FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
The interim government has made a move to pay at least $10 million a week to the Indian Adani Power in outstanding electricity bills, according to officials.Bangladesh owes an estimated $850 million to Adani for purchasing electricity through the cross-border...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
The government plans to include potato in the list of its key essentials meant for 10-million low-income families, according to sources.The issue of selling potato at a subsidised rate came as it has become dearer in the kitchen market in...
Indian Americans, according to a PTI story run by the NDTV world, are working to reach out to the new Trump administration and the Congress next year to seek action against the Bangladeshi regime, including imposing economic sanctions.Encouraged by the...
Eight 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 407 this year. In the recent fatalities, five were reported in the Dhaka South City...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus has delivered a compelling call to action for world leaders to build a "World of Three Zeros", a world free from poverty, unemployment, and net carbon emissions, reports BSS. He made the call in a...
FE Report | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
The growing wealth inequality in societies is making it harder to reduce poverty and also increasing the vulnerability of financial systems in developing countries like Bangladesh.To this end, experts suggest collaboration of banks with technology-driven companies like MFSs and telcos,...
FE Report | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
About 60 per cent workers of the country's textile and readymade garment (RMG) industry might lose their jobs due to automation despite a significant number of new types of jobs being created by 2041, according to a latest study. According...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H. Mansur has dismissed concerns about the financial crisis, assuring that the prevailing challenges are manageable."We are not in a crisis. The issues in the financial sector are fully solvable. We won't face a situation like...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
Call money becomes a tool for making quick bucks by the banks with the lending rate on the interbank market rising fast, crossing over 10 per cent on average.Thursday's rate marks one of the highest call-money rates in many years,...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus, who heads a post-uprising reformist government in Bangladesh, has called for building an economy where fruits of technology, economic growth are shared evenly by all people, not monopolised by privileged few."As we debate and share...
FE Report | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, and Dr Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser to the interim government, have jointly launched a 'Pope Francis Yunus 3Zero Club' in Rome in an effort to usher in a transformative and inclusive...
Film actor Rubel, 11 others injured in road accidentMADARIPUR, Nov 16: Actor Masum Parvej Rubel, a familiar name in Bangla cinema, and 11 others were injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Barishal highway on Saturday. The accident occurred when a...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Sunday), according to the Met Office. Night and day temperature may fall slightly over the country. Light fog may...
North South University (NSU) on Saturday hosted the admission test for the spring 2025 semester (Undergraduate Program) on its sprawling campus in Bashundhara. More than 7,500 students took part at the intake test for four schools-the School of Health and...
The eight-month-old infant, who was abducted during a robbery at a house in Dhaka's Azimpur area on Friday, has been rescued by the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from the capital's Mohammadpur area, reports UNB.Acting on a tip-off, a...
Restriction has been imposed on vehicular movement inside the Dhaka cantonment on November 21 marking the Armed Forces Day, said a release of Inter-Serviced of Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday, reports BSS.In order to keep the roads of Dhaka Cantonment...
Bangladesh Navy will keep its ships in Dhaka, Chattogram, Khulna, Barishal and Chandpur open for all to visit on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day on November 21, reports BSS.Bangladesh Naval vessels will remain open at the selected river...
UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific Catherine West arrived here today on a two-day visit focusing on her country's support to Bangladesh's interim government for political and economic reforms, security, trade cooperation, and migration, reports BSS.During her visit, Minister West will...
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said on Saturday that the judiciary in the past acted as a catalyst in expanding authoritarianism in the country, reports BSS."The authoritarianism was taken to its peak (in last 16 years). All...
FE REPORTA man allegedly slaughtered his two sons and attempted to kill himself in Pallabi area of the capital on Saturday.Locals said Mohammad Ahad, 40, slit the throats of his sons Rehan, 7, and Musa, 3, with a sharp knife...
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday urged the foreign guests attending the 'Bay of Bengal Conversation' to witness the graffiti and paintings drawn by the young revolutionaries expressing their emotions and aspirations, reports BSS.He made the call while addressing...
FE Report | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
Finance Adviser Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed has said that the interim government is taking measures to prevent future governments from laundering money abroad. "We are creating a legacy of reforms to guide the next governments. They will be unable to exploit...
Senior Nayeb-e-Amir of Islami Andolan Bangladesh (IAB) Mufti Syed Mohammad Faizul Karim speaking at a press conference on '100 days of the interim government in office: Current situation of the country,' at the party's Purana Paltan central office in the...
FE REPORT Austrian Ambassador to Bangladesh, stationed in New Delhi, Dr Katharina Wieser, on Saturday called on Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the party chairperson's political office at Gulshan in the capital.Member of the...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 16 (BSS): Speakers at a press conference here on Saturday unequivocally called for formulating a new appointment law of Election Commission (EC) after repealing the existing ones to this end.There is no way but to formulate a new...
Chairman of the Election Reform Commission Badiul Alam Majumdar has called for political consensus on the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs), citing ongoing concern over their reliability and potential for misuse, reports UNB.Speaking at a press briefing at the...
Gazipur has become a striking example of ecological degradation in Bangladesh in recent years, with 60 per cent of forest land and 50 per cent of water bodies converted for other purposes over the past two decades due to unregulated...
KHULNA, Nov 16 (BSS): General Secretary of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Professor Mia Golam Parwar on Saturday said Sheikh Hasina proved herself as a criminal through fleeing away from Bangladesh. Parwar, also a former lawmaker, called on Hasina to prepare for trial...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-17 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) acting chairman Tarique Rahman said on Saturday that the people of the country would not accept it easily if they see any incompetence in case of running the government.He made the comment virtually addressing from London...
It was a magnificent display as Bangladesh, came from behind, beat visiting Maldives by 2-1 goals in the second of the two- match FIFA Tier-Int'l Friendly series held at Bashundhara Kings Arena in the city on Saturday, reports BSS.With this...
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