Women's participation in outdoor jobs across the country is increasing in a faster pace than expected, but having safe and secure living places for such single women in the capital still remains a distant dream, reports UNB.
Private hostels for single working women in the city provide the "worst services" taking extremely high charges while the [...]

Bangladesh has enough cows, buffaloes and goats to meet the demand for sacrificial animals during the Eid-ul-Azha, the Department of Livestock Services says, reports bdnews24.com.
According to the department, Muslims in Bangladesh slaughtered 10.5 million cattle during the Eid last year while the number of cattle ready to be slaughtered this Eid is over 11.5 million, [...]

The government will request India to withdraw anti-dumping duty imposed on import of jute goods from Bangladesh, officials said.
The Bangladesh Tariff Commission (BTC) has already prepared a required brief for reviewing the decision with the Indian authorities as per the directions of the textiles and jute ministry, they added.
The government is sincerely trying to resolve [...]

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Dutch-Bangla Bank Saturday awarded scholarship to 4,032 students who passed SSC and equivalent examinations in 2017 and are now studying at higher secondary level in different colleges of the country at a ceremony held at Shaheed Surhawardy Indoor Stadium in city.
Finance minister Abul Maal A Muhith was present as the chief guest while the [...]

Two banks and one non-banking financial institution will raise Tk 14 billion through issuing separate bonds to fulfil the condition of capital adequacy.
Among the companies, Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL) will raise Tk 5.0 billion, LankaBangla Finance Tk 5.0 billion and National Bank Limited (NBL) Tk 4.0 billion.
All these three companies are listed with the [...]

BEIJING, Aug 12: Thanks to the continuous blistering heatwave across many parts of China, the number of online and offline orders for late-night snacks in China's major cities has more than doubled, reported 21st Century Education Research Institute.
The data showed that for one of the most popular online food ordering platforms in China the top [...]

Supplementary budgets requesting authorisation of additional spending should be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) before actual spending.
The suggestion was made in a study on fiscal transparency in Bangladesh.
Currently the ministries, divisions or agencies first spend money in addition to their budgetary allocations, and then take approval of the spent money from the parliament.
The local [...]

A good number of new private commercial banks (PCBs) were not complying properly with the lending rules and regulations in cases of sanctioning and disbursement of the loans.
The findings were reveled in a study by Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM), which released a report on it Thursday.
The study also found that the new PCBs [...]

The parliamentary standing committee on the shipping ministry, in a recommendation on Thursday, asked the ministry to project the real picture of Chittagong port activities to counter 'false allegations the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) raised' recently.
In its 45th meeting, held at the parliament secretariat with Maj (retd) Rafiqul Islam in the chair, [...]

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has received a letter from her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, reports bdnews24.com.
Indian High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla handed the letter to Hasina during a courtesy call on her at the Ganabhaban on Thursday, the Prime Minister's Press Secretary Ihsanul Karim told the media.
Karim did not reveal the details about the content [...]