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Two killed as Russia batters Ukraine energy sites

Russia battered Ukrainian energy facilities with hundreds of drones and missiles, Kyiv said Thursday, killing two people, wounding children, and piling more pressure on Ukraine’s fragile energy grid...

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UCBIL, Brain Station 23 sign issue management deal

UCB Investment Limited and Brain Station 23 PLC have recently signed an issue management agreement related to the company’s upcoming initial qualified investor offer or IQIO, said a press release...

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When modesty becomes a command

BANGLADESH is a land of rivers, tides, and storms. Women here have always moved with the pulse of the delta — planting rice before dawn, carrying water through monsoon rains, leading classrooms and communities, raising voices in the streets. Their dignity was never measured by the width of a scarf or the color of a cloth. And yet today, a simple piece of cloth...

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Ukraine slams Russian attack on children’s hospital

A Russian strike on a children’s hospital in southern Ukraine wounded at least nine people, including four children, authorities said Wednesday, while president Volodymyr Zelensky called it a ‘deliberate’ attack that shows Moscow does not want peace...

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AB Bank hosts AML, CFT training

AB Bank PLC has organised a daylong training programme on ‘Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism’ for its senior officials, said a press release...

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Russia captures three more Ukraine villages

Russia said Monday its troops had captured three more villages in Ukraine, with Moscow trying to press its advantage on the battlefield amid stalled peace efforts...

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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill 4

Russian overnight drone and missile strikes killed four people and wounded some 20 others in the Ukraine capital Kyiv and several other regions, authorities said Saturday...

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Driving training welcome step towards road safety

The government’s consideration of making 60 hours’ training from approved institutes mandatory for driving licences marks a overdue but commendable step towards improving road safety. For far too long, untrained and reckless driving has remained one of the principal causes of the appalling record of road accidents, which continue to claim thousands of lives every...

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Govt mulls 60-hour mandatory training for driving licence

The government is likely to make 60-hour training mandatory from a government recognised training institute for getting driving licence, said the interim government adviser to the road transport and bridges ministry Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan on Wednesday...

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Special training planned for leather industry

The Institute of Leather Engineering and Technology of Dhaka University plans a special training programme to create qualified and skilled manpower in the field of leather processing technology...

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Correlating training, skills and employability

While training and development has fir long been treated as a cliché, in the parlance of management literature, the terms have not lost their lustre yet in terms of market demand and supply chain of skilled labour between the potential sending and receiving countries of expatriate workers. Even this time of Industrial Revolution 4.0, some businesses such as...

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243 citizens want investigation, punishment for perpetrators

A cross-section of 243 citizens on Tuesday called for a proper investigation into the death of Sornomoye Biswas, a trainee graphic designer at the online news portal Dhaka Stream, and demanded that those responsible be held accountable...

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Europe backs Trump’s Ukraine peace push

European leaders Tuesday threw their support behind president Donald Trump’s peace push for Ukraine, while reaffirming their red lines, as the Kremlin cast doubt on chances of an imminent summit between the US leader and Vladimir Putin...

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Agrani Bank launches 30-day basic banking course

Agrani Bank Training Institute on Sunday launched a 30-day long basic banking training course for cash officers of Agrani Bank PLC’s 94th and 95th batches, said a press release...

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50 Russia-linked suspects held in Poland since 2022

Fifty-five people suspected of acting on behalf of Moscow have been detained in Poland since the start of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a Polish special services spokesman said on Tuesday...

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Gaza deal brings hope for Ukraine: Zelensky

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday hailed the ‘extraordinary’ Gaza ceasefire as bringing hope that US president Donald Trump could broker an end to the Russian invasion of his country.

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Zelensky urges Trump to end Ukraine war

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in ‘the Middle East’ during a phone call Saturday, saying if Trump could stop one war, ‘others can be stopped as well’.

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Russian attack batters Ukraine energy grid

Russian drones and missiles pummelled Ukraine’s struggling energy infrastructure early Friday, cutting power to thousands across the country and killing a seven-year-old boy, authorities said.

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Rain likely for 3 more days

Rain is likely to continue over the next three days across the country, while the Dhaka city is expected to witness falls on Saturday, according to a forecast by the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

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Russia seeking chaos with new energy strikes: Zelensky

President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of sowing ‘chaos’ with fresh strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid, while escalating drone attacks forced Kyiv to begin new evacuations of children from frontline villages...