The government has decided to review the existing import duties on raw and refined sugar following a decline in the prices of the item in the international market.The government high-ups will sit Thursday in the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to review the existing import duties on both raw and...
Read moreA platform of Rohingya has placed several demands, including "direct, meaningful and sustained consultation" with the refugees in the repatriation process.In a letter to the UN Security Council (UNSC), the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights has also demanded recognition of their status as Rohingya, guarantees of non-reprisal,...
Read moreThe central bank of Bangladesh has taken initiatives to expedite the flow of inward remittances from Japan and South Korea, officials said.Under the latest moves, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) is giving approval to the interested commercial banks for setting up more drawing arrangements with money transfer companies in the two...
Read moreRANGPUR, Sept 02 (UNB): At least six people were killed and 50 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses at Seo Bazar in the city on Sunday.The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.The accident took place when a bus of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC)...
Read moreBritish Prime Minister Theresa May said she would not compromise with Brussels over her plans for Brexit as a media report said rivals in her party were set to publish their own proposal calling for a cleaner break with the European Union, reports Reuters.With under two months before Britain and...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, Sep 2: After a long-drawn legal battle, the battery-run three-wheeler rickshaws and auto-bikes have started plying the city roads today. Bangladesh Battery-run Auto-Rickshaw, Auto Bike Service and Bangladesh Awami Battery-run Auto-Rickshaw and Auto Bike Federation have announced it.Leaders of the organisation said the battery-run rickshaws and auto-bikes will be...
Read moreAt least six people were killed when a suicide car bomb struck a local government office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, destroying the building and a Quranic school opposite, reports Reuters.Islamist militant group Al Shabaab said it was behind the attack on Hawlwadag district office, which also blew off the...
Read moreKATHMANDU, Sept 02: Nepal's only international airport had to be closed for some 11 hours after a domestic aircraft skidded off the recently repaired runway, officials said Sunday, reports Gulf News.The Jetstream 41 was flying in to Kathmandu from Nepalgunj in southern Nepal late Saturday with 21 passengers onboard when...
Read moreDhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Panel Mayor Jamal Mostafa said on Sunday roads near the Tejgaon truck stand will remain free from illegal parking from Monday, reports UNB.He came up with the information while talking to reporters following a meeting with truck owners and workers after visiting the roads which...
Read moreBEIJING, Sept 02 (Reuters): China is still determined to reform and wants to work with all parties to build an open world economy, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, reiterating Beijing's message amid a bitter trade war with Washington. The two countries have been rolling out a series of...
Read moreA total 1,549 people have lost their lives in the Mediterranean since the beginning of 2018, compared to 2,434 during the same time in 2017, the UN migration agency has said, reports IANS.More than 68,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through 29 August, 28,579 of whom landed in...
Read moreCAIRO, Sep 2 (AP): Egypt said Sunday that archeologists have unearthed one of the oldest villages ever found in the Nile Delta, with remains dating back to before the pharaohs.The Antiquities Ministry said the Neolithic site was discovered in Tell el-Samara, about 140 kilometers (87 miles) north of Cairo. Chief...
Read moreBASRA (Iraq), Sept 02 (Reuters): About 150 protesters gathered at the main entrance to Iraq's giant Nahr Bin Omar oilfield in the southern oil hub of Basra on Sunday, police said, amid growing unrest in southern cities over poor public services and corruption.Officials at the field, operated by state-run Basra...
Read moreIllegal makeshift structures occupying the bank of Buriganga at Lalbagh. The photograph was taken on Sunday — FE photo
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