Staff Correspondent: Moving up seven notches on the Happiness Index, Bangladesh was ranked 101st among 149 countries of the world this year. The country ranked the 101st happiest last year and 107th in 2020.According to World…

When Buriganga will get new life with Jamuna water?

Buriganga River Restoration project Golam Mostafa Jibon: The water of Jamuna is yet to reach at Buriganga river even after spending crores of Taka in the name of Buriganga River Restoration project. As a result, question…

Bangabandhu’s 102 nd
birth anniversary today

Industry Desk: The country is set to celebrate the 102nd birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children’s Day-2022 today in a befitting manner.On this day in 1920, Bangabandhu,…

Overseas job market
shrinking day by day

Inward remittance may affect Mahfuz Emran: Overseas migration for works have drastically fall down due to the lack of skilled manpower, high migration cost, ticket syndicate, harassment in airport by immigration police, free visa trans, economic…

PM urges BAF members to boost skills to achieve goals

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the members of Bangladesh Air Force to maintain professional skills, discipline and patriotism to accomplish the national goals.“It is impossible to achieve the goals without hard work, discipline…

3.5 lakh tons oil imported
thru’ Ctg port in 2.5-month

85,000 ton arrive in port Chattagram Bureau: Although there is a demand of 2 million tons of edible oil in the country every year, the import in the first eight and a half months of the…

CCC wants to buy
Tk 298 cr equipment

No manpower to operate Ayub Ali: Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) has proposed to purchase modern vehicles and equipment for the development of waste management. The expenditure has been estimated at Tk 298.31 crore. The cost is…

Concluding program of ‘Mujib Borsho’ in Tungipara today

Staff Correspondent: The concluding program of ‘Mujib Borsho’ will be held todayon the premises of Bangabandhu Samadhi Soudha Complex in Tungipara, Gopalganj.Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Birth Centenary Celebration National Implementation Committee, in…

Tk 107 cr pocketed by BSTI officers, employees

Golam Mostafa Jibon: Allegation has intensified that officials and employees of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), also a government agency under the Ministry of Industries constituted for the purpose of controlling the standard of service…

Soybean oil price increased by
Tk 83.7 per liter in 5-yrs

Zarif Mahmud: In the last few days, soybean oil is being sold in the market without heeding the price fixed by the government. One after another traders and stockists are counting fines in the campaign to…

VAT on edible oil cuts

Staff Correspondent: The Cabinet yesterdaydirected the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to take immediate steps to curtail the VAT on edible oil import to the lowest ceiling in the wake of the rising price of the…