Desk Report: The Prime Minister’s Office has directed government officials for compulsory use of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on the routes where the national flag carrier operates flights, for air trips at government expense, reports The Daily Star. PMO issued a notification yesterday in this regard. It says ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers, MPs, those holding…
DOT Desk angladeshi firms continue to be the most optimistic out of the 34 countries in which British banking giant HSBC operates, said one of its top officials, reports The Daily Star. “The reason for the optimism is favourable situation and stable political environment,” Md Mahbub-ur-Rahman, deputy chief executive officer of HSBC Bangladesh, told The…
Reuters: US stocks opened lower on Wednesday after China retaliated to Washington’s latest tariffs, clouding a strong showing for corporate earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 13.19 points, or 0.05 percent, at the open to 25,615.72. The S&P 500 .SPX opened lower by 1.66 points, or 0.06 percent, at 2,856.79. The Nasdaq Composite…
Afrida Ahmed Angelika Trabert has won 24 medals in more than 25 years, six of them at five different Paralympic Games.When she’s not riding horses she works as an anaesthetist in Frankfurt or in Guinea where she travels with an NGO to provide urgent medical care, reports BBC.’If I sit on the horse and if…
AFP: Cambodia’s strongman Premier Hun Sen Monday (Aug 6) rejected claims the results from last month’s widely criticised election had been falsified, saying he would stake his life on their accuracy. Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party claimed it won all 125 parliamentary seats in the deeply flawed Jul 29 poll, cementing the country as a…
DOT Desk Notwithstanding some marked progress in women empowerment, Bangladesh still has a long way to go to ensure broader safety of women and children, reports The Financial Express. Public transport is one of the areas where women and children are quite vulnerable in this country. Women of all ages are subjected to different kinds…
BSS An air of dismay grips the conscious-loving people at the happenings of acid attacks on women and children. The consequences of brutal crime of acid attacks are often life changing, leaving the victims permanently disfigured and requiring his or her specialist treatment. The occurrence of acid attacks and images of victims on the news…
UNB A Turkish national and a pick-up driver were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Senbhag in Puthia upazila on Monday night. The deceased were driver Golap Hossain, 26, hailing from Madhupur upazila in Tangail district and Turkish national Abbasi, 40. Mostafizur Rahman, in-charge of Poba Highway Police, said that the pick-up…
Reuters: A 29-year-old man detained over a suspected terrorist attack outside parliament has been further arrested for attempted murder, police said on Wednesday. He had initially been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences after he appeared deliberately to drive his car at cyclists and pedestrians before ramming it into barriers outside the parliament building on…
Mohammed Jalal Alrayssi, Executive Director of the Emirates News Agency/Gulf News Continued improvement is always on the agenda Both regionally and globally, there have been a number of important political and economic developments preceding and following the recent second annual meeting of the UAE government, which examined a set of strategies and initiatives launched to…