Sylhet Office : Keeping in mind the increasing population pressure and adapting to all newer facilities of a modern city, Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen today laid emphasize on expansion of Sylhet City Corporation to increase civic amenities of city dwellers. “If Sylhet City Corporation extends, civic facilities will increase,” he told a meeting on “Expansion of Sylhet ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has visited the stall of COAST Trust at the Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) Development Fair and hailed its endeavour to promote seaweed cultivation in Cox‘s Bazar. She spent eight minutes in the COAST stall after opening the “Development Fair 2019” at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) on Thursday, said a press release on Saturday. The Prime ...

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Saturday said big Japanese companies like Nittsu, Nippon Steel, Sumitomo Corporation, Tekken and Honda will invest in Bangladesh on a large scale. The Finance Minister came up with the information after a meeting with a Japanese business delegation and Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Naoki Ito. Mentioning that Japanese investors assured Bangladesh of making huge ...

Following demand from different quarters to stop the sending of female manpower to Saudi Arabia as they often face physical and sexual assault there, Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad on Saturday said the issue will come up for discussion at the Joint Technical Group meeting billed for November 26-27. “The decision about stopping sending female workers will ...

Two people in China are being treated for plague, authorities said Tuesday. It’s the second time the disease, the same one that caused the Black Death, one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, has been detected in the region — in May, a Mongolian couple died from bubonic plague after eating the raw kidney of a marmot, a local ...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Saturday evening unveiled the logo of the special edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) which is rebranded for a single edition in the name of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Bangabandhu BPL will take the field from December 11 with the participation of seven teams. For the first time, BPL is ...

American pop singer Katy Perry arrived in India for her first-ever performance will be held today (November 16). Another American singer Dua Lipa will also be performing alongside Perry at the musical festival in Mumbai, reports The Statesman. Filmmaker and producer Karan Johar hosted a welcome party for the singing sensation.The welcome party was attended by the Bollywood celebrities like ...

A record number of women look set to stand for Parliament next month, with female candidates likely to comprise about a third of the total, reports BBC. Provisional PA analysis found 1,120 of 3,322 registered candidates are women.The Conservatives and Labour are set to field candidates in every constituency in Britain, except Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s seat in Chorley in ...

Wall Street closed out the week with more milestones Friday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 28,000 for the first time and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit record highs. Health care and technology stocks powered most of the broad rally, which helped drive the S&P 500 to its sixth straight weekly gain. The Dow extended its streak of ...

Bolivia’s political crisis turned deadly after security forces opened fire on supporters of Evo Morales in a central town, killing at least five people, injuring dozens and threatening the interim government’s efforts to restore stability following the resignation of the former president in an election dispute. Most of the dead and injured Friday in Sacaba near the city of Cochabamba ...