SM Najmus Sakib | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
Despite restrictions imposed by the authorities, including the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), battery-run rickshaws and easy-bikes are plying the main roads and flyovers in the city, regardless of the traffic rules and norms, after making a defiant return.The DMP has...
SAIF UDDIN | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
New investments in local start-ups declined significantly in 2024 compared to the previous year mainly due to political turmoil, economic uncertainties, and changing global trends, according to a report. The volume of new funding fell by around 43 per cent...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
Corporate external borrowing continues on downturn amid economic slowdown, in what is deemed a blessing in disguise as the loads of overseas debts on the economy also drop. By official count, the stock of short-term overseas debts dropped to $10.13...
Fortune Barishal lifted the title of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) for the second consecutive time, beating Chittagong Kings by three wickets on Friday at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, reports UNB.Tamim Iqbal, who led Barishal last year to their maiden...
Jahidul Islam | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
An ordinance remaking the porous public-procurement law comes soon for mandatory electronic government purchases in all relevant cases as the changed regime finds loopholes for abuse, sources say. They say the current interim government has finalised the draft of the...
Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan has said that the present government would take steps soon to ban Awami League (AL) as a political party, reports BSS."First of all, it's very positive that political parties...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
A clarion call comes from the government for all citizens to immediately restore complete order and ensure no further attacks on property of the Hasina family and politicians of her "fascist" Awami League party, or against any citizen for that...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
Insurance regulator now wants requisite power to adequately punish errant insurers for bringing them under control in the wake of widespread allegations of noncompliance, especially non-settlement of huge claims of policyholders. To this end, the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met Office.Light to moderate fog may occur from late night to early morning. Night temperature may fall by (1-2)°C, and...
Five new dengue cases were reported in the last 24 hours until Friday morning, bringing the total number of cases this year to 1,250, reports UNB.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), one of the new cases was...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
Detective Branch (DB) of police freed on Friday actresses Meher Afroz Shaon and Sohana Saba after questioning on different issues.Deputy Police Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Muhammad Talebur Rahman confirmed the matter to the media.They...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has increased the cost of withdrawing cash from ATM booths of other banks, with the revised charges set to take effect on February 20.These new charges are part of the BB's efforts to regulate electronic banking...
Chief Adviser (CA) Prof Muhammad Yunus has said the next government, that comes to office through the next election, will have a 'very safe and sound' democratic basis to work with, reports UNB.In an interview on Wednesday with NHK World,...
Chinese Ambassador Yao Wen along with his spouse visited the month-long Bangla Academy 'Amar Ekushey Boimela' in the capital on Friday. Cultural Affairs Adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki accompanied them. — FE Photo
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) personnel resorted to baton charges and water cannons to disperse teacher candidates protesting outside the chief advisor's residence on Friday around 3:30pm, reports bdnews24.com.The protestors had gathered after the High Court annulled the recruitment process...
GULAM RABBANI | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) faces uncertainties over realising Tk 11.93 billion that three defunct airlines owe it. The airlines are Regent Airways, United Airways and GMG Airlines. CAAB has taken several initiatives, including filing money suits, to...
SAVAR, Feb 7(BSS): The long-awaited elections for the Jahangirnagar University Central Students' Union (JUCSU) and its hall units are expected to take place by late May this year."Before the elections, some essential reforms must be made to amend the JUCSU...
FE REPORT | 2025-02-08 00:00:00
Police have arrested three people for their alleged involvement in distributing anti-government leaflets in Arambagh area of the capital.The arrestees have been identified as Md Nazrul Islam (42), Md Jahangir Biswas (32) and Shipon (20).Police have also seized a good...
BNP Vice-Chairman Barkatullah Bulu speaking at the central council of Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital on Friday. — Focus Bangla
NARAYANGANJ, Feb 7 (UNB): Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has claimed that former party chief Ghulam Azam died as a victim of oppression by the fallen Awami League (AL) government.Addressing a party rally in Narayanganj's Osmani Municipal Stadium on Friday,...
NARAYANGANJ, Feb 7 (UNB): Unknown assailants has gunned down thana-level Swechchhasebak Dal leader in Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj.The deceased is Mamun Hossain (40), son of local Samon Ali of Purbo Lalpur area under the upazila. He held the post of...
India has said the act of vandalism at the historic residence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman should be strongly condemned, reports UNB."It is regrettable that the historic residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, a symbol of the heroic resistance of the...
A number of houses of Awami League (AL) leaders have been destroyed in different districts, reports UNB,In Khulna, protestors vandalised and looted a warehouse on ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ancestral property in Dighalia upazila of Khulna, said locals on...
Voicing deep concern over the acts of vandalism and arson across the country, the BNP has called upon the interim government to establish control over the situation by strictly enforcing law and order, reports UNB.In a statement early Friday, the...
GENEVA, Feb 07 (AFP): Sexual violence against children in violence-ravaged Haiti soared tenfold last year, the UN children's agency said Friday, as gangs who control most of the capital upped their recruitment of children.Haiti has been mired for decades by...
Australian reptile handlers say they have been stunned to rescue 102 venomous snakes from a backyard mulch pile in Sydney, reports BBC.Cory Kerewaro said his business was initially called to rescue "a bunch" of the reptiles after one was reported...
MUMBAI, Feb 07 (Reuters): India's top opposition leader questioned the country's main election body on Friday over what he said were suspect electoral rolls in the richest Indian state.Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India's Congress party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's...
NEW DELHI, Feb 07 (Reuters): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the United States from February 12 to 13 and hold talks with President Donald Trump, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Friday.The visit follows an invitation from...
In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia, a Syrian orthodox priest, looked up towards the stained glass windows above him, then back down at his hands. He adjusted the gold cross hanging from his...
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