Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-11-03 00:00:00
The country's first-ever tunnel, built beneath the Karnaphuli riverbed, was opened to traffic with great fanfare and much enthusiasm on October 28 last year, promising to develop Chattogram into a 'one city, two towns' model, akin to Shanghai in China....
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-11-03 00:00:00
Three years back, the Financial Times (FT), one of the world's leading business news organisations, launched a campaign for higher financial education standards by setting up a charity body. The FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign (FLIC) focused on improving...
Indian business conglomerate Adani reportedly shut down one out of two power units in Jharkhand that supply power to Bangladesh from zero hours of Friday, claiming overdue payments totalling US$846 million. It has also threatened to shut down the remaining...
A Dhaka court has placed former Housing and Public Works Minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury on a five-day remand in a case lodged over the murder of BNP activist Mokbul, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub passed the order on...
CHICAGO, Nov 1 (Reuters): The US soybean crush likely rebounded in September to 5.623 million short tons, or 187.4 million bushels, analysts surveyed by Reuters estimated ahead of a monthly US Department of Agriculture report due on Friday.If the average...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) captured Bunia Sohel, reportedly the leading drug dealer and armed gang leader responsible for a surge in violent crime within the Mohammadpur Geneva camp, and 11 of his associates during a raid in Sylhet on...
GAIBANDHA, Nov 1 (BSS): Sale of different types of vegetables has started at Janatar Bazaar, a temporary market, in front of the Police Cafe in the town here on Thursday.Anti-discrimination Student movement, district unit inaugurated the bazaar to help the...
CALI, Colombia, Nov 1 (AFP): The world's biggest nature conservation conference enters its final day in Colombia Friday with negotiators at odds over how best to fund plans to "halt and reverse" species loss.Amid murmurs that the talks may drag...
The number of people in ride-sharing profession is growing by the day amid the growing bane of unemployment. The snap shows scores of motorbikes kept in serried ranks in the capital's Gulistan area on Friday. — FE Photo by Shafiqul...
Another man has been killed amid the continuing violence at the Geneva Camp in Dhaka's Mohammadpur stemming from a power struggle over the local narcotics trade.The incident occurred during a clash between two rival gangs early on Friday morning, reports...
The death toll from devastating flash floods in eastern Spain climbed to 158 on Thursday, with rescue teams still searching for those missing in what could become Europe's worst storm-related disaster in over five decades."There's a total of 158 people...
SHERPUR, Nov 1 (UNB): A wild elephant was found dead in Batkuchi Tilapara area of Madhutila Eco Park near Nalitabari border in Sherpur on Thursday night.The forest department and locals assumed that the elephant died after being electrocuted when it...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), the operator of the high-speed Metro Rail, has suspended new registrations for the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) pass, the rail's exclusive travel card. Additionally, renewals for damaged cards will also remain halted during this...
A total of 500,000 jobs will be created in the government sector over the next two years, announced Asif Mahmud Sojib Bhuiyan, adviser for the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Ministry of Labour and Employment.He made the statement...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed restrictions on any meeting, assembly, gathering, rally or procession in the capital's Kakrail and its contiguous areas today (Saturday).The DMP issued a notification to this effect on Friday.The ban followed the flare-up of...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
A move gets underway to hire an operator to operate Chattogram seaport's New-mooring Container Terminal (NCT) through open bidding as a directly appointed private firm's long reign nears the end. Sources say the latest-renewed term of agreement between Chittagong Port...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
The government has removed the import duty on rice completely with an eye to keeping the prices of rice affordable and also to stockpiling the staple.In a notification on Thursday, the National Board of Revenue (NBR) exempted the import of...
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Friday said what Republican Donald Trump, who is running again for the White House, thinks about the events in Bangladesh "does obviously matter", but stressed that their task in the government was to...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
A drive began in the capital on Friday to execute the ban on the use of polythene shopping bags as stern action against their producers starts tomorrow (Sunday).The environment ministry launched the monitoring drive to curb the use of the...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
On sounding alarm over growing cyber-attacks in the banking system, with a major one still fresh in mind, the central bank instructs commercial lenders to put up 17-point anti-heist guardrails.Sources say the Bangladesh Bank (BB), in a circular issued by...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
A rethink now comes on undertaking development projects as the Planning Commission under the changed custodian says nay to any project reliant on manpower outsourcing, officials said.The commission has decided in principle not to give its nod from now on...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met Office.Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The highest temperature of the country was recorded...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-02 00:00:00
Police recovered the body of a driver from the Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in the capital on Friday.The deceased was identified as Md Sohel Mia. The 48-year-old's body was found in Dholaipar area. He hailed from Naria upazila of Shariatpur...
A new comprehensive study has revealed alarming levels of heavy metal (HM) pollution in Bangladesh's rivers over the past two decades, urging immediate action to control and reverse the damage, reports UNB.The research, published in 'Environmental Science and Pollution Research'...
Rear Admiral Md Ziaul Hoque taking charge as the 15th director general of the Bangladesh Coast Guard at its headquarters on Thursday. — Press Release
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, has expressed deep regret that today's generation has never experienced clean rivers and canals, reports UNB."We feel sad because we remember seeing them clean in our childhood…...
Participants of the third central council of Bangladesh Garments Workers' Solidarity displaying placards, inscribed with their various demands, at Shahbag in the capital on Friday. — FE Photo
The July Shaheed Smriti Foundation has announced plans to provide financial assistance on a weekly basis to the families of those killed in the mass uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina regime.Sarjis Alam, an Anti-discrimination Student Movement leader and general...
A group of students from Dhaka University (DU) have organised a protest rally x in front of the vice chancellor's residence, demanding the cancellation of the affiliation of seven colleges and the construction of a new hall for female students,...
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