UNB: Engel Foreign Food, popular chain shop of the Netherlands, will purchase products worth of US$ 5 million from PRAN, a leading food processor in Bangladesh. An agreement was signed between PRAN and Engel Foreign Food Group in this connection at PRAN-RFL Center. PRAN will export its noodles, juice and confectionery items to the European…
Desk Report: Use of helmets by bikers and pillion passengers has increased considerably across the country, including the capital, due to strict monitoring by police after students’ road safety movement, reports Daily Sun. But, safety of motorcycle riders and pillion passengers is yet to be ensured as many of them use low-quality helmets just to…
Hindustan Times: Filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi, well known for her films like Rudaali, Chingaari, Ek Pal and Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence, died on Sunday, aged 64. Lajmi had been suffering from a kidney disease for a while. She has been undergoing treatment at Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital, where her end came. She was…
Phys.org: A pair of robot rovers have landed on an asteroid and begun a survey, Japan’s space agency said Saturday, as it conducts a mission aiming to shed light on the origins of the solar system. The rover mission marks the world’s first moving, robotic observation of an asteroid surface, according to the Japan Aerospace…
The Hindu: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah said that Bangladeshi migrants were like termites, and each one of them would be struck off the electoral roll. Referring to the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC) recently published in Assam, he said the BJP government identified nearly 40 lakh illegal immigrants. “BJP sarkaar ek-ek…
Desk Report: Work on Padma Bridge has made the highest progress among the government’s nine top-priority projects, according to the latest official report. The dream project saw 57.50 per cent overall progress up to August this year, while 66 per cent work on the construction of the main bridge was completed, the latest progress report…
Reuters: Israel will not cease operations in Syria, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced just before the Russian military published a detailed chronology of the downing of its Il-20, for which Moscow says Tel Aviv is to blame. In the run-up to the publication of the Russian Defense Ministry report, Lieberman told local Kan Bet radio…
Humayun Kabir: Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday said it has found massive corruption by customs house and port authorities of Mongla port as well as cases of extortion and corruption at Burimari land port. The employees of Customs House at the Mongla port were involved with corruption worth Tk 15.69 crore in 2016-17 fiscal, said the…
Salman F Rahman, Leading businessman and media entrepreneur/BDnews24 The character of great men and women are revealed when they are under stress. Recently discovered letters written in 1950 open our eyes to the then emerging greatest Bangalee of all times Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. In 1996, when Sheikh Hasina first became the prime minister of…
Desk Report: Green garment factory owners, who have spent billions of dollars for setting up the units, are left frustrated as the international retailers are not rewarding them with higher prices for the initiative, reports Daily Star. The factories cost 20 to 30 percent more to construct than the regular ones for their special design…