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Nkunku breaks Serie A goal duck to fire AC Milan top

2025-12-29 00:00:00

MILAN, Italy, Dec 28 (AFP): Christopher Nkunku fired AC Milan top of Serie A with a brace in Sunday's 3-0 win over Verona at the San Siro, the France forward's first goals in Italy's top flight.Nkunku ended a league goal...

Today's Matches (2025-12-29)

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Ronaldo double drives Al Nassr to record win

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Al Nassr beat struggling Al Okhdood 3-0 on Saturday to become the first team in Saudi Pro League history to win their opening 10 matches, setting a new record and extending their perfect start to...

MCG curator admits Boxing Day pitch error after 36 wickets fall in 2 days

2025-12-29 00:00:00

MELBOURNE, Dec 28 (AFP): Melbourne Cricket Ground head curator Matt Page said Sunday he was in a "state of shock" watching the carnage unfold during the two-day fourth Ashes Test which has left Cricket Australia facing millions of dollars in...

Seven BPL players included in Pakistan's T20I squad against Sri Lanka

2025-12-29 00:00:00

As many as seven Pakistan players who were signed by different franchisees of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) were named in Pakistan's squad for the next month's three-match T20 International series against Sri Lanka, report agencies.Those seven players would miss their...

Mehedi Rana 9th bowler to achieve BPL hat-trick

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh pacer Mehedi Hasan Rana became the ninth bowler to claim a hat-trick in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 tournament, report agencies.Playing for Noakhali Express, the pacer achieved the feat against Sylhet Titans at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium...

NEWS IN BRIEF__2025-12-29

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Russia will achieve its Ukraine aims by force if Kyiv doesn't want peace: PutinMOSCOW, Dec 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine was in no hurry for peace and if it did not want to resolve their conflict peacefully, Moscow...

French legend Brigitte Bardot dead at 91

2025-12-29 00:00:00

PARIS, Dec 28 (AFP): French film legend Brigitte Bardot, a cinema icon of the 1950s and sixties who walked away from global stardom to become an animal rights protector, has died aged 91, her foundation said Sunday.Bardot had rarely been...

Thais, Cambodians fear returning home despite border truce

2025-12-29 00:00:00

BANGKOK, Dec 28 (AFP): At a Thai university-turned-shelter for displaced people, Kanlaya Somjettana is reluctant to go home even after a truce halted weeks of border clashes with Cambodia, fearing the violence may not be over.She said some people forced...

Israel seals off Palestinian village

2025-12-29 00:00:00

GAZA, Dec 28 (Agencies): Israeli forces imposed a lockdown on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, their second day of operations there after a local resident killed two people in Israel."The IDF (Israeli army) is operating...

Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war

2025-12-29 00:00:00

YANGON, Dec 28 (AFP): Voters trickled to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government and triggered a civil war.Former civilian...

GADGETS & SERVICES_2025-12-29

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Dhaka to host HackerOne bug hunt and InfoSec conference again Dhaka will host the Information Security Conference and HackerOne Bug Hunt for the third time on January 10, featuring an on-site hacking competition at the National Science and Technology Complex,...

How digital power is strengthening industrial resilience in Bangladesh

TECHEXPRESS DESK | 2025-12-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh's industrial sector is entering a critical phase in its energy transition. The central question is no longer whether renewable energy will be adopted, but how reliably it can support industrial operations in the long run. Rising fuel costs, grid...

Bangladesh's expatriate earnings mask structural weakness

Bazlul H Khondker and Samah J Majid | 2025-12-29 00:00:00

Remittances have long underpinned Bangladesh's economy - boosting household consumption, stabilising the balance of payments and acting as a buffer against shocks. From a modest US$1.4 billion in the 1997 financial year, inflows surpassed US$30 billion in the 2025 financial...

Sustainable finance for overcoming climate impacts

Muhammad Zamir | 2025-12-29 00:00:00

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has recently pointed out that climate change is beginning to become an existential threat for humanity. In this context environmentalist Cecilia Russel has drawn the attention of the world to some observations made recently...

Prolonged delays in public services

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Public services are a key way through which a state ensures administrative support, development and justice for its citizens. However, in Bangladesh, prolonged delays in public services have become a persistent problem, causing widespread inconvenience and harassment.Even for simple certificates...

Discrimination against healthcare professionals

2025-12-29 00:00:00

In the modern healthcare system, alongside doctors and nurses, medical technologists and diploma pharmacists play an essential role in ensuring accurate diagnosis and proper medication management. From the delicate scientific work of diagnosing diseases to guaranteeing the safe distribution and...

Erratum

2025-12-29 00:00:00

The headline of the editorial in the December 28, 2025 issue of The Financial Express was erroneously printed as "Ensuring expeditions commercial justice". It should have been "Ensuring expeditious commercial justice". We regret the inadvertent mistake.

Saying no to suicide

Neil Ray | 2025-12-29 00:00:00

That 40-41people terminate their lives every day, according to recent police data, in this country should send a chill down the spine. The very word 'suicide' has a story behind and that certainly is not very positive. People by nature...

Has interim govt been up to public's expectation?

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-12-29 00:00:00

The interim government inherited the virtual wreckage of a state left by the autocracy toppled in the popular upsurge. The financial sector, especially the banks were in a shambles. The ousted autocracy would like to portray a rosy picture of...

The urban-rural lending divide

2025-12-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh is predominantly a rural country, with around 68 per cent of its population living in rural areas. A large segment of this population is deprived of formal banking services due to a lack of bank branches in remote areas....

Youth beaten, hacked: Family blames Jamaat men

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-28 00:00:00

A 25-year-old man, Abu Sufian Siju, was beaten and hacked after being tied to an electric pole in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj, leaving him in critical condition. He has been admitted to the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation...

Islamic banks' CSR continues to shrink amid liquidity stress

SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-12-28 00:00:00

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure by Islamic banks in Bangladesh has witnessed a persistent downward trend, with spending in the third quarter of 2025 falling significantly from what it was a year ago.According to the latest Bangladesh Bank (BB) data,...

35 sacks of cash, gold found in boxes

2025-12-28 00:00:00

KISHOREGANJ, Dec 27 (BSS) : A total of 35 sacks of cash, along with gold ornaments and foreign currency, have been recovered from 13 donation boxes at the historic Pagla Mosque in Kishoreganj.The donation boxes were opened at around 7:00...

NCP leaders oppose seat-sharing with Jamaat-led bloc

FE REPORT | 2025-12-28 00:00:00

At least 30 leaders of the central committee of the National Citizen Party (NCP) have raised strong objections to any potential political alliance or seat-sharing arrangement with the Jamaat-e-Islami-led eight-party bloc.In a letter sent on Saturday to NCP Convener Nahid...

RNPP project revision faces delays amid financial scrutiny

JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-12-28 00:00:00

The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project, originally planned for 9.5 years with a budget of Tk 1.13 trillion, is set to reach the end of its tenure next Tuesday. So far, around 72.5 per cent of the works has...

BSF halts fence construction at border after BGB intervention

2025-12-28 00:00:00

Joypurhat, Dec 27 (UNB): Indian Border Security Force (BSF) attempted to construct a barbed-wire fence at the Ghonapara border in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat on Saturday morning, violating international border regulations, but were forced to stop after intervention by Border...

Fire on St. Martin-bound ship kills crew member

2025-12-28 00:00:00

COX'S BAZAR, Dec 27 (BSS) : A fire broke out on the Saint Martin-bound vessel 'The Atlantic Cruise' at the Nuniachara BIWTA (Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority) Ghat here early Saturday, killing one crew member.The fire erupted in the engine...

Poor crop quality hits ambitions

JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-12-28 00:00:00

The push to expand agro-processing is running up against a fundamental constraint: much of the country's farm output does not meet industrial specifications. Despite frequent bumper harvests driven by fertile alluvial soil, ample freshwater and a monsoon-based agro-climate, processors say...

Korean firm eyes rail coach assembly

2025-12-28 00:00:00

MUNIMA SULTANAA delegation from a leading South Korean rolling-stock manufacturer is expected to visit Dhaka soon to explore the possibility of setting up an assembly plant for metro- and conventional-railway coaches in Bangladesh.The move comes as authorities seek ways to...