Day: March 3, 2023

A business-to-business (B2B) match-making event will be held in the last week of May to expand business between Bangladesh and Japan.Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (JBCCI), UNIDO ITPO Tokyo and Haison International Limited will joi...

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam on Friday said the G20 platform can provide means of implementation, including finance, technology and capacity-building to the countries of the Global South in realizing the SDGs.He was speaking as a...

The government of Japan has decided to provide $1 million emergency food assistance to WFP for Rohingya refugees.Due to a dire funding shortfall, WFP is forced to cut back its life-saving food assistance for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar.Japanese Am...

The prices of all kinds of chicken, meat, egg, and fish increased while vegetables and other essential commodity prices remained stable at a higher price in the kitchen market in the capital on Friday.People of limited income groups and job holders are...

BNP senior leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday alleged the government has been indulging in unabated looting in the power sector in the name of capacity charge.“The government has again increased the price of electricity. They said they’re adjusting...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will leave Dhaka for Doha on Saturday to participate in the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5), to be held on March 5-9.The premier is visiting Qatar at the invitation of the Emir Sheikh T...

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday met his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in New Delhi and discussed issues of mutual interest.They exchanged greetings and discussed issues of bilateral interests, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."So nice t...

The stuttering blasts of M-16s shattered the quiet in a West Bank village, surrounded by barley fields and olive groves. Young Palestinian men in Jaba once wanted to farm, residents say, but now, more and more want to fight.Last week, dozens of them, w...

Pakistani rupee suffered a big blow against the U.S. dollar as the greenback was traded at a historic low of 285.09 rupees in the interbank market on Thursday, according to the State Bank of Pakistan.It marks a 6.66-percent drop from Wednesday's closin...

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has said empowering women by turning them into entrepreneurs is key to the overall development of society and the focus of any government should be on creating entrepreneurs, not job seekers.Yunus was speaking at...

Cindy McCain will become the next executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP) next month, the UN agency said Thursday.Currently serving as the United States Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome – which includes lifesaving food relief agency W...

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson has said Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships welcome exceptional people from across the world to study, grow, and thrive at some of the world's best universities.A scholarship can be...