Gear up anti-extremism awareness, PM urges all
Reiterating her firm resolve to free the country from extremists, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged all, including Alem-Ulema, to strengthen the spirit against extremism among the common people.
Aleppo doctors implore US for help
Doctors in Syria’s Aleppo made a heart-wrenching plea Thursday for the US to help civilians in the city, hit by fresh fighting despite a promised Russian aid window.
Bernicat says US urging its citizens to continue business with Bangladesh
The United States did not issue alert to its citizens asking them not to travel to Bangladesh rather encouraged them to come to the country with caution and continue business, US ambassador Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat said on Thursday.
Trade deficit falls to $6.27b in FY16 amid dull imports
The country’s trade deficit decreased to $6.27 billion in the recently concluded fiscal year 2015-16 compared with that of $6.96 billion in the FY15 amid a fall in import payments against higher export earnings.
Elephant rescued finally from Jamalpur
A 17-member team finally rescued a washed-away male elephant from a ditch of Koyra village of Sarishabari upazila in Jamalpur, Thursday afternoon.
BERC eyes use of energy security fund for LNG, LPG import cost
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission has drafted the guidelines on the use of energy security fund created last year from the sales of gas, giving priority to meeting import cost of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas.
MCCI remembers Gulshan attack victims
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday arranged an event in memory of those who lost their lives on July 1 Gulshan cafe attack in the capital.
Khaleda secures bail in nine cases
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and her party leaders on Wednesday appeared in four sessions and magistrate’s courts in Dhaka for charge hearing and securing bail in 12 of cases corruption, sedition, and political violence.
Spl bus, rickshaw services launched for diplomatic zone
Dhaka North City Corporation on Wednesday launched twenty air-conditioned buses and 500 rickshaws designated only for the diplomatic zone in the capital.
WAR CRIMES: Shakhawat gets death sentence
Former Jamaat MP from Jessore Md Shakhawat Hossain, 62, was on Wednesday sentenced to death while his seven war crimes accomplices to jail until death.
