REZAUL KARIM | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
Industries ministry has requested finance ministry to issue Tk 80 billion worth of government bond to adjust state-run sugar mills' liabilities to six banks, according to officials concerned.The Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC) owes Tk 69.50 billion to...
CAIRO (Egypt), Dec 20 (UNB): Highlighting how the 'world of work' is evolving fast, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has urged the D-8 member states to undertake action-oriented initiatives including harnessing technology and re-invent 'learning'.He also encouraged the youths to...
YASIR WARDAD | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
Supply of branded bottled soybean oil still remains disrupted, allowing fake companies to capitalise on the situation.Meanwhile, rice and broiler chicken prices increased further last week, battering the consumers.Rice prices are higher amid the peak Aman harvesting season. It is...
Activities at brick kilns are going on in full swing this winter season. The snap shows a group of workers loading vans with new bricks at a brick field in south Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital, on Friday....
FE REPORT | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
A fire broke out at a restaurant in Uttara area of the capital on Friday. However, there was no report of casualties in the incident.The fire erupted at Love Leen Cafe and Restaurant located on the ground floor of a...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
A much-vaunted regulatory move to mop up high-powered money from the market receives lukewarm response as commercial banks find the Bangladesh Bank bills not lucrative amid liquidity crunch and high tax on yield, sources said.After the lapse of three years,...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
AF Hassan Ariff, land and civil aviation adviser of the interim government, died of a cardiac arrest on Friday afternoon.He succumbed to the massive heart attack at LabAid Hospital in Dhanmondi. He was 85. Mohammad Nasir Uddin, his personal secretary,...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
Import continued to stay stymied, with the November volume valued down at US$5.27 billion, as private-sector businesses struggled on to gather momentum in business activity.Economists say subdued import helps in keeping inflation high and prices exorbitant-an economic cycle with an...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh is receiving another sum of US$1.16 billion in three World Bank loans as the WB Board of Executive Directors Friday approved the funds mainly meant for budget support and ramping up reforms. The funding, including $500 million in budget...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna and Barishal divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Dhaka and Chattogram divisions until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met Office.Weather may...
Internationally-renowned architect Marina Tabassum has agreed to become the chairperson of the governing body of Bangladesh National Museum, according to an announcement by the Cultural Affairs Adviser to the interim government, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, on Thursday, reports UNB."We are glad...
At least seven people, including a college student, have been killed in separate road accidents in four districts, reports UNB.In Dinajpur, two motorcyclists were killed in a collision with a truck in Birganj upazila on Friday morning, reports UNB.The accident...
The 112-kilometre Circular Waterway around the capital city Dhaka, a project with immense potential linking five rivers and connecting four river ports, is losing its significance due to neglect and ineffective planning by authorities, experts say, reports UNB.The previous government,...
GAZIPUR, Dec 20 (UNB): A case has been filed in connection with violent clashes between two factions of Tabligh Jamaat at the Biswa Ijtema ground in Tongi over control of the venue, police said.Maulana Zubair's follower M Alam Hossain filed...
Fact-checking organization Rumor Scanner in an investigation found that a video on a performance of students at an annual competition in Jashore Jamia Islamia Madrasa was falsified as rise of militancy, gatherings or calls for jihad in Bangladesh, reports BSS.It...
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearance has said the victims of enforced disappearance have gone through inhuman torture in secret detention centres in a systemic manner, reports BSS."The accounts of torture we have documented are both profoundly brutal and...
SAIF UDDIN | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
The country's bicycle export earnings have started showing a sign of recovery on the back of increasing demand in Europe, the key destination for the two-wheeler, stakeholders have said.According to them, there had been excessive stocks of the vehicle of...
A Dhaka court has sent two central leaders of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) to jail, reports BSS.They are BCL central organising secretaries Siam Rahman and Anowar Hossain Naieem.Police produced them before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on expiry of...
KHULNA, Dec 20 (UNB): The July Shaheed Smriti Foundation has provided financial assistance of Tk 29 million to 58 families of martyrs from the anti-discrimination student movement in Khulna division.Each family received a cheque for Tk 0.5 million.The event was...
Tapan Kumar Biswas, chairman of Polythene Bag Monitoring Committee formed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, has said apart from raising public awareness about the use of biodegradable bags, law will be strictly enforced to stop polythene...
Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad staged a demonstration at the foot of Raju Sculpture in the Dhaka University on Friday, demanding ban on participation of Awami League and Jatiya Party in the election. — bdnews24.com
FE REPORT | 2024-12-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson's adviser Zainul Abdin Farroque has said fallen autocratic ruler Sheikh Hasina must have to land in jail even for a single day."Sitting in India, Sheikh Hasina is taking coffee and walking in the park in...
DNA analysis has confirmed that the flesh and bones recovered by the West Bengal police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) during their investigation into the murder of Bangladeshi MP Md Anwarul Azim (Anar) belonged to the slain lawmaker, Hindustan Times reports.According...
Gono Odhikar Parishad organised a demonstration in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Friday to protest against 'rehabilitation of the councillors, elected without public mandate during the Sheikh Hasina regime'. - Focus Bangla
The Election Commission (EC), under the stewardship of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin, has embarked on preparations for the nation's 13th parliamentary election, setting the wheels in motion for what it promises to be a festival time in...
GENEVA, Dec 20 (AFP): At least 782 civilians have been killed and more than 1,100 wounded in a months-long paramilitary siege of the capital of Sudan's North Darfur, a United Nations report said Friday.Since April of last year, Sudan has...
NABLUS, Dec 20 (AFP): Palestinian officials reported on Friday that Israeli settlers had set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank, an act Israeli police said was under investigation.According to Abdallah Kamil, the governor of Salfit, the attack...
WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters): The US Congress was scrambling to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, hours after more than three dozen Republicans rejected a demand by President-elect Donald Trump to use the measure to lift the nation's debt...
COLOMBO, Dec 20 (AFP): Sri Lanka's navy said Friday it had rescued 102 Rohingya refugees from war-torn Myanmar adrift in a fishing trawler off the Indian Ocean island nation, bringing them safely to port.The group, including 25 children, were taken...
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