UNB: According to a statement issued by the Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Ltd (BGFCL), the well was a work-over one which is now producing 16 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd). Officials at state-owned Petropbangla said its subsidiary Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) has successfully completed its work-over jobs at the field recently….
Desk Report: Rajshahi University (RU) has canceled the written test in the entry test for the 2018-19 academic year admission seekers and the university authorities have decided to take the examination in the multiple choice question method. The Pro Vice-Chancellor said, “The entry test will also be done in the MCQ method. In each of…
Desk Report: The Chattogram port operations have started returning to normality after being hampered to a great extent due to the weeklong students’ agitation and indefinite transport strike. The business activities in the port city, like other parts of the country, were severely hampered due to students’ agitation and transport strike. Local businessmen alleged that…
Desk Report: The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) has decided to review the performance of 12 listed companies which failed to declare dividend for the last five years. “The performance of the following listed securities will be reviewed by DSE in line with regulation 51(1)(a) of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (Listing) Regulations, 2015,” said a statement…
Desk Report: Farmers in Gaibandha could not plant Aman seedlings due to scanty rain in July while farmers in Lalmonirhat are not preparing their lands for Aman cultivation for lack of rain. The rain was too scanty to wet the fields last week, so farmers were unable to transplant Aman seedlings in Gaibandha. Sundarganj Upazila…
Desk Report: The ship used by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen finally returned home yesterday, completing its journey around the North Pole 100 years after her chaotic expedition started. A precious relic of Norwegian polar expeditions, the Maud was recovered in 2016 after spending 85 years in Canadian Arctic waters where it sank in 1930….
Desk Report: Locals handed over a man to police after he raped an indigenous woman in Longadu of Rangamati on Saturday. The man, Shawkat Osman, 20, was shown arrested on rape charges, after the victim’s father filed a case with Longadu Police Station on Sunday. Ranjan Kumar Samonto, officer-in-charge of the police station, said the…
Desk Report: Gobra Union in Gopalganj sadar upazila, will be a model union in the country said, union members on Sunday. A planning meeting of Gobra Union under Gopalganj sadar upazila for development for the year of 2018-2019 held on Sunday at Gobra UP office premises. Hemayet Uddin Mollah presided the meeting, ward Member Md…
Desk Report: Four women were injured when a wall of a room collapsed on them in the old part of Dhaka’s Sutrapur area early Tuesday. Injured Lipi, 35, Halima, 35, Majeda and Kulsum, 50, were admitted to Mitford Hospital. Among them, two are in critical condition. Suddenly, the wall of the room collapsed on the…
Desk Report: Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) office saw huge crowd of license and fitness certificate seekers just after the nationwide students’ protest for road safety. However, the license seekers experienced hassle almost at every table. Meantime, the middlemen were also found active to make a fast buck. Long queues at BRTA circle-1 office in…