RIO DE JANEIRO, July 27 (AFP) : G20 nations have agreed to work together to make the super-rich pay their taxes, but stopped short of a more substantial deal, according to a declaration adopted Friday after a meeting of finance...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
Deploying good bacteria to fight bad bacteria! It sounded like a fanciful idea, the sort that might occur only to a scientist. But testing it on a green chilli farm the size of 1.5 football fields was absurd, at least...
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is set to hold a meeting with the Association of Mobile Telecom Operators of Bangladesh, or AMTOB, over the restoration of mobile internet services at 9:00am today (Sunday), reports bdnews24.com.Responding to a question from...
Two more Quota Movement coordinators were taken into custody of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Saturday.They are Sargis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah.DB's Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Md Junaed Alam Sarkar confirmed it to a local vernacular...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
Many parents of Gen Z have become traumatised by the prospect of sending their children alone outside after the nationwide anti-quota conflicts, which claimed more than 200 lives and injured thousands.Even amid the relaxed curfew in Dhaka, the guardians have...
Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina has sought cooperation from Japan to reopen soon the two damaged metrorail stations at Mirpur-10 and Kazipara in the capital, reports BSS.She sought the assistance when Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh IWAMA Kiminori paid a courtesy...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
The magnitude of excessive heat at work in Bangladesh is greater than the global average, although it has worsened slowly over the past 20 years.The International Labour Organisation (ILO) disclosed this in a new report styled 'Heat at work: Implications...
Internet blackout: IT cos fear foreign clients may turn their back on them Internet blackout came as a severe blow to the IT companies that fear long-term setbacks on business if foreign clients consider them unreliable and move to other...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday the nationwide mayhem was a part of a conspiracy to completely cripple the economy to make Bangladesh again a country of beggars, reports BSS."It might be their conspiracy to make us again a...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
Forbes Advisor has identified Dhaka as the sixth most hazardous city for tourists this year.The study has evaluated 60 global destinations based on seven major risk factors: crime, personal safety, health, infrastructure, natural disasters and digital security.Bangladesh has received a...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
Shadows loom over a fledgling industry here as New Delhi seeks duty privilege to export its Masterbatch goods to Bangladesh that suffers huge bilateral trade deficit.Local entrepreneurs aired their concerns and also pointed out that India imposed anti-dumping duty on...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
The government has announced new timings for both the government and non-government offices for the next three days beginning today (Sunday).According to the new schedule, office activities will continue from 9:00am to 3:00pm until Tuesday.Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain provided...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions; at a few places over Mymensingh, Khulna and Barishal divisions and at one or two places over...
KHAGRACHHARI, July 27 (UNB): An activist of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead by miscreants at Santi Bikash Karbaripara in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari district in the early hours of Saturday. The dead is Junel Chakma (31), organiser...
RANGPUR, July 26 (UNB): The administration of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR), has provided financial assistance to the family of Abu Sayed, a student of the university's English department, who lost life first during the students' countrywide quota reform protest.Abu...
JASHORE, July 27 (UNB): Police arrested three people in connection with an incident of gang rape of a sixth-grader at Monirampur upazila in Jashore district.The arrestees are Pranto Biswas (22), son of Kartik Biswas of Khoshalnagar village of Jhikargacha upazila,...
Bangladesh Navy Family Welfare Association (BNFWA) President Nadia Sultana distributes food items among poor and underprivileged people at Nabik Colony and Mirpur-10 in the capital on Saturday — ISPR
Two persons died of dengue in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning, according to the daily statement of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports BSS.Ninety eight people were also hospitalised in the same period.During the period, 74...
Police have arrested 2536 people in Dhaka in connection with unrest centering students' demonstrations for quota reform in government jobs, reports UNB.They were arrested from July 12 to 26 from different parts of the capital, said KN Roy Nioty, ADC...
CHATTOGRAM, July 27 (BSS): At least five shops and a dwelling house were gutted in a devastating fire at Manikpur village of Kanchonnagar union under Fatikchari upazila of the district in the early hours of Saturday.Kamal Uddin Chowdhury, Station Officer...
Security has been tightened at Khulna district jail considering the current situation in the country including the recent attacks in Narsingdi jail, reports UNB."Surveillance has been increased in and around the jail while the leave of all staff of the...
Passengers stand in a long queue at Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Saturday to receive refund money of tickets as train movement to India remains halted during the ongoing countrywide shutdown over the students' protests for quota abolition...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
The prices of vegetables have declined somewhat, but rice, fish, onion and potato have remained static maintaining their previous highs.On the other hand, the value of farm eggs has showed a slight decline but that of broiler remained static.Last week,...
Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud has said BNP-Jamaat activists created anarchy over quota reform movement in the country, reports UNB.The minister came up with the remarks while speaking at a human chain programme against terrorism and anarchy in front of the...
CHATTOGRAM, July 27 (BSS): A total of 847 people have so far been arrested from the port city in 30 sabotage cases filed with different police stations in Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) area and district during last seven days.CMP Media...
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court has placed BNP Joint Secretary General Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Annie on a 7-day remand for his alleged involvement in vandalising and arson attacks on Bangladesh Television (BTV) during quota movement across the country on...
Veteran Awami League leader and coordinator of the 14-party alliance Amir Hossain Amu has said there will be no discrimination in treatment of those who were injured during the quota reform movement, reports UNB.He also said there will be no...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir demanded on Saturday that the government withdraw all cases filed against the detained opposition leaders and students and release them immediately. He made the demand in a statement issued on...
Relatives beckoned just after seeing the people arrested over the students' movement for job quota reform when a prison van carrying them arrives on the premises of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, Dhaka in the city on Saturday. — FE...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the relation between BNP and Jamaat is inseparable and it has been proved through BNP's call for unity incorporating Jamaat, reports BSS."Anti-liberation forces are collaborators of BNP," he said in a...
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