News Desk : dhakamirror.com Yesterday, four people — two of whom were Dhaka University students — were given prison terms for taking the rajshahi University (RU) admission test on behalf of candidates. Dr. Shamir Ray, a lecturer at the Gazi Medical College in Khulna, was given a one-year jail term. Ekhlasur Rahman, a student at ... Read more
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DSCC approved Tk 6,741.28-crore budget for 2022-23 fiscal
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Yesterday, the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) approved a Tk 6,741.28 crore budget for the fiscal year 2022–2023. DSCC’s 15th board meeting, which took place in Nagar Bhaban, approved the budget. The DSCC Mayor, Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, remarked at the meeting, “With the hard efforts of our councillors and officers, ... Read more
Bus strikes roadside tree in Bagerhat, leaving 2 dead and 15 injured
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A bus lost control and hit a roadside tree at Fakirhat upazila in Bagerhat on Tuesday (July 26, 2022), leaving two passengers dead and fifteen others wounded. The deceased are Anwara Begum (40), of the Matiranga region of Khagrachhari district, and Moni Mallik (24), the son of Siddique Mallick of Sapleja ... Read more
vivo launches short film contest to win X80
vivo has recently announced ‘Visual Creator Short Film Contest’ in Bangladesh and winners will get its latest X-series smartphone vivo X80, said a press release. The smartphone, released recently, was used to shoot a short film titled ‘Chakrakar’ starring Afsana Mimi, Yash Rohan and Nova Firoze. The competition will take place from June 15 to ... Read more
RAK Ceramics will establish bathroom accessories plant
According to business executives, RAK Ceramics (Bangladesh) would invest Tk 95 crore to build a bathroom fittings plant with the ability to create 1,500 faucets, shower heads, and all other relevant accessories in an effort to offer less expensive alternatives to imports. On Thursday, the listed international ceramics company announced its choice in a filing ... Read more
Syngenta Bangladesh appoints new country general manager
Mohammad Hedayet Ullah was recently promoted by Syngenta Bangladesh to the position of country general manager. Hedayet Ullah will simultaneously assume the role of a member of the Syngenta Asia Group Leadership Team, according to a press release, Hedayet replaces AMM Golam Towhid, who has been appointed as regional commercial operations lead for new farming ... Read more
CUET holds BME Fiesta
The BME Fiesta-2022 was held on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday. A joyous procession was brought out on the occasion from in front of the biomedical building led by CUET vice-chancellor Mohammad Rafiqul Alam, said a press release. Later, ... Read more
Over 14,000 children die of drowning in Bangladesh annually: WHO, UNICEF
News Desk : dhakamirror.com In Bangladesh, more than 14,000 children drown each year, according to a joint media release from the World Health Organization and UNICEF. Over 14,000 children in Bangladesh die from drowning each year, making it the second largest cause of mortality for children under the age of five in the country. The ... Read more
Wasfia Nazreen is the first Bangladeshi to summit K-2
Mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen became the first Bangladeshi to reach the top of the world’s second highest peak K2, the news agency AFP reported on Friday. Three of the world’s top climbers, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa, Mingma David Sherpa, and Nirmal Purja, were part of her Renata Limited-sponsored expedition. Iranian Afsaneh Hesamifard, Pakistani mountaineer Samina Baig and ... Read more
Eden College student killed in Dhaka road accident
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A Eden Mahila College student died after she fell from a battery-run rickshaw in old Dhaka’s Bangshal area on early Thursday. The accident took place when Salma along with her cousin Mohamamd Hasan were heading towards her college hostel on the rickshaw from Sadarghat area. They returned to Dhaka on a ... Read more
HC bans rooftop train journey
Action against rail officials if passengers travel on train roof News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Bangladesh Railway authorities were criticized by the High Court on Thursday (July 21, 2022) for poor administration of the railway services, including ticket scalping, and it was noted that no passenger is allowed to ride on the train roof. “If ... Read more
Brac Bank raises Astha fund transfer limits
Brac Bank has enhanced the fund transfer limits on its Astha mobile app and Astha web interface to provide customers with a better digital banking experience.Account to account transfer limits in Astha has been increased to Tk 10 lakh daily. These new limits are applied to all four types of transfers – other bank transfers ... Read more
Argentina considering opening embassy in Dhaka
Argentina, a south-American nation, has expressed interest to set up a diplomatic mission in Dhaka, in an effort to strengthen its commercial and political ties with Bangladesh.Claudio Rozencwaig, the undersecretary of foreign policy at the foreign ministry in Argentina, came up with the disclosure at a meeting with Jashim Uddin, president of the Federation of ... Read more
Electro Mart rolls out new Konka TVs
Electro Mart, a leading consumer electronics company in Bangladesh, recently unveiled new models of Konka android voice-control televisions at the group’s corporate office in Gulshan, Dhaka, according to a press release.
Padma Bridge: Tk 10.97cr toll collected in 3 days
The government has earned Tk 10.97 crore in revenue from tolls collected from vehicles that crossed the Padma Bridge in three days.Tk 10.97 crore was collected from 12:00am on Thursday to 11:59pm on Saturday, according to Bangladesh Bridges Authority.A total of 74,222 vehicles crossed the Padma Bridge during this period.Of them, a total of 22,703 ... Read more
Nation celebrating Eid-ul-Azha
Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, is being celebrated across Bangladesh on Sunday with due solemnity, a sense of sacrifice and religious fervour amid the Covid outbreak for the second consecutive year.The celebrations began with Eid congregations all over the country followed by the sacrifice of cattle head in the name ... Read more
New record set for toll collection in one day
News Desk : dhakamirror.comPadma Bridge had its greatest toll collection ever on Friday, collecting Tk 41.9 million from 31,723 vehicles.The disclosure was made on Saturday by the bridges authority, who stated that the toll was collected on Friday from 12:00 am to 11:59 pm.On Friday, 12,056 vehicles paid Tk 17.01 million at the toll plaza ... Read more
Elon Musk cancels $44 billion Twitter agreement
Business Desk : dhakamirror.comThe CEO of Tesla and richest man in the world, Elon Musk, said that he was canceling his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter. According to Musk, the social media business violated numerous terms of the merger agreement, and as a result, the deal is being terminated. On the other hand. Twitter ... Read more
286 ISPs will be unplugged
Business Desk : dhakamirror.comFor failing to transfer their licenses in compliance with regulations, the telecom regulator has ordered International Internet Gateway (IIG) service providers to unplugged bandwidth connections of 286 internet service providers (ISP).The existing ISP licensees were required to convert their existing licenses to four new categories by December 2021 in accordance with the ... Read more
Load shedding could continue until September
News Desk : dhakamirror.comThe government has no choice but to implement load shedding to handle the ongoing gas and electricity crises at least until the month of September (July 7, 2022), energy advisor to the Prime Minister Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury said on Thursday (July 7, 2022).Tawfiq said, they will advise the government to implement measures to ... Read more