BAU, Oct 16 (UNB): Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) has suspended Dr Md. Harun-or-Rashid, a professor at the department of Agricultural Economics, allegedly for sexually harassing a Malaysian female student.BAU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AK Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan confirmed the matter...
The 19th death anniversary of M A Samad, founder of Bangladesh General Insurance Company (BGIC), will be observed today (Thursday), says a press release.After his retirement as managing director of Jiban Bima Corporation, he established BGIC, the first insurance company...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 16 (BSS): Body of Saquib Anjum, who was killed during the Anti-Discriminatory Student Movement on August 5, has been exhumed after 72 days of burial as per the directives of court in the city.The body was sent to...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain has expressed deep concern over the recent influx of more than 40,000 Myanmar nationals into Bangladesh, fleeing conflict in the bordering states there. Talking to Myanmar Ambassador U Kyaw Soe Moe, who paid a courtesy call...
The government hospitals in the capital are now experiencing higher-than-usual rush of patients, mainly suffering from various types of fever. The snapshot shows a number of people queuing up for low-cost treatment at the outdoor of Mugda General Hospital on...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
As many as 35,384 people were killed and 53,196 others injured in road accidents from January 2019 to June 2024, according to a report published by the Road Safety Foundation (RSF) on Wednesday.A total of 32,733 road accidents occurred during...
SAVAR, Oct 16 (UNB): A body believed to be that of BNP leader Harris Chowdhury has been exhumed from a graveyard in Savar to confirm its identity through a DNA test, reports UNB.The exhumation took place at the Jamiah Khatamunnabiyyin...
SIRAJGANJ, Oct 16 (UNB): A court in Sirajganj has placed ex-MP of Sirajganj-2 Jannat Ara Henry and her husband Md Labu Talukdar, former chairman of Sirajganj Zila Parishad, on a five-day fresh remand in a case over the death of...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has said all Bangladeshis have support for Palestinians as they are being oppressed and inhumanly tortured since long, reports BSS. "Palestine has long been and is currently an oppressed country. Inhuman torture is going...
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Rashiduzzaman Morol, a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Khulna-6, who faces multiple charges related to violence and the use of explosives, reports UNB.Rashiduzzaman was arrested during a joint operation by RAB-6 and RAB-8...
A Dhaka court has showed Salman F Rahman, former private industry affairs adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former inspector general of police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, and sacked Maj Gen Ziaul Ahsan arrested in separate cases, reports BSS....
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam presided over the board meeting of Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust at the ministry on Wednesday. — PID
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) vice-chairman Shamsuzzaman Dudu has made a call to the interim government to announce a date for the general election and remain focused on it accordingly."The masses, students, labourers have failed to vote in the last three...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
The access to safe food is still a long haul for the Bangladeshis as harmful practices prevail from production to consumption, a serious public health concern, speakers said at a roundtable discussion on Wednesday.They also underscored the need for initiating...
Three more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 226 this year.During the period, 1,186 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever, according to...
MAJIYA, Nigeria, Oct 16 (AFP): An explosion has killed more than 140 people in northern Nigeria as crowds rushed to collect fuel spilling from a crashed tanker, officials told AFP on Wednesday.It's the latest such accident at a time when...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
The government has released cash incentives of Tk 4.0 billion against export earnings.It is the second portion under the first installment for the current fiscal year (FY 2024-25).Export-oriented sectors like readymade garment (RMG), frozen shrimp and other fish, leather items,...
Foreign Secretary Md. Jashim Uddin has called upon the UN to cooperate in addressing tax evasion and combating illicit financial flows while highlighting the interim government's priority over recovering stolen assets.He made the urge as he met UN Under-Secretary-General for...
Veteran politician and former minister Matia Chowdhury, a towering figure in Bangladesh's politics, passed away at the age of 82, reports UNB.She breathed her last at Dhaka's Evercare Hospital on Wednesday afternoon after suffering a cardiac arrest earlier in the...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
BNP Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir filed a petition on Wednesday on behalf of his party seeking a review of the apex court's verdict that annulled the Caretaker Government system in the Constitution. At the same time, an allegation was...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
State-run Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) has floated retenders to purchase two spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes for November 3-4 and November 10-11 delivery windows.The RPGCL re-tendered for these two spot LNG cargoes after cancelling the initial tenders...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 16: Gas supply from two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) at Moheshkhali will increase to 1,000 million cubic feet per day from today (Thursday) as an LNG-laden ship reached the facility on Wednesday.According to sources, the interim...
Nahid Islam, information and broadcasting adviser, says the interim government does not consider Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the 'Father of the Nation'.He made the statement at the Secretariat in response to a question from the media on Wednesday, reports...
Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government, visits the Dhaka University campus on Wednesday to see for himself the graffiti drawn by young revolutionaries during the student-led mass uprising in July and August. — FE Photo
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
The interim government gets tougher with politically motivated and less-important projects as it has started scrapping such schemes from the current Annual Development Programme (ADP), officials said on Tuesday.It is also not allowing any pipeline projects, which were undertaken and...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
A total of 12 High Court division judges of the Supreme Court have been dropped from all types of judicial functions in the face of a student protest.As such, the judges will not get any bench in the reopening of...
YASIR WARDAD | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
The prices of eggs and green chilies have declined on Wednesday thanks to increased supplies, traders said.Egg prices reduced by Tk 15-20, with a dozen now retailing at Tk 160-170 in the city.After a two-day closure, egg supplies have started...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
Even a moratorium on injection of high-powered money by the central bank fails to resuscitate the call-money market as the affluent banks' trust deficit prompts switch of their surplus credits into state-secured SDF or standing deposit facility despite lower gains.Because...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-10-17 00:00:00
Rising logistics costs are hiking the cost of doing business in Bangladesh and discouraging investors, stakeholders say and urge mapping out sector-wise predictable expenditures on this score.Both local and foreign investors are finding it difficult to estimate logistics expenses accurately...
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