Law enforcement agencies arrested some more opposition leaders and workers, including BNP Chairperson's Special Assistant Shimul Biswas and the party's Dhaka North City unit President Saiful Islam Nirob from different parts of Dhaka on Tuesday, reports UNB.Shimul Biswas was arrested...
Health Minister Dr. Samanta Lal Sen today condemned the attacks of miscreants on service providing people and public property during the recent violence, reports BSS."Miscreants launched destructive activities on common people and government establishments . . . in the attacks,...
NARSINGDI, July 23 (UNB): A terrorist group or a quarter with vested interest was involved in the violence and arson attacks on state-owned establishments in an attempt to topple the government, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Tuesday."A terrorist group...
Law Minister Anisul Huq speaking at a press conference to unveil the gazette notification on the quota system at Gulshan-2 in the capital on Tuesday. Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury, Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain, and State Minister for Information...
SAIF UDDIN | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Online freelancers working from the country fear that the prolonged internet shutdown would have a far-reaching impact as they would lose their regular clients and a negative image of the country would be projected abroad. Even after the internet service...
FE Report | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Foreign Minister (FM) Dr Hasan Mahmud has alleged that Dr Yunus has committed the crime of treason by urging the foreigners to interfere in the internal affairs of Bangladesh.The Nobel Laureate issued a statement over the recent anti-quota protest of...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday alleged that the government is concealing the evidence of violence and killings that happened during the student movement, reports UNB. "The government is hiding barbaric and heinous incidents that happened throughout...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had a dream to build a social welfare-based country for the people of Bangladesh as the outgoing Norwegian Ambassador Espen Rikter-Svendsen paid a farewell call on...
The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh passed the 2,500-mark in a tally on Tuesday, after the protests over employment quotas sparked widespread unrest, reports AFP. At least 174 people have died, including several police officers, according...
Zia Hassan Siddique | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
The recent move by Bangladesh Bank to establish private credit bureaus marks a significant step towards a more robust financial ecosystem. It is good is see that our Central Bank has taken this important step as Credit bureaus play a...
FE Report | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
We have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of technology available to and used by children over the last decade. We are now living in such a digital paradigm where our children grow up in a world surrounded by...
Academic activities in all public universities across the country have been postponed since July 1, first, because of teachers' strike over pension scheme, and then the students' quota reform movement. To tackle students' movement, the government closed all educational institutions...
Wasi Ahmed | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
By now it is clear that following LDC graduation in less than two years, Bangladesh is poised to face many fresh challenges due to its elevated country status. A good deal of these relates to preferential benefits in the realm...
It has been a week of total disruption of the communications system and the supply chain since July 17 when agitating anti-quota students called a nationwide shutdown. The indefinite curfew that the government enforced to combat the ensuing violence across...
As curfew is in force, some transport workers idle away their time on the rooftop of a bus at Sayedabad Bus Terminal in Dhaka on Tuesday. — FE Photo
MUMBAI, July 23 (AFP): India's government will spend $24 billion on employment and training, it said Tuesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to address uneven economic growth and mollify disgruntled voters after a surprising election setback last month.The funding...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
The export-import trade between Bangladesh and India through Benapole and Burimari land ports had remained suspended for the past three days due to internet disconnections, thus causing huge business as well as financial losses.Only six trucks of fish and fruit...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Businesses and emergency services come first as the government revived broadband internet operations selectively after a nagging blackout on the information superhighway that cut off Bangladesh from the globe.Social-media enthusiasts, however, have yet to have a sigh of relief as...
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Monday that an Israeli operation in the main southern city of Khan Yunis killed 70 people and wounded more than 200, after Israel warned its forces would "forcefully operate" in the area, reports...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) suspended visa for Bangladeshi workers on Tuesday following agitation by Bangladeshi workers in Dubai showing solidarity with students' quota-reform movement.Dubai police detained 57 workers on July 20 for participating in the agitation violating UAE rules...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh and Thailand look to hold negotiation talks on the proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) soon to finalise details of the agreement. To facilitate the talks, a Joint Trade Committee (JTC) meeting between the two countries is expected to be...
An army trooper frisks a motorcyclist during curfew in the capital's Arambagh area on Tuesday. — FE Photo
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Development works suffered setbacks, as did economic activity, for the ongoing stalemate stemming from countrywide job-quota protests and curfew-induced lockdown, insiders said Tuesday.Movement of construction and other types of materials, local and foreign consultants, project implementers, relevant personnel and workers...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
The government has been putting emphasis on the nation's transition to cashless transactions so much so that it aims to attain hundred per cent digital payments by 2041. Transactions through VISA and credit cards and mobile financial services, such as...
In issuing a fresh 48-hour ultimatum to the government to accept their four-point 'urgent' demand for creating an environment of dialogue, the leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement on Tuesday said their campaign would continue until the demands were met,...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
The government Tuesday issued the much-hyped circular clipping quotas in all grades of government jobs to 7.0 per cent from a steep level, in an exigent step meant for pacifying student protesters. "Strictly in line with the verdict of the...
Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Tuesday said soldiers would patrol the streets until the return of normalcy in the country, reports UNB.He said this as he called on President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban at noon, President's Press Secretary Joynal Abedin...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Curfew hours are cut short by seven hours and offices reopen for four hours for Wednesday-Thursday as quota-protest storms now dissipate into uneasy calm across Bangladesh. The notification came Tuesday from government's public administration ministry, after days of some worst...
DOULOT AKTER MALA AND MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-07-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh's blocked commercial lifeline begins clearing with manual import release but digitally-handled export yet remains blocked to the dismay of exporters and buyers both. Customs authorities Tuesday restored some of its networks to release some key commodities and raw materials...
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