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Bangladesh and Chinese Yunnan Province yesterday signed four Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) aiming to enhance further cooperation in the areas of agriculture, tourism, energy and education. The MoUs were signed at a delegation level talk between Bangladesh and Yunnan province last evening at Sonargaon Hotel. Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain and

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday in an anti-adulteration drive fined four factories in old Dhaka for producing adulterated vermicelli and fraud in marketing the product. Rab-10 along with the members of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute (BSTI) raided Kamrangirchar, Lalbagh and Chawk Bazar areas from 11:30am to 4:30pm to check

Additional leased buses, alongside regular buses, will travel on inter-district routes during Eid holiday, a Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation statement said Sunday. As many as 200 buses will be available during the holiday, which will start from Sep 8 and will continue three days after the Eid. BRTC will start selling tickets in

The sector not getting $600m from donors as reform remains stuck in bureaucracy for 4 years The struggling Bangladesh Railway is yet to get the much-needed $600 million loan as for three and a half years bureaucracy had been stalling the rail reforms that the multilateral donors insisted on, officials concerned said. The donors had ... Read more

Thousands of city dwellers are becoming frustrated for not finding advance Eid tickets as they desired to celebrate the holy Eid-ul-Fitr, the greatest religious festival of the Muslims, with their near and dear ones at village homes. Hundreds of people crowded at the counters of Gabtoli, Shayamoli and Kallanpur bus

Post and telecommunications minister Raziuddin Ahmed Razu has urged all to use Teletalk as it is an organisation of the country. Moreover, the telecom minister requested everyone to help the public telecom service provider. He was addressing the inauguration ceremony of Narashingdi’s first Teletalk service and

The newly developed BRRI Hybrid-4 variety will make a significant contribution to boosting Aman rice production in the country. The variety was released at the beginning of this year and now it is being cultivated at farmers’ level for the first time. Agriculture experts of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) said this while

Educational institutions of various types continue to pay value added tax while private universities have been exempted from VAT payment amid student protests. Students, guardians and authorities of other educational institutions that are still paying VAT consider it ‘discriminatory’ and demanded exemption from

Foreign clothes, shoes, ornaments, cosmetics and other items, both imported and smuggled took a significant share in the more than Tk 10,000 crore Eid market across the country. Sellers say that high-spending consumers in the country have a liking for foreign goods. Shopkeepers said that domestic manufacturers need to compete with

Says ministry report Building another international airport nearby Dhaka will cost Tk 50,000 crore, a pre-feasibility study by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism suggests. The ministry has sought approval of the cabinet committee on economic affairs to implement the project under public-private partnership (PPP). It is likely to be placed in the

The government hospitals in the city are ill-equipped to handle emergency cases as they lack the required equipment and manpower. All the hospitals often refer the critical patients to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital which makes the condition of the critical patients worse due to the journey and delay, said the

Although several hundred passenger sheds were built on the roadsides of the capital city Dhaka, the commuters are deprived of having desired facilities as many of those sheds located in various wrong points. The city dwellers alleged that these passenger shades are now being captured by the snatchers, drug addicts, smugglers, floating people and some ... Read more

The fishermen communities of Savar and Dhamrai Upazilas have been forced to change their profession in the last 10 years due to continuous decrease in catches in the river Bangshi while local people are reluctant to take fishes of the polluted river. Let alone the reduced flow of water through Bangshi, the industrial

Female Domestic Workers S’pore offers job to 45,000 Bangladeshis Singapore has proposed hiring 45,000 female domestic workers from Bangladesh on a pay higher than in the Middle Eastern countries. Singapore is home to around two lakh Bangladeshi workers, but this is the first time it wants to hire female ones. “Singapore needs 1.75 lakh female ... Read more

Aminul Haque has paid dearly for earning his bread and butter as he lost much of his hearing due to noise pollution at his workplace. Aminul, 36, has been working at the production section of an export oriented garment factory for ten years now. “As he is exposed to acute noise pollution for a long ... Read more

The customs intelligence personnel at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday night arrested a 35-year old Singapore bound passenger and seized from his luggage unendorsed foreign currencies worth Tk 1.3 crore, they said on Friday. The customs intelligence unit described it as the airport’s fourth largest seizure in

The government for the first time is going to introduce pre-primary education formally in all government primary schools from next January. Children above five years will participate in the one-year-long pre-primary education course and will learn basic knowledge through playing with their peers in a joyous

Cracks in Bangabandhu Bridge Proposal for appointing Chinese firm sent back The Cabinet committee on purchase on Thursday sent back a proposal for appointing a Chinese firm to mend the cracks in the Bangabandhu Bridge, that appeared in 2006, for seeking experts’ opinions on the best way to repair the bridge

Fitra has been fixed at Tk 100 per head this year all over the country. The Islamic Foundation at its meeting yesterday fixed the amount. A press release of Islamic Foundation said the Fitra of Tk 100 has been fixed taking into consideration the price of rice. The meeting was presided over by Maulana Mohammad ... Read more

The 34th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam will be observed across the country today with due respect. Nazrul, who enriched the Bangla literature with his genius, died on Bhadro 12 of Bangla calendar (August 29, 1976) at the age of