City Desk :Bangladeshi women have been making remarkable work in the entrepreneur world through their indomitable spirit by taking advantage of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s flagship digital Bangladesh campaign.Digital devices and e-commerce platforms have created linkages between female entrepreneurs and marketplace that helps the country’s marginal womenfolk being self-reliant by offering them fair prices and various selling options.Of the 165.57 million Bangladeshi people, 82.70 million are female while despite facing numerous challenges, women’s participation in the labor force increased faster...
Day: September 10, 2022
City Desk :A steering committee meeting on “Phytosanitary Trade Compliance in Bangladesh”, a project supported by APAARI, USDA and USAID, was held in a city hotel recently to set a complete and an independent “National Plant Protection Authority” in the country. In this regard, the steering committee members also made a discussion with the Inter-governmental Committee of Plant Quarantine Facilities (ICPQF) members, a press release said on Friday. To establish the “National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO)” in the country, the...
City Desk :Ten students have been awarded for writing letters to Bangabandhu in an event ‘Dear Bangabandhu’ marking National Mourning Day and 47th martyrdom anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.Books and certificates were given to the winners at a prize giving ceremony at the RC Majumdar Arts Auditorium, said a press release . Dhaka University Cultural Society (DUCS) arranged the letter writing competition on Bangabandhu to pay tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur...
City Desk :Bangladesh has achieved laudable success in reducing illiteracy rate through implementing various non-formal education programmes on the way to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs).The observation came at a discussion jointly organized on Thursday by the Rangpur district administration and District Non-Formal Education Bureau at the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner in Rangpur in observance of the International Literacy Day- 2022.Officials, employees and executives of different government departments and NGOs, teachers, students, civil society members, religious leaders...
City Desk :Under the direction of general secretary Md. Billal Hossain, the president of the central executive committee of the...
City Desk :Awami League (AL) will hold a joint meeting of its Parliamentary Board (PB) and Local Government Representative Nomination Board at Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official residence Ganabhaban at 4pm today. Party President and AL Parliamentary and Local Government RepresentativeNomination Board’s President Sheikh Hasina will chair the meeting, a press release, signed by AL Office Secretary Barrister Biplob Barua, said on Friday.AL General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader requested all concerned to attend the meeting in...
City Desk :Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Friday expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of former caretaker government advisor Dr Akbar Ali Khan.In a condolence message, Quader also General Secretary of ruling Awami League, prayed for eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed sympathy to the bereaved family members.Former cabinet secretary Akbar Ali Khan breathed his last around 10pm on Thursday at the age of 78.He was buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard after...
City Desk :Another 145 dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Friday morning.Of them, 140 were admitted to different hospitals of Dhaka and five outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).A total of 993 dengue patients, including 770 in the capital, are now receiving treatment at hospitals across the country.This year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne viral disease rose to 31 on Tuesday with five more deaths reported from Dhaka, Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar districts,...
