Desk Report: Stocks inched lower yesterday after volatile trading as investors remained cautious stance.Brokers said the market finished flat as a section of investors continued on profit booking tendency while some others were busy rebalancing portfolio after quarterly earnings declarations, reports Financial Express.
Desk Report: Bangl-adesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has decided to keep its all circle offices open for 12 hours every day, except Friday, in order to provide its services properly. All BRTA circle offices will remain open from 9:00am to 9:00pm every day, except Friday, said a press release issued by the road transport authority…
BSS: The Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) at Savar Tannery Industrial City will be introduced soon since about 98 percent construction works of the plant has already been completed.
AP: Hiroshima marked the anniversary of the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing with a somber ceremony Monday to remember the people killed and injured and a call to eliminate nuclear weapons amid hopes of denuclearizing North Korea. Mayor Kazumi Matsui opened his peace address by describing the hellish scene of the blast that morning 73…
UNB: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated eight newly constructed power plants on Sunday, adding some 1742 megawatts (MW) of electricity to the national grid, reports UNB. She opened the power generation stations through a videoconference at her official residence Ganobhaban in the city. The Prime Minister also inaugurated two power grid substations and 100 per…
NDTV: Twenty four girls have been rescued from a women’s shelter in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria district amid allegations of sexual and physical abuse. Fifteen girls are still missing and the couple who ran the shelter have been arrested. The matter came to light when a 10-year-old girl escaped from the shelter and told the cops…
Abrar Hussain: After last month’s deadly wildfire near its capital, Greece appointed new heads of key emergency services, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office on Sunday. It said that the heads of the police force and fire brigade had been replaced by their deputies. It comes two days after the resignation of…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka court yesterday placed the two drivers and two helpers of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan on a seven-day remand each in a case filed over the death of two students in a road accident on Airport Road on July 29. The bus drivers are Jubair and Sohag Ali and two helpers are Md Ripon…
Desk report: The US Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday said “nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence” over the weekend against the thousands of young people who have been peacefully exercising their democratic rights in supporting a safer Bangladesh, reports the daily sun. The Embassy, in a Facebook post, also said they also do…
NDTV: A man allegedly shot at a 24-year-old woman in Delhi’s Bharat Nagar area after she broke-up with him, police said. The incident took place Friday night, following which the man was arrested, they said. They were in a relationship but the woman ended it. He attacked the victim at her relative’s house, police said….