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Rupali Chowdhury, managing director of Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited, has become the President of the organisation in the recently held election, it said in a statement on Sunday. Kedar Lele, CEO and MD of Unilever Bangladesh Limited, is the new Vice-President. The FICCI also elected 13 members of the committee. […]

Spurs, who have slipped to 14th place in the Premier League after a poor start to the season, sacked Mauricio Pochettino on Tuesday before entrusting Mourinho with the task of reviving their fortunes. “What can I promise? Passion — for my job, but also passion for my club… I couldn’t […]

Instead, they would be told that their relatives and neighbours were missing — all of them locked up in an expanding network of detention camps built to hold Muslim ethnic minorities. Authorities in the Xinjiang region worried the situation was a powder keg. And so they prepared. Leadership distributed a […]

The court’s liberal justices probed the administration’s justifications for ending the program, expressing scepticism about its rationales for doing so. But other justices indicated that they would not second-guess the administration’s reasoning and, in any event, considered its explanations sufficient. Still, there was agreement among the justices that the young […]

It is likely to intensify further and cross the Bangladesh-India coasts between Khulna and West Bengal with a diameter of hundreds of kilometres by Saturday evening, according to meteorologists. The thrust of the wind from the storm is feared to be felt as long as 220km from the eye of […]

Speaking to the media at the Secretariat on Monday, Kamal urged CPD to work ‘for’ the people instead of ‘standing against’ the country. His comments came after CPD on Sunday questioned the country’s 8 percent GDP growth, comparing the figure to ‘a kite without a string’. “How much taxes are […]

In an audio recording uploaded on the Telegram app, the Islamic State mourned the loss of al-Baghdadi, who led the organisation for nearly a decade, and its spokesman, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, who was killed a day after al-Baghdadi and who had widely been considered a potential successor. The audio recording […]

<![CDATA[ ]]> <![CDATA[ /**/ ]]> <![CDATA[ /**/ ]]>   >>  Reuters Published: 28 Oct 2019 03:36 AM BdST Updated: 28 Oct 2019 03:36 AM BdST Singapore-based trading house Agrocorp secured a tender to supply 50,000 tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh after submitting the lowest offer of $255.46 a tonne, including […]

“We will do whatever necessary to implement the announcement on freeing Bangladesh from tobacco menace,” he told an event in Dhaka on Wednesday. The minister claimed the number of smokers in Bangladesh has decreased to 35 percent of the population from 40 percent. But he expressed concerns over the rising […]

The Queen is in Dhaka as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development. Mahmood Ali led a finance ministry delegation on Saturday at the meeting in the capital. Financial Institutions Secretary Ashadul Islam and Finance Secretary Abdur Raouf Talukder were also present as members of the delegation. […]