News DeskBangladesh Bank (BB) has introduced a ‘market-based’ US dollar exchange rate, setting a cap on the maximum rate for H1 of the new fiscal year 2023-24.The central bank is selling dollars to commercial banks at Tk108.85 per dollar, increasing Tk2.85 from the previous rate, reports UNB.Through the regulator selling dollars at a market-based rate, the price of dollars in interbank transactions has also been fixed at a maximum of Tk 109.However, the foreign exchange market is still volatile and...
Staff Reporter A total of 355 people were killed and 620 others were injured in 341 road, rail and waterway accidents during Eid-ul-Fitr. Of them, 328 people were killed and 565 injured in 304 road accidents. 27 died and 55 suffered injuries in 27 railway accidents and 5 were killed and 22 went missing in 10 waterway accidents. Mozammel Hoque Chowdhury, secretary general of Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, revealed the information at a press briefing at Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan Parishad...
Staff Reporter :Experts at a seminar on Tuesday demanded for setting up a 50-bed general hospital at Savar Leather Industrial City immediately to ensure health security of tannery workers.They also recommended for checking health of workers in the industrial units regularly, ensuring personal protective equipment (PPE) measure and labour rights, training up on the use of heavy machineries, creating proper awareness among all on health and environment hazards. The experts came up with the observations at the seminar on health...
UNB, Magura :A group of unruly students identifying themselves as members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) allegedly beat up the principal of Alokdia Amaresh Basu College and ransacked the office in Sadar upazila demanding a large sum of money on Sunday. On information, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control, said additional police superintendent of Magura Tariqul Islam. When contacted, Mostafa Faruq, principal of the college, alleged that some students identifying themselves as BCL men had...
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Staff Reporter :The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Tuesday announced that the party will boycott the talk shows of Somoy TV and Ekattor TV temporarily. The BNP Media Cell has taken the decision after consultations with senior leaders of the party with high command’s approval. A letter in this regard has been sent to the party leaders who recently participated in TV talk shows. The letter, signed by the party’s Media Cell Member Secretary Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie,...
Staff Reporter :Suraiya, who was shot in her mother’s womb, has been discharged from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)....
NDTV.com :AAP lawmaker Alka Lamba was attacked with a stone during an anti-drug driveNew Delhi: A day after Aam Aadmi...
UNB, Chittagong :A listed criminal was killed in a reported gunfight between his cohorts and the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in port city’s Panchlaish area early Thursday.The deceased Mohim Uddin alias Mohin, 36, was a listed criminal of police, said RAB.Tipped off, a team of RAB-7 conducted a drive in Rajganj area to arrest Mohin around 4:30 am, said Mimtanur Rahman, senior superintendent (media) of RAB-7.Sensing the presence of the elite force, the associates of Mohin opened fire at...
UNB, Dhaka :BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday accused Awami League of annihilating democracy and voting rights on January 5, 2014, and urged all to take a vow to establish a pro-people government. “On the day of stanching democracy and voting rights, on January 5, take a pledge to install a government of people,” she tweeted in Bengali. Khaleda posted the message on her tweeter account when she was staying at Bakshibazar makeshift court to attend the hearing on Zia...
