Court sets Bodi graft case next witness date on April 13

    Sabiha Sultana On Wednesday Court sets new date in a graft case against ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judges Court 3 recorded the depositions of the witness, the former Cox’s Bazar’s Sub-Register Motahar Hossain and after that the court has set…

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      Marico eyes BD to boost non-coconut oil portfolio

      Desk Report: Home-grown FMCG major Marico Ltd plans to bolster its non-coconut oil portfolio in neighboring Bangladesh. Over the next two-three years, nearly a third of its turnover there will be non-coconut oil-based products, reports Daily Asian Age. The portfolio accounts for 26 per cent of the company’s business in Bangladesh, and includes male-grooming products…

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        Bangladesh Believes In Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Strategy: Ambassador Masud at UN

        Reported by: Shakhwat Hossen Selim, Special Representative Written by: Eshan Maitra Bangladesh is actively campaigning since its singing into the Nuclear Weapon Disarmament Treaty. With the United Nation, on 7 July. Also,Bangladesh totally supports all the current strategies & continuity that, UN is aiming for, expressed Masud Bin Momen, Bangladesh Delegate & Ambassador to UN….

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          ‘Bangladesh advancing toward sustainable development’

          BSS Bangladesh is advancing successfully toward attaining sustainable development on its way to become a Middle-income nation by 2021 and developed country by 2041. Officials and educationists made these observations at a discussion organised by the District Information Office on preventing social curses and developments at Betgara Bilateral High School in Mithapukur upazila on Wednesday…

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            Remittance likely to grow by 15.59pc

            DOT Desk The country’s inward remittance is expected to increase by 15.59 per cent in 2018 compared to that of the previous year, a trend report said, reports The Financial Express. Remittance showed such an upward trend as an increasing number of workers went abroad last year, said Tasneem Siddiqui, founding chair of Refugee and…

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              Three found dead after Pabna boat capsize

              Sayeed Muhammad: A diving squad has recovered the bodies of three people who were missing after a boat capsized in the Chalan Beel of Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila, with two others still untraced. The divers recovered the bodies of two women and a child, said Chatmohar Upazila UNO Sarkar Ashim Kumar, reports The Financial Express citing…

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                “Economic diplomacy will be my focus”

                Abrar Hussain of DOT :  Newly-appointed Foreign Minister Dr. Abdulkalam Abdul Momen has stated that he would focus on economic diplomacy for realizing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s vision to upgrade Bangladesh to higher middle income country by 2021 and achieve sustainable development goals by 2030. “My main focus  will be enhancing economic diplomacy to implement and…

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