Visitors won’t be allowed at Dhaka Shishu Park for a month due to renovation work of the top spot for children’s amusement in Shahbagh of the capital city. The closure will continue from January 1 to December. Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has taken the initiative to modernize the park by adding few new rides and mending few old ones. DSCC Superintending Engineer Anisur Rahman confirmed…

The first meeting of the newly formed cabinet has begun today at the Prime Minister's Office in the capital with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The cabinet meeting is being held at the Prime Minister’s Office at Tejgaon area starting around 10am on the day, Cabinet Division sources have confirmed the news. Earlier on Jan 7, the Cabinet Division has published a gazette distributing…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to former minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in a graft case. A four member bench led by chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order accepting his leave-to-appeal petition. On November 8 last year, the High Court commuted former Communications Minister Nazmul Huda's seven years' imprisonment to four years in the graft case…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the Home Ministry to pay attention to rooting out drug abuse, terrorism, militancy and corruption from the country as that is the necessity of the time. "If we want to develop the country, we’ve to free it from drug abuse, terrorism, militancy and corruption…I ask the officials working in this ministry (Home Ministry) to give a special…

The United Nations urged all the political sphere of Bangladesh to engage in meaningful forms of dialogues in a bid to reach a positive solution. “We encourage the different areas of the Bangladeshi political sphere to engage in meaningful forms of dialogue in order for the political life in Bangladesh to be as positive as possible”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a press…

The government has fixed Taka 128,000 as air fares for Haj pilgrims this year, reducing Tk 10,191 comparing to the last year’s Tk 138,191. “Air fares for the Haj pilgrims ware Tk 138,191 in the last year. But is has been fixed Tk 128,000, reducing Tk 10,191,” State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali said at a press conference after an inter- ministerial meeting…

Bangabandhu International Airport will be built beside the Padma Bridge, the soon-to-be landmark structure in Bangladesh, said State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali. The new cabinet member unveiled the plan for the new international airport named after the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) office in the…

Imdadul Haq Milon, prolific author and editor of the Daily Kaler Kantho won the Kazi Mahboobullah Award 2018 for his outstanding contributions to Bengali literature. Begum Zebunnesa O Kazi Mahboobullah Janakalyan Trust has recently announced the names of four winners of the award. The rest three winners are — Dr Firdausi Qadri in science, Grand Master Rani Hamid in sports, and veteran actor…

UN Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix has appreciated and acknowledged Bangladesh’s role in the UN peacekeeping. He was addressing a two-day “Preparatory Conference on Peacekeeping” in The Hague hosted jointly by the Netherlands and Rwanda, said the Bangladesh Embassy in The Hague on Tuesday. The UN Under Secretary General, recalling his visit…

The government has once again slashed tax at source to 0.25 percent from the existing 0.60 percent for exporting goods to give some relief mainly to the RMG exporters following the recent hike in the wages of garment workers.   The Internal Resources Division has issued a statutory regulatory order (SRO) signed by its Senior Secretary and National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Mosharraf Hossain…

Salman Fazlur Rahman has been appointed as the private industry and investment adviser to the prime minister. The Cabinet Division published a circular in this regard on Tuesday, BSS reports. It said the prime minister has appointed Rahman as her adviser under 3 (B) (1) of the Rules of Business, 1996. He will have the rank of a minister without salary. Rahman was elected a member of parliament from…

British lawmakers defeated Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal by a crushing margin on Tuesday, triggering political upheaval that could lead to a disorderly exit from the EU or even to a reversal of the 2016 decision to leave. Parliament voted 432-202 against her deal, the worst parliamentary defeat for a government in recent British history. Scores of her own lawmakers - both Brexiteers…

Bangladesh and India will hold the next round of foreign minister-level bilateral talks in the first week of February, aiming to take the relations between the two countries to newer heights, reports UNB. The meeting – 5th Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) – will be held in New Delhi paving the way for new Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen to make his maiden foreign tour to India after…