OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, JULY 19: A tense situation prevailed in the port-city on Friday following agitated students' continued movement for quota reform in the government jobs and their sporadic clashes with police and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) cadres.The students held 'gayebana janaza'...
CAIRO, July 19 (AFP): Egypt's Suez Canal on Thursday reported a 23.4-per cent drop in revenues attributed to disruptions in Red Sea shipping over the past year, marked by attacks from Yemen's Huthi rebels on Israeli-linked vessels.The canal is a...
WOODSTOCK, United Kingdom, July 19 (AFP): UK leader Keir Starmer pledged Thursday that his new Labour government would "never" leave the European Convention on Human Rights, adding that he would approach the issue of irregular migration "with humanity".Starmer's Conservative predecessor...
LONDON, July 19 (AFP): Preparations for a possible no-deal Brexit contributed to the UK's lack of readiness for a global pandemic, a public inquiry into the government's handling of Covid-19 concluded on Thursday.Retired senior judge Heather Hallett, who chairs the...
GENEVA, July 19 (AFP): All health facilities in southern Gaza have been pushed to "breaking point" due to an influx of people wounded by Israeli bombardments and doctors could soon be forced to make "difficult choices" on who gets treated,...
SEOUL, July 19 (AFP): North Korea is launching more balloons believed to be carrying trash towards the South, Seoul's military said Thursday, in the latest round of a tit-for-tat balloon war between the two Koreas.Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said...
MILWAUKEE, July 19 (AFP): Caden Schaefer-Rose will only just be 18 by the time of November's US election, but he is determined to cast his very first presidential vote-for Donald Trump.The high school student is among a growing number of...
Police with armed car and heavy riot gears approach after protesters vandalise and set a passenger shed on fire at Paltan area in Dhaka on Friday. — FE Photo
PARIS, July 19 (AFP): Airlines expect overall passenger numbers to double over the next two decades from the 4.3 billion who flew last year, with growth led by emerging markets such as Asia Pacific and the Middle East, the main...
WOODSTOCK (United Kingdom), July 19 (AFP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday slammed any attempts to cut deals with Moscow behind Kyiv's back, after Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited Russian leader Vladimir Putin.Addressing European counterparts at a summit in...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
Stocks ended in the red this week, snapping a four-week rally, as the ongoing anti-quota protests took a bloody turn across the country, denting the investor confidence seriously.Investor sentiment took a heavy blow amid the prevailing unrest on the streets...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
Moscow wants Dhaka to buy essential food items such as soybean and palm oil from them and requested the authorities to arrange a meeting between Russian and Bangladeshi enterprises for price negotiations, according to official sources. To this regard, the...
In an effort to avoid getting caught in widespread clashes between protesters and police, commuters hold their hands up in air and cross police position hurriedly at Rampura in Dhaka on Friday. — FE Photo
FE REPORT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
Vegetable prices witnessed a further hike last week amid the widespread anti-quota clashes and countrywide shutdown.Tomato witnessed Tk 40-60 a kg hike and was at Tk 200-240 a kg in retail on Friday. Green chilli prices were Tk 300-360 a...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
The Editors' Council has demanded immediate restoration of Internet service for the sake of uninterrupted flow of news and information. A statement issued by President of the Editors' Council Mahfuz Anam and its Secretary Dewan Mohammad Hanif on Friday said...
Some protesting students set fire to Narsingdi district jail and broke the jail gate on Friday, helping prisoners to escape, reports UNB.However, the exact number of prisoners who escaped could not be known immediately.Efforts to reach the jail super, deputy...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
Operations of Metrorail have been suspended for an indefinite period from today (Saturday). The decision came in the wake of railway services disrupted seriously on Friday due to "the complete shutdown" programme called by the quota reformists. Dhaka Mass Transit...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
The Ministry of Finance will consider a Tk 52 billion project proposal next week for maintenance dredging of Payra seaport and buying a hopper dredger, officials said.The new project is meant for maintaining the navigability of the channel leading to...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
Digital transactions from banks and mobile financial services (MFSs) have faced sheer disruptions due to the nationwide internet shutdown following the ongoing students' quota-reform movement.Online dealings through automatic teller machines (ATMs) of all banks came to a total halt for...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-20 00:00:00
The government decided on Friday night to enforce curfew countrywide from 12:00 midnight and deploy army to help the civil administration in containing widespread violence in the wake of violent clashes that left over 50 killed so far.The decision came...
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters): Cocoa prices steadied on Thursday after figures on second-quarter demand in Asia came in as expected.Coffee prices also steadied near recent highs.September London cocoa edged up 0.2% to $6,330 a metric ton by 1035 GMT, having...
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters): Copper prices neared three-month lows on Thursday without new stimulus from a key political meeting in China and investors switching from copper to gold to bet on earlier interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve.Three-month...
SINGAPORE/PARIS, July 18 (Reuters): Chicago soybean futures hit their lowest level in nearly four years on Thursday under pressure from favourable crop weather in the U.S. Midwest while wheat rose slightly, buoyed by strong demand.Corn also eased.The most-active soybean contract...
LONDON, July 18 (Reuters): Oil prices were broadly steady on Thursday as investors took profits from earlier gains fuelled by larger than expected declines in U.S. crude stocks. Brent futures dipped 13 cents, or 0.2 per cent, to $84.95 a...
BHOLA, July 18 (BSS): A three-day long Agricultural Technology Fair-2024 was inaugurated in Lalmohan upazila of the district on Thursday.Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) of the Lalmohan upazila office has arranged the fair on the Upazila Parishad premises.On the occasion,...
NARAIL, July 18 (BSS): A motorbike rider was killed and three others were injured in a road accident at Rampur area in Lohagora upazila of the district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Shuvo Sheikh, 20, son of...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-07-19 00:00:00
GAIBANDHA, July 18: Different structures are being built illegally on the government land in the middle of the Gaibandha-Saghata road in Sadar upazila of the district.Outrage has arisen in public mind due to the illegal construction of structures on the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-07-19 00:00:00
CHANDPUR, July 18: Umbrella and torchlight repairmen in Chandpur district and adjoining areas are facing a tough time for want of work this monsoon. Sources said the local umbrella repairers cannot make a living for unavailability of sufficient works due...
A 13-member contingent will represent Bangladesh in the 33rd Olympic Games, (Paris Olympics'2024), the biggest sports extravaganza on earth, scheduled for France's capital Paris from July 26 to August 11, reports UNB.Some 20,714 athletes from 206 countries around the world...
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