Desk Report: According to stakeholders, a cold storage or processing factory can help growers profit Guava growers in Jhalakathi are incurring losses because there are no storage arrangements for the tropical fruit. This fruit perishes within a few days of ripening—and c ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) plans to organise a weeklong event to celebrate its silver jubilee. Saifur Rahman, executive director of the stockmarket regulator, announced the programme schedule at a press meet at the BSEC office in D ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: Asian Development Bank's lending to Bangladesh is likely to exceed $2 billion this year, said a top official yesterday. The ADB has already approved over $1.6 billion, of which $1,535 million is sovereign, $60 million non-sovereign and $8.7 million technical as ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: Goethe-Institut Bangladesh and its five partner schools have celebrated 10 years of “Schools: Partner for the Future” (PASCH initiative) with a concert by German-Swiss reagga and dancehall band RAGGABUND. As part of the celebration, the four-member band roc ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: Cube, the biggest bicycle manufacturer in Europe, has teamed up with Meghna Group to produce high-quality cycles in Bangladesh. In June, the two companies formed a joint venture company named Hana System Ltd with about Tk 100 crore in investments. Germany's Cu ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: Mokseda has become a symbol of women’s struggle for success Mokseda Begum, owner of a garment shop in Thakurgaon, has become a model for the country’s grassroots women entrepreneurs. At the heart of the district town’s Howlader Market, the shop named ‘ ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: The country's earnings from goods exports witnessed a sluggish 2.51 per cent growth to $6.79 billion in the first two months of the current fiscal year (FY), 2018-19. The earnings also surpassed the target set for the months by 3.24 per cent, according to offici ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: A chartered accountant of Dulali village in Bhelabari union under Aditmari upazila is encouraging farmers to cultivate tea instead of tobacco on their fields in the plainland by cultivating tea himself and earning good profit. “At first, the farmers did not b ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: The mother and the cubs are all in good health. After the birth of the first white tiger cub in the Chittagong Zoo on July 19, the second was born in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur. The mother tiger gave birth to three cubs on August 8. Am ...বিস্তারিত
Desk Report: The atmosphere was electric at that point. No one moved even though the show had ended The six-day exhibition “A Struggle for Democracy: A Photo Journey by Shahidul Alam” concluded on Monday, at the Drik Gallery, Dhanmondi. Shahidul Alam’s partner, Rehnum ...বিস্তারিত