To welcome and celebrate the ”Shubho Noboborsho”, Dhaka’s premier Indian restaurant Khazana is offering their guests a special ‘Opar Bangla Mahabhoj Thali’ for lunch and dinner.

They call themselves “flute sisters”. Aptly so as they are siblings and adept flautists. Meet Suchismita and Debopriya who performed the other evening on International Women’s Day.

In Bangladesh, the largest employment sector is agriculture, which accounts for about 48% of the total labour force (aged 15 years and above) of 49.5 million.

Although Bangladesh is considered to be one of the emerging Asian economies, it would still require 40 years to break the shackles of poverty, said Martin Rama, acting chief economist of the World Bank South Asia region, yesterday.