Asjadul Kibria | 2025-12-21 00:00:00
Over the past thirty years, Global Value Chains (GVCs) have played a critical role in international trade and growth. Many countries have tried to increase their participation in GVCs to stay competitive in production and trade. As a result, GVC-related...
Long dismissed as an unavoidable cost of development, air pollution in Bangladesh has now become a serious threat to the country's future generation. A recent World Bank report shows that hazardous air exposure has reached levels where every schoolgoing child...
Manmohan Parkash | 2025-12-21 00:00:00
Every day, millions of people and businesses send money across borders - and wait. A remittance can take days to arrive, fees quietly erode income, and trillions of dollars remain locked in correspondent banking systems designed decades ago for a...
Israt Jahan Kakoly | 2025-12-21 00:00:00
There is growing interest in the application of and research on meditation observing its beneficial effects on mental and physical health. There are around 275 million people practicing meditation in the world. In the United States of America (USA), 61...
Shome Basu | 2025-12-21 00:00:00
In the aftermath of last year’s anti-Hasina uprising in Bangladesh, several student leaders emerged from obscurity, propelled by a mix of anger and a demand for justice. Sharif Osman Hadi was one of them.I first encountered Osman Hadi in September...
Police say two Bangladeshi men have been killed by gunfire allegedly from Indian Khasi people at the Sylhet border in Companiganj Upazila, reports bdnews24.com.The shooting took place on Friday afternoon at the Damdama border area of Uttar Ronikhai Union, Companiganj...
SAIF UDDIN | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Amid the deteriorating air quality in Bangladesh, especially in the capital, businesses are identifying a growing opportunity in the sale of air purifiers.Consumer adoption of this appliance is currently at a nascent stage, but it is likely to accelerate as...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) condemned the targeted killing of Inquilab Moncho spokesperson Osman Hadi and unprecedented destructive attacks on media freedom and dissent on Friday.TIB requested that the government take responsibility and act effectively.It expressed deep concern and strongly condemned...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
The United Nations Human Rights Office urges all to remain calm and to restrain from violence.In the wake of the death of July protester, Sharif Osman Hadi and the violence that followed Jeremy Laurence, UN Human Rights Office spokesperson, on...
The Bangladesh High Commission in London has issued a travel pass for Tarique Rahman in response to the BNP leader's application for the document, an official said, reports bdnews24.com.A foreign ministry official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Friday...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Bangladesh's fiscal landscape is facing a significant strain as the government's expenditures on subsidies and incentives surged over the last several fiscal years. This sharp spike is largely attributed to a massive backlog of arrears in the power sector and...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's health saw a bit more improvement on Friday from the utmost stability attained in the past one month, according to his personal physician.BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. AZM Zahid Hossain shared the update to the reporters...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Regulatory foreign-exchange-market intervention pays off as Bangladesh's reserves stay steady for guided exchange and dollar buy from banks as a stabilising measure, sources say. The country's foreign-exchange reserves show a rebound following the Bangladesh Bank's market intervention to keep taka-dollar...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
In a clarion call amid nighttime unrest, the post-uprising government urges citizens to resist "mob violence" as it warns acts of intimidation, arson and lynching threaten to derail Bangladesh's fragile democratic transition.In a statement released Friday following overnight ordeals, the...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Leading media outlets, civil society and journalists' organisations strongly condemned the coordinated attacks, vandalism and arsons at the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, describing them as a direct assault on press freedom, democratic values and the rule...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Overnight arson attacks and "vandalism" on Thursday night prolonged into protest marches and mourning rallies across the country on Friday following the killing of Sharif Osman Hadi, a protagonist of the July uprising. Hadi, the spokesperson for Inqilab Mancha, was...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Second thoughts on gains from trade deal with an economic biggie show Bangladesh's exports to Japan are destined to decline significantly for privilege contraction once the partnership pact takes effect shortly. Insights find that after the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement...
Weather may remain dry with partly cloudy sky until 6:00 pm today (Saturday).The sun sets in the city today at 05: 15 pm and rises tomorrow at 06:36 am.
Professor Dr. Mohammad Zoynal Abedin, Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur (DUET), speaking as the chief guest of a seminar, titled 'The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academia: Disruptions, Dilemma and New Directions'. DUET IQAC organised...
A special cell under the National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) is working round the clock to monitor online and social media, verify information and prevent spread of fake news and rumours ahead of the election, reports BSS.To this end, the...
BRAC University (BRACU) and BRAC commemorated the sixth death anniversary of their founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed through a programme titled 'Young Abed: Crossroads of Courage and Conviction' on the university's campus in the capital on Thursday, said a press...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM Dec 19: Police arrested an alleged extortionist on Thursday night over an extortion attempt at a construction site in Chattogram's Panchlaish area, where a group of attackers allegedly opened fire after the project owner refused to pay Tk 5.0...
Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus has said the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is performing its duties as the vanguard in border security, preventing smuggling, drug, women and children trafficking apart from safeguarding the geographical integrity and the country's sovereignty,...
Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Adviser Supradip Chakma on Friday attended the second day of the national cremation ceremony of the late most venerable Tilokananda Mahathero at Baghaichhari in Rangamati, reports BSS.Thousands of devotees paid their last respects to the...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Brent Christiansen has been confirmed as the next US Ambassador to Bangladesh at a time of political transitions and heightened regional sensitivity in the South Asian nation.Sources say the US Senate, the upper house of the American parliament, Congress, has...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Dhaka University (DU) on Friday postponed its Science unit admission test, scheduled for today (Saturday), as a mark of respect following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi.Saturday will be observed as a day of mourning at the DU, a press...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Students and alumni of Bengali cultural organisation Chhayanaut and its educational wing Nalonda took to the street outside its burnt and vandalised building in the capital on Friday, protesting the latest attack on the institution.The gathering took place hours after...
FE REPORT | 2025-12-20 00:00:00
Prices of vegetables, newly-harvested onions and potatoes, eggs and chicken declined in last week.New onions are selling in Dhaka for Tk 80-100 per kg, which is about Tk 10 less than the previous week, according to market sources.A visit to...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Sukanta Dutta, a suspect in the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif, in Bandarban, reports bdnews24.com.A statement issued on Friday by RAB-7 Assistant Director (Media) and Assistant Superintendent of Police ARM Mozzaffar Hossain...
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