DOT Desk: The week-long ‘Madhu Mela’, an annual festival marking the birth anniversary of the pioneer of Bengali sonnets poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, will begin at his birth place in Sagardari of Keshabpur upazila on January 22, reports The Daily Sun. Marking the poet’s 195th birth anniversary, the festival will feature discussions, exhibition and cultural…
Financial Express: The public subscription of Indo-Bangla Pharmaceuticals Ltd and Kattali Textile Ltd will open on August 09 and August 28 respectively, officials said. Indo-Bangla Pharma: The initial public offering (IPO) subscription of Indo-Bangla Pharmaceuticals is set to open on August 09 which will be continued till August 16 for resident and non-resident Bangladeshis. The…
The Economic Times: Actor Shahid Kapoor and wife Mira Rajput welcomed their second child, a baby boy, on Wednesday. Mira, who was admitted at the Hinduja Hospital in suburban Mumbai, delivered a baby boy, sources said. The couple got married in 2015 and they have a two-year-old daughter, Misha, who recently celebrated her second. On…
PK Balachandran, bdnews24.com Special Correspondent in Colombo/BDnews24 The Maldives president-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend his oath-taking ceremony in November. Modi in turn has invited Solih to visit India, which the latter accepted, the Maldivian publication The Edition has reported. Solih’s spokesperson Mariya Ahmed Didi said on Wednesday…
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in a special anti-narcotics drive arrested 46 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs, reports Financial Express. A special team of DMP, comprising Detective Branch (DB) of police and other law officials, launched the drives in different places of the capital and seized 2,914 pieces…
Sofian Khan Social Welfare Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday urged the officials to accomplish all unfinished projects of the current fiscal year properly.”The present government is increasing the budget every year to boost up the social sector and we don’t accept any corruption and nepotism regarding the budget,” he said, speaking at a view exchange meeting…
BSS: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) yesterday approved the Selected Madrasha Development Project with an estimated cost of Taka 5,918.63 crore in a bid to ensure infrastructural development of some 2,000 selected madrashas in the country. The approval came from the sixth ECNEC meeting of the current fiscal year (FY19) held…
Noman Mosharef An officer of Detecitve Branch (DB ) was injured by two muggers in the capital yesterday morning. DB inspector Mahbubul Haque was returning home from office in the morning. When he reached Mouchak area, two miscreants stopped him.They tried to snatch his belongings. As he tried to resist them, they stabbed him. Later…
Desk Report: Lalmonirhat Airport remains unused for the last five decades as authorities failed to take any initiative to make it usable for boosting economic activity in the region. Abandoned after the partition of this Subcontinent in 1947, the airport land is now used as a farmland under the supervision of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF)….
The Financial Express: Bangladesh’s apparel exports to the United States grew by 4.81 per cent during the first half of 2018 compared to that of last year. The country fetched $2.70 billion from apparel exports to the US market during January to June period of 2018 against $2.57 billion earnings of the corresponding period of…