Students from the Anti-Discrimination Movement recovered a large number of locally-made weapons from dormitories controlled by the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Dhaka Teachers' Training College (DTTC) on Sunday, reports UNB.The recovered weapons included knives, machetes, sickles, rods, hockey sticks,...
Journalist Shafik Rehman has returned to Bangladesh after six long years, reports bdnews24.com.He arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Bangladesh Biman flight on Sunday.Shafik, 89, was greeted by journalist leaders with flowers and applause at the airport. He...
A complaint (first information report) has been filed with Tejgaon thana against 113 individuals, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over an alleged attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's convoy in 2015, reports UNB.The FIR was filed by Belal Hossain,...
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner has congratulated Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus on his appointment as the Chief Adviser to the interim government, reports BSS."On behalf of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), I wish to warmly congratulate...
BNP leader Zainul Abdin Farroque has demanded immediate operation at the residences of members of the recently dissolved parliament to seize looted and illegal money, reports UNB."Dollars worth of thousand of crores taka will be found in the residences of...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Supreme Court (SC) lawyers on Sunday filed a writ petition with the High Court (HC) challenging the legality of the immunity granted to election commissioners under the Section 9 of the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Appointment Act,...
Education adviser of the interim government Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud on Sunday said it is seemed that the new curriculum, especially the evaluation method, is not implementable, reports BSS."We will return to the previous curriculum in phases as implementation of the...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
A case has been filed with the Shahabagh Police Station in Dhaka against former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque for corruptly and maliciously rendering an illegal judgment.Muhammad Muzahidul Islam, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the case on Sunday.In the case...
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested former senior secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief Shah Kamal from the city's Mohakhali area, reports BSS.Members of the DB conducted a raid and arrested Shah Kamal...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 18: The authorities of Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram have been on high alert to prevent spread of the Mpox virus since Saturday night. Three doctors are deployed on each shift, while officials are screening all incoming...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has frozen the bank accounts of former Additional Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Harun-or-Rashid and his wife Shireen Akter.BFIU, the financial intelligence agency of the Bangladesh Bank, on Sunday issued a letter to...
A total of 626 people, including members of the deposed Awami League government, took shelter in different cantonments of the country after the government collapsed on August 5, according to ISPR on Sunday.Following a significant political shift when the law...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will provide all sorts of cooperation for treatment of those injured in the anti-quota student movement.BNP standing committee member Dr Zahid Hossain made the announcement after visiting the injured persons admitted to the National Institute of...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Dhaka city witnessed nagging traffic congestion and commuters faced immense suffering as a number of organisations held rallies and formed human chains blocking important roads and intersections on Sunday to press home their various demands.Besides, closure of metro rail service...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) export to the European Union registered about a 5.0-percent year-on-year negative growth during the first half of this year.It fetched 8.72 billion euro from RMG exports to the EU during January-June period of 2024 compared to...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Scrap quick-fix power laws and capacity payment to cure crises and drain on public finance, policy think-tank CPD suggests while presenting to the interim government its energy-sector overhaul plan. The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Sunday placed a package of...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
The government has raised the ceiling for its emergency borrowing tools by 50 per cent to manage fiscal deficits amid poor resource mobilisation, according to an official document, as economists warned that this could exacerbate inflationary discomfort. There are two...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
The government has appointed Khondoker Rashed Maqsood, a banker, as chairman of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).The Financial Institutions Division (FID) under the Ministry of Finance on Sunday issued a circular to this effect.At the same time, the FID...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
All negotiations, selections, and purchasing processes of all power-and energy projects halt as the much-talked-about quick-solution law gets under the axe as part of reforms kick-started by the interim government. Interim government's new adviser for power and energy, and road...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
More murder cases have been filed with different police stations across the country against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her cabinet members and police officials for killing protesters of the quota reform movement. A case was filed against Sheikh Hasina...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Newly appointed Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Abdur Rahman Khan said he personally considers the black money whitening scheme "totally unacceptable" and it is "indecent and unfair" to regular taxpayers."Not as the NBR chairman, but my...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
Free, fair and participatory polls will be held on completion of the interim government's mandate to conduct vital reforms in election commission, judiciary, civil administration, security forces and the media, says Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus. The head of interim government...
FE REPORT | 2024-08-19 00:00:00
A banking commission is around the corner as part of a series of reforms spearheaded by the interim government to bring stability and good governance in the country's reeling financial sector.Banking commission is a longstanding demand of economists for salvaging...
Canada's main stock index ended higher on Friday as investors globally cheered recent signs of US economic resilience and record high gold prices boosted metal mining shares, with the index notching its biggest weekly advance of the year, reports Reuters.The...
ARENDAL, Norway, Aug 18 (Reuters): Companies need to do more to get to grips with AI at board level to govern how it is being used and to minimise risks, a top official at Norway's $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund,...
MUMBAI, Aug 18 (Reuters): The head of India's markets regulator, Madhabi Puri Buch, continued to earn revenue from a consultancy firm during her seven-year tenure, potentially breaching rules for regulatory officials, according to public documents reviewed by Reuters.Hindenburg Research has...
NEW YORK, Aug 18 (Reuters): Hopes for an economic soft landing are once again powering US stocks, opens new tab higher, as encouraging data relieve recession worries following a brutal sell-off earlier this month.The S&P 500 has rebounded more than...
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters): Texas Instruments said on Friday it would receive up to $1.6 billion in funding from the US Commerce Department towards the construction of three new facilities, the latest government outlay aimed at bolstering domestic chip production.The...
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