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Gold gains as markets gear up for Fed's rate verdict

2024-09-19 00:00:00

Gold prices gained on Wednesday, as investors awaited for the Federal Reserve to start its US monetary easing cycle for the first time in over four years, reports Reuters.Spot gold rose 0.3 per cent to $2,577.75 per ounce as of...

Oil drops ahead of US Fed decision

2024-09-19 00:00:00

LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters): Oil prices fell on Wednesday after two sessions of gains after an industry report showed increasing US crude and fuel inventories, offsetting rising tension in the Middle East and the potentially bullish impact of a US...

News in Brief -2024-09-19

2024-09-19 00:00:00

Storm toll rises to 23 in EuropePRAGUE, Sept 18: The toll from the extreme weather unleashed by Storm Boris in central and eastern Europe rose to at least 23 people, as Czech police said Wednesday they had found a fourth...

China sanctions US cos for selling arms to Taiwan

2024-09-19 00:00:00

BEIJING, Sept 18 (AP): China on Wednesday announced sanctions on American companies selling arms to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force.Chinese state media made the announcement, citing the...

Biden calls for Sudan parties to 're-engage' in peace talks

2024-09-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (AFP): US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for Sudan's warring parties to "re-engage" in peace talks and facilitate humanitarian access, in some of his most direct comments yet on the country's deadly conflict."I call on the...

Afghan women continue medical studies in Scotland

2024-09-19 00:00:00

GLASGOW, Sept 18 (AFP): When the Taliban banned women from attending university in Afghanistan, Zahra Hussaini thought her dream of becoming a doctor was over. Now, she is continuing her medical degree in Britain. "Coming to Scotland, it changed everything....

Kashmir votes in local polls

2024-09-19 00:00:00

SRINAGAR, Sept 18 (AFP): Indian-administered Kashmir voted Wednesday in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan.Many in the disputed Muslim-majority territory of...

Israel plants explosives in Hezbollah's pagers

2024-09-19 00:00:00

AMMAN, Sept 18 (Reuters/AFP): Israel's Mossad spy agency planted explosives inside 5,000 pagers imported by Lebanese group Hezbollah months before Tuesday's detonations, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters.The operation was an unprecedented Hezbollah security breach that...

UN considers resolution demanding Israel ends unlawful Gaza presence

2024-09-19 00:00:00

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18(AP/AFP): The U.N. General Assembly is considering a Palestinian resolution Tuesday demanding that Israel end its "unlawful presence" in Gaza and the occupied West Bank within a year and calling for sanctions and an arms embargo against...

Torrential rains submerge 26 villages in Jashore

2024-09-19 00:00:00

JASHORE, Sept 18 (UNB): Incessant rains for the last couple of days have flooded homesteads, cropland and fish enclosures, rendering around 8,500 people of 26 villages in Abhay-nagar upazila marooned.School grounds and house courtyards are flooded, with water levels reaching...

Man dies trying to stop Gopalganj clash

2024-09-19 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, Sept 18 (bdnews24.com): A man has died while trying to stop a clash between two families at a village in Gopal-ganj's Muksudpur. Five other people were injured in the clash.The incident occurred in Mohishtoli village in Nanikhir Union, said...

Chandpur's Shahrasti upazila dogged by severe water crisis

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-09-19 00:00:00

CHANDPUR, Sept 18: Shahrasti upazila of the district is witnessing an overwhelming crisis of pure drinking water in the flood aftermath, which has brought in unbearable suffering for a large number of residents.Local people are finding it very difficult to...

Four back-to-back floods damage Tk 8,183.3m crops

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-09-19 00:00:00

SYLHET, Sept 15: Four back-to-back spells of flood within a span of only four months from late May have caused damage to standing crops valued Tk8,183.3 million (Tk818.33 crore) in Sylhet division.Excessive rainfall and runoff from the upstream in Indian...

Bangladesh's evolving relations with China, India

2024-09-19 00:00:00

Recent events have placed Bangladesh in a delicate position between two of its major neighbours, India and China. China, one of the world's superpowers, has historically had a complicated relationship with Bangladesh. In August 1972, when Bangladesh sought membership in...

Regaining trust in banking sector

2024-09-19 00:00:00

Bangladesh's financial sector stands on the brink of significant transformation as the newly formed interim government strives to restore stability. Due to mismanagement, unresolved debts, and widespread corruption, public confidence in the banking sector has been severely undermined. To tackle...

Reforming civil bureaucracy

Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2024-09-19 00:00:00

The formation of six reform commissions by the present interim government, including one for public administration, is a step in the right direction. In fact, it was long overdue. However, scepticism is there about the success of these efforts, given...

Giving rivers a new lease of life

Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-09-19 00:00:00

Much like the arteries and veins of the human body that carry essential blood to and from the heart, Bangladesh was once blessed with numerous rivers and canals that sustained the life of the nation, but not anymore. To say...

Option for renewable energy

2024-09-19 00:00:00

That the interim government's adviser for power, energy and mineral resources has sought the Swiss government's and business people's investment and technological assistance in Bangladesh's development, particularly in the area of transition to renewable energy is a focus more on...

History as it was shaped fifty years ago

Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-09-19 00:00:00

It is exhilarating to travel back to history. It is important for an individual to have a sense of history, for history defines our social and political attitudes to events around us. Not all of us have been around the...

Need another railgate at Khilgaon

2024-09-18 12:00:00

To improve access to areas such as Mugda, Manda, Maya Kanon, Banasree, Meradia, Sipahi Bag, and Madartek from the business hub of Motijheel and adjacent areas a new railgate is needed halfway between Kamalapur Station and Khilgaon railgate. A large...

Menon on 3-day remand for attacks on Mirza Abbas

2024-09-18 00:00:00

President of Bangladesh Workers Party and former civil aviation and tourism minister Rashed Khan Menon has been placed on a three-day remand for attacking Mirza Abbas, national standing committee member of BNP, during an election campaign in the city's Shegun...

Ex-MPs Fazlul Karim, Nazma among 1,617 sued in Gopalganj

2024-09-18 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, Sep 17 (UNB): A case has been filed against 1617 people including former lawmaker Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and former reserved women's seat lawmaker Nazma Aktar in connection with the killing of a central leader of the BNP's voluntary...

Ex-Addl SP Kafi remanded again

2024-09-18 00:00:00

A Dhaka court has placed former additional superintendant of police (Adi-SP) Abdullah Hil Kafi of Dhaka district on a two-day remand more in an attempt to murder case filed with Ashulia thana, reports BSS.Senior Judicial Magistrate of the Chief Judicial...

Former Rajshahi-4 MP Enamul Haque held

2024-09-18 00:00:00

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the former member of parliament for Rajshahi-4, Engineer Md. Enamul Haque from Dhaka's Adabor, reports UNB.He was arrested over attacking students and the public during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement in Rajshahi's Bagmara...

Canadian MP voices concern over attacks on Hindus in BD

2024-09-18 00:00:00

Canadian MP Chandra Arya has expressed deep concern over the ongoing violence against Hindus in Bangladesh, reports UNB.In a statement in the Canadian Parliament on Moday, Indian origin Arya highlighted the troubling situation faced by religious minorities, including Hindus, Buddhists,...

Three Jubo League men held for extortion in guise of Jubo Dal

2024-09-18 00:00:00

THAKURGAON, Sept 17 (BSS): Police have arrested three workers of Jubo League, the youth front of Awami League, on charges of taking extortion in guise of Jubo Dal, youth wing of BNP on Monday.The arrestees are Solaiman Hossen (32), Raju...

81.9pc DU students want DUCSU-based politics: Survey

DU CORRESPONDENT | 2024-09-18 00:00:00

Approximately 81.9 per cent of DU students want DUCSU as an alternative after banning party-affiliated student politics at Dhaka University, according to an opinion survey by Dhaka University Research Society (DURS).As much as 80 per cent of the students said...

Asaduzzaman Noor sent to jail

2024-09-18 00:00:00

A Dakha court has sent former cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor to jail in a case lodged over the murder of hotel staff Siam Sardar in the capital's Mirpur area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement, report agencies.Noor was arrested...

Mozammel Babu, Shyamal Dutta, Shahriar Kabir on 7-day remand

FE REPORT | 2024-09-18 00:00:00

A Dhaka Court on Tuesday placed senior journalists Mozammel Babu and Shyamal Dutta as well as former president of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, Shahriar Kabir, on a seven-day remand in two murder cases. Judge of the Additional Chief...

Weather (2024-09-18)

2024-09-18 00:00:00

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna and Barishal divisions with moderately...