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Fall Fitness: Outdoor activities to enjoy in the cooler weather

Umme Habiba | 2024-10-30 00:00:00

Physical activities become less intimidating and more pleasurable as the summer's intense heat gradually disappears and a more relaxed winter breeze takes hold. The more extraordinary temperature fall adorns the surroundings with its natural beauty, making outdoor activities more fun...

Taj Mahal: Where love rests in tranquillity

Sumia Zahid | 2024-10-30 00:00:00

The first light of the morning had just begun to creep through the window. The distant honking of horns signalled the city was slowly waking up. Time was slipping away. We hurried out of the hotel and went through the...

Along with her guardian, a minor child waiting in a long queue to buy agricultural commodities at

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Along with her guardian, a minor child waiting in a long queue to buy agricultural commodities at subsidised rates from an OMS sales point at Mugda in the capital on Monday. Amid the price spirals of essentials, such sales programme...

Thrust on media functioning to ensure freedom of speech

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Speakers at a discussion laid importance on functioning of the media as institutions to ensure freedom of speech and responsible journalism for a new Bangladesh. They also stressed self-regulation taking responsibility of journalists to society, humanity as well as the...

Avoid AC use in winter, offices under three ministries asked

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

The interim government directed three ministries to reduce the consumption of electricity by 25 per cent as part of an austerity measure and sought cooperation from all concerned.It also directed to avoid usage of air conditioners as much as possible...

Writ seeks ban on all activities of AL, 10 other political parties

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

A writ petition has been filed with the High Court for its direction upon the government bodies concerned not to allow Bangladesh Awami League and 10 other political parties to carry out any kind of political activities within the territory...

No decision yet to ban any political party: CA press wing

2024-10-29 00:00:00

The interim government has so far taken no decision to ban any political party.Chief Adviser's Deputy Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder said this at a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy here on Monday evening.Replying to a question over...

BNP seeks repeal of fifteenth constitutional amendment

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has filed an application with the High Court seeking the repeal of the fifteenth constitutional amendment that terminated the Caretaker Government system.The party's Secretary-General, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, filed the petition on Monday.The filing lawyer,...

BD dev work held back

FE Report | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh's development works have been hit hard due to the July-August student uprising as the government could spend the lowest-ever development budget under its annual programme, officials said on Monday.The ministries and agencies implemented only 4.75 per cent of Tk...

Farm loan disbursements fall 27pc in first quarter

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Farm-credit disbursements dropped by nearly 27 per cent in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY 2024-25) due to political unrest across the country and severe flooding in different parts, officials said.The disbursements came down to Tk...

UNHR chief arrives today

FE Report | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

UN High Commissio-ner for Human Rights Volker Türk is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka today on a two-day visit.He will hold a number of meetings with senior officials and civil-society representatives, among others, said a statement released from the UNHRC...

Quarterly apparel export dives 36pc in Apr-Jun

SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh's apparel export dipped 36.02 per cent to US$8.83 billion in the last quarter of the past fiscal year, compared to the turnover of previous three months. Latest data from Bangladesh Bank (BB) sowed the significant decline in the April-June...

Three die of dengue,,,,

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Three more people have died of dengue while 1,197 new patients have been hospitalised with the Aedes mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Monday morning, reports bdnews24.com.The Directorate General of Health Services, or  DGHS, said as...

Two broad sectors' bad going squeezes GDP growth to 3.91pc

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh's economic growth slowed to 3.91 per cent in the last quarter of the past fiscal as two broad sectors' bad going compared to the previous three quarters downgraded the rate, official data showed Monday.In the third quarter (January-March) of...

Dr. Yunus for 'Aynaghar' replica in mass uprising museum

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Professor Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser of the interim government, on Monday directed the authorities concerned to build a replica of the 'Aynaghar' (Mirror House) at the museum proposed to be constructed in the place of Gonobhaban.Gonobhaban was used as...

Sunset Clause in law to show investors end of tax-breaks

Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Government's revenue authority moves to frame a legal Sunset Clause to enable investors to project their cost of business knowing when their tax-cut benefit ends, under a fiscal-reform package.The move comes as per one condition tagged by the World Bank...

Two BCL leaders held in capital

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Police has arrested two leaders of the recently-banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) from the capital's Bangshal thana area in connection with the killing of a pickup driver during the anti-discrimination movement, reports BSS.The arrestees are 34 No. ward general secretary...

CMC expels 75 BCL activists

2024-10-29 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Oct 28 (UNB): Chittagong Medical College (CMC) authorities have taken action against 86 students for breaching discipline.Among them, 75 were leaders and activists of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL). Allegations have been brought against them for occupying rooms...

Two BRUR teachers, seven staff suspended

2024-10-29 00:00:00

RANGPUR, Oct 28 (UNB): Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) authorities have suspended two teachers and seven staff members in connection with their alleged involvement in the death of Abu Sayeed, a student of the English department of the university who...

BD can benefit from Nepal’s hydroelectric power: Khasru

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee Member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury has said Bangladesh can be benefited by utilising hydroelectric power generated in Nepal."Bangladesh could hugely be benefited by utilising tremendous hydroelectric power potential of Nepal," he said.The BNL leader...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman virtually presiding over the party's standing committee

2024-10-29 00:00:00

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman virtually presiding over the party's standing committee meeting at the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office in the capital on Monday. — Collected

Dry weather likely today ,,

2024-10-29 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 (Tuesday), according to the Met Office.Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The highest temperature...

M Moynul Haque new pro-VC of BSMRAU

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Professor Dr M Moynul Haque has been appointed pro-vice chancellor (pro-VC) of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU) recently, says a statement. He completed his master's degree in agronomy from Bangladesh Agricultural University in 1983 and later obtained his...

Teen gang culture a curse for Mohammadpur: DMP

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Full force of the law will be brought to bear against the teen gangs operating in the city's Mohammadpur area as well as those acting as their protectors, a police official said on Monday, reports UNB.Ruhul Kabir Khan, deputy commissioner...

Four-day 'pink-road' procession begins today

FE REPORT | 2024-10-29 00:00:00

A four-day breast cancer awareness procession 'pink-road' begins today (Tuesday) to cover 40 areas from Teknaf to Tetulia. Bangladesh Breast Cancer Awareness Forum (BBCAF), a platform of the 47 voluntary and non-profit organisations active in prevention of breast cancer, organises...

Various types of garbage have long been indiscriminately dumped into a dying canal, making the

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Various types of garbage have long been indiscriminately dumped into a dying canal, making the water body an ideal mosquito breeding ground amid the ongoing dengue outbreak. The snapshot was taken from Road-1 of Mohammadpur Housing Ltd in the capital...

Walton launches new e-bike

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Walton has launched Takyon 1.00 (38 AH), a new electric bike that can travel up to 120 kilometres on a single charge.Using the electric bike costs just 15 paisa per kilometre. Priced at Tk 149,500, the e-bike is available in...

DELTA LIFE HOLDS 'WOMEN WORKERS' CONFERENCE'

2024-10-29 00:00:00

DELTA LIFE HOLDS 'WOMEN WORKERS' CONFERENCE' Gono-Grameen Bima Division of Delta Life Insurance Company Ltd. organised a 'Women Workers' Conference 2024' at Dream Holiday Park in Narsingdi on Sunday to recognise women's empowerment and celebrate their successes in the workplace....

GLOBAL MEDIKLAUD TO PROVIDE CLOUD-BASED HOSPITAL ERP SOLUTION FOR APOLLO CLINIC

2024-10-29 00:00:00

GLOBAL MEDIKLAUD TO PROVIDE CLOUD-BASED HOSPITAL ERP SOLUTION FOR APOLLO CLINICGlobal Mediklaud (BD) Limited has signed an agreement with Apollo Clinic, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, to provide cloud-based Hospital Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The agreement was signed at a ceremony at...

Karmasangsthan Bank gets new chairman--

2024-10-29 00:00:00

Dr A F M Matiur Rahman, a former secretary, has joined Karmasangsthan Bank as its chairman recently, says a statement. He has been appointed as the chairman of the bank for the next three years from the date of joining....