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Prices of soybean oil, sugar rise
03:40 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayThe government has hiked the maximum retail price of soybean oil by Tk 12 to Tk 190 per liter. It has also raised the MRP of sugar by Tk 12 to 107 per kilogram. The country's leading edible oil importer City Group's director Bishwajit Saha confirmed the matter to Jago News on Thursday afternoon. He said the Commerce Ministry increased the price of soybean oil...
PM opens Hajj-Umrah conference, fair
02:40 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday inaugurated the first-ever National Conference on Hajj and Umrah Management-2022 and Hajj and Umrah Fair in the capital...
BGB seizes 16.5-kg gold from Benapole, 2 held
02:33 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayMembers of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two people and seized gold bars weighing 16.51 kilograms from Amrakhali check-post area in Benapole on Wednesday night...
PM seeks robust Singaporean investment in economic zones
02:22 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday urged Singaporean entrepreneurs to make larger investment in Bangladesh's economic zones as Singapore expressed eagerness to work together on sustainable and renewable energy alongside exploring new areas of cooperation...
President returns home after overseas treatment
01:23 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayPresident M Abdul Hamid on Thursday returned home, wrapping up his 20-day visit to Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) for health checkup and eye treatment...
PM orders executing Kuwait’s proposal to build oil refinery in Bangladesh
12:46 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to implement the Kuwait's proposal to set up oil refinery in Bangladesh...
Myanmar frees Australian economist as part of 6,000 prisoner amnesty
12:11 PM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayMyanmar's military leaders have released Sean Turnell, an Australian economist and former adviser to democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, and more than 6,000 others from prison under an amnesty, state media reported on Thursday...
Xi accuses Trudeau of leaks to media about China-Canada relations
11:00 AM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayChina's Xi Jinping has been filmed accusing Justin Trudeau of leaking meeting details, days after they held talks at the G20 summit in Bali...
Maulana Bhasani’s 46th death anniversary today
10:09 AM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayThe 46th death anniversary of veteran politician Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani is being observed on Thursday in the country in a befitting manner...
Messi and Di Maria score as Argentina thump UAE in warm-up
09:06 AM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayArgentina extended their unbeaten run to 36 matches with a comfortable 5-0 win over the United Arab Emirates in their final World Cup warm-up game...
US midterms: Republicans narrowly win back the House
08:45 AM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayRepublicans have secured the 218 seats needed for a majority in the lower chamber of the Congress a week after the midterm elections, the BBC's US partner CBS News projects. While the party's margin in the House of Representatives is razor-thin, it is enough to stall President Joe Biden's agenda for the next two years...
President leaves London for home after overseas treatment
08:30 AM, 17 Nov 2022 ThursdayPresident M Abdul Hamid has left London for home wrapping up his 20-day visit to Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) for health checkup and eye treatment...
Bus strike called in Sylhet on the day of BNP's rally
10:01 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayThe bus owners have called a strike in Sylhet district on the day of BNP's divisional mass rally on Saturday (November 19)...
Fact check: Has Iran sentenced 15,000 protesters to death?
09:14 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayReports that the Iranian state has sentenced approximately 15,000 people to death for participating in the now two months of protests in the country have circulated widely on social media and in news...
Govt to procure 1.80 lakh tonnes of fertilizer
08:51 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayThe government has approved separate proposals to procure around 1.80 lakh tonnes of fertilizer from three countries- the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Canada...
Eggs rationing at some British supermarkets
07:55 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdaySome British supermarkets have started to ration customers' purchase of eggs after supplies were disrupted by avian flu...
Prof Abul Kashem made KAU new VC
07:38 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayDr Abul Kashem Chowdhury, Professor of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding of Patuakhali Science and Technology University, has been appointed as the vice-chancellor (VC) of Khulna Agriculture University (KAU)...
Govt sends another SP on compulsory retirement
07:19 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayThe government has sent an official of the rank of superintendent of police (SP) on compulsory retirement. Public Security Division under the Home Ministry issued a notification in this regard on Wednesday. Being ordered by President, the Senior Secretary of the division Md Aminul Islam Khan signed the notice...
Court summons actors Mehazabien, Nisho
06:36 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayA Dhaka court on Wednesday summoned popular televisions actors Mehazabien Chowdhury and Afran Nisho to appear before it in a case lodged for using words insulting towards autism and specially-abled people, in one of their dramas 'Ghotona Satya'...
One Covid death, 35 cases recorded in 24 hrs
06:22 PM, 16 Nov 2022 WednesdayThe Bangladesh government reported one COVID-19 death and 35 cases in the last 24 hours...