Joharin is the two-year old daughter of Reza and Khadija. She just loves to watch cartoons on smartphone. Whenever the baby cries, her parents immediately hand over their smartphone to her and it works like magic. Joharin stops crying as...
Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has reaffirmed Bangladesh's steadfast support for UN peacekeeping missions in the coming days, reports BSS.He expressed this view while attending a joint reception by Bangladesh and Austria at the United Nations headquarters in New York...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-01 12:00:00
Some banks, including Janata, have lost their capability to disburse fresh loans as laid-out loans are not coming back to the lenders, according to Janata Bank chairman Prof Dr SM Mahfuzur Rahman.Instead of disbursing any fresh loan, they would rather...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2024-06-01 12:00:00
For years, policymakers have touted the youthful population of Bangladesh as a lucrative bait for attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). That would certainly have worked had Bangladesh done something other than use that data as a slogan. For decades, economists...
Palestinians check the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas. — AFP
NEW DELHI, May 31 (Agencies): An Indian court has urged the government to declare a national emergency over the country's ongoing heat-wave, saying that hundreds of people had died during weeks of extreme weather.India is enduring a crushing heat-wave with...
A Dhaka court on Friday placed three persons, accused in a case lodged over the murder of AL lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar, on a five-day fresh remand.The three accused are Tanvir Bhuiyan, Shimul Bhuiyan and Silisti Rahman, reports...
The government has increased the prices of diesel, kerosene, petrol and octane adjusting the prices with the global market, reports BSS.The government increased the fuel prices due to devaluation of Taka against US dollar and the new prices will come...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-06-01 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 31: Special train service on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar route will resume operation before Eid-ul-Azha.Presently, the service on the route remains stopped for a shortage of engines.Saiful Islam, Chattogram divisional manager of the Bangladesh Railway (BR), made the disclosure...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-01 00:00:00
The government will buy one more LNG (liquefied natural gas) cargo from the international spot market for June delivery, according to a senior Petrobangla official.The Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd (RPGCL) floated a tender on May 28 to purchase the...
The flood situation in Sylhet, triggered by incessant rain and the onrush of water from upstream, has improved slightly but 533,000 people in seven Upazilas are still marooned by floodwater, according to the district administration, reports bdnews24.com."We are keeping an...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-01 00:00:00
Prices of potato, vegetables, egg, onion and some other commodities surged in the past week, subsequent to the havoc wreaked by Cyclone Remal that hit Bangladesh on May 26 and 27.The agriculture ministry's initial report indicates that nearly 0.18 million...
SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters): Extreme temperatures across Asia are driving up liquefied natural gas (LNG) demand in the region as importers seek cargoes ahead of summer, with imports in South Asia hitting records.This could tighten available supply and further lift...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-06-01 00:00:00
A sum of US$800 million is now sought by the government from Japan as budget-support credit to finance shortfall in the current fiscal, officials say, in a last-minute quest. Apart from the already-taken IMF loan, the government has also approached...
ARAFAT ARA | 2024-06-01 00:00:00
Thousands of Bangladeshi jobseekers are left in the queue as Malaysia closed its manpower market under a May-31 timeline for an embargo on foreign recruits, sources said. The host country stopped hiring foreign workers from today (Saturday) with the ultimatum...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2024-06-01 00:00:00
Neighbouring India now wants to operate Bangladesh's second-seaport Mongla where it already enjoys transhipment facility to transport cargoes to and from its landlocked north-eastern states, sources said.The proposal is being seen as part of their expanding footprint in strategically important...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram, Sylhet, Rangpur and Barishal divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Saturday), according to the Met...
15 more deer carcassesrecovered from SundarbansBAGERHAT, May 31 (UNB): Members of the Forest Department recovered 15 more carcasses of deer from different areas of Sundarbans on Friday.With this, 111 dead deer were recovered from the Sundarbans in four days, said...
Dilly-dallied installation of an underground sewage pipeline by the Dhaka South City Corporation on old Dhaka's North-South Road inconveniencing both vehicular and pedestrian movement. The photo was snapped on Friday — FE Photo
Eighteen people were hospitalised with dengue fever in 24 hours until Friday morning, reports UNB.Of the new patients, seven were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka city and the rest outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Currently,...
MAHURA, May 31 (UNB):Two people died in separate road accidents in Magura on Friday.The victims were identified as Shubrato Malo, 49, of Panighata area of Mohammadpur upazila and Rayad Sheikh, 35, son of Abul Sheikh of Kamanna village of Shailkupa...
With a view to protecting the wildlife and biodiversity of the Sundarbans, the Forest Department on Friday announced a ban on entry of visitors to the forest, which took a big hit from Cyclone Remal last week, for three months,...
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has set a target of feeding vitamin 'A' capsules to more than 579,000 children, reports BSS.DNCC Chief Health Officer Brigadier General Imrul Kayes Chowdhury disclosed this while speaking at a press conference at Nagar Bhaban...
Referring to the importance of mountains, Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury said preserving these mountains is essential for mankind's survival, reports UNB.The minister said what happens in the Himalayas affects Bangladesh, so if the mountains including...
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) has stood beside the victims of the recent cyclone Remal, responding to the call of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, reports UNB.BCL, the AL's student wing, is distributing relief items including...
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have arrested two Myanmar nationals with more than three kilograms (kg) of crystal methamphetamine (crystal meth) in Teknaf of Cox's Bazar district, reports BSS.The arrested are identified as Md Alam, 19 and Md Ayach,...
COX'S BAZAR, May 31 (BSS): Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Friday said no more Rohingya or Myanmar national would be allowed to enter Bangladesh.He said this to journalists while visiting Ukhia Rohingya camp in the district in the morning.Asaduzzaman said...
Former Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was not consulted while removing the words "except Israel" from the e-passport though the Bangladesh's position regarding Israel remains unchanged, reports UNB. "I was foreign minister...
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