NEW DELHI, Sept 20 (Reuters): Bangladesh's efforts to clear debts of more than $1 billion owed to Indian power companies are being hampered by its inability to access the dollars it requires to pay them, documents showed and sources familiar...
FE REPORT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
Clashes in two hill districts left four people dead and scores injured until Friday afternoon, officials and locals said, prompting a government call for calm and assurance of action against offenders.News reports from the hill districts said violent incidents in...
FE REPORT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
Regional trade in South Asia has remained the least integrated in the world and has not improved much over decades due to the narrow and non-cooperative political economic approach in the region, experts viewed at a webinar on Friday. South...
Six people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a youth on the Dhaka University campus while the Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have filed a murder case against eight students after the death of Shamim Ahmed alias Shamim...
FE REPORT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
Dhaka is enduring an intense heatwave, with relentless high temperatures and elevated humidity making life unbearable for its residents.For three consecutive days, the city's inhabitants have faced scorching heat. According to the Meteorological Office, moderate heat is sweeping across all...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
Nonbanks saw a surge in deposits in a phenomenon that belied a drop in the number of accounts with them, as of the last April-June quarter.Deposit accounts with the country's nonbank finance companies (NBFCs) fell over 11 per cent in...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
A hope-raising rise in commercial banks' foreign-exchange holdings ebbed to US$5.25 billion in August, when the economy navigated a changeover in state power.Officials and bankers have said the overall economic activities were upended in the first half of the eventful...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions with moderately...
A Dhaka court has sent Rongdhanu Group director and former vice chairman of Rupganj upazilla Md Mizanur Rahman to jail in a case lodged for allegedly demanding Tk 50 million as extortion, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saddam Hossain passed the...
Since being relieved of his appointment as Director General (DG) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Dr Robed Amin has not been coming to the workplace, reports UNB.On August 18, Dr Amin, a professor of medicine at Dhaka...
Two more persons died of dengue in the 24 hours until Friday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 124 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 299 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever,...
Protesters under the banner of 'Bikkhubda Jumma Chhatra-Janata' have staged a rally at Shahbagh intersection in the capital, condemning the 'attacks' on ethnic minorities in Khagrachhari's Dighinala upazila, reports bdnews24.com.Over 100 protesters blocked the road around noon on Friday.The protesters...
JU CORRESPONDENT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
The Jahangirnagar University (JU) authorities have filed a murder case against eight students after the death of Shamim Ahmed alias Shamim Molla, a former leader of the university's Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) unit.Shamim Molla died after a group of students...
BANDARBAN, Sep 20 (UNB): Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) busted a den of insurgents, recovering a huge amount of arms, ammunition, drones, and advanced technology equipment from a hilly, remote area along the Bandarban border on Thursday.Based on...
FE REPORT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
At least 50 persons (musullis/worshippers) were injured following a clash between the followers of the former and current khatibs (the person who delivers prayer sermon) in the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque during the Jum'a prayers on Friday.According to eyewitnesses, Mufti...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
Anomalies and shoddy workmanship have been found at Science and Technology Complex (STC), constructed by the Sheikh Hasina government, as the building now lies mostly unutilised.Although the 13-storey office building was built at Tk 2.298 billion in June 2019, the...
A Dhaka court has placed police inspector Mazharul Islam on a five-day remand in the case lodged over the murder of Lord Hardinge Fazil Degree Madrasah student Arif in the capital's Jatrabari area on July 19, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate...
A Dhaka court has placed Additional Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mashiur Rahman on seven-day remand in a case lodged over the killing of trader Abdul Wadud in capital's New Market area during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.Dhaka Metropolitan...
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Syed Mosharraf Hossain, former organising secretary of Shahbagh thana Awami League, reports UNB.Syed Mosharraf Hossain was arrested from the capital's Adabar area on Friday, said ASP Imran Khan of RAB Headquarters (media wing).He...
COX'S BAZAR, Sep 20 (UNB): Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) with a foreign firearm and 10 bullets from a Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar's Ukhiya upazila on Thursday...
Former planning minister and Sunamganj-3 MP M A Mannan has been sent to jail after he was arrested from his village home in Sunamganj, reports bdnews24.com.Meanwhile, students have blocked roads demanding the Awami League politician's release.Sunamganj Judicial Magistrate Farhan Sadique...
FE REPORT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is set to start rehabilitation activities for the flood-affected people. Standing committee member of the party Dr AZM Zahid Hossain disclosed it to the media on Friday at a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan headquarters...
TOKYO, Sept 20 (AFP): Japanese inflation rose slightly in August, with prices up 2.8 percent year-on-year, official data showed Friday, hours before the Bank of Japan was widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged.The core Consumer Price Index (CPI) data,...
BEIJING, Sept 20 (Reuters): Some Japanese companies in China have offered to send their staff and their families back home after a 10-year-old Japanese boy was fatally stabbed in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, a Japanese executive and employees of...
BENGALURU, Sept 20 (Reuters): State-owned Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on Friday pledged to invest 180 billion rupees ($2.16 bln) in equity for renewable capacity expansion by 2030, and announced plans to go public in the next one to...
Foreign Secretary Md. Jashim Uddin has stressed the importance of developing a concrete roadmap for multi-sectoral engagements with Argentina.Marcelo Cesa paid a courtesy call on the foreign secretary and emphasised the need for setting strategic priorities, long-term planning, and measurable...
Summit International Power Limited, a Singapore-based power giant, has expressed its intent to significantly increase its investment in Bangladesh, particularly in the power sector and social businesses-a concept pioneered by Nobel Peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, reports UNB.In a letter...
Asia-Pacific markets were higher Friday with Japan's Nikkei 225 leading gains, reports CNBC.Japan's Nikkei 225 added 1.53 per cent to close at 37,723.91, logging weekly gains of over 3 per cent. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index was up 1.27 per...
FE REPORT | 2024-09-21 00:00:00
An inspection team of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) found two factories of Dominage Steel Building Systems shut during a visit this week.The DSE team visited the company's factory-1 at Aukpara in Ashulia on Tuesday and factory-2 at Palash in...
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