Sheersha News is one of the famous online news portal of Bangladesh. Mainly they are focus on political issues, but not only that, entertainment, business, science, technology, sports, movies, travel, jobs, education, health, environment, human-rights news and also the breaking news are available in their online news portal. Sheersha News has very rich news portal in Read More…»
COAST Trust and Counter Foto is going to organize an event. Everybody is invited to join the discussion and photo exhibition titled “Remembering 29 April 1991: Is our coast still safe?” going to be held tomorrow, 29 April 2014, 10.30 am to 1.30 pm at the National Press Club Auditorium. The Photo Exhibition will be Read More…»
Multinational tobacco giant British American Tobacco, Bangladesh (BATB) and other domestic tobacco companies have been engaged into a closed-door meeting with the NBR Chairman at his office today (28 April, 2014) since morning. Although the meeting was scheduled as part of a pre-budget discussion on tobacco taxation in the upcoming budget, the tobacco makers denied Read More…»

To mark the occasion of successful installation of 500,000 Bondhu Chulas (Improved Cooking Stoves) in Bangladesh, German Development Cooperation and the Department of Environment organized a rally and discussion program in the capital today (Sunday, 27 April 2014). The rally started from the Central Shaheed Minar in the morning and ended at the Osmani Read More…»
National Board of Revenue (NBR) has held a secret meeting with the Cigarette Manufacturers’ Association of Bangladesh (CMAB). The meeting was held on April 28, 2014 at the chamber of Golam Rahman, the NBR chairman, from 11.00am to 12.15pm at the NBR office, although it was slated to be held at the NBR conference room Read More…»
Nearly 500 local IT professionals and students on Sunday sat for second international standardized Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) held in Dhaka and Rajshahi, to get a global recognition of their IT skills. The examination was held at Curzon Hall, University of Dhaka (DU), Computer Science and Engineering Department, BUET here and Rajshahi University simultaneously. The ITEE, Read More…»
SIR FRANK PETERS :: April 27 is a day in history no Catholic is likely to forget. During a special Mass service at the Vatican, co-celebrated by Pope Francis and his predecessor Benedict, two popes – John Paul II and John XXIII – were given the highest honour and declared saints: one of the most Read More…»
Bangladesh Joins the ‘Global Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict’. Bangladesh has finally joined the “Global Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict” launched jointly in New York by British Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura on 24 September 2013 during Read More…»
International Programs of IUBAT — ‘International University of Business Agriculture and Technology’ organized “MoU Handing over Ceremony between IUBAT and Niketon (a Dutch NGO in Bangladesh),” at 3 PM, on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at the IUBAT Founder’s Room#210. Mrs Antoinette Termoshuizen (From Netherlands), who is Founder and Project Coordinator of a Dutch NGO in Bangladesh, Read More…»
Scrapping of price slabs and increase in tax rate (supplementary duty) is the best way to cut the consumption of tobacco products says a report published in the Financial Express on April 27, 2014 by an ATMA member FHM Humayan Kabir. National Board of Revenue’s faulty fixing of price slab failed to discourage smoking and Read More…»
“It is good to see that the political climate in Bangladesh has stabilized and that right-minded thinking is percolating through all political camps as evident from the recent local level elections,” said Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, the Commonwealth Secretary General during his call on the Bangladesh Foreign Minister Mr. A. H. Mahmood Ali, MP here yesterday.. Read More…»

The Unnayan Onneshan (UO), an independent multidisciplinary think-tank, in its current monthly issue of the Bangladesh Economic Update reveals that the recent underperformances in external sector is due to falling investment demand-induced decreased import, declining remittance, lack of diversity in export, and unsatisfactory inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI), causing the continuation of declining growth Read More…»
By Zahid Al Amin :: Media have been playing inevitable role in the world and Bangladesh as well. The role of media and its impact on the society became prominent since the restoration of democracy after 90s. But the way of the journey of the press is not always smooth. The institution is going forward Read More…»