MOSCOW, Nov 19 (BBC): Vladimir Putin has approved changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal.The doctrine now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
Five listed banks have received approval of the securities regulator to raise Tk 20 billion in total by issuing subordinated bonds to strengthen their Tier-II capital base under Basel-III norms.The approval came at a meeting of the Bangladesh Securities and...
PRIME BANK SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH KASHPIA GROUP Prime Bank recently signed an agreement with Kashpia Group to provide essential banking services. The signing ceremony was held at the bank's corporate office. Under this agreement, employees of Kashpia Group will enjoy...
SOUTHEAST BANK SIGNS MOU WITH BDJOBS.COM TO PROVIDE PAYROLL SERVICESSoutheast Bank recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with BDJOBS.COM Limited, to provide payroll, payment and other essential banking services. The signing ceremony took place at Southeast Bank's head office...
FE REPORT | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
The stock market regulator has fined Director of Southeast Bank Alamgir Kabir Tk 120 million for breaching insider trading rules in trading in shares of Bay Leasing and Investment.He is among the three individuals penalised for the same offence. The...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
Stock exchanges' main boards should be cleaned up removing the companies that fail to maintain minimum financial standards. The boards have so many poor-performing companies that they engender a bad impression about the market to both local and foreign investors....
NATORE, Nov 19 (BSS): A mobile court in Singra upazila here fined two bird poachers Tk 10,000 for trapping birds in Chalan Beel on Tuesday.The accused are Maqbul Hossain, 52, and Dulal Hossain, 35. Both of them are residents of...
TANGAIL, Nov 19 (BSS): A court here on Tuesday sentenced two persons including a woman to life-term imprisonment for killing a woman in Basail upazila of the district in 2018.Additional District and Sessions Judge Afroza Begum handed down the verdict...
TANGAIL, Nov 19 (Agencies): Four people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a pick-up van at Madhupur in Tangail district on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Rabiul Islam, 28, son of Akter Ali, Shahjalal Sheikh, 42,...
Workers at the Beximco Industrial Park and Dorin Fashion Limited have once again blocked the Chandra-Nabinagar road in Gazipur, reports bdnews24.comThe workers blocked the road at two points on Tuesday morning, bringing traffic to a halt and causing congestion, according...
Our CorrespondentSYLHET, Nov 19: The Tilagarh Eco-Park in Sylhet remains unsupervised since the Sheikh Hasina-led government's fall on August 5 as the lessee, an Awami League man, has fled without making any arrangements.During a recent visit to the site, this...
NEW YORK, Nov 19 (AFP): The US aviation giant Boeing sent out its first redundancy notifications on Monday as part of a previously announced plan to cut its global workforce by 10 percent.Boeing intends to cut almost 2,200 jobs in...
PARIS/BEIJING, Nov 19 (Reuters): Chicago wheat futures rose for a third session in a row on Tuesday, supported by concerns of an escalating war in the Black Sea breadbasket region, following the White House's move to lift curbs on Ukraine...
Gold prices climbed for a second straight session to hit a one-week peak on Tuesday as the US dollar pulled back from recent highs, while investors awaited comments from Federal Reserve officials for clarity on its interest rate cut policy,...
LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters): Oil slipped on Tuesday pressured by the restart of production at Norway's Johan Sverdrup oilfield, although investor caution arising from fears of an escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war limited the decline.Equinor has resumed partial production from...
Serajul I Bhuiyan | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's leaked phone conversations, reportedly broadcast from her location in India, have become a sensation among the Bangladeshi people and reveal the extent of her influence over the Awami League loyalists in Bangladesh. During those calls,...
The absence of derivatives trading in Bangladesh highlights structural and regulatory gaps in the capital market. These challenges have made it difficult to introduce financial instruments like options and futures, which are common in more developed markets.One of the biggest...
As the interim government formed after the July uprising nears its 100-day mark, questions arise about its commitment to support victims of the mass uprising. Despite promises, a complete list of the dead and injured remains unpublished. This lack of...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
The biggest demand that emerged out of the July uprising was the demand for jobs. For decades, the education system in this country has been blamed for producing graduates with sub-par skills. Indeed, this issue has been the subject matter...
Wasi Ahmed | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
Export diversification has long figured prominently in discussions about the country's export strategy, driven primarily by the overwhelming reliance on ready-made garments (RMG). The push for diversification stems from the need to strengthen the overall export sector by reducing dependence...
Disbursement of loans bending rules to businesses enjoying political favour during the previous regime had been behind stiff rise in non-performing loans (NPLs) or bad debts in the banking sector. Though substantial amounts of funds were thus siphoned from the...
Umme Habiba | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
We've all faced this problem, spending an overwhelming amount of effort and time styling hair only to lose its volume and look flat after a specific time. Managing hair throughout the day can be highly challenging, especially styling thin hair,...
Mahmudul Islam | 2024-11-20 00:00:00
"Is there a chance the bus could get stuck in floodwater?" I asked the Cox's Bazar counterman over the phone.Before booking my ticket for the nearly 700km journey across Bangladesh, I needed to inquire about road conditions in Cumilla and...
Smoke billowing out after a devastating fire engulfed the Meghna Pulp and Paper Mills Limited's tissue godown in Sonargaon, Narayanganj on Monday. — FE Photo
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-11-19 12:00:00
SYLHET, Nov 18: Adverse weather and calamities, labour unrest, and low auction prices amid high production costs have hampered this year's tea production. Officials fear a fall in production, while it is almost impossible to achieve the annual target as...
Six more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 421 this year.In the recent fatalities, two deaths were reported in Chattogram division, while one...
The Public Service Commission, or PSC, has canceled the viva exam for the 44th Bangladesh Civil Service examination and made important decisions regarding the next two civil service exams, according to reports published by agencies and online portals. These decisions...
Students of Government Titumir College blocked the road in Mohakhali area for a second time on Monday, demanding that their institution be converted into a university.They were staging demonstrations in front of the college until filing of this report at...
BENAPOLE, Nov 18 (UNB): After a two-year hiatus, rice imports from India have resumed through the Benapole port.Three trucks loaded with 105 tonnes (105,000 kg) of non-basmati rice, imported by Mahabubul Alam Food Products from Jashore, entered the transshipment yard...
Amid the prevailing economic challenges, the implementation coordination committee is gearing up to assess progress on meeting the loan conditions of the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, aiming for the seamless release of the fourth tranche, reports bdnews24.com.The discussion will...
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