Tanim Asjad | 2024-06-29 00:00:00
During the Hajj this year, the death of more than a thousand pilgrims was a shocking incident that also sparked criticism across the world. Death during the Hajj is not unusual, as a few pilgrims die every year due to...
Chairman and CEO of Korea Export-Import Bank YOON, Hee Sung called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her Sangsad Bhaban office on Thursday. —Focus Bangla
KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 (BSS): Bangladesh has won the 'Best Activities Award' for the screening of the movie 'Mujib: The Making of a Nation' at the International Expo (iExpo) held at the renowned Multimedia University of Malaysia (MMU), Cyberjaya, Selangor.Khalid...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
Bangladesh's inflation rate may rise to 9.80 per cent at the end of June but decline to 8.0 per cent in fiscal year (FY) 2025, forecasts the Mastercard Economics Institute.It also projects that the country's GDP (gross domestic product) growth,...
Forty-two people were hospitalised with dengue fever in 24 hours till Thursday morning. Of them, 18 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka city, while the rest were outside the capital, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB....
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight was en route from Dhaka to Qatar's Doha via Chattogram on Wednesday afternoon when it suddenly slowed down on the runway and returned to the hangar.After the incident on Wednesday afternoon, authorities announced that the...
Quick Response Team (QRT) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will be ready to help the examinees during their Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner (Traffic) Md Munibur Rahman shared the information at...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
A petition has been filed seeking Anti-Corruption Commission's (ACC) inquiry into the allegations of accumulating illegal assets by former Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia and his family members. Salah Uddin Reagan, a Supreme Court lawyer, submitted the petition...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
A Dhaka Court on Thursday ordered the government agencies concerned to confiscate all movable and immovable properties owned by Quazi Abu Mahmud Faisal, first secretary (taxes legal and enforcement) of the National Board of Revenue (NBR). It also asked the...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Thursday allowed appointment of administrators (receivers) to look after the immovable properties of former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and his family members. Judge of the Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court in Dhaka, Mohammed...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for grooming up children with the knowledge of science and technology to make them worthy citizens as they may conquer the moon in the future."We have to go to the moon...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
The government has floated a new tender to buy a cargo of spot-market LNG (liquefied natural gas) for mid-July delivery after the cancellation of four such cargoes for June delivery.The state-backed Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) invited bidders on...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
The country's value-added tax (VAT) revenue from domestic sources was reduced by an estimated 3.26 per cent of GDP in 2022 due to various waivers and exemptions, according to a study, calling the declining VAT flow "concerning".The study by the...
Licence of Cosmopolitan Finance scrapped for bringing no IPO in a decadeThe securities regulator has scrapped the licence of Cosmopolitan Finance as the merchant bank failed to bring a single IPO since its inception in 2010. The sister concern of...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) demolished illegal structures of Sadeeq Agro farm and its adjacent establishments in Mohammadpur area of the capital on Thursday.The animal farm was partly built on Ramchandrapur canal and the nearby road illegally, official sources...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
A nearly 15-percent tax growth until May of the passing fiscal year generates hope in the taxmen about getting close to a revised revenue target, with a big haul in June.The tax-revenue collection in the past eleven months of the...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
Over US$2.0 billion is received thus far this June and $650 million more is expected by Sunday in budget support as the government races against time to meet an IMF-set forex target by this fiscal yearend. Bangladesh has to have...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
Debt-servicing pressure against large foreign loans taken by Bangladesh builds up as repayment during 11 months to May rose 24.36 per cent, year on year, to US$3.0 billion. Although the debt repayment has surged, the foreign-aid disbursement has not increased...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
Dubai Taxi, a government-owned company in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), will hire at least 2,000 taxi and motorcycle drivers from Bangladesh annually.As part of the programme, the Gulf nation will recruit 1,300 drivers this year, with 1,000 being motorcycle...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
Dhaka airport's much-vaunted new terminal is found wanting on several counts in customs test, including inadequate capacity to accommodate burgeoning trade cargos until checking against tax evasion. Official sources said Bangladesh customs found such limitations, including insufficient spaces in cargo...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions; at many places over Dhaka and Barishal divisions and at a few places over Rajshahi and...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Director General Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui taking salute at the passing-out parade of the 101st recruit batch of the paramilitary force at Border Guard Training Centre and College at Satkania upazila in Chattogram on Thursday....
Railways Minister Md. Zillul Hakim claimed that no accident has occurred so far due to signal system error of Bangladesh Railway, reports UNB.The minister said this while replying to a tabled question of ruling party MP elected from Chattogram M...
CHATTOGRAM, June 27 (UNB): Police arrested another accused in connection with the gang rape of a 19-year-old girl in a Chattogram-bound train on Thursday. The accused, Abdur Rab Russel, was arrested from Kutubpur area in Noakhali. SM Shahidul Islam, officer-in-charge...
FE REPORTHealth and Family Welfare Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen assured the public that government hospitals have sufficient stocks of antivenom for Russell's Vipers, locally known as 'Chandrabora', and urged people to avoid spreading misinformation."There have been rumours of vaccine...
FE Report | 2024-06-28 00:00:00
Finance Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on Thursday said he was not worried about the foreign exchange reserves position as he considers the current stock enough. "Why are you thinking about the reserves?" he told journalists, replying to a question...
Britain's Labour party has been forced to issue a clarification on comments made by its leader Keir Starmer regarding the removal of Bangladeshi migrants from the UK, as reports emerged of outrage among members of the British-Bangladeshi community ahead of...
OUR Correspondent CHATTOGRAM, June 27: Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury announced Tk 19.81 billion (1,981 crore) annual budget for CCC for the fiscal year (FY) 2024-25 in the port-city on Thursday.He announced the third budget as the...
The ruling Bangladesh Awami League has earned Tk over 271.4 million and spent Tk over 98.7 million in the last calendar year (2023), according to annual financial report of the party, reports BSS.The report, which was submitted to Election Commission...
FE REPORT Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has observed that the country's very existence is now at stake following signing of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with the neighbouring India.BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said this from a rally, held...
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