FE REPORT | 2024-07-23 00:00:00
Majority of commercial banks won't charge penal fees for delayed payment of loans or interest in a gesture of generosity to their clients amid the current the nationwide deadlock.Their decision comes following concerns from the businesspeople unable to repay loans...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-23 00:00:00
Customs houses are directed to release imported perishables, industrial raw materials and food items through manual assessment as internet blackout disrupts digital operations.Officials said the National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued the instructions to meet exigencies stemming from recent disruptive...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-23 00:00:00
Business leader Syed Nasim Manzoor requested Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday to restore at least the email communications as the businesses were failing to communicate with their foreign buyers amid the lingering internet outage.Syed Nasim Manzoor, President of Bangladesh...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-23 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina assured the Bangladesh business community of restoring normalcy with tougher actions against the perpetrators of arson and violence that warranted countrywide curfew and army deployment In an exchange-of-views meeting with top business leaders at her office...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 12:00:00
Sufferings of the users of prepaid electricity, gas and mobile phone connections mount following internet blackout across the country.Long queues of people were seen in front of the electricity service providers' offices in the capital despite the ongoing curfew, imposed...
Police look at burning buses as protesters barricade roads at Matuail area of Dhaka and set the vehicles on fire Sunday. — FE Photo
BRAC Bank has decided not to charge any late payment fee or interest on the loans to customers for delayed repayments due to general holidays and internet outage nationwide. If charged already, the bank will reimburse it, says a statement...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Farmers in different districts of the country are incurring huge financial losses thanks to supply chain disruptions caused by anti-quota clashes and movement restrictions by the authorities.Amid anti-quota protests turning violent and compelling the authorities enforce stringent movement restrictions, cultivators...
A number of aggrieved expatriates demonstrated in front of the Saudi Airlines office at Hotel Sonargaon in the capital's Karwanbazar area on Sunday, as they were unable to go to their destinations abroad despite having tickets or visa expiration. —...
Amid countrywide curfew and internet blackout, a group of young people resorted to passing time by playing cricket on the otherwise busy North South Road in Old Dhaka on Sunday. — FE Photo
At least 58 inmates, who escaped from Narsingdi Central Jail during the violence over quota protests on Friday, were arrested by police, said Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General Anisul Haque, reports UNB."So far, 58 inmates out of the 826...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
The judicial inquiry commission formed to investigate the killings of protesters held its first meeting on Sunday. The commission headed by Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman held the meeting at the conference room of the Supreme Court at 4.00 pm. The commission...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Entrepreneurs in faraway districts who run businesses online anticipate huge losses due to the nationwide Internet blackout following the violent anti-quota protests.In Rajshahi, traders say they could not order or sell their products last week. This situation turns more severe...
A filling station in the capital's Shonir Akhra area remained shut on Sunday following imposition of the nationwide curfew. — FE Photo
Army personnel put on high alert at the main entrance of the Supreme Court in the capital on Sunday during the hearing on petitions against the High Court verdict that reinstated quota in the government jobs. — FE Photo
The law-enforcement agencies arrested several BNP leaders, including its standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, from different parts of the capital on Saturday night and Sunday, reports UNB.Detective Branch (DB) police arrested Khasru from his Banani residence at 10:00...
A vested group is involved in pushing the country backwards after joining the quota protesters and is using them as shield, Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun said on Sunday, reports UNB."Bangladesh is on its way to become...
Chief Justice (CJ) Obaidul Hasan has urged the students to return to their classrooms following the Supreme Court (SC) order on the issue of quota reservation in government jobs, reports UNB.The Chief Justice made the call in his reaction immediately...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged the government to step down by accepting the justified demands of the students to give people relief from the current violent situation, reports UNB.The BNP leader came up with the remarks...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Amid a curfew, the government on Sunday assured the foreign nationals and students staying in Bangladesh that the ongoing situation would normalise within a "short time".At the State Guest House Jamuna, Foreign Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud on Sunday briefed the...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) Sunday demanded inclusion of 'women quota' in the government jobs to bring equality between men and women.Earlier in the day, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in a verdict slashed quotas in the...
Bangladesh has become disconnected from international trade due to internet blackout caused by mob attack on its data centre during the quota-reform protests, reports UNB.The international trade and remittance flow are totally dependent on internet-based banking service. LC (Letter of...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
More than 50 international air flights to and from Dhaka were cancelled until Saturday since the nationwide Internet blackout on Thursday night, according to control room. However, national flag-carrier Bangladesh Biman and other domestic flights operators claimed of facing no...
Internet services in the country would be restored as soon as possible, State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmad Palak said on Sunday, reports UNB.The authorities concerned were trying their best to restore internet services across the country...
BABUL BARMAN | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Tanmoy Roy from Panchagarh found himself trapped in the capital city after he arrived here on Thursday morning for a recruitment exam the following day. The exam for upazila-level posts under the Ministry of Agriculture was eventually cancelled as violence...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
The kitchen markets in the city became volatile on Sunday, as prices of most essential commodities witnessed a significant jump amid the ongoing curfew imposed to contain violence across the country. All kinds of vegetables, green chilli, onion, potato, egg,...
Amid the curfew, a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) helicopter fires teargas canisters on protesters (inset) as an army convoy on ground confronts a blockade at Matuail area on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway on Sunday. — FE Photo by Asad-Uz-Zaman
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Inland Container Depots (ICDs) in Chittagong handled only a few hundred of containers on Sunday amid the curfew to control the nationwide deadly anti-quota protest and incidents of violence.On a regular day, the 19 ICDs in Chittagong handle around 4,000...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
State-run power-distribution companies initiated a special arrangement to increase emergency balance of prepaid electricity consumers, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told newsmen Sunday.More time will be needed to implement the arrangement as the officials of...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-22 00:00:00
Leaders of Bangladesh's main export industry fear a wrong message going to overseas market following production disruptions all the export-oriented garment factories will also shut today (Monday) amid violence-taming curfew."All garment factories listed with BGMEA and BKMEA will be closed...
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