Chevron donates ambulance to SCC
Chevron Bangladesh donated an ambulance to Sylhet City Corporation (SCC). President and Managing Director of the company Eric M Walker handed over the ambulance to the SCC at its…
Parliament’s winter session begins on January 5
President Abdul Hamid on Monday convened the 21st session of the 11th Parliament on January 5, 2023. The President convened the first session of 2023, exercising the power bestowed…
Rampal Plant starts electricity production, 660MW from unit-1 added to nat’l grid
The coal-fired Rampal Power Plant in Bagerhat has finally started electricity generation on experimental basis through adding 660MW of electricity to the national grid produced from its first unit. …
Process underway to sign deals with Croatia, Serbia over manpower export: Minister
Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad on Monday said a process continues to sign memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with several European countries including Croatia and Serbia in order…
Historic biodiversity agreement reached at U.N. conference
Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday that would represent the most significant effort to protect the world’s lands and oceans and provide critical financing…
Eight kidnapped in Cox’s Bazar
Armed terrorists kidnapped eight people from a stream inside a hill in Jahajpura ward no 6 under Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila on Sunday. The kidnappers have demanded Tk 3…
11 female Jamaat activists arrested in Chandpur; Court sent all to jail
Police arrested 11 female members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami from Hajiganj upazila of Chandpur on Sunday night during a secret meeting. They were arrested from 11th floor of a multistoried…
US border cities strained ahead of expected migrant surge
Along the U.S. southern border, two cities — El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico — prepared Sunday for a surge of as many as 5,000 new migrants a…