Hossen Sohel: The government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with five state-owned financial enterprises to sanction home loans for its employees, reports bdnews24.com. Md Jafar Uddin, an additional secretary of the finance ministry, singed the deals with the managing directors of Sonali, Janata, Agrani and Rupali banks and Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation in…
AFP: Curious whistles and chirrups echo through the jungle around Kongthong, a remote village, but this is no birdsong. It’s people calling out to each other in music — an extraordinary tradition that may even be unique. Here in the lush, rolling hills of Meghalaya, mothers from Kongthong and a few other local villages compose…
Channel News Asia: The death toll from a storm that devastated the Philippines shortly after Christmas rose to 126, authorities said on Sunday (Jan 6), adding landslides caused by torrential rain were the top cause. The storm hit central and eastern Philippine islands on Dec 29 and caused massive flooding and landslides. More than 100…
UNB: A high-profile Bangladesh delegation, led by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, on Saturday visited Maungdaw, a town in Rakhine State of Myanmar, to see the situation there. Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque and few members of joint working group accompanied the Foreign Minister. The delegation members left Sittwe for Maungdaw at noon, yesterday. Myanmar’s…
Marilyn Thipthorpe More or less, everyone at some point in their life tries a sip from the darker side. By that I mean a sip of alcohol. Weather you stick to it, take it to another level or just plain avoid it-there are a few rumors out there that need to be sorted out. The…
Desk report: The country’s overall natural gas supply has reached around 3,205 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) riding on the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG), reports the financial express. This is the highest-ever gas supply in the history of Bangladesh. Local gas companies are producing around 1,072 mmcfd or 33 per cent and…
Gulf News ‘I will be in my best behaviour. But, in case, I get scared, my parents have packed a goody bag with ear plugs …” read the note in the picture. It was sent by my sister. She had found it on a domestic flight in India. I have read newspaper reports about parents…
BSS : Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Asaduzzaman Mia yesterday said they will ensure security to the voters in coordination with other law enforcement agencies as they can cast their votes safely in the national election slated for December 30. “We will ensure all possible security to the voters as they can cast their…
DOT Desk: Glove-making Malaysian company WRP Asia Pacific, that is accused of abusing Bangladeshi and Nepali workers, will face 42 charges, said Malaysian Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran. He said among the charges were failure in providing proper living condition for its Bangladeshi and Nepali workers and not paying in time — which resulted in…
Sayeed Muhammad: Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales or NSW, is now entirely facing a drought, officials have confirmed. Officials said 23% of NSW was classified as being in “intense drought”, with the remainder in drought or drought-affected. A dry winter has intensified what has been called the worst drought in living memory in…