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RMG factory closure sparks protests in Gazipur

2025-11-26 00:00:00

Gazipur, Nov 25 (UNB) : Workers of a garment factory blocked a road in Konabari of Gazipur on Tuesady protesting the closure of the factory. The authorities of Honeywell Garments hanged a closure notice on the main gate of the...

Vessel waiting time decreases to ‘zero hours’ at Ctg port

2025-11-26 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Nov 25 ( BSS): Chattogram sea port achieved significant progress during the last 10 months particularly in all major operational indexes like container and cargo vessel handling as well as reducing waiting time of vessels registering a stable continuation...

EBL PARTNERS WITH SSCL TO LAUNCH ADVANCED SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PLATFORM

2025-11-26 00:00:00

EBL PARTNERS WITH SSCL TO LAUNCH ADVANCED SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PLATFORMEastern Bank on Monday signed an agreement with Spectrum Software and Consulting (SSCL) to implement OptiFin, a flagship supply chain finance solution by SSCL. Riad Mahmud Chowdhury, deputy managing director...

PRIME BANK LAUNCHES COUNTRY'S FIRST AI-POWERED LC PLATFORM

2025-11-26 00:00:00

PRIME BANK LAUNCHES COUNTRY'S FIRST AI-POWERED LC PLATFORM Prime Bank has recently launched Prime Banijjo, the country's first AI-powered digital letter of credit (LC) management platform. The event featured an interactive experience session where corporate clients and trade partners explored...

Mahtab Osmani joins Bank Asia as DMD

2025-11-26 00:00:00

                                                                                     Mahtab Osmani Mahtab Osmani joined Bank Asia as deputy managing director & head of corporate business, international banking, and export finance, effective from Tuesday, according to a press release.Mr. Osmani brings 24 years of distinguished experience from Standard Chartered Bank,...

NCC BANK, MASTERCARD UNVEIL PREMIUM CARD PORTFOLIO

2025-11-26 00:00:00

NCC BANK, MASTERCARD UNVEIL PREMIUM CARD PORTFOLIONCC Bank and Mastercard have announced a strategic collaboration to launch a portfolio of three premium cards. The cards -- Multicurrency Business Debit Card, Multicurrency Platinum Debit Card, and Titanium Credit Card - were...

Fortune Shoes' profit nosedives as non-operating income dries up

FE REPORT | 2025-11-26 00:00:00

Fortune Shoes' profit nosedived to Tk 19 million in FY25 as non-operating income shrank significantly.The shoe manufacturer's profit tumbled 77 per cent year-on-year in FY25, according to a stock exchange filing on Tuesday.Fortune Shoes, based mainly in the southern division...

Eight more firms given extended deadlines to adjust negative equity

FE REPORT | 2025-11-26 00:00:00

The securities regulator has granted additional time to eight more market intermediaries to ensure compliance with provisioning requirements for unrealised losses and to adjust negative equity.The extension will take effect after December 31 this year, when the current deadline expires."Some...

India, Pakistan to face off in group stage of T20 World Cup: ICC

2025-11-26 00:00:00

MUMBAI, India, Nov 25 (AFP): Bitter rivals India and Pakistan have been clubbed together in the same group and will play each other on February 15 in Colombo in the T20 World Cup, cricket's world body announced Tuesday.Defending champions India...

Rangpur top NCL points table after win over Rajshahi

2025-11-26 00:00:00

Rangpur Division moved to the top of the points table in the 27th National Cricket League (NCL) after securing a five-wicket win over Rajshahi Division in their fifth-round match at the Rajshahi Divisional Stadium on Tuesday, reports BSS.Pacer Mukidul Islam...

Gold pulls back from over one-week high

2025-11-26 00:00:00

Gold prices eased on Tuesday, slipping from an over one-week peak as the dollar held firm, while investors awaited a batch of delayed US economic data that could help refine expectations for future Federal Reserve rate cuts, reports Reuters.Spot gold...

UK to end sugar tax exemption for milk-based drinks

2025-11-26 00:00:00

LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters): Britain will scrap a sugar-tax exemption for pre-packaged milk-based drinks, including bottled milkshakes and milky coffees, the health department said on Tuesday, as part of efforts to curb an "obesity epidemic".The sugar tax, also known as...

Oil prices fall amid Ukraine peace deal reports

2025-11-26 00:00:00

LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters): Oil prices extended an earlier decline on Tuesday after news reports cited a US official saying that Ukraine had agreed to a peace deal.Brent futures were down $1, or 1.6 per cent, at $62.37 a barrel...

UN seeks 'impartial' probe into Israeli strikes in Lebanon

2025-11-26 00:00:00

GENEVA, Nov 25 (AFP): The United Nations called Tuesday for swift and impartial investigations into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including a deadly attack on a Palestinian refugee camp last week.The UN rights office decried that nearly a year since the...

Gaza 'survival' at stake, says UN

2025-11-26 00:00:00

GENEVA, Nov 25 (AFP): Israel's war in Gaza has ravaged the Palestinian territory's economy and is threatening its very survival, the United Nations warned Tuesday, calling for "immediate and substantial" international intervention.Rebuilding the Gaza Strip will cost more than $70...

Kabul vows 'appropriate' response after Pak strikes kill 10

2025-11-26 00:00:00

KABUL, Nov 25 (AFP): Afghanistan's Taliban government vowed Tuesday to "respond appropriately" to overnight border strikes it blamed on Pakistan that killed 10 people, as tensions soar following a suicide bombing in Peshawar a day earlier."The Pakistani invading forces bombed...

How earthquakes made people rethink living in high-rises

MOHAMMAD ASIF | 2025-11-26 00:00:00

"I live on the tenth floor at Wari with my two elderly parents and my wife. When the building started shaking, I felt helpless. I kept thinking that if something happened to them, I wouldn't even know how to get...

The artistry of Nat’l Botanical Garden

2025-11-26 00:00:00

Jarin Tasnim OhiYou may be familiar with Mirpur's National Botanical Garden. But do you know why it's so well-liked? With about 56,000 species, a dedicated study herbarium, a variety of leisure amenities including lakes and cactus houses, and a sizable...

Does the earth have enough to sustain our greed?

Md. Touhidul Alam Khan | 2025-11-26 00:00:00

As we stand at a critical juncture in history, the urgency of addressing climate change has never been more apparent. Scientists around the globe agree that our planet is in peril, grappling with the effects of extreme weather events, rising...

Nutritional transition in South Asia

Barkat-e-Khuda | 2025-11-26 00:00:00

Because of a major shift in dietary patterns and lifestyle changes due to urbanisation and rising incomes, low- and middle-income countries are experiencing a rapid nutrition transition, leading to 'double burden of malnutrition', with under nutrition co-existing with obesity. The...

Social media and behaviour of young generation

2025-11-26 00:00:00

The rapid pace of modern civilisation, propelled by information technology, has transformed the way we communicate, learn and entertain ourselves. Social media, in particular, have become central to the lives of Bangladesh's youth, with platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok,...

Establish English language clubs

2025-11-26 00:00:00

The absence of English language clubs has become a major factor behind students' weakness in English in many educational institutions across the country. Students often struggle to express themselves in English despite learning it from the start of their academic...

Why Savar leather park cannot go global

Wasi Ahmed | 2025-11-26 00:00:00

The recent findings about the Leather Industrial Park in Savar by the Implementation Monitoring and Evaluation Division (IMED) have once again brought Bangladesh's struggle with industrial governance, environmental compliance and export competitiveness into sharp focus. What was once envisioned as...

Recalibration of education for skill development

2025-11-26 00:00:00

In today's world of ever-shifting balance of power, global trade and economy are getting fragmented and, in some cases, protectionist and regionalised, while supply chains are facing disruptions. Amid these developments, the economies of countries so far bracketed as Least...

Four pc street boys face commercial sexual exploitation, study reveals

FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 12:00:00

Almost 4 per cent of the street-involved boys in Dhaka are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, according to new national research launched on Monday by The Freedom Fund with government agencies, research partners, and national child protection organisations. The findings,...

Bollywood's 'He-Man' Dharmendra dies aged 89

2025-11-25 00:00:00

MUMBAI, Nov 24 (AFP): India's hugely popular star Dharmendra was lovingly known as the "He-Man" of Bollywood, thanks to his roles in a string of action movies that cemented his legacy spanning more than six decades and 250 films.Born Dharam...

Court orders seizure of Salman's land, freeze on Tk 546.6m bank account

FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00

A Dhaka court on Monday ordered the seizure of 36 bighas of land in Gazipur owned by Salman F Rahman, former adviser on private industry and investment to the prime minister.The court also ordered freeze on his IFIC Bank account...

Dengue deaths hit 88 in Nov, deadliest month of 2025

SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-11-25 00:00:00

Bangladesh reported 88 dengue deaths in the first 24 days of November this year, making it the deadliest month of 2025 for the disease, even with a week remaining.Two more people died of dengue in the last 24 hours until...

Only political govt can control commodity prices successfully

FE REPORT | 2025-11-25 00:00:00

Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed on Monday said controlling commodity prices by engaging administrative officials is difficult while a political government is more successful in this regard. "You can't resolve these (price controls) by involving administration. This can be done...

90pc people of South Asia will be at risk of extreme heat by 2030: WB

FHM Humayan Kabir | 2025-11-25 00:00:00

Some 90 per cent of the South Asian population including Bangladeshis will be at risk of extreme heat and nearly a quarter at risk of severe flooding by the year 2030 due to the region's high climate vulnerabilities, a World...