Tanjim Hasan Patwary | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
To be aware of rights, especially political ones, is important for the people. Most importantly for the youths, as it propels them to affirm their freedom of speech. It also facilitates upholding justice for every citizen, and assures accountability, that...
Businessman and politician Tabith Awal has been elected as the new president of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) beating AFM Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, a grassroot level organiser cum coach from Dinajpur District, by 23-5 votes in the BFF Election 2024, reports...
DU CORRESPONDENT Students from seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University (DU) on Saturday announced new programmes to move forward with their demand seeking an independent university to break free from the associated institution.The students have issued a three-day ultimatum to...
KHULNA, Oct 26 (BSS) : Members of anti-discrimination students' movement will sell vegetables and essential commodities at fair price in the city from tomorrow (Sunday) aimed at breaking syndicate and restoring comfort among the common people.The students will sell essential...
NARSINGDI, Oct 26 (BSS): Six people, including a woman, were killed in a collision between a truck and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Shibpur upazila of the district on Saturday.The names and other details about the deceased could not be known...
Authorities have served two separate show-cause notices on 59 trainee sub-inspectors (SIs) for indiscipline during training sessions at the Bangladesh Police Academy in Sarda, Rajshahi, reports UNB.The notices, signed by Superintendent of Police (Admin & Logistics) Tariq Bin Rashid on...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
The Ministry of Religious Affairs has warned of administrative action against 124 agencies yet to take any move for registration of pilgrims for Hajj operations next year. The ministry in a recent letter to the agencies said that administrative action...
FE Report | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
Train schedule of the country continued to fail for the second consecutive day on Saturday as most of the trains left Kamalapur Railway Station two to five hours later leaving hundreds of passengers including children and aged people to suffer...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
Seven leading development partners of Bangladesh made no loan commitment in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal year (FY 2024-25), officials have said, mainly due to the July-August uprising.A senior ERD official said that no loan agreement was...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
A new guideline of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) asks companies to apply its due-diligence framework to support living incomes and wages in the global supply chains to avert impending backlash.The OECD handbook, published on October 16,...
FE Report | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
The rate of extreme poverty in Bangladesh increased for the last three consecutive fiscal years (FYs) and is projected to reach 7.0 per cent in the current fiscal year (FY 2024-25), according to a latest World Bank report.The rate stood...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) deferred a decision regarding the removal of President Md. Sahabuddin until after its internal discussions, as confirmed in a meeting with leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (ADSM) and the National Citizen Committee on Saturday...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
A Washington court has stayed a warrant of arrest for finance and commerce adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed and central bank governor Dr Ahsan H Mansur.The action followed swift intervention by attorneys representing Bangladesh in the US on Friday.District judge Carl...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
A restoration action comes soon from the interim government to reinstate the fiscal package for renewable energy-based power plants to attract potential investors.Renewable energy investors would enjoy tax breaks until 2030 on the income derived from power generation, officials said.On...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
The retail price of onions hit Tk 145-155 a kg on Saturday, marking a Tk 10 hike per kg overnight. The price of the local variety of the pungent vegetable witnessed a Tk 20-30 hike per kg in the last...
RANGPUR, Oct 26 (UNB): The Rangpur unit of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has formed a Hindu committee in its Pirgachha Sadar union of the district.Pirgachha Sadar union Jamaat leader Abdur Jabbar announced the committee's name at the Upazila Jamaat office on Saturday.Bhavesh...
Moinuddin Abdullah, son of former chief whip Abul Hasnat Abdullah, was taken on a five-day police remand on Saturday in Jubo Dal leader Shamim murder case filed with city's Paltan thana, reports BSS.IO of the case produced him before the...
FE REPORT Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said on Saturday that the democratic system must be brought back to the country through holding a free, fair and neutral election."There was no democratic system in...
Acknowledging the broader support and popularity of the interim government, Ambassador of the European Union (EU) to Bangladesh Michael Miller has said there has to be democratic elections at the end of the process, leading to a new parliament and...
National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas, Mineral Resources and Power-Port will hold countrywide rally on November 4 to press home its 6-point demand including trial of 'energy criminals' who looted the country's wealth in last 16 years of Awami League government...
Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman called on Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at the State Guest House Jamuna in the city on Saturday. — PID
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Sunday), according to the Met Office.It may...
NARAYANGANJ , Oct 26 (UNB): Six garment workers were injured as a gas cylinder exploded at a house at Dahargaon in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district early Saturday.The injured were Abul Hossain, 50, Shelly Akhter, 35, Munni Akter, 22, Jewel,...
TAHMID SHAKIB | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
As many as 367 seats in first-year undergraduate programmes for the 2023-24 academic session remain unfilled at Dhaka University (DU) despite five rounds of the departmental migration initiative.This shortfall highlights challenges in attracting students to what were once the highly...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
Ensuring all fundamental rights as well as minimum security of a citizen is completely aligned with the SDG goal, for which the present Bangladesh government can take more help from the United Nations (UN), an eminent economist told a symposium...
FE REPORT | 2024-10-27 00:00:00
Economic stability is crucial for institutional and electoral reforms, cautioning that the pace of these reforms will be constrained without it, according to noted economist Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya."If anyone thinks we can move forward with institutional and electoral reforms while...
Fourth NHN Scientific Meeting 2024 heldThe 4th NHN (National Health Network) Scientific Meeting 2024, organised by Diabetic Association of Bangladesh (BADAS), was held at the International Convention City of Basundhara in the capital on Friday. Dr A K Azad Khan,...
KARMASANGSTHAN BANK HOSTS VIEW-EXCHANGE MEETING Karmasangsthan Bank and Bangladesh Bank jointly arranged a view-exchange meeting with the entrepreneurs from Mymensingh region under the SPCSSECP programme at the Dean Conference Room, Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Bangladesh Agricultural University,...
GRAMEEN BANK HOLDS ZONAL MANAGERS' CONFERENCE Grameen Bank held the 64th Zonal Managers' and Zonal Audit Officer' Conference-2024 at its head office auditorium in Dhaka. Dr Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, chairman of the Board of Directors of Grameen Bank, was present...
LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters): Japan's election could prompt the next market gyrations in a year in which countries housing half the world's population will have voted. But markets remain fixated on the US presidential election - the race that counts...
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