Staff Reporter :The elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested at least 36,000 drug dealers in the country in the last two years. Drugs worth Tk three crore have also been seized during this time.The outgoing Director General (DG) of RAB Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun said this at a views-exchange meeting with journalists in its Media Centre in the city’s Karwan Bazar on Wednesday morning.The meeting was organised ahead of his joining as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) following...
Staff Reporter :The USA has imported $5.71 billion worth of apparel from Bangladesh in January-July period and there by export growth increased by 54.43 per cent, which is higher than the last two years.The Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) has released the latest official data on apparel import statistics of the USA for the period of January-July, 2022.According to the OTEXA data, Bangladesh’s apparel exports to the US market increased to $2.48 billion in the first quarter of 2022,...
BBC Online :The Bank of England has said it will step in to calm markets after the government’s tax-cutting plans sparked a fall in the pound and caused borrowing costs to surge.It warned that if the market volatility continued there would be a “material risk to UK financial stability”.The Bank will start buying government bonds at an “urgent pace” to help restore “orderly market conditions”.The pound tumbled to $1.0586 after the news, down 1.4% against the dollar.It comes after the...
Staff Reporter :Police detained four persons including a woman and recovered a knife under their possession from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) premises. SCBA President Advocate Mumtaz Uddin Fakir confirmed it to media and said they were detained from the event.On the occasion of Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s birthday, a cake cutting and Doa Mahfil was organised at Shaheed Shafiur Rahman Auditorium of the SCBA on Wednesday afternoon. “There were around 10-12 people. Police detained...
UNB :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that Bangladesh’s growing media during her tenures has the freedom to say whatever they wish to say.“After speaking all, if someone says that he/she’s not allowed to speak, what would be the answer? That’s my question,” she said in an interview with the Bengali service of Voice of America (VoA) aired on Tuesday.The prime minister was responding to a question on the Digital Security Act (DSA) enacted by her government and its impact...
Staff Reporter :The main opposition party BNP announced to hold series of rallies in all divisional cities before a grand rally in the capital.The party will hold the grand rally in Dhaka city on December 10 after holding public meetings at different divisional cities across the country.The BNP has taken the initiatives after holding a series of demonstration and protest rallies in the different areas in Dhaka City for strengthening its ongoing anti-government movement. “The anti-people government hiked essential items...
Staff Reporter :Some 10,000 Bangladeshi workers will reach Malaysia in batches within two weeks, according to a spokesman for the human resources ministry.Khair Razman Mohamed Annuar, the Malaysian ministry’s Deputy Secretary-General in Charge of operations, told the Free Malaysian Times (FMT), a Malaysian newspaper, this came under a government-to-government agreement for a one-off labour intake.He said the 25 Bangladeshi recruiting agencies (BRAs) appointed for the recruitment of workers had nothing to do with the scheme, according to the FMT report.“This...
Al Mamun Harun Ur Rashid :Volatile feed market is a major challenge for a sustainable poultry sector where thousands of farmers engaged in meeting animal protein and creating employment are struggling to survive.Poultry farmers said when the feed price rises exorbitantly, it directly hits the farms and even forces them to close it. Even if farmers compromise with feed quality to reduce cost, the production level drastically falls which leads to loss, they said.Stakeholders said that government’s direct intervention and...
The European Union Ambassador Charles Whiteley said on Tuesday that Bangladesh should make regulatory and taxation reforms along with building...
Staff Reporter :The death toll from Sunday’s boat capsize in the Karatoa River under Boda upazila of Panchagarh district has risen to 68 with the recovery of 18 more bodies till Tuesday afternoon, while at least four people still remain missing.The authority concerned has apprehended that the number of death toll may rise further. According to the investigation committee formed by the district administration, the incident of boat sinking in Karatoa river of Boda upazila of Panchagarh occurred due to...