Experts at a seminar yesterday called for more investment in food safety to ensure food security as well as rural development, reports UNB. They also demanded taking necessary initiatives for amending the Food Safety Act 2013 to prevent food adulteration. Bangladesh Safe Agro Food Efforts (BSAFE) Foundation,…

The 53rd birth anniversary of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, observed yesterday, reports UNB.…

PayPal, a global online payment system, will start its service in Bangladesh today, paving the way for hassle-free electronic money transfer and increasing access to foreign consumers as well as easing the collection of money for the freelancers of the country, reports BSS. Sajeeb Wazed Joy, information…

The government has appointed Prime Minister’s Deputy Press Secretary Md Nazrul Islam (additional secretary) as the premier’s additional press secretary, reports BSS. The Ministry of Public Administration issued a notification in this regard yesterday. Nazrul, an information cadre official…

Mofazzal Hossain alias Abul Bashar Mofazzal Hossain, a suspected war crime accused from Trishal Upazila of Mymensingh district, was shown arrested for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Liberation in 1971. Three-member International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) bench headed by its chairman…

The well-marked low pressure in the west-central Bay of Bengal has every possibility of drifting away further towards the south-eastern Indian coast. Without turning into a storm, it is likely to bring heavy showers there as well as in Bangladesh, mostly in the south, from Friday, meteorologists said.…