Sunday, 20 August, 2017
Apparel sector may miss the $50 billion export target by 2021 due to slow growth in overseas sale of readymade garments and other external factors, analysts and exporters fear. …
Tigers hope to bounce back against Lions
Bangladesh will be looking to overcome their recent poor run of form, aiming to bounce back in their 100th Test match against Sri Lanka, which will begin in Colombo today. The 18th Test battle…
Four ‘criminals’ killed
in gunfight with cops
Meherpur: Four suspected criminals were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Nurpur intersection in Sadar upazila early Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified…
Yahya arrives in Dhaka for talks with Bangabandhu
President Yahya Khan arrived in Dhaka on 15 March for holding talks with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman which was, in fact, a smock-screen to cover up his heinous plan to suppress the Bangalee nation…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday sought votes for the Awami League electoral symbol ‘Boat’ in the next general election for keeping the ongoing development activities in the country…
KISHOREGANJ: President M Abdul Hamid on Tuesday expected the government plans to develop further the socio-economic scenario of backward and low lying haor region despite its complicated geographic…
About 500 poverty-stricken elderly people of Shakhipur in Tangail received eye treatment along with medicines free of charge on Tuesday at a daylong eye camp in Barochowna in the district. …
It is nice to know that Bangladesh is on the way to indexation. Indexation is the automatic adjustment of currency value for the effects of inflation by law or contract. Inflation which we measure…
Bangladesh is a land of unutilised opportunities and untapped potentials. Traditionally Bangladesh was an agriculture driven economy but during last few decade it is shifting its agriculture dependency…
NEW DELHI: The Congress and the BJP on Tuesday clashed over government formation in Goa and Manipur with the opposition party accusing its rival of “stealing” the mandate of people using…
WASHINGTON: An estimated 14 million people would lose insurance coverage in 2018 under the new Republican healthcare plan, according to a budget analysis, reports BBC. The long-awaited…
Famous Bangladeshi film actor Ali Raj turns 60 years today. He was born on 15 March, 1957 in Sirajganj. Today’s Ali Raj made his entry to the media through…
Bangladesh Cricket Team will step toward a milestone of playing their historic 100th Test match in the 2nd Test of the two-match Joy Bangla Cup Series taking on hosts Sri Lanka at P Sara Oval in Colombo,…
RAJSHAHI: Emphasis should be given to the cultivation of drought-tolerant crops instead of depending on only Irri-Boro farming in Barind area to lessen the gradually mounting pressure on underground…
MANILA: Gunmen have shot dead a controversial newspaper columnist in the Philippines, media groups said Tuesday, marking the latest journalist death in one of the world’s most dangerous nations…
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has requested the central bank to offer single-digit-loan facility for the small and medium entrepreneurs utilising the idle fund raised in the banking…
