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Shafik on fresh 5-days remand

A Dhaka court placed journalist Shafik Rehman on fresh 5-day remand in a case filed over an alleged plot to kidnap and kill prime minister’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy. Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmudul Hasan passed the order after detectives produced Shafik with a seven-day remand prayer around 2:00pm today. Detective Branch of Police sought fresh remand after completion of his five-day remand that concluded yesterday. Shafiq DMP Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam on that day said he (Shafik) admitted meeting four ...

PM made a member of UN panel on water

The United Nations (UN) has appointed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (MP) as one of the members of a high-level UN panel on water. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim yesterday announced the appointment of 10 heads of state and government, as well as two special advisors, to the panel, according to the UN headquarters. The panel, which is aimed at mobilizing “effective action” to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6, was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January. sHEIKH HASINA

BPC, Indian Oil ink LPG terminal, pipeline deal

Flagship refiner-marketer Indian Oil Corporation has inked an MoU with Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation to examine the possibility of jointly working on setting up a LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) import terminal at Chittagong port and other downstream infrastructure in that country. According to an oil ministry statement, the MoU was signed in the presence of oil minister bd-indiaDharmendra Pradhan who is on a three-day visit to Bangladesh with a view to lending an impetus to bilateral energy ties initiated during PM Narendr...

Nation set to celebrate Pahela Baishakh

The nation is set to celebrate “Pahela Baishakh”, Bengali New Year, 1423 amid much enthusiasm and traditional gaiety as tens of thousands of people are expected to join the “Nabo Barsho” festivities across the country. Different socio-cultural organizations and government institutions have drawn up elaborate programmes like musical functions, colourful marches and street side Baishakhi fairs in the capital as elsewhere across the country to welcome the Bengali New Year, said a press release. However, business communities, especially in the rural areas are ready to open their traditional ‘Halkhata’, new account books to welcome the Bengali New year, reports BSS.

JS body for launching e-tendering

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Housing and Public Works Ministry today recommended launching e-tendering for all tenders process to ensure transparency and make the process easy. BD TelcomThe committee made the recommendation in its 13th meeting at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban with its chairman Alhaj M Dabirul Islam in the chair, a press release said. Committee members Housing and Public Works Minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Kamal Ahmed Majumder, A K M Fazlul Haque, Abu Saleh Mohammad Sayeed (Dulal) and Begum Noo...

Maldives eager to import sand from Bangladesh

The Maldives is eager to import sand from Bangladesh and sending more students to the country to pursue their studies in medical sciences in Bangladesh’s medical colleges. The High Commissioner of Maldives to Bangladesh Dr. Mohamed Asim expressed his country’s interest in this regard when he called on State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam at Flag-Pins-Bangladesh-Maldivesthe latter’s office here, a foreign ministry press release said. During the meeting, the state mini...
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