The Ministry of Religious Affairs is set to launch a comprehensive programme to promote communal harmony in the country.The year-long outreach project will cost Tk25 crore and be implemented by media and ICT consultant organisations.The implementing or…
Director General of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) Kim Jong-won has encouraged the Korean business executives to reorient their focus and policy priorities toward Bangladesh and seize the opportunity offered by Bangladesh for mutua…
Sri Lankan armed forces and law enforcers ordered by new President Ranil Wickremasinghe swooped down on the temporary camps set up by the protesters numbering in thousands and arrested hundreds. It was the first hit back by the state after the election…
Speakers at a meeting at Shariatpur district on Friday highlighted the importance of creating mass awareness on the negative aspects of the human trafficking so that everyone is encouraged for safe migration.Local leaders, media, NGOs, Imams, school an…
State Minister for Planning Dr Shamsul Alam has proposed to establish a separate ministry for the blue economy or a separate division under the Ministry of Science and Technology.He emphasized on the contribution of the blue economy to Bangladesh’s fut…
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said the ongoing power cuts in the country will not last long.”We’re sorry to our consumers for the current crisis and seek their cooperation to overcome it,” he wrote in his verif…
The Asia Cup 2022 has been shifted from Sri Lanka to the UAE, according to Sourav Ganguly, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.The deepening economic and political crisis in the island nation forced the organisers to change the venue…
Wicketkeeper-batter Nurul Hasan Sohan has been named the new Bangladesh captain for T20s, according to the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).He will lead the Tigers in the upcoming Zimbabwe tour, replacing all-rounder Mahmudullah Riyad, a BCB official sai…
Theatre group Batighar staged the 28th show of its famous play “Radcliffe Line” at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) Wednesday.The play, written and directed by Sanjoy Sarker Muktonil, depicts how a political barrier …
A Juba League (JL) member and his associate were arrested with a foreign pistol, six rounds of bullets and a magazine from Sadar upazila Friday night.The arrestees were identified as Shahidul Islam Mojnu, 47, a member of the district JL and also chairm…
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the Awami League government has led the country to the brink of a dark abyss, through ‘mega’ corruption in mega projects.In a statement, he said, “Lower and middle-income people o…
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for New York governor, was attacked by a man who apparently tried to stab him at an upstate event Thursday but the congressman managed to escape uninjured, his campaign said.Zeldin was giving a speech when…
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