BRAC Bank has retained the country's highest credit rating 'AAA' for three years on the trot from Bangladesh's prominent agency - Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh (CRAB) - manifesting its solid financial strength and stability, according to a press statement Sunday. CRAB has reaffirmed 'AAA' for
Sweden has offered Bangladesh to work for green transition in the garment sector on partnership basis. The European nation made the offer when its ambassador to Bangladesh Alexandra Berg Von Linde met State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid on Sunday at his ministry off
Arrested Chairman of 'Child and Old Age Care' Milton Somaddar used to derive ‘brutal pleasure’ from cutting off the hands and legs of old persons at his charity home, said Additional Police Commissioner (Detective) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Harun-or-Rashid on Sunday. “Te
Regarding the Education Ministry’s recommendation to raise the age limit for government jobs, Minister of Public Administration Farhad Hossain said it is subject to government policy. “A decision in this regard would be made in consultation with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, adhering t
Local Government (Union Parishad) (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was placed in Parliament with a provision to appoint administrators in Union Parishads on the expiry of five-year tenure of the elected representatives. Local Government Minister M Tajul Islam placed the Bill and it was sent to the Standing
Voluntary Consumers Training and Awareness Society (Vocta), a consumers’ right group, has urged the government to continue providing subsidies in agriculture and power sectors despite pressure from the IMF and take effective steps to curb inflation and resist business syndicates that control
Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud has called for an immediate cessation of the conflict in Palestine, ensuring humanitarian access and holding Israel accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity. "We, the members of the OIC should be part of a multi-tracked international engagement to end th
An International Monetary Fund mission is expected to visit Pakistan this month to discuss a new programme, the lender said on Sunday ahead of Islamabad beginning its annual budget-making process for the next financial year. Pakistan last month completed a short-term $3 billion programme, which he
Ukrainians in the embattled east flocked to church on Sunday to mark their third wartime Easter as Russian troops inched closer to threatening some of the region’s key cities. Fighting on the eastern front has worsened in recent weeks, particularly around the town of Chasiv Yar, while Kyiv&r
Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance. Th
Noting that the ICT sector is going to be the main saviour of the country’s economy in the future, Prime Minister’s Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman on Sunday advocated for continuing the various tax facilities policy apart from support that the sector is cur
Three Bangladeshis have been injured in two separate incidents of landmine explosions at Naikhongchhari in Bandarban along the Myanmar border. Two people were injured in the first blast near border pillar No. 47 in the Fultali area on Saturday night and the second explosion in the same area injure
