Morgan Stanley has lowered its global oil demand growth forecast for 2024, mainly due to China's slower economic growth, increased electric vehicle usage there, and a rise in the number of trucks in China powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG),...
BERLIN, Aug 24 (BBC): A manhunt is under way after three people were killed and eight others injured in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen, police say.The attack happened during a festival in the city centre...
CARACAS, Aug 24 (AFP): The United States along with countries inEurope and Latin America on Friday rejected the certification by Venezuela's Supreme Court of strongman Nicolas Maduro's widely questioned presidential reelection.Washington, which has sanctions in place against Maduro's regime, said...
GLENDALE, Aug 24 (AFP): Robert F. Kennedy Jr, scion of America's storied political clan, suspended his long-shot presidential bid on Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, injecting new uncertainty into the White House race."I no longer believe that I have a...
TRIPOLI, Aug 24 (AFP): Libyan armed groups and authorities reached an accord in Tripoli to secure important infrastructure, the country's interior minister announced Friday, following concern from the UN over recent fighting and a brewing crisis surrounding the country's central...
GAZA STRIP, Aug 24 (AFP/AP): A senior Hamas official said the Palestinian militant group was sending a delegation to Cairo on Saturday but that they would not attend Gaza ceasefire talks in the Egyptian capital."The delegation will meet with senior...
The emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country to another is called brain drain. Every year, a significant portion of our country's students pursue higher education in America, England, or other developed countries. Many of them...
Due to heavy rain and water from upstream, nearly twelve districts in Bangladesh are experiencing severe flooding. This sudden flood has wreaked havoc on the lives of those living in these areas. Many people have fled their homes in search...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2024-08-25 00:00:00
Exceptional heavy rains and unprecedented water flows from upstream have inundated large areas of eastern Bangladesh threatening life, causing untold chaos and profound concern, and seemingly heralding what to many may seem like the world is ending. Millions of people...
Asjadul Kibria | 2024-08-25 00:00:00
After the fall of Sheikh Hasina's brutal autocratic regime on August 5, thanks to student-people's mass upspring and scarifies of hundreds of lives, the country has entered an unchartered territory. The details of the economic damage done by the ousted...
Millions across many districts have been severely affected by the devastating floods. The response to help those in need this time around has a different dimension. First, there is overwhelming anger and general perception that a neighbouring country intentionally opened...
ISHWARDI, Aug 24(BSS): A case was filed against former MP Galibur Rahman Sherif and 71 Awami League leaders and activists with Iswardi thana over Jubu Dal activist Nazrul Islam murder on Thursday.Officer-in-charge of Ishwardi Thana Monirul Islam said Nazrul Islam...
JASHORE, Aug 23 (BSS): General Secretary of Jashore district unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League Tanjib Nowshad Pallab was held at Benapole check post on Friday while trying to go to India.He is a son of Jashore Zila Parishad Chairman Saifuzzaman...
THAKURGAON, August 23 (UNB): A case has been filed against 77 individuals, including former Water Resources Minister and ex-MP of Thakurgaon-1 constituency, Ramesh Chandra Sen, former reserved MP Draupadi Devi Agarwala, and former Mayor Anjuman Ara Begum Bannya, in connection...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 23 (UNB): At least 40 activists of BNP were injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chattogram's Sitakunda upazila on Friday.This accident occurred at the Royal Gate area of Kumira in the upazila at 4:00...
Workers and employees of Mahmud Jeans Limited, demanding arrears, demonstrated at Chandra in Kaliakoir, Gazipur on Friday. — Focus Bangla
US Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), an old friend of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus, is likely to visit Bangladesh soon, reports UNB.He will meet Professor Yunus, civil society members, and media representatives during his forthcoming visit, a diplomatic...
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has been deeply perturbed at the loss of lives and devastation caused by the floods I nBangladesh, reports UNB.In a message on social media X (formerly twitter), the prime minister expressed deep distress over the...
Robert Simon, a French human rights activist and Chief Adviser of JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) on Friday said the fact-finding investigation planned by the UN OHCHR should encompass not only the killings and injuries inflicted on student protesters, reports...
A Dhaka court has placed Workers Party President and former lawmaker, Rashed Khan Menon, on a five-day remand in a murder case filed with Dhaka's New Market thana, reports UNB.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ali Haider passed the order after the police...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-24 00:00:00
Pakistan high commissioner to Bangladesh Syed Ahmed Maroof called on Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at the party chairperson's political office at Gulshan on Friday.Later, BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury briefed the...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most placesover Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy falls at places over the country until...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), have expressed concern over the arrests of journalist couple Shakil Ahmed, former Head of News at Ekattor Television, and Farzana Rupa, the channel's former principal correspondent, report agencies."We urge...
UN Human Rights (HR) Chief Volker Türk on Friday expressed grave alarm and raised profound concerns about the sharply deteriorating situation across Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State where hundreds of civilians have reportedly been killed while trying to flee the...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has appointed new officers-in-charge (OC) at 15 police stations in the capital, reports BSS.DMP Commissioner Md Mainul Hasan made the appointments through an office order dated August 22.The police stations are Turag, Shahbagh, New Market, Sutrapur,...
A Dhaka court has sent Shah Kamal, former senior secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, to jail in a case lodged under The Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Torikul Islam passed the order...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 23 (UNB): Fatikchhari, the largest upazila in Chattogram, is grappling with an unprecedented flood, described as the worst in living memory.The flood has submerged hundreds of homes, agricultural lands, markets, and shops, leaving over 200,000 residents in distress.For...
KHULNA, Aug 23 (UNB): Several villages, fish enclosures and crop fields have been inundated due to hight tide in Dakop and Paikgasa upazilas respectively of Khulna after the river embankments collapsed.The Panikhali embankment in Dakop upazila collapsed inundating fish farms...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-24 00:00:00
Prices of hilsa and other varieties of fish have shown a slight decline while vegetables and eggs have become costlier in the last one week.Price of hilsa of above 900 grams remained static at the previous high of Tk 1,800-2,200...
(Clockwise, from left-top): People wading through flood waters to reach a safe shelter in Feni; an inundated locality at Hathazari in Chattogram; army personnel reach out to the flood-hit people in Khagrachhari; and a group of volunteers distributing relief materials...
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