OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-10-10 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, Oct 09: The jute farmers of the district are become benefitting from their newly harvested jute to selling at a high price in local markets this year.It jute farming is comparatively below earlier year but jute quality is better...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-10-10 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Oct 09: Business enterprises in tourist town Cox's Bazar are expecting to see a surge in their turnover this month (October) due to Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindus. Meanwhile, holidaymakers have already started flocking...
Munir Ahmed and Sahos Mostafiz | 2024-10-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh has made significant strides in healthcare over the past decades, but eye health remains a pressing issue that requires a focused and strategic approach. As we move towards the goal of Universal Eye Health Coverage by 2030, it is...
During the anti-discrimination movement, many students were brutally attacked by the leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Chatrat League (BCL). After the fall of the Awami League government, most of them are now in hiding. Some have fled the country...
Following the fall of the Awami League government, the country saw a massive increase in remittance, reaching $2.4 billion in September 2024-80 per cent rise compared to the same month last year. This increase may be attributed to favourable changes...
Depositors of five or more commercial banks face uncertainties as they cannot access their funds. This is troubling, particularly when some managing directors continue to withdraw their salaries. Although the central bank has extended some support to the banks, more...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2024-10-10 00:00:00
The recent visit of Maldives President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu to India marks a significant turn in Indo-Maldivian relations, which has nosedived in recent years. For some time, tensions between the two countries were palpable, with leaders from both sides trading...
The allegation made by the entrepreneurs of the leather sector is serious. Contrary to the claim successive ministers of the past Awami League government put forward about readiness of the Savar Industrial Estate for relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh, they...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-10-10 00:00:00
One wishes there were more politicians able and willing to write books. When political figures write tomes —- and many have done this commendable work in the past —- it is not only their intellectual abilities which manifest themselves but...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Wednesday), according to the Met Office.It may also occur...
CUMILLA, Oct 08 (UNB): Members of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead a 33-year-old Bangladeshi man near the Paharpur border adjacent to the Jashpur BGB camp in Goliara union of Cumilla Sadar upazila on Monday.The deceased, Kamal Hossain,...
Students of different institutions blocked the main road and demonstrated at Zero Point in the capital on Tuesday, demanding quick arrest of the killers of Imam Hasan Taim. He was shot in Jatrabari area during the recent mass uprising. —...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
The Sundarbans tiger population has increased to 125 in the latest government tiger survey in 2023-24. The number of tigers was 114 in the 2018 survey.The tiger density is 2.64 per 100 square-kilometres. Compared to 2018, the tiger population has...
The government has established a nine-member Constitution Reform Commission, headed by renowned political scientist, author, and professor Ali Riaz. The Cabinet Division issued a gazette notification on Monday formalising the formation of the commission, reports UNB.The commission's members include Dhaka...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
State-owned Petrobangla has cancelled the contract of Summit Group to build its second floating storage and re-gasification unit (FSRU) due to non compliance of the contract terms, Petrobangla Chairman Zanendra Nath Sarker told the FE on Tuesday. "We sent the...
South Korean Ambassador Park Young Sik talking with journalists after a meeting with Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Shafiqur Rahman (on his right) at the party's central office in the capital on Tuesday. — Focus Bangla
The bank accounts of Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, the former Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), have been frozen as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged financial misconduct, reports UNB. The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of Bangladesh...
The Ministry of Shipping (MoS) has launched an investigation against five officers and employees, including Captain Gias Uddin Ahmed, chief examiner and chief nautical surveyor (current charge) of the Department of Shipping (DoS), on charges of illegal monetary transactions, reports...
The Durga Puja holidays have been extended by another day, according to Mahfuz Alam, special assistant to the chief advisor, reports bdnews24.com.He said this to the media at the Dhakeshwari National Temple on Tuesday."For a long time, Hindu devotees have...
BNP senior joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Tuesday asked the interim government to identify the allies of the fallen dictator in the administration as soon as they may push the country towards a dangerous situation, reports UNB."If the dictator's...
DUBAI, Oct 8 (Reuters): QatarEnergy has entered into a long-term naphtha supply agreement with Shell, supplying up to 18 million metric tons of naphtha to the company over 20 years from next April.The latest in a string of supply deals...
Nurses of all public hospitals of the country observed a four-hour strike from 9:00am to 01:00pm on Tuesday, demanding withdrawal of cadre officers from the Directorate General of Nursing and Midwifery and the Bangladesh Nursing and Midwifery Council. The photo...
Five more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 193 this year. During the period, 981 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever, according...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
Saber Hossain Chowdhury, a former Awami League (AL) lawmaker and former minister of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, was freed from jail on Tuesday after securing bail in all six cases filed against him.Considering his bail petitions,...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Tuesday summoned Tapashee Tabassum Urmi, the suspended assistant commissioner of Lalmonirhat district administration, in a case filed over her "derogatory remarks" about Abu Sayed, who was killed in police firing during the Anti-Discrimination Mass Movement on...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairman Sohrab Hossain and 12 other members of the constitutional body have stepped down from their posts amid a call from coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement.They submitted resignation letters to the President, PSC communications officer...
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community, will be celebrated at 31,461 puja mandaps across the country including 252 in the capital. This information was disclosed at a press conference at Dhakeshwari National Temple in the...
STOCKHOLM, Oct 8 (AFP) : American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering work in the development of artificial intelligence.The pair were honoured "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has initiated an inquiry into Mujibul Haque, former Railway Minister and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Cumilla-11, and A K M Bahauddin, former MP for Cumilla-6.The inquiry also includes two others: Tahsin Bahar Shuchona, Bahauddin's...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-09 00:00:00
The Islamic banking (IB) and financial institutions sector in Bangladesh witnessed a cruel mischief over the past several years, causing its present sorry state.Islamic banks, which once remained in a strong position in the country, have now landed in a...
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