The nation is set to celebrate the 45
th anniversary of the Victory Day on Friday, paying homage to the martyrs for their supreme sacrifice for freeing the country from the misrule and occupation of Pakistani ruler.
Forty-five years back, the country was liberated on the 16
th of December, 1971 after around nine months of war of independence and the supreme sacrifice of three million people and the honour of nearly half a million women, reports BSS.
On this day in 1971, the commander of Pakistan occupation army, General AAK Niazi, and his 93,000 soldiers surrendered to the allied forces of freedom fighters and Indian army at Ramna
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As Cyclone Roanu approached the coast of Bangladesh last May, 10-year-old Mohammad Hossain worried about his father, a fisherman out at sea in the Bay of Bengal.
But the schoolboy, who lives in the Kutubdia Para neighbourhood of Cox's Bazar, a town on the southeast coast of Bangladesh, knew what to do. He sent his father, Ramzan Ali, a text message, asking him to return to shore and take shelter.
Fortunately, Ali was close enough to the coast to receive the message. He forwarded it to
fishermen on other boats, an...
A top advisor to the Bangladeshi prime minster has suggested that the Bangladesh apparel export industry should explore new markets, rather than just concentrating on exporting to the US and the EU. Dr Gowher Rizvi, international affairs adviser to the prime minister observed this while speaking at the ‘BIDS Research Almanac 2016’ held in Dhaka.
A leading Bangladeshi daily quoted Dr Rizvi as saying that exploring new regions and countries like Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Africa and Turkey, would accelerate growth and human ...
In an unprecedented move, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly has today granted Observer Status to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) — the world’s largest business organisation representing more than six million members in over 100 countries.
The decision—taken by 193 members of the UN General Assembly during its on-going 71
st session in New York—is the first time that a business organisation has been admitted as an Observer at the UN General Assembly. The list of UN observers is highly restricted and features principally intergovernmental organisations.
The new role for ICC means that business will for the first time have direct voice in the UN
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Rahman Augustine, Chartered Accountants, Abdur Razzaque Mollah FCA, Proprietor o...
