Food Friendly Programme (FFP)’ and sale of rice at Taka 30 per kg under the open market sale (OMS) for low-income people began across the country on Thursday. “The government has started ‘Food Friendly Programme (FFP)’ and open market sale of rice from today as per the directives of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” said an official of the food ...

Begum’s lawyers are challenging the removal of her citizenship, arguing she was a trafficking victim Shamima Begum, who fled the UK and joined the Islamic State group, was smuggled into Syria by an intelligence agent for Canada, BBC reports. Files seen by the BBC show he claimed to have shared Begum’s passport details with Canada, and smuggled other Britons to ...

Chinese firm China Communication Construction Company Limited (CCCCL) will be appointed as service provider for the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under Karnaphuli River in Chattagram. Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) at a meeting approved a proposal in this regard on Wednesday. The same company has been engaged by the government to build the tunnel and its associated infrastructure. ...

The unit-1 of the 2x660MW Maitree Super Thermal Power Project at Rampal will go into commercial run in October, raising further the country’s electricity generation capacity, as all necessary steps, including successful synchronization with the national grid, have already been completed. In a major step in further strengthening India-Bangladesh Power Sector Cooperation, Unit-I of the 2×660 MW Maitree Super Thermal ...

The government has cut the prices of diesel, petrol, octane and kerosene by Tk 5 per litre apparently to tame the commodity market which became volatile after the fuel got costlier. The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources issued a gazette notification on Monday night in this regard. Earlier in the day, Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid ...

Nearly one in four adults plan never to turn their heating on this winter, polling suggests, as average energy bills are set to surge while the temperature drops over the coming months. The survey of more than 2,000 UK adults found 23% would not turn their heating on at all over the winter months, with this figure rising to 27% ...

Launch teams at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida spent a final full day of preparations ahead of Monday’s planned liftoff of NASA’s giant next-generation rocket on its debut test flight, kicking off the agency’s Artemis moon-to-Mars program 50 years after the end of the Apollo era. NASA officials said on Sunday that all systems appeared “go” for liftoff, and ...

Bangladesh’s petrol pump owners have decided to give the government until September 12 to fulfil their list of five demands, including higher sales commissions. If their demands are not met by then, a ‘symbolic strike’ will be enforced at petrol pumps across the country from dawn to 11 am on September 13, according to them. The Petrol Pump Owners Association ...

Rupali Bank Limited has appointed Mohammad Jahangir as the new managing director (MD) and chief executive officer. He joined at the post through a circular from the Financial Institutions division of the Ministry of Finance. Mohammad Jahangir was born at Kabirhat upazila in Noakhali district. He received M.com (Management) degree and MBA on Finance from Dhaka University. Jahangir started his ...

A Bangladeshi-flagged ship has started its journey from Muktarpur of Munshiganj to India carrying jhut, the scrap fabric produced by the RMG industry, for the first time in the country’s history. The ship ‘MV Razzaku’ started its journey around 12:45 pm from Char Muktarpur River Port for Dhubri Port in Assam of India. India’s Bhansali International is importing 111 metric ...