Staff Reporter :The probe committee, formed to investigate the under-construction flyover’s girder fall in the city’s Uttara Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project has found Chinese company ‘China Gezhouba Group Corporation’ responsible for the tragic accident that killed five people in a private car.Secretary of Road Transport and Highways Department ABM Amin Ullah Noori revealed the findings of the report submitted by the investigation committee in the Secretariat on Sunday.A six-member probe committee has also recommended to the government to bring...
Day: September 5, 2022
Staff Reporter :A student of class nine was stabbed to death in Dholaipar area at Shyampur of the Dhaka city on Sunday afternoon (Sep 4).The deceased was identified as Nayan Islam (16), son of one Kamrul Islam.According to sources, Nayan was found lying in a pool of blood in Balurmath area of Dholaipar around 2:30pm.After that his two friends and family members rescued him and rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where the duty doctor declared him dead around...
BBC Online :Donald Trump has called President Joe Biden an “enemy of the state” at his first rally since the FBI searched his Florida resort for sensitive files.Speaking to thousands of supporters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the ex-president accused Mr Biden of weaponising the FBI against him.The raid was “one of the most shocking abuses of power by any administration in American history”, Mr Trump claimed.He was in the state to promote two Republican candidates.Dr Mehmet Oz is running for the...
Staff Reporter :The Election Commission (EC) has decided to use electronic voting machines (EVMs) in at least 70 constituencies in the next parliamentary elections.To prevent irregularities during polls, the has commission also planned to install closed circuit cameras at all the voting centres, Election Commissioner Md Alamgir told the media Sunday (4 September). Earlier on 23 August, the EC had announced the use of EVMs at 150 constituencies. “It will be used in areas where the machine [EVM] has been...
UNB :Bangladesh on Sunday reiterated its “deep concern” over the recent incidents of Myanmar’s mortar shelling, indiscriminate aerial firing in the bordering areas, and air space violations.The foreign ministry summoned Myanmar Ambassador to Bangladesh Aung Kyaw Moe and lodged a strong protest over the recent incidents along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. This was the third time the ministry summoned the envoy in a over week to convey such concern.“We summoned their ambassador today (Sunday) again. We protested it,” Foreign Minister AK...
Staff Reporter :About 2,000 patients die from Leukemia in Bangladesh while about 3,000 people are attacked by the disease every year. A recent statistics said that saying the Leukemia (one kind of blood cancer) patients mainly approach the doctor with the symptoms of anemia. The physicians said that the patients mainly suffer from weakness, bleeding and fever. Public Health Experts said it in a seminar organised by Department of Hematology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Sunday to mark...
Staff Reporter :The Anti-corruption Commission has approved a team for investigating Ramana Thana Officer in Charge (OC) Monirul Islam’s wealth.The team will investigate his misuse of power, irregularities and corruption for getting illegal wealth.ACC’s Director of Public Relation department SM Asaduzzaman confirmed the matter to media on Sunday. He said ACC has appointed Assistant Director Niamul Ahasan Gazi as a investigative officer to find the Ramna Model Thana’s OC Monirul Islam’s illegal wealth which he earned by misuse his power,...
Business Desk:Bangladesh Bank has started instant foreign currency transactions, from bank to bank, through online-based real-time gross settlement (RTGS).Banks are primarily clearing and settling in US dollars, pounds, euros, Canadian dollars, and Japanese yen.Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder officially inaugurated the RTGS programme at the headquarters of the central bank in Motijheel on Sunday. Deputy governors Ahmed Jamal and Kazi Sayedur Rahman, President of FBCCI Md. Jasim Uddin, MCCI President Saiful Islam, Chairman of Association of Bankers, Bangladesh Selim...
Business Desk :Fu-Wang Ceramic Industries, a listed ceramic maker with foreign and local shareholders, will invest Tk 650 crore to extend its business.The company’s board of directors took the decision to increase its tiles production capacity by about 15,000 square metre a day through a greenfield project.The company disclosed the information on Sunday through a posting on the website of the Dhaka Stock Exchange.After the release of the disclosure, the company’s share price rose by 2.15 per cent from the...
Business Desk :Dhaka stocks fell on Sunday after rising for six consecutive days thanks to the profit-taking tendency of the investors.The DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), dropped 18 points, or 0.28 per cent, to 6,489 on Sunday.Turnover, however, rose 22 per cent from the last trading day to hit Tk 2,296 crore, which was highest since last year’s October 7 when the turnover was Tk 2,497 crore.Of the securities, 95 advanced, 217 declined, and 63...
Business Report :An 11-member technical mission of the World Bank reached Chattogram port on Sunday to discuss various aspects of proposed Bay Terminal, a mega project taken to enable the port accommodate larger ships.Earlier this year, the international lender expressed interest to give around $350 million in loan for breakwater construction and channel dredging of the Bay Terminal, which will be constructed on around 2,500 acres of land at Patenga in Chattogram.The World Bank delegation led by its Senior Transport...