The country is likely to experience mild to moderate cold wave again after January 9 and in the middle of the month. The severe cold waves may sweep the northern and southwestern parts, including Jashore, Chuadanga, Khulna and Barishal.A "mild...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
Top executives of five more unconventional banks are set to be sent on leave for 90 days by their boards for independent functioning of an upcoming forensic audit of their financials by globally recognised firms.The exigent shakeup is coming following...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Country Director for Bangladesh Hoe Yun Jeong has said the organisation will provide Bangladesh with $1 billion annually in concessional financing over the next five years. He assured enhanced financial support, including grants, to advance Bangladesh's...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
The government won't continue handing out subsidies and providing cheap money to businesses, says Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed as he looks to a competitive economy in Bangladesh. Addressing a business meet Sunday in Dhaka, he also said the post-uprising...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
A vista of investment prospects is drawn by an agency that says Bangladesh can hope to raise US$1.5 billion with startups in few years with strong government support and a thriving local ecosystem in place. A report by LightCastle Partners...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Monday), according to the Met Office.Moderate to dense fog may occur over the country during midnight to morning. Air navigation, inland river transport and...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
The Ministry of Law on Sunday revoked an earlier notification giving approval to 50 judicial officers to attend a training programme in India. The cancellation followed directives from the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, said a new notifications issued by Law...
Police have rescued an abductee and arrested one person for his alleged involvement in the crime from the capital's Modhya Badda, reports BSS.The arrestee, Md Saifur Rahman alias Sumon aged 40, was sent to the court in connection with a...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
Police arrested two muggers from Mirpur 11 bus stand area in the capital during a drive early on Sunday. An official at the Pallabi Police Station told the FE that the arrestees, identified as Md Shuvo alias Solaiman, and Md...
Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud, director general of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP, speaking at a function at the Ansar-VDP Academy in Gazipur on Sunday, marking the agency’s 49th founding anniversary and 45th national rally. — Press Release
The High Court (HC) has directed authorities concerned to take immediate steps to prevent the operation of illegal brick kilns in the hill districts of Bandarban, Rangamati, and Khagrachhari, reports UNB.The Deputy Commissioners of these three districts have been instructed...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
Dismissed trainee sub-inspectors (SIs) of the 40th (cadet) SI batch of Bangladesh Police on Sunday staged a sit-in outside the Bangladesh Secretariat seeking to get back their jobs. The protesters gathered at the western gate of the Secretariat, chanting slogans...
The intact offices housed in fire ravaged Building No-7 of Secretariat have started slowly edging back to normal operation 10 days after the fire, reports bdnews24.com.Officials have resumed operations up to the fifth floor, while the fire-damaged upper levels remain...
SAIF UDDIN | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
The construction of a 10-storey shopping complex in Bangabazar is going on in full swing, ushering in a beacon of hope for the traders who are bearing the cost of Tk 3.65 billion.The building called 'Bangabazar Nagar Paikari Bitan', a...
A Dhaka court has placed two leaders of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on a one-day remand each in a case lodged over alleged attempt to murder a Dhaka University (DU) student during the anti- discrimination students movement on July...
SIRAJGANJ, Jan 5 (BSS): The joint forces have arrested former fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas from his village home at Belkuchi Pourasabha of the district.A team of the joint force conducted a raid in Latif Biswas's Kamarpara residence...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against former lawmaker and ex-mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, report agencies.His wife, Afrin Taposh, has also been named in the case.The case was filed on Sunday, Mohammad...
A group of students who were injured during the anti-discrimination movement strongly protested on Sunday the attack on them at a programme at the Central Shaheed Minar, reports BSS. The incident took place when the injured students and people participated...
SA Khaleque, a former member of parliament (MP), and vice president of the Dhaka city unit of t BNP, passed away at a hospital in the capital on Sunday. He was 97, reports UNB.SA Khaleque, also a former deputy mayor...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin has said the Election Commission (EC) wants to end the people's deprivation in exercising their voting rights, reports UNB."We want to remove the fact that they (people) have been deprived of the voting...
BNP senior leader Salahuddin Ahmed has said his party's acting chairman has instructed them to make every possible effort to maintain national unity in order to resist the rise of fascist forces in the country, reports UNB.He made the comments...
SUNAMGANJ, Jan 05 (UNB): Farmers in Jagannathpur upazila of Sunamganj district are struggling to cultivate Boro paddy due to waterlogging caused by a newly built road.More than a hundred farming families in Rouyail and Alampur villages are now worried about...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Jan 05: Migratory birds have come in flocks to seashore, hills and riverbanks here for vacation in winter.It is time for birdwatchers as the arrival of the guest birds has increased the beauty of nature.Sources say migratory birds come...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-01-06 00:00:00
PABNA, Jan 05: Ishwardi Government College in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district, despite being equipped with all the facilities of a full-fledged government college, is now unable to render the desired level of education service for the prevailing sharp scarcity...
Bangladesh Under-19 Women's team tasted a five- wicket defeat to hosts Sri Lanka in the first of four-match series in Colombo on Sunday, reports BSS.After electing to bat first, Bangladeshi young girls were bowled out for just 109 runs in...
A total of eight Bangladesh cricketers, so far, have registered for Pakistan Super League (PSL) draft, scheduled to be held on January 11, reports BSS.For the first time, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have decided to conduct the draft in...
Winners of "Shahjalal Islami Bank Victory Day Tennis Tournament -2024" pose with their trophies, certificates and cheques at the prize distribution ceremony held at National Tennis Complex in the city recently. Bangladesh Tennis Federation supervised the tournament as Shahjalal Islami...
WELLINGTON, Jan 05 (AFP): Matt Henry claimed four wickets and Will Young scored an unbeaten 90 Sunday as New Zealand coasted to a nine-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international.The tourists never recovered after slumping to 23-4...
SYDNEY, Jan 05 (Agencies): Australia regained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the silverware that had eluded them for a decade, and confirmed their spot in the World Test Championship (WTC) final alongside South Africa, after finishing off India inside three days in...
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