UNB Nigeria’s Finance Ministry says it is cutting 24,000 ghost workers from the national payroll, saving $11.5 million a month. A statement received Monday says a new bank verification system helped uncover frauds with federal government salaries being paid to people who do not exist and some civil servants receiving salaries from multiple agencies. The…
UNB Two people died as they fell into a fuel tank at a filling station at Nayapur Haturapara in Sonargaon upazila on Monday. Manjur Kader, officer-in-charge of Sonargaon Police Station, said Masum Mia, a worker of Chand and Surya filling station, slipped into a Mobil tank while working there in the afternoon . Sensing the…
UNB Iraqi officials say the death toll from back-to-back market bombings carried out by the Islamic State group the previous day in eastern Baghdad has climbed to 73. Police and health officials say several of the critically wounded died overnight while 112 people remain in hospital. Also, at least five people are still missing after…
UNB The Public Service Commission on Monday published a circular for the 37th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examination seeking applications against 1,226 posts. The circular was published on the PSC website. The process to fill up forms and submit fees online will begin on March 31 and end on May 2, according to the circular….
BSS March, the month of English calendar year, has much significance to the ‘Bangalee’ nation, as the formal struggle for independence began this month after Bangabandhu’s 7th-March historic speech and the massacre of Bangalees by Pakistani forces at the dark night of 25 March 1971. In this month, the Banglalee nation received a clear guideline…
UNB Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) on Monday conducted a drive at DCC Market in the city’s Gulshan-1 area demolishing its extended part raised illegally. During the drive, led by a Rajuk magistrate, other illegal structures, signboards and billboards at the market were also removed. Inspector (investigation) of Gulshan Police Station Salahuddin Maih said the drive…
BSS The sitting of the Jatiya Sangsad resumed at 5 pm today with Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair. The day’s proceedings began with recitation from the Holy Quran.
BSS Peru’s government declared a state of emergency in 16 Amazon rainforest communities Sunday due to oil spills in the northeastern Loreto region. The measure, announced in the official gazette, lasts for 60 days and comes more than a month after a spill was reported in Imaza district (population 23,000). A second spill was reported…
BSS Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu is going to Saudi Arabia this night to be present at the signing of an agreement with the Saudi Standards, Quality and Metrology Organization (SASO). The minister is scheduled to fly at 01:30am, said a ministry press release. The agreement between Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) and SASO,…
UNB A knife-wielding man slashed 10 children outside a primary school in southern China before killing himself Monday, police said. None of the children suffered life-threatening injuries during the attack in the southern city of Haikou, but two were seriously hurt in the attack, media reports said. An official at Haikou’s Longhu police station said…