BSS Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today laid the foundation stones of 10 economic zones, the first of its kind in the country, as she sought cooperation of the local people to set up those zones fast to build a prosperous Bangladesh. “I would like to urge local people to extend cooperation so that the investors…
UNB, Dhaka Green activists here on Thursday demanded legal action against tannery owners if they fail to relocate their factories from the capital’s Hazaribagh to Savar within March 30 next, the latest deadline set by the government. Addressing a press conference, they asked the authorities concerned to cancel the plots allocated to tannery owners for…
BBC Inside the greenhouse, tiny leaves of wild rocket, iceberg lettuce and pak choi poke through the dirt, each as small as a fingernail. Planters hold calla lilies and dragonfruit, sea samphire and gerberas. Bright strawberries dot buttery green leaves. And there are row after row of vines, draped over wires, leaves as big as…
Waliur Rahman speaks to DOT : The reason this year’s election is very important is because we have to keep our current government in power. Just look at the nation’s economic state 10 years ago and look at it now. In the last decade, our GDP, import-export, remittance and foreign investment increased significantly. Economically we…
John Lloyd, Co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford/Reuters Now is the time for all good citizens to put their elected politicians on the rack. Torture is what tyrants visited – and, often, still visit – upon real or presumed enemies among their own people. But subjecting their…
BSS: Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said he thinks the election-time government may be formed in October since the next parliamentary polls will be held in December this year. “I don’t know about the time of the formation of election-time government. But I think, it may be formed in October since the national election will…
Abrar Hussain: National Garment Workers Fede-ration yesterday held a meeting in front of the Jatiya Press Club, demanding for payment of Eid bonuses within June 6. “Eid bonus is the legal right of garment workers. In many garments, the authorities refrain from paying Eid bonus to their workers where in some places the garment owners pay…
Desk report: Mobile operator Robi is set to offload its 20 per cent stake valued at US$120 million to edotco Bangladesh, a Malaysia-based telecommunications infrastructure services company, reports The financial express. Bangladesh’s second largest mobile phone operator has taken the latest initiative to facilitate edotco Bangladesh Co. Ltd. (edotco BD) for complying with the rules…
Desk Report: On August 23 of each year, this day is designated by UNESCO to memorialize the transatlantic slave trade. That date was chosen by the adoption of resolution 29 C/40 by the Organization’s General Conference at its 29th session. Circular CL/3494 of July 29, 1998, from the Director-General invited Ministers of Culture to promote…