Day: May 10, 2023

Staff Reporter :The government has decided to purchase 1.10 crore litres of Soybean oil from India and 12,500 tonnes sugar from Singapore.Apart from it, the Armed Forces Division (AFD) is to procure three crore blank smart cards from the Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited (BMTF). The approval was given from a Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) meeting held the cabinet division of the Secretariat with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair on Tuesday. A total of eight...

Staff Reporter :The government has decided to purchase 1.10 crore litres of Soybean oil from India and 12,500 tonnes sugar from Singapore.Apart from it, the Armed Forces Division (AFD) is to procure three crore blank smart cards from the Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited (BMTF). The approval was given from a Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) meeting held the cabinet division of the Secretariat with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in the chair on Tuesday. A total of eight...

Syed Shemul Parvez  :There is no end to the suffering of the city dwellers due to frequent uncoordinated digging on various roads and alleys of the capital. In addition to, the level of suffering has increased due to leaving work for a long time in some places, accidents are also happening there.Basically, city dwellers are fed up with repeated potholes on the same road due to lack of coordination of various service agencies. According to the information, after a few...

Staff Reporter :Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh has said that 100 double-decker electric buses will be joining the Dhaka Nagar Paribahan service by this year. This initiative will accelerate the step of the making Dhaka city as environment friendly smart city, he added.He gave the information at a press conference following the 27th meeting of the bus route rationalization committee on Tuesday.He said that strict measures will be taken to ensure the quality of passenger...

Staff Reporter  :Police recovered body of Kudrat-e-Khoda Hridoy, multi-media reporter of private television channel Jamuna TV, from a house of Lake Circus road in city’s Kalabagan area on Tuesday noon. He used to live in a garret of that building of the area. The deceased Kudrat was a newsroom editor of the Jamuna Television multimedia desk. On Tuesday morning, some residents of a neighboring building noticed his room open and his body hanging. Being informed by locals, police rushed to...

News Desk  :Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested in connection with corruption involving the Al-Qadir University Trust, headed by the opposition leader and his wife Bushra Bibi, during a court appearance related to a separate case, in the capital Islamabad.The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said in a statement on Tuesday the former prime minister “for the crime of corruption” in the trust. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan confirmed that Khan, the leader of the main opposition Pakistan...

UNB :European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley on Tuesday said they are not here to “mediate or interfere” in politics in Bangladesh but they are here to meet and listen to all political parties to understand the situation. He, however, said they “of course want to see free and fair elections” in Bangladesh without any violence and that he thinks all Bangladeshis want to see the same. The EU Ambassador made remarks while responding to a question on...

News Desk :At least 13 Palestinians, including three commanders of the militant group Islamic Jihad were killed in Israeli air strikes on Tuesday (9 May) on the Gaza Strip. Eight women and children were among the dead and 20 people were injured, according to Palestinian health officials. An operation had been launched targeting militants who posed an imminent threat to Israeli citizens, reports BBC. Islamic Jihad vowed revenge and Gaza-based militants were expected to respond with rocket fire into Israel....

BSS :The Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has included 37 more products under the mandatory quality certificate. The products include sweetmeat, pressure cooker, LPG gas cylinder, microwave oven, bitumen and bituminous binder-polymer modified bitumen and UPS. The BSTI took the decision at its 38th council meeting at its office in the city today with Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun in the chair, said a press release. State Minister for Industries Kamal Ahmed Mojumder, Industries Secretary Zakia Sultana and...

Court Correspondent :A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in an Arms case.Judge Murshid Ahmed of the Special Tribunal-14 of Dhaka delivered the verdict in the morning on Tuesday in absence of the convict. The court also fined Arav Khan Tk 10,000, in default, he will have to serve three more months in the prison. Earlier on May 7, the court fixed May 9 for delivering the verdict in the Arms case...