The government has taken initiatives to prepare a 10-year ICT roadmap under Bangladesh National Enterprise Architecture (BNA) to operate e-Government activities smoothly, official sources said, reports BSS. The World Bank financed Leveraging ICT for Growth, Employment and Governance (LICT) Project of…

Awami League Presidium Member and Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday said his party doesn’t believe in dismantling any political party rather it believes in people’s power, reports BSS. “We don’t pursue the politics of vengeance. We believe in people’s…

Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) Division asked under its all subordinate bodies to introduce e-tendering by January 31 in a bid to ensure transparency, accountability and good governance in public procurements, reports BSS. All divisions and departments under the LGRD ministry have also…

Two teams of bird watchers set off yesterday to conduct the 31st census of wetland birds in the country, including the winged guests who migrate from far away Siberia and Europe to escape the harsh winter there. The teams would be visiting the coastal areas of Bhola and Noakhali and the haors in northeastern…

Food Minister and Dhaka City Awami League joint general secretary Advocate Quamrul Islam yesterday called upon BNP to take recourse to positive politics discarding the politics of destruction and terrorism keeping in mind the next national polls, reports BSS. “Awami League pursues positive politics…

Rafik Azad, one of the most prolific and versatile poets of the country, was shifted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) yesterday from Anwar Khan Medical College Hospital at Dhanmondi in the capital for better treatment, reports BSS. The poet has been kept at the intensive care unit…

A goldsmith was hacked to death by miscreants at Zianagar in Dhaka’s Keraniganj yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Jhantu Ghosh, 22, son of Prafullah Ghosh of Atibazar in Keraniganj. Sources at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) said a group of 3-4 miscreants hacked …

Law enforcers arrested Khan Jahan Ali Group chairman Nur Mohammad from the port city yesterday in connection with the seizure of liquid cocaine at Chittagong Port on June 8 last year, reports UNB. Jailer of Chittagong jail Zahedul Islam said Nur Mohammad was sent to jail in the afternoon when he was…