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Bangladesh Army in managing the recent flood crisis: an analysis

Md Ahsan Ul Hossain | 2024-12-31 00:00:00

The recent floods in Bangladesh have been some of the most severe in the country's history, impacting millions of lives and causing widespread devastation. In the face of such a crisis, the Bangladesh Army has played a pivotal role in...

The deprived tea workers

2024-12-31 00:00:00

The tea industry, which plays a vital role in the nation's economy, owes its success to tireless work of hundreds of thousands of workers. However, behind this economic achievement lies a grim story of deprivation and discrimination that continues to...

High phone call charge a burden on consumers

2024-12-31 00:00:00

In this era, mobile phones have become essential to everyday life. Men, women, and even children rely on mobile phones leading to significant spending across all income levels. People manage these expenses from their limited incomes, and currently, the call...

Adapting to automation

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-12-31 00:00:00

Fear of technology is hardwired in humans, though they could never keep from conducting researches on making machines that are smarter than themselves. It is like being drawn to the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the biblical tree of knowledge....

Ensuring safe food for all

Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2024-12-31 00:00:00

Safe and nutritious food is a fundamental human right. According to a report prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations last year, people are suffering from lack of safe food and nutrition across the globe...

Mixed signal from manpower export

2024-12-31 00:00:00

That Bangladesh workers' migration with employment abroad has seen a drastic decline this year is a cause for serious concern. Compared with 1.30 million in 2023, only 906,355 works left the country with employment registering a fall in overseas migration...

Bangladesh: Economist's 'Country of the Year'

Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-12-31 00:00:00

Bangladesh, still reeling from the sanguinary last ditch efforts of the former autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina to cling to power, could not expect a better new year’s gift than the one presented by the prestigious weekly The Economist. Selecting...

Lightering services at Ctg port start

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Dec 29: The lighterage services at 16 stations and outer anchorage in the Karnaphuli River near the Chittagong Port began on Sunday morning after withdrawal of the indefinite strike by water transport workers. "The lighter ships have already gone...

New free textbooks for the new year are being sent

2024-12-30 00:00:00

New free textbooks for the new year are being sent to different educational institutions from Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Government Boys' High School in the city on Sunday. — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam

2 more die of dengue -

2024-12-30 00:00:00

Two more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 572 this year, reports UNB.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), recent fatalities...

Bus-autorickshaw collision leaves 6 dead in Sherpur

2024-12-30 00:00:00

SHERPUR, Dec 29 (UNB): Six people, including two women, were killed in a road accident between a bus and a CNG run-autorickshaw on Sherpur-Mymensingh highway in Sherpur Sadar upazila on Sunday morning, said police.One of the deceased was identified as...

Editors' Council blasts restriction on journos' entry to Secretariat

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

The Editors' Council on Sunday strongly condemned the suspension of journalists' entry to the Secretariat.The council also said such move is a threat to free journalism, according to a statement issued to the media."The stakeholder linked to the association (EC)...

Informal sector workers deprived of fair wages, minimum basic rights

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Marginalised workers in various informal sectors, especially domestic and home-based garment, tea plantation and fisherfolk, face severe challenges like lack of fair wages, social protection and basic workplace rights. Domestic workers earn an average of Tk 5,311 monthly, far below...

Trainee doctors to get Tk 30K from Jan, Tk 35K from Jul

2024-12-30 00:00:00

Postgraduate private trainee doctors will get a monthly stipend of Tk 30,000 from January. From July, they will be given Tk 35,000 allowance, according to officials.The move, aimed at quelling widespread protests, came following a meeting at the residence of...

Country receives record remittance in Dec

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Expatriate Bangladeshis sent home $2.42 billion in 28 days of December 2024, indicating record remittance inflows in recent times.The inflow of remittance stood at $2.19 billion in November, according to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) data.Remittance inflows stood at $2.39 billion...

57pc returnees borrowed Tk 90K to cover costs: Study

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

As many as 57 per cent of Bangladeshi returnee migrants who were denied medical care in their destination countries took on a huge financial burden at home to cover the costs, according to a new study.They borrowed Tk 90,000 on...

RMG exports grow by 6.23pc in 11 months this year

MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Despite numerous challenges like labour unrest, energy crisis, high interest rate and rising production costs, the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector has sustained a moderate export growth this year. According to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Bangladesh received US$37.71 billion...

Prayer Timings (2024-12-30)

2024-12-30 00:00:00

No impulsive response to India's refusal

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Bangladesh's interim government is not in favour of any impulsive response to India's decision not to extradite deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, wanted by a Dhaka tribunal to stand trial.A key adviser of the post-uprising government stated this Sunday after...

Financial sector’s progress good, still short of potential

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Central bank's governor Dr. Ahsan H Mansur said on Sunday the country's financial sector had made significant progress over the past 53 years but fallen short of its potential.Speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session of the golden...

Liquidity crunch, exchange rate volatility, NPL buildup mark chronicles

JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Bangladesh is set to say goodbye to perhaps the most challenging year for the financial sector that endured multipronged strains like soaring inflation, liquidity dearth, panic cash withdrawal, exchange-rate volatility and NPL buildup, apart from political upheavals.Leveraged and insider lending...

179 dead in S Korea's worst plane crash

2024-12-30 00:00:00

MUAN (SOUTH KOREA), Dec 29 (AFP): A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except for two flight attendants plucked from...

NBR to use double taxation avoidance deal as a tool

DOULOT AKTER MALA and JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Revenue sleuths have made a decisive move to reclaim siphoned-off assets of Bangladesh tycoons from five countries through claiming taxing rights under the double-taxation-avoidance agreement (DTAA) as the mechanism.Revenue officials say the Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) has listed the UK,...

Weather (2024-12-30)

2024-12-30 00:00:00

Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office. Light to moderate fog may occur at places over the country during...

Rubel Aziz new president of Banani Club

2024-12-30 00:00:00

Rubel Aziz was elected president (un-opposed) of Banani Club Limited in the election held on Saturday (December 28).Newly-elected ten members of the executive committee are: Sifat Ahmed Chaughuri, Syed Ahsanul Apon, Anik Ghosh, SM Shamsuddin Bahar, Engineer Mohammad Farhad, Md...

Probe body to submit pry report on Secretariat fire to CA today

2024-12-30 00:00:00

A high-powered committee formed to probe the Secretariat fire incident will submit its primary report to Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus today (Monday), reports BSS. "The probe body will submit its report on the Secretariat fire to the chief...

Govt committed to ensuring waterway security, says Sakhawat

2024-12-30 00:00:00

Adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Ministry of Shipping Brigadier General (retd) M. Sakhawat Hossain has said overall security will be ensured on all inland waterways with the cooperation of the River Police, reports UNB.He made...

Applications for 47th BCS open

2024-12-30 00:00:00

Applications for the 47th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations have opened to job seekers, reports bdnews24.com.This year, the application fees have been reduced, as have the number of marks allocated to the oral portion of the examination.The forms, which became available...

Reform commission 'weighing scope of separate law for media'

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

The interim government-formed 'Media Reforms Commission' is weighing the possibility of making a separate law for protecting the media.Head of the commission Kamal Ahmed made the observation while exchanging views with the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of...

Dhaka, other megacities in South Asia facing rapid urbanisation challenges

FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00

Dhaka and some other megacities in South Asia including Delhi, Lahore, and Kolkata are now facing rapid urbanisation challenges like narrowing open spaces and low-income people's limited access to urban facilities, prompting experts to call for effective urban planning. They...