Dhaka city dwellers have suffered immensely for hours due to severe traffic congestion on almost all major roads including Shahbagh, Banglamotor, Moghbazar, Satrasta, Tejgaon, Mohakhali, Banani, Farmgate, Kawranbazar, Panthapath, and Dhanmondi.The grid…
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has said the dream project Padma Bridge will lead to an unprecedented improvement in the communication system connecting the capital with the southern part of the country.“As a result of the bold steps taken by Prime …
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the successful construction of Padma Bridge has boosted self-confidence that Bangladesh can implement even larger projects in future.“The decision for the construction of Padma Bridge with our own fund bri…
Armed men held a stone crushing mill owner at gunpoint and robbed him of Tk 1.5 lakh in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet on Wednesday, police said.Around 8.30pm, Bashir Mia, son of Imamul Haque from Islampur village of the upazila, was returning home from…
A fire broke out at a food factory in Postagola of the capital’s Purbo Jurain Wednesday night.The fire was reported at 11:22pm. Seven firefighting units responded to the blaze at 11:30pm.”Firefighters are trying to tame the flames. No casualties were r…
The Cabinet at a special meeting on Thursday approved the proposed national budget for the fiscal year 2022-23.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting held at the cabinet room of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kam…
Singer-songwriter and freedom fighter Hyder Husyn was hospitalised Wednesday following a heart attack.Hyder is now undergoing treatment at Evercare Hospital in the capital.”My father-in-law Hyder Husyn had a massive heart attack last night. After a sur…
Finance Minister AHM Musatafa Kamal has admitted that although e-commerce business boomed during the pandemic, it was riddled with scams as well.In his budget speech in Parliament on Thursday he, however, said the government has taken up a project titl…
Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple new…
Flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) recovered to pre-pandemic levels last year, hitting nearly $1.6 trillion but the prospects for this year are grimmer, the latest UNCTAD World Investment Report said.The report entitled “International tax reforms…
Fifty lakh low-income households will get food assistance of 30 kg of rice each month at the rate of Tk15.The assistance will be given in the lean seasons- September, October and November and March and April, said Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in …
Sumon Shikdar Musa, the mastermind of Awami League leader Zahidul Islam Tipu murder, has been brought back home from Oman.A team of DB police with Musa arrived at Chattogram Airport from Oman around 11 am on Thursday, said Rifat Rahman Shamim, deputy c…
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