November2024
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Test train reaches Khulna via Padma Bridge
Nov 25, 2024Preparations for launching Dhaka-Khulna direct train service via Padma Bridge have proceeded one step forward as the last test run train reached Khulna at 1:10pm today. “The last trial train with the speed of around 100... -
GP, Ericsson tie up to deliver better customer services
Nov 25, 2024In order to improve the user experience, mobile phone operator Grameenphone and IT behemoth Ericsson have joined forces to concentrate on innovation, expansion, and the implementation of state-of-the-art solutions through workshops, pilot projects, and technology trials.... -
Basel voters approve funding for Eurovision 2025: early results
Nov 25, 2024Shortly after the polls closed, preliminary results showed that voters in the Swiss city of Basel on Sunday overwhelmingly supported spending about $40 million to host the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. Sixty-four percent of voters in... -
Iran director in exile says ‘bittersweet’ to rep Germany at Oscars
Nov 25, 2024Dissident filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who was forced to leave Iran, says it is bittersweet that his most recent film will be competing at the Oscars under a different nation’s banner. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,”... -
Weeklong divisional book fair begins in Khulna on Nov 26
Nov 25, 2024On November 26, a seven-day book expo will open on the Divisional Commissioner’s office in Khulna city. The government has decided to hold divisional level book fairs throughout the nation in an effort to encourage the... -
Banana taped to a wall sells for $6.2 mn in New York
Nov 25, 2024According to a statement from Sotheby’s, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur paid $6.2 million on Wednesday for a fresh banana taped to a wall, a controversial piece of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, at a New... -
UAE Ambassador calls on Hassan Ariff
Nov 25, 2024Abdulla Ali Abdulla Khaseif AlHmoudi, the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Bangladesh, paid a courtesy call on A F Hassan Ariff, the interim government’s adviser on tourism and civil aviation, at the Bangladesh... -
Police initiate probe into passenger harassment incidents at HSIA
Nov 25, 2024An investigation into the passenger harassment events at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) here has been started by the Special Branch of Police. According to a statement sent by the chief adviser’s press wing, it has... -
Tazreen fashion victims demand compensation
Nov 25, 2024Families of the victims of the Tazreen fashion fire catastrophe have called for factory owner Delwar Hossain to be held to outstanding standards and to provide sufficient recompense to the workers who were killed and injured.... -
Power review committee for hiring reputed international law firm
Nov 25, 2024A reputable legal and investigative firm should be hired by the government to help evaluate large power generation contracts signed during Sheikh Hasina’s authoritarian leadership from 2009 to 2024, the National Review Committee on Power, Energy,...
