The snap shows workers unloading live fish from a specialised truck, equipped with a housing system to keep fish alive, at Jatrabari wholesale outlet in the capital on Friday. Available at various markets, these fish are brought to Dhaka from...
Bangladesh has begun receiving 40 megawatts (MW) of electricity from Nepal under a trilateral power-sharing agreement involving India, marking a milestone in regional energy cooperation. The electricity started flowing on Friday, according to reports published in various news agencies and...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh's large-scale manufacturing sector surmounted setbacks to get on an upturn as owners and economists see further advances ahead now that the dust settles through political transition. The sector, which accounts for over 11 per cent of the country's GDP,...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
The Technical and Madrasah Education Division (TMED) of the Ministry of Education has initiated a project to advance technical education and vocational training (TEVT) at an estimated cost of Tk 24.58 billion.The project will ensure training for 34,310 technical and...
Finance adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has said although the interim government inherited a high inflationary trend from the previous regime, stability has been restored due to various steps of the government, reports BSS. "The previous situation now does not exist...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN from Baku, Azerbaijan | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
Multilateral donors, banks and philanthropic communities Friday pledged around US$5.43 billion in the COP29 conferences for funding climate-related projects, which greens from Bangladesh demand as grants. Of the total, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) announces around US$3.5-billion funding for new...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
Many economic parameters were cooked during the past Awami League regime while over US100 billion learnt to have been siphoned off the country, a Brussels-based agency reports and suggests rapid reforms for a rebound.Macroeconomic indicators, including export figures and growth...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met office.Night temperature may fall slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country. The highest temperature of...
IUB: Visitors looking at photos at the first Durbin Exhibition on the Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) campus in the capital. Durbin IUB, the Bangladesh chapter of international astronomy outreach programme organised the event recently.
AIUB: Dulce Lamagna and Shania Abedin, Board of Trustee members of the American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB), receiving QS four-star award at the QS Higher Ed Summit: Asia Pacific 2024, held in Macau recently.
NSU: Prof Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, Vice Chancellor of the North South University (NSU), receiving a crest from NetCom Learning General Manager Abdul Ahad after a seminar on 'AI for Future Leaders'. The NSU Career and Placement Center organised the event...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 15: At least 10 people were injured when miscreants attacked and opened fire on a businessman in Chattogram's Raozan upazila on Thursday night. Sources said an armed group of 15-20 people attacked Kamal Uddin over a previous conflict...
The Bangladesh Army has issued a warning against the unauthorised use of its name in attempts to take control of Jhut (waste fabric businesses in the industrial areas, report agencies.In a statement by the Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday,...
Health sector of Bangladesh has witnessed a remarkable progress in the last 100 days due to pragmatic and effective measures taken by the interim government, reports BSS.After assuming office, the interim government put highest priority to prepare a complete list...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
Bangladeshi visa-seekers, aspiring to go Europe, have urged the government to take steps to set up embassies or consulate offices of the European countries (having job, education and other opportunities) in Bangladesh to avoid hassle and save foreign currency, as...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has announced a ban on the import and production of single-band routers, effective from April 2025.The move is part of the regulator's initiative to enhance the quality of broadband internet services in the country.In...
The participants from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka pose for photo, as a two-day high-level Policy Forum on ‘South Asia's Agricultural Future: Scaling Up Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices for Sustainable Growth’ concluded in the Maldives on Friday....
The followers of Maulana Saad faction of the Tablig Jamat offered Jum’a prayers in the Kakrail Mosque and on the adjacent roads in the capital on Friday. — FE Photo
FE REPORT | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
The second round of negotiations for the Japan-Bangladesh Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) concluded on Thursday, with the target to sign it at the end of 2025 or early 2026.During the four-day negotiations beginning on November 10, both sides discussed the...
KHULNA, Nov 15 (BSS): A Dhaka court has filed a case against 19Police officers including ex-Inspector General of Police (IGP) ChowdhuryAbdullah Al Mamun and ex-Khulna Metropolitan Police Commissioner (KMP)Mozammel Haque.Al Amin, judge of the Khalishpur Contingency Metropolitan Magistrate Court,ordered the...
SHERPUR, Nov 15 (UNB): The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) has returned the body of a Bangladeshi youth, Ershadul Haque, who had been missing for over 40 days, on the Nakugaon border under Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur.The body was handed...
Police said on Friday they took custody of Golam Kibria Tipu, general secretary of Dhaka metropolitan unit of Awami League (AL)'s voluntary wing Swechasebak League after locals caught him from his hideout in Dakshin Keraniganj of Dhaka, reports UNB.Dakshin Keraniganj...
Marking 100 days of the student-led mass uprising, the National Citizens' Committee convened a gathering on Friday afternoon to demand the trial of Awami League for its role in the July massacre, reports UNB.The event also called for the rehabilitation...
A Dhaka court has sent to jail former law minister Anisul Huq in a case lodged over rigging of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) polls in 2019, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahin Reza passed the order on Friday as police...
A Dhaka court has sent to jail former Barishal-3 lawmaker Golam Kibria Tipu in a case lodged for attacking motorcade of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia in 2018 in the capital, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sharifur Rahman passed the order...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-16 00:00:00
Terming Awami League (AL) as a retreating political force, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee Member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan has said there is no logic behind AL’s claim to be pro liberation force."The leaders of Awami League crossed the...
Gono Songhoti Andolon organised a meeting in front of the National Museum at Shahbag in the capital on Friday to commemorate the 48th death anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani. — Focus Bangla
JERUSALEM, Nov 15 (AFP): A senior Hamas official said Friday that the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza and urged US President-elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel to "end the aggression"."Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in...
LONDON, Nov 15 (AFP): UK jets were scrambled to monitor a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying close to UK airspace, the defence minister in London said on Friday.Two Typhoons from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland followed the Russian Bear-F aircraft as it...
NEW YORK, Nov 15 (AP): Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms.Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6,...
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