Additional cash incentive for RMG needs Tk200cr more
Additional one per cent cash incentive announced for the export oriented apparel industry would require the government to spend another sum of Tk200 crore.
28 Rohingyas killed in `gunfights’ in 2019
At least 28 Rohingyas, including two women, were killed in reported incidents of gunfight with law enforcement agencies and four others were found killed in Cox’s Bazar over their suspected
Dengue Menace Next 7 days crucial: government
With four more dengue patients dead and 1,460 others hospitalised on Saturday, the Directorate General of Health Services said the next seven days would be crucial for controlling dengue spread and destroying aedes mosquitoes, the vector of the viral fever.
What a mysterious explosion tells us about Russia's 'doomsday weapon'
An explosion. An abruptly-canceled village evacuation. Five dead nuclear experts. And a few traces of radioactive iodine in the air over the northern Norwegian coastline.
The man taking on Hong Kong from deep inside China's propaganda machine
The man taking on Hong Kong from deep inside China's propaganda machine By Steven Jiang, CNN
The man on the phone: What's it like making history's highest auction bid?
In November 2017 at Christie's New York, Alex Rotter uttered a phrase never before heard at an art auction: "Four hundred million."
Rajapaksa redux and a democracy in peril
SRI Lanka is again at the crossroads with presidential elections due before December 9. The political drive since the newly formed Rajapaksa-led Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, which swept
Zia, Ershad usurpers, not ex-presidents, says PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said that there was no scope to refer to former military rulers Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad as ‘former president’ as the High Court declared their regimes illegal.
75pc workers sent to Brunei thru middlemen
In 2018, about 75 per cent of Bangladeshi workers were illegally sent to Brunei by the brokers in collaboration with immigration police at the airport through so-called ‘body contracts’, said officials.
Rivers continue to swell
Major rivers in north, north-eastern and south-eastern regions continued to swell rapidly due to heavy rains in the cross border upstream and inside Bangladesh.
