AFP :The United States on Friday announced a $1.1 billion arms package for Taiwan, vowing to keep boosting the island’s defenses as tensions soar with Beijing, which warned Washington of “counter-measures.”The sale comes a month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defiantly visited the self-governing democracy, prompting mainland China to launch a show of force that could be a trial run for a future invasion.The package — the largest for Taiwan approved under President Joe Biden’s administration — includes $665 million...
Day: September 4, 2022
Staff Reporter :Within a week, Myanmar has again violated the international border rules of sovereignty by firing shells and gunshots from fighter planes inside Bangladesh territory in Bandarban on Saturday. Local police said that the incident of the series of fierce attacks by helicopters and warplanes was carried out in Ghumdhum area around 9:30am. However, no casualty was reported. Soon after the firing, law enforcers in the area have been beefed up and local police, administration and Border Guard Bangladesh...
AFP :Deposed Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa faced calls for his arrest Saturday after returning home from self-imposed exile under the protection of the government that took charge when he fled.Rajapaksa fled the island nation under military escort in July after a huge crowd stormed his official residence following months of angry demonstrations against his government. The 73-year-old announced his resignation from Singapore and spent weeks under virtual house arrest at a Bangkok hotel lobbying his successor to allow his...
News Desk :Around 20 people including journalists were injured in a clash between ruling party Awami League (AL) and BNP in Ruhia upazila of the Thakurgaon district on Saturday.The clash triggered centering a protest rally of BNP and programme of Mohila Awami League on the same day in Ruhia thana.Police and local people said that a chase and counter-chase and clash followed between Awami League and BNP activists wielding with domestic weapons. At that time both of them hurled brickbats to...
Al Amin :The central bank has injected around $2.57 billion in the first two months of the current fiscal year (2022-23) to ease dollar crisis as well as bringing stability in the country’s volatile foreign exchange market.This is the first time that such a big amount of dollar was sold by the central bank and if the trend continues, the amount of sold dollar may stand at around $15 billion at the end of the year. The central bank injected...
UNB :A 41-year-old Chittagong University (CU) teacher riding his bike home was killed after being hit by a speeding car...
Staff Reporter :The police have arrested four people who were in guise of third gender on the charge of extortion in public transport. After interrogation and search, it is known that none of them are third gender person, they are male. They were extorting in the different parts of the capital by dressing up as third gender. The arrested persons are identified as Moushumi (32), Anika (19), Tuli (24) and Duli (25). Their real names are not known yet. Mohammad...
Staff Reporter :South Korea will recruit about 6,000 workers from Bangladesh twice of the manpower than it planned. Sources said that South Korea’s demand for foreign workers has been increased in its post-Covid financial operations. The East Asian country confirmed their recruitment plan to the Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Limited (Boesl) recently. “South Korea would hire 6,000 Bangladeshi workers from next year after doubling the quota as the country’s demand of foreign workforce increased,” said Md Billal Hossain, Boesl Managing...
UNB :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked owners and workers to work together for further development of the country’s industry and save it from collapse.“The tea industry is very important for us. Tea is a foreign exchange earning crop and so this industry must not be destroyed,” she said.The prime minister was exchanging views with the tea garden workers of Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Sylhet and Chattogram districts through video conference from her official residence Ganabhaban.She said that the Awami League...
Staff Reporter :A 55MW wind power plant will be built at Mongla of Bagerhat by a Chinese-Bangladeshi consortium, sources said.An agreement will be signed on Sunday with Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) to set up the wind power plant on ‘build-own-operate’ basis at Mongla.Official sources said that the BPDB will purchase electricity from the independent power producer (IPP) plant for the 20 years period. In December 2020, the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase approved this proposal.According to the proposal of...