Desk Report: Private launch owners started 15-day special launch services from Dhaka yesterday (18 August) on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. The 22 triple-deck private launches will ply direct from Barishal River Port and 8 others will ply via Barishal launch station continuing this service on Dhaka-Barishal-Dhaka route till September 1. Saidur Rahman Rintu, vice president…
Desk Report: Bangladesh Tariff Commission has prepared two priority lists containing 200 potential exportable products for seeking duty-free and quota-free access to Gulf Cooperation Council market, reports New Age. The lists have been prepared based on export capacity of Bangladesh, import demand of GCC countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi…
Banglanews24: Bangl-adesh is sending a117-athlete contingent to the Asian Games, to be held from August 18 to September 2 in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang. The contingent comprises 86 men and 31 women athletes. The 14 disciplines where Bangladesh will take part in are: Football, Kabaddi, Hockey, Shooting, Aquatics – Swimming, Athletics, Weightlifting,…
Asian Age: BNP on Saturday warned the government that it will be held responsible for the emergence of any ‘disorder’ if the next general election schedule is announced without any discussion with political parties. “We would like to clearly say that a proper atmosphere must be created and all justified demands must be met. The…
Monzur Morshed Patwary/BRAC Asma Jannat and Munni Aktar, two classmates from Cox’s Bazaar, had to drop out of school when they were in class 8. Their families could no longer afford to keep them in school. What they faced later is a story that is all too common in South Asia – the pressure to…
Dr Muhammad Abdul Mazid, Former Chairman, National Board of Revenue (NBR) : Banking business in the country will be difficult if discipline cannot be brought back. The banking sector face a hard time unless some reforms are made to it. Many people are taking away money from the banks in different ways and the existing…
BSS: Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has urged the users to file complaint if they are not provided promised internet speed and quality of service (QoS) by the providers. “As customers, if you are not getting promised bandwidth and QoS, you could lodge complaint to BTRC with appropriate data,” said the telecom regulator in a…
Sayeed Muhammad: Former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan has passed away at the age of 80. Originally from Ghana, the diplomat, breathed his last in the Swiss city of Geneva, where he had been living for several years, reports BBC. He “passed away peacefully on Saturday after a short illness”, the foundation named…
CNN: Monsoon rains and heavy flooding have killed hundreds of people and forced more than 300,000 others to seek shelter in the Indian state of Kerala, officials said. Torrential rains in Kerala have triggered the state’s worst flooding in nearly a century, destroying thousands of homes and roads. At least 324 people have been killed…
Arab News: A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Daesh captor who held her as a sex slave for three months. Ashwaq Hajji, 19, says she ran into the man in a German supermarket in February. Traumatized by the encounter, she returned to…