Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Sylhet, Rangpur, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday), according to the Met Office. Day...
Bangladesh reported 11 more Covid-19 cases in 24 hours until Thursday morning, reports UNB. With the new numbers, the country's total Covid-19 caseload rose to 2,050,112, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The official death toll from the...
One more death was reported from dengue in 24 hours until Thursday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 29 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 31 more patients were hospitalised with viral fever,...
The results of the 46th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary test (MCQ type) were published on Thursday, reports UNB.Altogether 10,638 candidates qualified to participate in the written examination, according to the Bangladesh Public Service Commission (PSC).The Public Service Commission (PSC)...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced three people, including businessman Aziz Mohammad Bhai, to life imprisonment in the sensational case filed over the murder of actor Sohel Chowdhury in 1998. Two other convicts are owner of Trumps Club Afakul Islam...
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka, in partnership with Policy Exchange Bangladesh (PEB) and with the support from the UK Government's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), launched the first Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) Report for Bangladesh...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
At least 74 people were killed by lightning strikes over the last 38 days, including 43 people alone in the past eight days across the country, said a report on Thursday. Of the total dead, 35 were farmers, according to...
A joint meeting of Awami League (AL) will be held at its central office of Bangabandhu Avenue at 4pm today (Friday), reports BSS.Dhaka city south and north units of AL and Dhaka District AL as well as its all associate...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold a rally today (Friday) in front of the party's Naya Paltan office in the capital. According to party sources, the party has received police permission to hold the event.The rally will be held...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The Awami League (AL) does politics only to appease India that, in turn, will not be able to help it remain in power, says the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).The nationalist party has thus reiterated its call to the public to...
Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said the voters did not pay heed to BNP's call for boycotting the first phase of the upazila parishad polls and the elections were held peacefully with a satisfactory level of voters' turnout, reports...
The average voter turnout for the first phase of the sixth Upazila Parishad elections was 36.1 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.The turnout was an average of 31.31 per cent for the 22 Upazilas using electronic voting machines, while the turnout averaged...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The further appreciation of dollar against BDT (Bangladesh taka) has fuelled the prices of many essential commodities overnight in Dhaka, according to market insiders.The prices of imported garlic, ginger and green chilli have increased further.On the other hand, onion and...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Bashudeb Banerjee, an associate of the much talked about PK Haldar and his wife Papia Banerjee, for six weeks in 15 cases filed under the money laundering prevention act. Both of...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Experts have suggested that the government set up an independent body for health promotion initiatives and the spending of health development surcharges.The government has introduced a 1.0-per cent surcharge on tobacco prices in 2014 with an eye to spending the...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Editors' Forum has condemned the Bangladesh Bank's decision to impose restrictions on journalists' entry into the BB headquarters.The forum has also demanded free access of journalists to the central bank.A statement issued on Thursday by the forum leaders...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina Thursday told the parliament that none can isolate her from the people as they have confidence and trust that she has been working for their welfare, reports BSS."You can't isolate me...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The European Union's due diligence directive is very important for Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector and exporters need to carefully consider and address human rights and environmental standards, EU Ambassador Charles Whiteley has said.He made the remarks while speaking at the...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Leaders of the country's textile and apparel sectors expressed concern over the central bank's recent directive not to provide gas and electricity connections to new factories outside the government-designated economic zones (EZs) and industrial areas.The banks have also been asked...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Economists and experts have recommended discontinuing cash incentives for exports as they argued the latest big Taka devaluation effectively functions as a subsidy.At a book launch event in Dhaka on Thursday, they said the devaluation was necessary due to the...
India has expressed interest to finance Bangladesh's Teesta project, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said on Thursday, reports UNB."You know, we have taken a big project on Teesta. India wants to finance this project. It will have to be implemented in...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Food inflation in Bangladesh has spiked to 15 per cent, as per latest BIDS findings, which far overshoots government's official statistics. Director-General of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Dr Binayak Sen Thursday made the disclosure, attributing the steep...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 09: A training fighter jet of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed and fell into the Karnaphuli river, killing one of its two pilots on Thursday.A YAK130 training fighter suddenly caught fire at the rear and disintegrated as...
The national budget for fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25) is likely to be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on June 6, reports BSS."The national budget for FY25 will be placed in Jatiya Sangsad on June 6, 2024. Finance Minister Abul...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh securities market's longing for blue chips may now be over as the prime minister orders the listing of state-owned enterprises (SoEs) on the country's bourses.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the directive Thursday to the authorities concerned in this regard,...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh's business activity shrank this past April from its previous month's measure, according to a maiden multi-stakeholder parameter prepared with foreign partnerships.The private PMI or purchasing managers' index was unveiled Thursday at a function in Dhaka, where State Minister for...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
A day after the Bangladesh Bank (BB) introduced crawling peg-driven exchange rate flexibility, the price of a US dollar in the kerb market surged by Tk 7.0 to Tk 125 on Thursday.Currency traders in the open market were selling each...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
One more Pnochishe Baishakh has gone by. Once more we have had cause to celebrate the Bard whose poetry has lifted us all in the councils of the world, whose assertions of individual freedom have underscored his relevance in the...
The first recorded evidence of the death penalty is found in the Babylonian King Hammurabi's Code of 1800 BC. Hammurabi's law was based on 'an eye for an eye,' meaning if one kills, the killer must be killed as punishment....
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