Financial Express: The Trustee Committee of Grameen Mutual Fund One: Scheme Two has decided to distribute 12 per cent cash dividend for the year ended on June 30, 2018. The Trustee Committee of the mutual fund decided to distribute the said amount of dividend taking into consideration available fund from distributable reserves, said an official disclosure…
Rahat Islam of DOT : BNP has hailed Transparency International Bangladesh’s (TIB) report regarding irregularities in the December 30 national election and commented that it unsettled the both the government and the Election Commission (EC). “The ministers of the government and the Election Commission are failing to hide their faces after TIB unveiled the absolute…
Reported by: Tariqul Islam Sumon Written by: Eshan Maitra Government is spending 1,800 crores taka to initiate dredging out 24 inner-country water transportation routes. Dredging work is ongoing with full manpower on 20 other routes, and 30% of the work has been done already. 4 of the routes are already dredged out. Rest to be…
UNB: Locals, still bearing the brunt of deadly explosions at Tengratila gas field, are yet to be compensated by the concerned authorities. Two explosions rocked the area on January 7 and June 24 in 2005, destroying the gas reserve and damaging adjacent areas of Azabpur, Girisnagar, Koiyajuri, Tengrabazar and Shantipur. The location has since been abandoned…
AP, Havana Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro flew to Cuba on Friday for a day of high-level meetings and ceremonies that appeared designed to send a message of socialist solidarity two days before Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit the island in nearly 90 years. Maduro was accompanied by his ministers of foreign…
Our Correspondent Written by Tanzim Taqrim Dr. Bashir Ahmed; Chief of Respiratory Medicine of Mohakhali’s National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital said that the emergency department of the hospital consisting of 700 beds has begun the arrangement of providing nebulizers every hour to at least 36 patients.Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad…
Desk Report: The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) plans to organise a weeklong event to celebrate its silver jubilee. Saifur Rahman, executive director of the stockmarket regulator, announced the programme schedule at a press meet at the BSEC office in Dhaka yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has agreed to inaugurate the event at the…
Desk Report: Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) opened a dedicated service desk to ensure proper healthcare for unidentified patients, reports Daily Star. The desk was inaugurated at the neurosurgery ward of CMCH. Prof Dr Kanak Kanti Barua, vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, was present at the inaugural ceremony as chief guest. Prof Noman…
Samiul Bashar Samin No political action seems to enjoy greater moral authority than the nonviolent methods Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated more than a century ago. Gandhi’s neologism for nonviolent direct action was satyagraha, which roughly translates to ‘holding fast to truth’. While this term itself never caught on, in principle or form, nonviolent models of organizing…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Jatiya Oikyafront chief Dr Kamal Hossain’s motorcade came under attack near Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Mirpur while returning after paying tributes there yesterday, leaving at least 10 people injured, reports UNB. However, Dr Kamal managed to escape the attack unhurt. Latiful Bari Hamim, media wing member of Jatiya Oikyafront, said Dr…