Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) today has imposed a ban on all forms of gatherings in some areas of the capital. The decision, announced in a statement today, signed by DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali. According to the statement, the ban will be effective in the areas adjacent to Kochukhet Road, Bijoy Sarani, the Chief Adviser’s Office (CAO), Birsreshtho Shaheed Jahangir Gate, BAF Shaheen College, Mohakhali Flyover, Sainik Club intersection, Bhashantek, Matikata and ECB Chattar.
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The National Economic Council (NEC) will sit tomorrow to consider a possible Annual Development Programme (ADP) with an outlay of TK 2,30,000 crore keeping highest allocation in the transport and communication sector. NEC Chairperson and Chief Adviser Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus is scheduled to preside over the meeting to be held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar. Of the proposed ADP outlay of TK 2,30,000 crore for the next fiscal year (FY26), TK 1,44,000 crore is likely to come from the government of Bangladesh portion while the rest of TK 86,000 crore as project loan…
(BSS/AFP) – At least 22 people were wounded, three of them critically, when a Mexican Navy training ship slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday, the navy said in a statement. “No personnel fell into the water, so it was not necessary to activate rescue operations,” the statement added, following the accident involving the Cuauhtemoc training vessel.
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has completed dredging of 108 km canal in the city as part of a project for revival of 220 km of waterway by the end of this year. DNCC administrator Mohammad Azaz has said so far digging up of 108 km canal has been completed and the remaining work of 112 km canal will conclude by end of this year to facilitate water flow. Talking to BSS Mohammad Azaz said as per the Cadastral Survey Khatiyan (CS Khatian), around 340 km canal crisscrossed Dhaka City. But, about 120 km canal were completely abolished due to…
Claiming that the microcredit is the “real banking”, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today stressed establishing a ‘Microcredit Bank’ to create more entrepreneurs by disbursing collateral free small credit among young people. “Microcredit has reached such stage…we have to think it newly – establishment of Microcredit Bank. This is NGO now, it must be graduated from NGO now,” he said. The Chief Adviser said this while inaugurating the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) building at city’s Agargaon area here today. Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser’s Special Assistant Dr Anisuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh Bank governor Ahsan H Mansur, Financial Institution Division Secretary…
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus today released a commemorative stamp marking the International Telecommunication Day. The Chief Adviser released the stamp at the State Guest House Jamuna here, Chief Adviser’s Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder told BSS.
UK religious leaders on Friday called on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to tone down his language about migration, after comparisons were made to an inflammatory speech in the 1960s. Labour leader Starmer this week announced tougher new policies to tackle high levels of migration, in an attempt to stem a growing loss of support to the hard right. In a speech, he said the UK risked becoming “an island of strangers”, prompting comparisons to similar phrasing in the late politician Enoch Powell’s so-called “rivers of blood” speech about the dangers of uncontrolled immigration in 1968. Downing Street has strongly rejected…
A mix of Democratic and Republican state attorneys on Friday called on Congress to reject a moratorium on regulating artificial intelligence included in US President Donald Trump’s tax bill. Top attorneys representing 40 states signed a letter urging leaders in Congress to reject the AI regulation moratorium language added to the budget reconciliation bill. “The impact of such a broad moratorium would be sweeping and wholly destructive of reasonable state efforts to prevent known harms associated with AI,” the letter states. “This bill will affect hundreds of existing and pending state laws passed and considered by both Republican and Democratic…
South Korea’s impeached ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol said Saturday he is leaving his conservative party ahead of snap elections triggered by his ouster last month over a disastrous bid to impose martial law. The country goes to the polls on June 3 to choose a successor to Yoon, whose removal from office has thrown the country and his People Power Party into turmoil. The party has been under pressure to expel Yoon, who is standing trial on criminal charges of insurrection, as the main opposition Democratic Party’s candidate, Lee Jae-myung, widens his lead in polls. “I am leaving the People…
Russia and Ukraine agreed a large-scale prisoner exchange, said they would trade ideas on a possible ceasefire and discussed a potential meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in their first direct talks in over three years on Friday. But coming out of the highly anticipated talks in Istanbul, which lasted just over 90 minutes, there were few signs of more significant progress toward ending the three-year war. Kyiv was seeking an “unconditional ceasefire” to pause a conflict that has destroyed large swathes of Ukraine and displaced millions of people. Moscow has consistently rebuffed those calls and the only concrete…
