FE Report | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh's readymade garment (RMG) exports to the European Union (EU) recorded 5.97 per cent year-on-year growth in 2025, according to Eurostat data. The country fetched 19.41 billion euros from garment shipments to the 27-nation bloc, up from 18.31 billion euros...
FE YOUTH DESK | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
Bangladeshi youth leader Ahmed Fahmi has been shortlisted as a regional finalist for Asia for the 2026 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work. The recognition highlights his contributions to climate resilience and community-based development in Bangladesh.Fahmi is among...
Shaikh Sajid Ahmed | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
In Bangladesh, in many households, work doesn't end when the work hours are over. The phone rings continuously, messages need to be answered and exhaustion turns into a daily routine. For the vast majority of professionals, this has become normal...
HISHAM KHAN | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
To the newly elected party,Your victory in February 2026 carries a mandate that extends far beyond partisan politics. The students who stood in the streets during July 2024 did not risk their lives for cosmetic change or a mere rotation...
RIYADH, Feb 14 (AFP): Bahrain and Egypt are attempting to mend ties between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, two sources told AFP, weeks into a diplomatic rift between the Arab world's most powerful countries.Saudi Arabia and the UAE...
WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (AP): The United States military is preparing for the possibility of weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders military action, according to two US officials, raising concerns of a more serious conflict between the longtime...
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (BBC/AFP): US President Donald Trump says regime change in Iran is "the best thing that could happen", signifying one of his clearest endorsements for replacing the clerical establishment."For 47 years, they've been talking and talking and...
NEW DELHI, Feb 14 (Reuters): India's civil aviation watchdog has fined Air India $110,350 for flying an Airbus plane eight times without an airworthiness permit, saying the lapse has further eroded public trust in the country's second-biggest airline, a confidential...
SOUTH ASIA INS HOLDS ANNUAL BRANCH MANAGERS' CONFCEThe "Annual Branch Managers' Conference 2026" of South Asia Insurance Company Limited was held at a city hotel recently. The conference was presided over by Chief Executive Officer of the company Muhammad Nurul...
BEIJING, Feb 14 (AFP): Beijing's scrapping of tariffs for all but one African country will start May 01, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday.China already has a zero-tariff policy for imports from 33 African countries, but Beijing said last...
MYMENSINGH, Feb 14 (UNB): A nine-year-old boy was beaten to death over allegations of stealing betel nuts in Haluaghat in Mymensingh on Friday afternoon.The victim, Imon Mia, was the son of Dulal Mia of Bausha village in Swadeshi Union.According to...
NILPHAMARI, Feb 14 (UNB): Once considered the backbone of Bangladesh's railway maintenance network, the Saidpur Railway Workshop in Nilphamari is struggling to keep operations running amid a prolonged manpower shortage, leaving modern machinery worth approximately Tk1.53 billion (153 crore) unused...
FARIDPUR, Feb 14 (UNB): Twenty people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over establishing supremacy at Mayendia Bazar in Faridpur district on Saturday.Mahmudul Hasan, assistant superintendent of (Saltha-Nagarkanda) circle, said Mannan Matubbar, chairman of Poromeshwari union...
CHANDPUR, Feb 13 (UNB): Train movement between Chattogram and Chandpur via Laxham was restored after six hours of suspension early Saturday due to an accident at Laxham Junction on Friday night.Station Master of Chandpur Railway Station, Shoebur Rahman, said five...
OUR CORRESPONDENT COX'S BAZAR, FEB 14: Tourism in Cox's Bazar, the country's premier seaside destination, has slowed significantly since the national election preparations and due to the upcoming Ramadan, with hotel bookings falling to as low as 15 per cent.Stakeholders...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
MANIKGANJ, Feb 14: Flower farmers in Singair, Manikganj have been getting a good price for their produce as the demand rose sharply in February. Growers believe that flowers worth at least Tk 35 million will be sold in February alone.Red,...
KOLKATA, Feb 14 (Agencies): Tom Banton's unbeaten 63 led England to a five-wicket T20 World Cup victory over Scotland in Kolkata on Saturday that kept Harry Brook's side on course for the Super Eights.Victory in their final Group C match...
COLOMBO, Feb 14 (Agencies): The blockbuster clash between India and Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2026 is set to go ahead as scheduled after a lot of drama here on Sunday at the R Premadasa Stadium. Almost 30 years...
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Feb 14 (Reuters): Global drugmakers are stepping up their search for China-developed experimental medicines as they cut costs ahead of patent expirations, with industry analysts predicting licensing deals will surge to a fresh record this year.The value of...
Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, has been gaining ground in the US over the past months, data showed, even as it draws global censure and regulatory scrutiny after being used to generate a wave of non-consensual sexualized images of women...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
The Dhaka bourse witnessed a 3.77 per cent leap in its broad index to 5,426 points on August 3, 2024, as investor enthusiasm ran high over anticipated market reforms following the ouster of the previous regime.That marked the biggest single-day...
After the recent India-EU FTA, Bangladesh has realised that there was a probable vulnerability of its exports in the EU market in the coming years. However, the executed Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) between the USA and Bangladesh appears to...
Bangladesh's agricultural land is rapidly declining, threatening national food security. Fertile fields are being sold to housing developers, filled for roads, or diverted for industrial projects. Government data show that around 70,000 hectares of arable land are lost to non-agricultural...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
The dust has finally settled on the 13th parliamentary elections, with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) securing a landslide two-thirds majority in a 300-seat parliament. The election not only restored democracy but also paved the way for the formation of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
Though the services sector has become a leading source of growth and employment in the least developed countries (LDCs), it has yet to provide adequate, productive, and formal jobs. Instead, service-centric jobs in these countries are clustered in low-productivity and...
Ranjan Solomon | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
The long awaited national election, held 17 years after the last genuinely contested vote, has brought with it a wave of public expectation. For many residents of Dhaka, some of those expectations are surprisingly simple, though no less reasonable for...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh is facing its most severe cost-of-living crisis in recent history, characterised by the highest inflation in South Asia, projected at roughly 8.9 per cent in 2025 and expected to remain high in 2026. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of...
Nearly 150,000 ballots across Gazipur's five constituencies have been declared invalid.These include both parliamentary and referendum ballots, though the cancellation rate for the referendum has been significantly higher, reports bdnews24.com.Official records show that the highest number of referendum ballots cancelled...
MONTREAL, Feb 13 (Reuters): Air Canada sees a near 30 per cent surge in corporate traffic flowing overseas as the country seeks to diversify trade away from the United States, fueling demand for international travel, a company executive said on...
MOSCOW, Feb 13 (AFP): Russia's central bank on Friday cut its benchmark interest rate to 15.5 per cent from 16 percent as economic growth slows under the impact of the war in Ukraine and Western sanctions.Russia's economy expanded by just...
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