That Bangladesh workers' migration with employment abroad has seen a drastic decline this year is a cause for serious concern. Compared with 1.30 million in 2023, only 906,355 works left the country with employment registering a fall in overseas migration...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2024-12-31 00:00:00
Bangladesh, still reeling from the sanguinary last ditch efforts of the former autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina to cling to power, could not expect a better new year’s gift than the one presented by the prestigious weekly The Economist. Selecting...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 29: The lighterage services at 16 stations and outer anchorage in the Karnaphuli River near the Chittagong Port began on Sunday morning after withdrawal of the indefinite strike by water transport workers. "The lighter ships have already gone...
New free textbooks for the new year are being sent to different educational institutions from Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Government Boys' High School in the city on Sunday. — FE Photo by Shafiqul Alam
Two more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 572 this year, reports UNB.According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), recent fatalities...
SHERPUR, Dec 29 (UNB): Six people, including two women, were killed in a road accident between a bus and a CNG run-autorickshaw on Sherpur-Mymensingh highway in Sherpur Sadar upazila on Sunday morning, said police.One of the deceased was identified as...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
The Editors' Council on Sunday strongly condemned the suspension of journalists' entry to the Secretariat.The council also said such move is a threat to free journalism, according to a statement issued to the media."The stakeholder linked to the association (EC)...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Marginalised workers in various informal sectors, especially domestic and home-based garment, tea plantation and fisherfolk, face severe challenges like lack of fair wages, social protection and basic workplace rights. Domestic workers earn an average of Tk 5,311 monthly, far below...
Postgraduate private trainee doctors will get a monthly stipend of Tk 30,000 from January. From July, they will be given Tk 35,000 allowance, according to officials.The move, aimed at quelling widespread protests, came following a meeting at the residence of...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Expatriate Bangladeshis sent home $2.42 billion in 28 days of December 2024, indicating record remittance inflows in recent times.The inflow of remittance stood at $2.19 billion in November, according to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) data.Remittance inflows stood at $2.39 billion...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
As many as 57 per cent of Bangladeshi returnee migrants who were denied medical care in their destination countries took on a huge financial burden at home to cover the costs, according to a new study.They borrowed Tk 90,000 on...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Despite numerous challenges like labour unrest, energy crisis, high interest rate and rising production costs, the country's readymade garment (RMG) sector has sustained a moderate export growth this year. According to the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Bangladesh received US$37.71 billion...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh's interim government is not in favour of any impulsive response to India's decision not to extradite deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, wanted by a Dhaka tribunal to stand trial.A key adviser of the post-uprising government stated this Sunday after...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Central bank's governor Dr. Ahsan H Mansur said on Sunday the country's financial sector had made significant progress over the past 53 years but fallen short of its potential.Speaking as the chief guest at the inaugural session of the golden...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh is set to say goodbye to perhaps the most challenging year for the financial sector that endured multipronged strains like soaring inflation, liquidity dearth, panic cash withdrawal, exchange-rate volatility and NPL buildup, apart from political upheavals.Leveraged and insider lending...
MUAN (SOUTH KOREA), Dec 29 (AFP): A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, killing everyone aboard except for two flight attendants plucked from...
DOULOT AKTER MALA and JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Revenue sleuths have made a decisive move to reclaim siphoned-off assets of Bangladesh tycoons from five countries through claiming taxing rights under the double-taxation-avoidance agreement (DTAA) as the mechanism.Revenue officials say the Central Intelligence Cell (CIC) has listed the UK,...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office. Light to moderate fog may occur at places over the country during...
Rubel Aziz was elected president (un-opposed) of Banani Club Limited in the election held on Saturday (December 28).Newly-elected ten members of the executive committee are: Sifat Ahmed Chaughuri, Syed Ahsanul Apon, Anik Ghosh, SM Shamsuddin Bahar, Engineer Mohammad Farhad, Md...
A high-powered committee formed to probe the Secretariat fire incident will submit its primary report to Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus today (Monday), reports BSS. "The probe body will submit its report on the Secretariat fire to the chief...
Adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Ministry of Shipping Brigadier General (retd) M. Sakhawat Hossain has said overall security will be ensured on all inland waterways with the cooperation of the River Police, reports UNB.He made...
Applications for the 47th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations have opened to job seekers, reports bdnews24.com.This year, the application fees have been reduced, as have the number of marks allocated to the oral portion of the examination.The forms, which became available...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
The interim government-formed 'Media Reforms Commission' is weighing the possibility of making a separate law for protecting the media.Head of the commission Kamal Ahmed made the observation while exchanging views with the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of...
FE REPORT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
Dhaka and some other megacities in South Asia including Delhi, Lahore, and Kolkata are now facing rapid urbanisation challenges like narrowing open spaces and low-income people's limited access to urban facilities, prompting experts to call for effective urban planning. They...
Jhorna Roy, wife of BNP National Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, passed away on Sunday. She was 67, reports UNB.Jhorna breathed her last at around 04:00 pm while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), said her...
Traffic has resumed on Airport Road after the Armed Forces members who were dismissed or sent on compulsory retirement during the Awami League regime and their families blocked the Jahangir Gate area for two hours demanding the restoration of their...
Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam Sunday said the government has no relation with initiative of the proclamation of July uprising by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on December 31, reports BSS."This is a private initiative. We are considering it as...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-12-30 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Dec 29: A total of Tk 230 billion was spent to hold various local government elections during the last four years of the autocratic Awami League government.These elections not only involved a significant amount of money but also took...
BNP senior leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday alleged that not only India but also a few political parties, including those who opposed the Liberation War in 1971, are trying to fish in troubled waters to secure their own political...
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