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Hasina seeks robust Singaporean investment in economic zones

Shawdesh Desk: Prime 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

Chinese company to act as service provider for realizing tolls at Bangabandhu Tunnel

Shawdesh Desk: China Communications Construction Company Ltd will act as the service provider for ensuring maintenance and realizing tolls at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel in Chattogram with a

Rohingya man among 4 sentenced to death in Cox’s Bazar narcotics case

Shawdesh Desk: The Cox’s Bazar District and Sessions Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced four people, including a Rohingya man, to death in a narcotics case filed in 2020 for possessing

Bangladesh targets to raise cotton production five folds by 2030

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh has set a target to raise five times the cotton production by 2030, introducing new varieties and expanding cultivation areas, since the country appeared as the second

Dhaka urges developed nations to double provision of adaptation finance by 2025

Shawdesh DEsk: Environment, forest and climate change affairs Minister Shahab Uddin has urged the developed countries to at least double their collective provision of adaptation finance by 2025, as agreed

Number of Bangladeshi students in USA reaches all-time high 

Shawdesh Desk: More than 10,500 Bangladeshi students attended higher education institutions in the United States during the 2021-2022 academic year, moving Bangladesh up to 13th from 14th place during the

Close monitoring on 5 highways to check movement of three-wheelers

Shawdesh Desk: Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said that they would monitor five national highways closely to stop movement of three-wheelers, including battery-run auto-rickshaws. The minister

Govt to turn fire service into highest efficient organisation

Shawdesh Desk: Calling the fire fighters as the ‘the friend of worst time’, Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that her government was working to turn the Fire