The Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries (BAPI) has urged the government to assign the production of essential medicines to state-owned Essential Drugs Company Limited (EDCL). BAPI leaders said it is difficult for private pharmaceutical companies to produce many essential medicines and remain commercially viable. They called for a greater role for EDCL in producing and supplying such medicines. The demand ...

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has sought a seven-day remand of actor Ashraful Haque Don in the murder case of popular film star Salman Shah. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Rana fixed Thursday (August 27) for hearing the remand plea, with Don present in court. CID Inspector and investigation officer Mujibur Rahman sought the remand, saying interrogation in custody could help ...

A 15-year-old madrasa student was killed and three others were seriously injured after a bus rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Jaintapur, Sylhet, on Monday. The accident occurred around 11:30am in the Chiknagul area, in front of the main gate of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited on the Sylhet-Tamabil Highway. The deceased was identified as Nusrat Jahan Tasnim, a resident of Dhalai ...

Ingredients * Dumpling wrappers – 10-12 * Minced chicken – 150 g * Carrot, finely chopped – 2 tbsp * Cabbage, finely chopped – 2 tbsp * Spring onion – 1 tbsp * Garlic, minced – ½ tsp * Soy sauce – 1 tsp * Sesame oil – ½ tsp * White pepper – a pinch * Salt – to ...

A Dhaka court on Monday granted bail to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman in a case filed over the alleged assault, intimidation and forced resignation of a former CEO of Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL). Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Alam granted the bail after a hearing, directing Salman to furnish a Tk500 ...

Water in the Khoai River is flowing above the danger level at the Ballah station in Habiganj, while moderate to heavy rainfall is forecast in Sylhet, Mymensingh, Rangpur and Chattogram divisions and adjoining upstream areas over the next three days. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) said this in its latest rainfall and river situation report issued on Monday. ...

Bangladesh’s bilateral trade with India currently stands at around $12 billion, Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir said on Monday. He made the remarks while speaking to reporters after meeting Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh at the Commerce Ministry in the Secretariat. “India is one of Bangladesh’s major trading partners. We discussed increasing bilateral trade and resolving existing issues between the ...

A dispute between Bangladesh U-20 head coach Gerard Jones and assistant coach Atikur Rahman Mishu reportedly turned physical at a team hotel in Dhaka last Wednesday, prompting the British coach to call the national emergency service 999 and police to the scene. The Bangladesh U-20 team is scheduled to leave for Uzbekistan on August 27 to compete in the AFC ...

The High Court on Monday upheld the death sentence of two convicts, commuted four others to life imprisonment and acquitted 10 in the sensational Nusrat Jahan Rafi murder case. Justice Bhishmadeb Chakraborty and Justice KM Rasheduzzaman Raja of a High Court bench delivered the verdict after hearing the death reference and appeals filed by the convicts. According to case statements, ...

India and Bangladesh should strengthen their economic and trade ties despite differences in political relations, said Indian High Commissioner Dinesh Trivedi on Monday. Trivedi made the remarks after paying a courtesy call on Bangladesh Commerce Minister Khandaker Abdul Muktadir at the Secretariat on Monday. ”Let us move forward with our business relationship; politics will continue in its own way,” Trivedi ...