
Dhaka, June 29 (UNB) – Stating that no development effort will be effective if it ruins the ecological and environmental balance, speakers at a public dialogue on Saturday urged the government to ensure a more environment-friendly budget. Poribesh Bachao Andolon…
BNP gained nothing by joining JS: Manna
Dhaka, Jun 29 (UNB) – Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna on Saturday said BNP has gained nothing by joining parliament where MPs are always busy flattering the Prime Minister. “Parliament members start praising the leader (Hasina) just after taking…
Reform banking sector for budget execution: Ibrahim Khaled
Dhaka, June 29 (UNB) – Former Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled on Saturday underscored the need for reforming the country’s banking sector for proper implementation of the national budget for 2019-20 fiscal year. “Default loans must be recovered,…
New Mexico governor seeks ideas for recreational pot law
Santa Fe, Jun 29 (AP/UNB) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is launching a new effort to craft legislation that could legalize recreational marijuana sales next year. The first-year Democratic governor announced Friday her recruitment of health, legal and…
BNP slams law-and-order ‘downslide’
Dhaka, Jun 29 (UNB) – BNP standing committee member Selima Rahman on Saturday said the incidents of killing, enforced disappearance and rape have now engulfed the country for lack of good governance and impunity culture. “Rifat was hacked to death…
Remove Ex-President Zia’s grave from JS area: BD minister
Dhaka, Jun 29 (UNB) – Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque on Saturday asked the authorities concerned to remove Ziaur Rahman’s grave, constructed going beyond the original design of Parliament areas, from the premises of the Jatiya Sangsad. “Some…
Vatican to honour Prof Yunus with ‘Lamp of Peace’ award
Bangkok, June 29 (UNB) – Vatican will honour Prof Muhammed Yunus with the ‘Lamp of Peace’, an award exclusively given to honour those who work towards promoting peace and harmony. Pope Francis has invited Nobel Laureate Prof Yunus to the…
5 BD cement factories near Sundarbans get EIA nod: Minister
Dhaka, Jun 29 (UNB) –Five air-polluting cement factories located within the ecologically critical area of the Sundarbans Reserve Forest have been given environmental clearance, Forest Minister Md Shahab Uddin told Parliament on Saturday. The factories are Meghna Cement Mills Ltd,…
Wall collapses on huts in western India, killing 16 workers
New Delhi, June 29 (AP/UNB) — A 23-meter (60-foot) high wall collapsed on a cluster of tin-roofed huts in western India early Saturday following heavy rains, killing at least 16 workers and their families living there. The wall dividing the…
Technology allows clinicians to see patients’ real-time pain
Chicago, June 29 (Xinhua/UNB) — Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) have developed a technology to help clinicians “see” and map patient pain in real-time through special augmented reality glasses. The portable CLARAi (clinical augmented reality and artificial intelligence)…
BNP welcomes Oli Ahmed’s ‘Jatiya Mukti Manch’ to free Khaleda
Dhaka, June 28 (UNB)— BNP on Friday welcomed new political platform ‘Jatiya Mukti Mancha’ floated by Oli Ahmed, President of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). “We welcome any initiative for the restoration of democracy and ensuring the release of our chairperson…
Create new world based on social feeling: Dr Yunus
Bangkok, June 28 (UNB) – Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus here on Friday shared his thoughts on “super happiness” encouraging his global audience to join hands for creating a new civilization based on “social feeling, sharing and caring” coming out…
Rampal project anti-constitutional: Sultana Kamal
Dhaka, June 28 (UNB)— The government’s decision to set-up a coal-fired power plant at Rampal goes against the constitution, National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans (NCSS) President Sultana Kamal said on Friday. “Although the constitution says that every decision will…
Lightning strikes kill 5 in Satkhira
Dhaka, June 28 (UNB) – At least six people, including three members of a family, were killed by lightning strikes in Kaliganj and Ashashuni upazilas of Satkhira and Sadar upazila of Magura on Friday. In Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira, a…
Rifat Murder: 4 suspects released hours after detention
Barishal, June 28 (UNB) – Police on Friday morning released four people, suspected to be involved in the broad daylight killing of Barguna youth Rifat Sharif, a few hours after their detention. The four had been arrested in a drive…