দুর্নীতি দমন কমিশনের বিদায়ী চেয়ারম্যান ইকবাল মাহমুদ বলেছেন গত পাঁচ বছর দায়িত্ব পালনকালে তাঁর কাছে কেউ কোনো তদবির করেনি বা সরকার থেকে কোনো তাঁর ওপর ‘চাপ প্রয়োগ করা হয়নি। তবে...
বাংলাদেশে অনেকের মধ্যে নারীবাদ এবং নারীবাদের চর্চাকারীদের নিয়ে নেতিবাচক ধারণা রয়েছে। অনেকেই একে পুরুষ বিদ্বেষ বলে মনে করে থাকেন। কিন্তু নারীবাদ মানে কি আসলেই পুরুষ বিদ্বেষ? আর এই নেতিবাচক ধারণাগুলোই...
An insurance company has published a first-of-its-kind e-book to raise awareness about the career potential of women insurance agents and their contributions to the insurance industry. MetLife Bangladesh released the...
৮ই মার্চ, ২০২০। সেদিন সরকারের রোগতত্ত্ব, রোগনিয়ন্ত্রণ ও গবেষণা ইনস্টিটিউটের থেকে প্রথমবারের মত জানানো হয় বাংলাদেশে তিনজন করোনাভাইরাসে আক্রান্ত হয়েছে। এর মধ্যে একজন নারী এবং দুইজন পুরুষ। এই ঘোষণার পর...
বিপ্লব, আন্দোলন, যুদ্ধ—এই শব্দগুলো শুনলে প্রথমেই চোখের সামনে কাদের ছবি ভাসে? প্রথমেই হয়তো চোখের সামনে ভাসবে ডানপিটে কিছু যুবকের ছবি যাদের হাতে অস্ত্র আর চোখে দৃঢ় প্রত্যয়। নারী বিপ্লবীর কথা...
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis with the coronavirus pandemic. Day after day all the failures in our economic and social system, and in our thinking process are being...
Ten million more child marriages may occur before the end of the decade, threatening years of progress in reducing the vicious practice, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF...
The Ministry of Education has requested everyone not to pay heed to rumours on social media that it is giving each student Tk 10,000 as allowance. A PID handout on...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has called for a conducive environment to ensure women empowerment, leadership and gender equality in all areas. TIB made this call in a statement on the...
A Chattogram court has sentenced nine people to death on charges of murder in Fatikchhari 17 years ago. Chattogram's Fourth Additional District and Sessions Judge Farzana Akhter announced the verdict...
The Asian University of Women (AUW) recently arranged a panel discussion on the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in empowering women. The discussion was hosted by AUW Women Empowerment Project...
Bangladesh Bank has ordered the mobile financial service (MFS) providers not to conduct advertisement campaigns targeting each other with offensive content. The Payment Systems Department of the central bank in...
Aiming to accelerate the process of women's empowerment, Nagad, the digital financial service arm of Bangladesh Post Office has taken an initiative to recruit 10 women entrepreneurs in each upazila...
Oil prices slipped on Monday after earlier climbing above $70 a barrel for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began after attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Yemen’s Houthi...
Bangladesh has recorded 845 new cases of the coronavirus in a daily count, highest since Jan 13, taking the tally of infections to 551,175, reports bdnews24.com. The death toll climbed...
Australia has suspended its defence cooperation with Myanmar and is redirecting humanitarian aid in the country because of last month’s military takeover of the government and the ongoing detention of...
Two new fruits, coloured mango and the Falsa, got registration from the authorities of the National Seed Board enriching the existing list of the country’s fruits. Rajshahi Fruit Research Centre...
Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, accused Britain’s royal family of raising concerns about how dark their son’s skin might be and pushing her to the brink of suicide, in...
The benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) crossed the ‘psychological’ threshold of 5,600-mark on Monday after a month as the market ended higher for the third straight session....
Bangladesh has urged Saudi Arabia to sign memorandum of understanding (MoU) for further enabling Saudi investors to invest in public-private partnership (PPA) projects in Bangladesh. State Minister for Foreign Affairs...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged women in the country to engage themselves in income-generating activities instead of sitting idle at home for their economic freedom. "If we want...
দেশের বিমা কোম্পানিগুলোকে সরাসরি যান্ত্রিক যানবাহনের বিমা করার সুযোগ দিতে নিয়ন্ত্রক সংস্থার কাছে অনুরোধ করেছে বাংলাদেশ ইন্স্যুরেন্স এসোসিয়েশন বা বিআইএ। এ ব্যাপারে বিমা উন্নয়ন ও নিয়ন্ত্রক সংস্থা, বিআইএ, সড়ক পরিবহণ...
China should aim to begin construction of a controversial hydropower project on the Brahmaputra river within the year, a senior Tibetan Communist Party official said in comments published on Monday....
MacKenzie Scott, the billionaire philanthropist and the former wife of Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos, has remarried. The marriage to Dan Jewett, a Seattle science teacher, was mentioned in a...
করোনাভাইরাস মহামারী পৃথিবী জন্য এক নজিরবিহীন সংকট সৃষ্টি করেছে। এই সংকট আমাদের অর্থনৈতিক ও সামাজিক ব্যবস্থার ব্যর্থতাগুলোর পাশাপাশি আমাদের চিন্তা প্রক্রিয়ার সীমাবদ্ধতাও দিন দিন উন্মোচিত করে তুলছে। জাতিসংঘের টেকসই উন্নয়ন...
The Ministry of Law has recommended an extension of the stay on the sentences of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for six months more in two graft cases. The Ministry’s opinion...
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has started the process of auctioning the unused spectrum of two bands. The event began at Hotel InterContinental in Dhaka at 11 am with four mobile...
সফলতার পথ কুসুমাস্তীর্ণ নয়। আর সেটি যদি হয় নারীর, তাহলে সমাজ তাকে দমিয়ে রাখতে বিন্দুমাত্র ছাড় দেয় না। সমাজের সেই সব নারীর কথা তৎকালীন সমাজ শুনতে চায় না, তাদের পাশে...
A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on...
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর রচিত বেশির ভাগ নারী চরিত্র তরুণী, বিশেষত কিশোর বয়সী। তাদের মধ্যে কেউ কেউ সরল এবং চঞ্চল স্বভাবের, যেন বাকি দুনিয়ার পরোয়াই করে না তারা। রবি ঠাকুরের মতে, নারীর...
Stocks opened higher on Monday with the key index crossing the 5600-mark in the early trading as optimistic investors continued their appetite on sector-wise large-cap issues. Within the first hour...
When lawyers asked Donald Trump more than a decade ago to identify who estimated values on some of his signature properties, he shrugged and pointed to his longtime accountant, Allen...
A highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan airs on US television later on Sunday, amid what one royal watcher called a “toxic” atmosphere between...
Iran has released British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from house arrest at the end of her five-year prison sentence, but she has been summoned to court again on another charge,...
করফাঁকি শনাক্ত করার জন্য আয়কর ও ভ্যাট রিটার্নে করদাতাদের প্রদত্ত সম্পদ-বিবরণী এখন থেকে যাচাই করে দেখা হবে, জাতীয় রাজস্ব বোর্ড (এনবিআর) সম্প্রতি এমন একটি সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে। এনবিআরের আয়কর ও ভ্যাট...
French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the 69-year old conservative politician. Dassault was...
A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 600 others on Sunday, authorities said. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema...
After a year that has shaken Britain’s National Health Service to its core, women working at a hospital in the East Lancashire NHS Trust in England’s north-west talk about what...
GAIBANDHA: Horse-drawn carriage is the only reliable vehicle for thousands of char people under Saghata upazila in Gainbandha district. Various rabi crops including maize, wheat, almonds, sweet pumpkin, chilli, wheat,...
Covid-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus....
A flawless Kobe Bryant rookie card, considered “one of the rarest in existence,” according to Goldin Auctions, has sold to an anonymous buyer for $1.795 million. The Topps trading card...
A collection of bitcoin (virtual currency) tokens are displayed in this picture illustration taken Dec 8, 2017 — Reuters/Benoit Tessier/Illustration/File Photo Bitcoin rose 4.18 per cent to $50,947.94 on Sunday,...
Export of Bangladeshi poultry products is facing multiple challenges, as the government is yet to offer necessary policies and regulations for properly expanding the potential foreign exchange earning sector, insiders...
Apparel makers adopted a number of strategies including cost-cutting, reorganising capacity and utilisation plan and efficiency enhancement to cope with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, industry people said. Cost-cutting...
Thayaparan Sangarapillai, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Robi Board of Directors. Thaya brings with him...
The government has decided to provide licence to new Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) after eight years to expand small loan operation in new areas across the country. The Microcredit Regulatory...
The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) submitted a memorandum to the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority (BFSA) on Sunday, demanding enactment of regulations to check the use of trans fat in...
The women entrepreneurs received 5.7 per cent of the Tk 200 billion stimulus package for CSMEs until February 25 last, according to Bangladesh Bank (BB) data. The banks and financial...
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has decided to make mandatory the e-payment of its fees and charges. The decision will be implemented in phases, starting from the first day...
Bangladesh is set to take an aggressive stance while discussing two major trade-related pending issues at the commerce secretary-level meeting with India, scheduled for today (Monday) in Dhaka, officials said....
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