UNB Bangladesh and Japan have signed an agreement on Japanese grant aid for the fourth Primary Education Development Programme (PEDP4). Hiroyasu Izumi, Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, and Monowar Ahmed, Secretary of ERD signed exchange of notes representing respective governments at Economic Relations Division (ERD) of Ministry of Finance here on Monday. Hitoshi Hirata, Chief…
DOT Desk The Border Guard Bangladesh will get two helicopters for its air wing within December next year, said its director general Major General Md Shafeenul Islam in Khagrachari on Monday, reports The New Age. While talking to UNB after visiting the remote Kantalong Border Outpost under BGB-54 battalion in Khagrachari in the afternoon, he…
DOT Desk Overall shortfall in provisioning against loans in the country’s banking system swelled by over 20 per cent or Tk 13.60 billion during the first nine months of the year, reports The Financial Express BD. The total amount of provisioning shortfall rose to Tk 81.27 billion as on September 30 from Tk 67.67 billion…
DOT Desk Police recovered the body of a minor boy who went missing on December 3 from a septic tank at Ghona village in Matlab South upazila in Chandpur on early Monday, reports the Financial Express BD. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Mahib, 7, a class one student of local primary school and son…
The Independent Mizanur Rahman Mizan, locally known as a motor mechanic, has turned out to be a very inspiring man as he achieved the national acclaim through inventions of new devices and machines. Mizan, who has actually no institutional education, has invented 10 devices, including automatic fire extinguisher, anti-pollution machine and automatic irrigation machine. He…
DOT Desk A schoolgirl was hacked critically by some local stalkers at Jafarganj in Shivalaya upazila in Manikganj on Monday afternoon, reports The Daily Sun BD. The victim was identified as Lucky Ghosh, 16, an SSC candidate from Jafarganj High School and daughter of Nando Ghosh of Raghunathpur village in the upazila, reports UNB. Victim’s…
UNB A fire broke out at a cotton mill in Noyapara of Madhobpur upazila early Tuesday. The fire broke out at warehouse no. 3 of Saiham Texttile Mills around 1:30 am, according to locals. On information, four firefighting units from Fire Service have been trying to bring the fire under control.
DOT Desk Mobile phone subscribers of Bangladesh reached over 156 million at the end of October 2018 with addition of 11.35 million new users in the first 10 months of this year, according to government data. The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) data showed that the number of subscribers in the country reached 156.469 million…
DOT Desk Police recovered the body of a minor boy who went missing on December 3 from a septic tank at Ghona village in Matlab South upazila in Chandpur on early Monday, reports the Financial Express BD. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Mahib, 7, a class one student of local primary school and son…
BSS Dublar Char, an island in the Sundarbans, will get about 4.5 square kilometre of land as soil will be deposited in the island during the dredging of the outer bar of Pashur channel aiming to enhance the large ship handling capacity of Mongla port. Dublar Char, whose land area is around 80 square kilometre…