Abrar Hussain: Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ordered three new Q400 turboprops by signing a purchase agreement with the Canadian Commercial Corporation, according to an announcement by Bombardier Commercial Aircraft. Based on the list price of the Q400 aircraft, the order is valued at $106 million. “We are very pleased that Biman is expanding its Q400…
Desk Report: The country’s earnings from goods exports witnessed a sluggish 2.51 per cent growth to $6.79 billion in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19. The earnings also surpassed the target set for the months by 3.24 per cent, according to official data, released by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB)…
Desk Report: A chartered accountant of Dulali village in Bhelabari union under Aditmari upazila is encouraging farmers to cultivate tea instead of tobacco on their fields in the plainland by cultivating tea himself and earning good profit. “At first, the farmers did not believe that it is possible to cultivate tea on the plainland, but…
Hossen Sohel: A member of Dhaka Bar Association allegedly went missing from Pallabi last week. The lawyer Advocate Shaukat Akbar, 42, went missing after he left his residence to offer Jumma payers at a local mosque on September 7, his wife told journalists yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Akbar’s wife Chania Akter at a press…
Desk Report: The mother and the cubs are all in good health. After the birth of the first white tiger cub in the Chittagong Zoo on July 19, the second was born in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur. The mother tiger gave birth to three cubs on August 8. Among them, one…
BSS: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved the Selected Madrasha Development Project with an estimated cost of Taka 5,918.63 crore in a bid to ensure infrastructural development of some 2,000 selected madrashas in the country. The approval came from the sixth ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year (FY19) held…
Kabir Humayun: A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity secretary general Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury in an extortion case. The transport leader, however, cannot walk out of jail as Kafrul police on Monday appealed to the court to show him arrested in another case filed under the Explosive Act, reports The Daily…
Hossen Sohel: Oxfam, an international agency, yesterday called for 15 percent of new funding to be set aside for humanitarian programmes designed to better support Rohingya women and girls, including $72 million of the nearly half a billion dollars recently committed by the World Bank, reports UNB. The Rohingya women living in Bangladesh are developing…
Desk Report: The atmosphere was electric at that point. No one moved even though the show had ended The six-day exhibition “A Struggle for Democracy: A Photo Journey by Shahidul Alam” concluded on Monday, at the Drik Gallery, Dhanmondi. Shahidul Alam’s partner, Rehnuma Ahmed, was present at the closing ceremony, surrounded by a large crowd…
Abrar Hussain: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly written to US President Donald Trump, asking for a follow-up to their historic summit, the White House says. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the administration is already looking at scheduling a new meeting, as the letter showed Pyongyang’s “continued commitment to focus on denuclearization”. Negotiations…