PORT SUDAN, Dec 01 (AFP): The United Nations humanitarian chief has called for immediate international action to address Sudan's deepening crisis, highlighting the suffering of millions displaced by conflict.Tom Fletcher spoke with refugees during a nine-day visit to Sudan and...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 01 (AFP): Malaysia's jailed ex-leader Najib Razak will begin his defence this week against graft charges tied to more than $500 million in alleged bribes, and argue to serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest.The...
BEIRUT, Dec 01 (AP/BBC/AFP): The Syrian military rushed in reinforcements Sunday to push back insurgents from advancing farther into the northern Hama countryside after they seized Aleppo and surrounding strategic locations in an adjacent province in a surprise offensive.The insurgents...
JERUSALEM, Dec 01 (AFP): Israel's former defence minister Moshe Yaalon on Saturday accused the Israeli army of "ethnic cleansing" in the Gaza Strip, sparking an outcry in the country."The road we are being led down is conquest, annexation and ethnic...
Muhammad Zamir | 2024-12-02 00:00:00
Greater availability of energy promotes economic development and facilitates meeting diverse needs associated with the manufacturing industry and agriculture. It also provides a better lifestyle for citizens. These factors lead countries to seek additional energy from hydrocarbons-- coal, oil and...
The stigma surrounding mental illness remains pervasive in society. A deeply ingrained misconception equates mental illness with madness, and mental health challenges are often misattributed to personal flaws, genetics, or biological factors. Due to a lack of understanding, mental illnesses...
The environmental destruction caused by brick kilns is alarming. Despite having policies for constructing and operating brick kilns in the country, these regulations are often flouted, leading to proliferation of illegal brick kilns. Many of these have been operating for...
Neil Ray | 2024-12-02 00:00:00
The University Grants Commission (UGC), the country's regulatory authority of higher education, has sounded, like previous years, through a public notice a warning for aspiring HSC-passed candidates not to get admitted to eight private universities. Those eight varsities are ineligible...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-12-02 00:00:00
The banking sector of the country has been made to bleed on an unprecedented scale during the past one and a half decades of the previous government overthrown on August 5 last. Unsurprisingly, Dr Ahsan H. Mansur, the current governor...
Bangladesh is set to graduate from the United Nations' Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026, an achievement initially seen as a significant milestone in its development journey. However, as the much-anticipated transition to a developing nation approaches, some critical...
TECHEXPRESS DESK | 2024-12-02 00:00:00
Banglalink, one of Bangladesh's leading digital communication service providers, has been honored with the prestigious 'Project Management Awards 2024', conferred by the Project Management Institute (PMI) Bangladesh. This recognition celebrates the company's exceptional execution of the 'Cumilla DC DR Project',...
TECHEXPRESS DESK | 2024-12-02 00:00:00
Smartphone apps with innovative features and services have become an integral part of people's lifestyle all across the world. Tech giants like Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Google, X, Uber etc. have successfully gained user loyalty by consistently introducing customer-centric features and...
RIAZ UDDIN HRIDOY | 2024-12-02 00:00:00
In a rapidly digitizing world, access to technology and digital literacy has become indispensable, yet for millions in marginalized communities, these remain inaccessible luxuries. In response to this pressing challenge, Grameenphone, in partnership with Plan International Bangladesh and Telenor, has...
LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters): November was a month of clear winners and losers from Donald Trump's Nov. 5 U.S. election victory.Trump trades, essentially punishing tariff-sensitive assets from European exporters to Mexico's peso and driving investment towards U.S. stocks and the...
As winter sets in, different fish varieties in bulk have started to hit city kitchen markets. The Saturday snap shows various types of fish up for sale at an evening market in the capital's Khilgaon area. — FE Photo by...
KISHOREGANJ, Nov 30 (UNB): The Pagla Mosque in Kishoreganj counted a staggering Tk 82 million from its donation boxes on Saturday.Fouzia Khan, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kishoreganj and President of the Pagla Mosque Management Committee, confirmed the collection after the...
CUMILLA, Nov 30 (UNB): Cumilla will be declared a division soon, said Local Government and Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Saturday."Cumilla demands division due to geographical considerations. So, it will be declared a division soon," he...
Three more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Saturday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 488 this year, reports UNB.The recent fatalities occurred in the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).During...
FE REPORTApparel trade bodies and business leaders on Saturday strongly condemned the attack on Mahmud Jeans deputy managing director (DMD) Rafee Mahmud.Mr Mahmud, also the son of the factory owner, was allegedly beaten up by his workers, who have been...
Maritime ports in Bangladesh have been instructed to keep distant warning signal number two hoisted as Cyclonic Storm Fengal intensifies over the Southwest Bay of Bengal, reports UNB.According to a special bulletin from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), as of...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left the country on Saturday for London, UK to meet acting chairman of the party Tarique Rahman. His wife Rahat Ara Begum was accompaning him during the visit. The couple...
Monira Munni | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh's share in the US denim trousers markets has witnessed a significant rise in the last seven years despite a gradual shrinking of the overall denim market there. Locally-made trousers have accounted for around 20.7 per cent of the US...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
The Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and public sector power plants owe a cumulative amount of Tk195 billion to Petrobangla until mid-November for their consumption of natural gas to generate electricity, officials said on Saturday.The IPPs, mostly run by foreign companies,...
PANCHAGARH, Nov 30 (UNB): The lowest temperature of the country was recorded at 10.3 degrees Celsius at Tetulia in Panchagarh on Saturday, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD).Panchagarh district had been experiencing the lowest temperature for the last five...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 30: Two separate cases have been filed by father and brother of slain Advocate Saiful Islam Alif over his brutal killing.Police said Jamal Uddin, father of Alif, lodged a murder case with Kotwali police station on Friday night...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
Around 23.33 per cent to 40 per cent of government money allocated under the Annual Development Programme (ADP) in the last 15 years has been embezzled through various forms of corruption, according to a draft report of the White Paper...
The High Court (HC) is likely to deliver its verdict on death reference and appeal on August 21 grenade attack cases today (Sunday, reports BSS.The cases (death reference, appeal, and jail appeal) are listed as item numbers 54 and 55...
Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain has flagged the Indian media's 'sudden hostility' towards Bangladesh as an 'obstacle' to establishing normal relations between the neighbouring countries, reports bdnews24.com.Speaking at a discussion on 'Bangladesh-India Relations' at a private university in Dhaka on...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
A newly devised mechanism styled merchant power plant policy (MPPP) provides for business-to-business electricity trade to replace the indemnified Independent Power Producers (IPPs) law that allows only private-to-public electricity business.Power, energy and mineral resources adviser of the interim government Muhammad...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2024-12-01 00:00:00
The interim government has repealed the 'controversial' Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply (Special Provision) Act 2010 on Saturday, 14 years after its enactment.President Md Shahabuddin promulgated an ordinance on Thursday, repealing the law that has long been identified...
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