Microloans, small-scale financial aids provided primarily by micro-credit organisations, have emerged as a beacon of hope for underprivileged communities. Introduced by Nobel Laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus through the Grameen Bank, micro-credit has since been embraced by organisations such as BRAC...
Bangladesh, a riverine country, once relied on its rivers for agriculture, trade, and livelihoods. However, plastic pollution has turned these lifelines hazardous, posing a severe threat to our environment and economy.Every year, approximately 73,000 tonnes of plastic waste flow into...
Neil Ray | 2025-01-20 00:00:00
The Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB), The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Commission, the Ganotantrik Odhikar Committee and a student group have voiced their concern about as well as severely criticised the attacks on peacefully protesting indigenous people on Wednesday and the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-01-20 00:00:00
The fact that Dhaka's air is among the most polluted in the world does not shock its citizens any more, as it is regularly reported in the media. Whenever something, however dangerous, happens repeatedly, it becomes normal to the public....
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)'s introduction of stricter Quality of Service (QoS) standards is a crucial step towards improving the services provided by mobile phone operators and internet service providers (ISPs) in Bangladesh. The draft regulation titled BTRC Quality...
Muhammad Zamir | 2025-01-20 00:00:00
Analysts interested in monitoring the continuing crisis in the Rakhine area in Myanmar consider that the evolving scenario is casting a long shadow on hopes of repatriation of Rohingya refugees. They have started suggesting that prospects for the repatriation of...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-19 12:00:00
Economists, policymakers and business leaders deplored inefficient economic management and urged the interim government to give a cohesive roadmap to stabilize the economy, instead of pursuing policy improvisations. In their deliberations on the economic white paper and the followup from...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2025-01-19 12:00:00
Like the body politic, Bangladesh economy is in transition at present. Both macroeconomic management by the government and microeconomic performance by the market are facing headwinds. While policy making in the first instance is within the bailiwick of the government,...
Asjadul Kibria | 2025-01-19 12:00:00
In a determined effort to combat the high rate of inflation, the interim government has taken a significant step by increasing the rate of profits on various savings certificates from the beginning of the current year. This move, in line...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started quizzing former head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) Masud Biswas who was arrested by detectives on Saturday, reports UNB.Masud will be produced before a court after initial interrogation, said ACC's public relations officer...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
Transactions through domestic and international credit cards in Bangladesh witnessed a downswing in November 2024 compared to the previous month.Domestic transactions dropped to Tk 27.93 billion, which was 2.55 per cent down from Tk 28.66 billion in October 2024, according...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 18: The Bangladesh Railway (BR) is going to introduce more trains on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar route this month due to pressure of passengers.The BR authorities have decided to make permanent the existing special train services to meet the...
Professor Lutfey Siddiqi, Special Envoy on International Affairs to the Chief Adviser, on Saturday said the 'Bangladesh Single Window (BSW)' will be effective within the month of March to ease the import and export processes for businesses, reports BSS. "Seven...
A mother takes her child, who is suffering from cold, to Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the city, as there has been a rise in cold-related diseases during the winter. The photo was shot on Saturday morning. —FE...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has urged the interim government to focus on reducing unnecessary development activities and expenses of the government and budgetary allocation for loans to autonomous bodies without increasing value added tax (VAT), reports BSS.Party's Secretary General Mirza...
Encouraging the country's young and new entrepreneurs, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has said they want to make sure that new entrepreneurs do not face any problems with their investments and can work safely to significantly contribute to the country's...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh has so far failed to reap any benefits of the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB) despite its entry into the new multilateral lender more than three years ago in 2021.The NDB has still to approve any loan for Bangladesh...
Clashes have been reported between the citizens of India and Bangladesh at the no man's land along the border in Chapainawabganj's Shibganj Upazila over the harvesting of green wheat from the land, reports bdnews24.com.Shibganj Police Station chief Golam Kibria said...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
The deadline to submit bids for building a dozen grid-tied solar power plants having a total power generation capacity of 353 megawatts (MW) at various locations across the country is scheduled to end after a couple of weeks on February...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party is committed not to nominating loan defaulters for the next general election, BNP Secretary -General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Saturday while focusing on their declared reform agenda. "We are very much conscious about the matter of...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
More than 1.1-million individual taxpayers have submitted tax returns online since 09 September 2024 through availing the fast and simplified system.The number is one-fourth of the returns the revenue board received last year.They have paid Tk 959 million in taxes,...
Vice-chancellor of International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT) Prof Dr Abdur Rab inaugurating celebration of the 34th founding anniversary of the university by cutting a cake on its Uttara campus in the capital recently.
Newly-elected office-bearers of the Department of Environment Officers Association's executive committee pose for photograph after the election results came out on Saturday — collected
Dhaka has ranked the second on the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 291 at 9:01 am Saturday, reports UNB.The air was classified as "very unhealthy", according to the AQI index on Saturday.Pakistan's...
A shocking 49.4 per cent of students (310) who died by suicide in Bangladesh in 2024 were school students, according to a study by Achol Foundation, a non-profit organization, reports UNB.The data highlighted the severe mental health challenges faced by...
MUNIMA SULTANAThe Bangladesh Railway (BR) is likely to propose a demand for Tk 125.36 billon to implement its projects under the next Annual Development Programme (ADP), according to sources.On the other hand, the railway authority has placed a demand for...
Forty-seven more stranded Bangladeshi nationals were repatriated from war-torn Lebanon on Saturday at full govt expense, reports UNB.They arrived on a Qatar Airways flight that landed at 9:15 am at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), facilitated by the Ministry of...
FE REPORTPolice arrested on Friday six persons for their alleged involvement in kidnapping a man impersonating police personnel and demanding ransom for the release of the victim.The arrestees are: Md Rezaul Islam alias Hemel (40), Sheli Begum alias Shila Begum...
(Top) Commerce adviser Sheikh Bashir Uddin and other participants at the opening session of the symposium titled 'White Paper and Thereafter: Economic Management, Reforms and National Budget' at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital on Saturday, organised by...
YASIR WARDAD | 2025-01-19 00:00:00
Maize production in the country reached an all-time high in the last fiscal year (FY 2023-24) thanks to rocketing demand for it from the feed and food-processing industries.The output registered a record 4.87 million tonnes from 0.513 million hectares of...
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