PM promises subway train service in Dhaka

    UNB Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said they will introduce a subway train service in the capital to end the nagging traffic congestion if Awami League returns to power through the upcoming general election. She made the pledge while addressing an election campaign rally at the Youth Club ground in Gulshan-2. Dhaka North City unit…

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      Record 6.5m workers sent abroad in 10 years

      DOT Desk Manpower exports witnessed a record rise over the last ten years as more than 6.5 million workers went abroad with jobs and the country received $133.5 billion remittance since 2009, reports the Financial Express BD. “We’ve sent over 6.5 million workers abroad with jobs and received around $133.5 billion remittances till November, 2018…

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        EC ensures safe environment for female voters

        BSS Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam said the Election Commission (EC) has attached top priority of ensuring safe and secured atmosphere for women so that they can cast their votes smoothly in the upcoming 11th parliamentary elections. “Half of the voters are female. EC is committed to give them the scope of exercising their right of…

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          ‘Bangladesh advancing toward sustainable development’

          BSS Bangladesh is advancing successfully toward attaining sustainable development on its way to become a Middle-income nation by 2021 and developed country by 2041. Officials and educationists made these observations at a discussion organised by the District Information Office on preventing social curses and developments at Betgara Bilateral High School in Mithapukur upazila on Wednesday…

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            US troop withdrawal to have little impact: Afghan official

            Arafat Hasan of DOT A spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani has attested that the withdrawal of half of the 14,000 US troops serving in Afghanistan will have ‘little impact’ on the fighting capacity of the Afghan National Security Forces. Haroon Chakansuri responded Friday to reports the Pentagon is developing plans to withdraw 7,000 American soldiers…

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              Automobile servicing industry revs up

              DOT Desk After obtaining a diploma in automobile engineering from Cumilla Polytechnic Institute in 1998, Ismail Karim Chowdhury managed a job at the age of 20 at a service station of Navana, the sole distributor of Toyota’s brand new cars in Bangladesh. He spent five and a half years there before switching to Rancon Motors,…

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