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Papon steps down, Faruque becomes BCB president

Ending all speculations, Nazmul Hassan Papon stepped down from his role as Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president today. The decision of his resignation came from the BCB's emergency meeting today, held at the conference room of the Youth and Sports Ministry. Former chief selector Faruque Ahmed was elected as new BCB president, the board's media department confirmed. In a message sent through whatsapp, the board's media department termed Faruque Ahmed as newly elected president and informed that he will hold a press conference...

Mother of Democracy — movie on Khaleda

With the recent change in government on August 5, a new development has emerged: a feature film about BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia has been announced.  Titled "Mother of Democracy," the movie has already been registered with the Directors' Guild by director MK Zaman. The film is being produced by Akand Entertainment PLC, with the script reportedly completed and pre-production work in progress. Filming is scheduled to begin on September 25. Director A K Zaman explained: "This decision wasn't made overnight. We've been working on this film for quite some ti...

Metro rail likely to resume Sunday

The Dhaka metro rail is set to resume operations as workers who had been on strike have now returned to their duties. The metro rail was initially scheduled to resume operations on Sunday after a month-long closure. However, the workers' strike caused a delay in the reopening. The workers resumed work on Tuesday, and the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), which operates the metro rail, plans to relaunch services within the next four to five days. However, due to recent student protests that turned violen...

Complaint against Menon, Inu with Hasina for committing genocide

A complaint was filed today with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against 27 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former ministers Obaidul Quader, Rashed Khan Menon and Hasanul Huq Inu for committing alleged genocide and crimes against humanity. The other prominent accused in the complaints are- Anwar Hossain Monju, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, Anisul Huq, Hasan Mahmud, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Mohammad Ali Arafat, Kamal Ahmed Mazumder and former inspector general of police (IGP) Abdul...

Collaboration on climate change with UK to be enhanced, says Syeda Rizwana

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser on Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, announced that Bangladesh and the UK will deepen collaboration on climate change and environmental conservation. She emphasized the need for capacity building, rainwater harvesting, and desalination initiatives, ensuring that these benefits reach the people. Rizwana Hasan called for the doubling of the $100 billion in climate financing to address the growing needs, stressing the importance of securing a better world for future generations.

Employments more important than GDP growth

Putting utmost priority on generating more employments and stabilizing the economy, Adviser to the interim government on the Ministries of Planning and Education Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud today said that generating more employments is now more important than boosting the GDP growth. "Massive problem now exists centering the GDP and it won't work only with increasing the GDP growth. Qualitative standard was not ensured over the years and our priority is now to generate more employments and stabilizing the economy," he said. Th...
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