An unprecedented internet shutdown in the history of the country has caused its digital disconnection well-nigh complete. Initially, 4G mobile internet facility was disrupted, and then came the total blackout on mobile internet services. Finally, even the broadband internet connection...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-07-21 12:00:00
To its credit, the government delivered on its promise of bringing 100 per cent of the population under electricity coverage in 2022 - a remarkable achievement by any yardstick. Electricity now reaches even the remotest rural backwaters and chars and...
A refuelling station in Dhaka's Mohakhali area remains shut amid the curfew on Saturday. — FE Photo
OUR CORRESPONDENTS | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Tensions have flared up as the students' quota-reform movement consumed all districts on Saturday, report our correspondents from across the country.In Sylhet, the city wore a deserted look with almost no vehicular movement and shops shut since early morning.However, only...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
The prices of most green, leafy summer vegetables have marked a sharp rise across districts due to widespread anti-quota clashes and the enforcement of a curfew.In Rajshahi, traders said commodity supplies to retail markets have decreased significantly due to the...
Expressing deep concern over the current situation, the United Kingdom has urged all sides in Bangladesh to immediately end the violence and find a peaceful way forward, reports UNB. "The UK government is deeply concerned by the violence following protests...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
After the cost escalating 287 per cent than the original and time overrunning six more years, the Payra Port Authority now seeks fund re-arrangement to complete Payra seaport's operation-supporting project -- setting an epic example of how public work execution...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Chained up supplies of essential items amid nationwide anti-quota protests face a further blow as curfew triggered a panic buying, causing already high prices of food items to escalate further in Dhaka. City kitchen markets on Saturday saw a low...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
The country's export-oriented garment factories will remain shut today (Sunday) amid the violent anti-quota protest, leading the authorities to enforce a curfew and announce general holidays on Sunday and Monday."Considering the safety of workers and security of the industries, we...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has cancelled her official visit to Spain and Brazil considering the current situation. Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud confirmed the updates while briefing the media at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday. The visit was scheduled...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Several hundred outbound passengers remained stranded at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday following a technical glitch.As a result the passengers, who reached the airport after struggling with various odd situations amid the prevailing curfew and violent protest, had...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh and South Korea are set to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with an eye to further enhancing trade and investment relations between the two countries.Seoul earlier sent a proposal to sign an MoU. Later, both countries exchanged opinions...
Blaze engulfs a passenger-bus after it was set on fire in Dhaka's Jatrabari area on Saturday amid the anti-quota protest paralysing the capital. — FE Photo
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
IDLC Finance secured a 4 per cent year-on-year increase in profit to Tk 0.75 billion in the first six months through June this year despite a lower interest margin, supported by reduced provisioning and operating expenses. The non-bank financial institution's...
It would take more time to restore the internet services across the country as the authorities concerned were trying to repair the cables burned in the Data Centre fire, said state minister for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmad Palak...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
The stock exchanges have decided to keep the capital market closed for the two days to Monday after the government announced public holiday for the weekdays through an executive order. Trading may resume on Tuesday if the tension that ensued...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Student protesters handed the government an eight-point charter of demands with the foremost one asking for slashing the job quota to 5.0 per cent and ratifying that by an urgent act of parliament.They also demand, among others, compensation for families...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Economic activity stalls and consumer supplies are running out in the capital and other cities as Bangladesh remains curfew-bound under government order to restore peace after bloodletting violence. Military armoured vehicles were seen rolling out of cantonments onto city streets...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Sources said only four MRT policemen, including three constables, were inside the stations -- one at Mirpur 10 and another at Kazipara -- at the time of the attack.The Mirpur 10 station faced a similar threat on Thursday afternoon as...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-21 00:00:00
Amid the nationwide curfew to quell the deadly anti-quota protests, the government has announced a two-day general holiday on Sunday and Monday. In a circular issued on Saturday, the Ministry of Public Administration said all government, private and autonomous institutions,...
At least 15 people including two policemen were killed and over 100 others injured during clashes between police and agitators in Dhaka and adjacent districts till Saturday evening, according to UNB reports quoting hospital data.Of them, Dhaka witnessed 11 deaths,...
Set on blaze on Friday night by miscreants, a traffic toll plaza on Dhaka Elevated Expressway stands charred at Mohakhali area— FE photo
Army personnel patrol a city street on Saturday as the second round of curfew was imposed on the day following violent quota protests — FE Photo
Completely different to business-as-usual, a newspaper vendor at Chankharpool in Dhaka finds customers streaming in on Saturday, due mainly to flaring up anti-quota violence and a nationwide internet blackout — FE photo
KERANIGANJ, July 20 (UNB): Three people were killed when a truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Keraniganj-Nawabganj road in front of Diamond Malamine factory at Keraniganj in Dhaka on Saturday.The deceased were identified as Ratan, 45, Sujan, 35 and...
The health condition of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, now undergoing treatment at the capital's Evercare Hospital, remains stable, according to her personal physician AZM Zahid Hossain, also a BNP vice chairman.Talking to UNB on Saturday evening, he dispelled various speculations...
Electricity and gas consumers, who use pre-paid cards, have been facing difficulty recharging their cards, as the country has been experiencing internet shutdown since Thursday night amid the countrywide unrest over quota issue, reports UNB.According to consumers of different areas,...
Gono Odhikar Parishad President Nurul Hoque Nur was detained by law enforcers from his Rampura residence before dawn on Saturday, according to his party colleagues, reports UNB.Abu Hanif, a central leader of the party, claimed that a team of RAB-3...
A Dhaka court on Saturday placed BNP standing committee member Nazrul Islam Khan and its Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on a one-day remand in a violence case filed with Paltan Police Station, reports UNB.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md...
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