What happened on the inaugural day of the 11th Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 was shameful and unacceptable. Some cricket fans created barriers to the entry of a bus carrying cricketers. Even the protesters blocked the personal car of Khulna...
Buckwheat or bazra is a traditional robi or winter season crop in Bangladesh. It is considered one of the pseudo cereals. There was a time when a good quantity of buckwheat was cultivated in the northern region of the country....
Shiabur Rahman | 2025-01-03 00:00:00
The New Year's Eve celebration was unknown to most people in Bangladesh until the early nineties of the last century. It began on a small scale in the seventies when it was confined to the neo-rich class and celebrities in...
The recent restructuring of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) following the August transition signals a significant shift towards freeing the stock market from regulatory interferences. This move aims to allow market forces to determine the course of share...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-02 12:00:00
Both the bourses have formally launched a smart online information submission system for listed companies to keep investors updated with their financial status. The service, embedded in the websites of stock exchanges, will help investors know whether a listed company...
DAMASCUS, Jan 01 (AFP): Syria's minister of information in the country's transitional government told AFP he is working towards a free press and committed to "freedom of expression", after decades of tight control under the country's former rulers."We are working...
NEW ORLEANS, Jan 01 (AFP): A man "hellbent" on "carnage" drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of New Year revelers in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 35.The man,...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
The use of internet in Bangladesh at both household and individual levels is rising significantly as the country is going digital aggressively, official statistics showed on Wednesday.An increase in the number of smartphone users at household level has prompted a...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to develop expertise in promoting carbon trading projects, which can generate a huge amount of funds for the country, experts said.They also suggested gearing up efforts to include private sector and NGOs to improve more access to climate...
JU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
The university's proctorial team, for violating the university administration ban on Wednesday, apprehended nine students, two groups of whom were involved in drug consumption.The students were detained at 12:30 am inside a forested area of the campus.The administration issued a...
Mentioning that there is no reason to be worried if a few more political parties emerge in Bangladesh, BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has said those who fear the people's verdict are spreading confusion about the next national election, reports...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh will have to depend more on volatile spot market this year to import costly liquefied natural gas (LNG) to feed mounting demands from industries, power plants and other gas-guzzling consumers as domestic natural gas output is on the wane,...
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday urged the country's business community and entrepreneurs to come forward to strengthen its export base with more investment in the services sector to boost overall exports on the competitive global market."We need to...
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has raised the crawling-peg rate by Tk 2, bringing it from Tk 117 to Tk 119 in a move aimed at managing the dollar exchange rate.According to the central bank, an additional 2.5 per cent may...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh's ties with India do not depend on single issues like extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain told reporters Wednesday, amid prevailing contentions on both sides. "This is just one of several issues...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
New year bodes well for Bangladesh as its monthly remittance receipt hits an all-time high at US$2.64 billion in December, coming as a boon for the government grappling with sub-par forex reserves. According to the central-bank data released Wednesday, such...
Contrary to the past trend, students received some of their required textbooks on the first day of the New Year on Wednesday. There has been an uncertainty over the timely distribution of free books for the 2025 academic year, reports...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) plans to spend Tk 10.52 billion on installing 62 new deep tube wells and rehabilitating 728 existing ones, aiming to extract an additional 576 million litres of water per day (MLD) from ground...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
A major amendment to the value-added tax law is on the anvil to hike the standard VAT rate on 42 items up to 15 per cent under government bid to enhance revenue, as suggested by a multilateral donor. In some...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Thursday), according to the Met office.Moderate to dense fog may occur over the country during midnight till noon. Air navigation, inland river transport and...
FE REPORT | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
A youth was shot to death at Bashantek in the capital's Mirpur area on early Wednesday. The victim was identified as Alauddin (22). An official at the police station concerned said the victim was seriously injured following a conflict between...
Five people, including three children, sustained burn injuries during the new year celebration in different parts of the capital on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The victims are Farhan, 8, Tassin, 3, Sifan Malik, 12, Santa, 45, and Sumat, 20.The incident...
The first-phase final list of those who were martyred or injured during the student-led mass uprising of July and August 2024 has been published on the official website, accessible at https://medical-info.dghs.gov.bd/public, reports UNB.The uprising, which spanned from July 15 to...
Many city dwellers thronged the sweetmeat outlets across the capital to purchase various items on Wednesday, on the occasion of the first day of the English new year 2025. The photo was taken from a sweetmeat shop in Motijheel area....
FE REPORT | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
Candidates who were left out from the 43rd BCS recruitment despite publication of their names in the government gazette on Wednesday staged a sit-in outside Bangladesh Secretariat demanding their reinstatement in the cadre services.They thronged a place nearby and observed...
SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2025-01-02 00:00:00
Decades-old unfit public buses have become a key contributor to growing air pollution in Dhaka city as they continue to ply streets with the blessing of a faulty road-transport system led by private companies.Old engines of these buses emit huge...
A Dhaka court has scrapped bail plea of former Habiganj-4 lawmaker Barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Suman in three cases lodged over murder and attempted murder that took place during the July-August student-led mass uprising, reports BSS.Judge Shihabul Islam of Dhaka...
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) has ordered the authorities concerned to produce Armed Police Battalion constable Mohammad Sujan, who was seen shooting at people’s rally in capital's Chankharpul area, on January 12, reports UNB.The tribunal, led by Justice Md Golam...
The fact-checking body Rumor Scanner in an investigation on Wednesday debunked an Indian media report which claimed Pakistani armed forces were patrolling Bangladesh, reports BSS.It said in a report published on its website on Tuesday that the members of a...
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