FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against the owner of Sadeeq Agro and six government officials over illegal cattle import of the banned Brahman breed.ACC Assistant Director Md Abul Kalam Azad filed the case at the ACC's Dhaka...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina posed with the receipients of the Prime Minister Fellowship 2024-25 during their award ceremony at the PMO in the capital on Tuesday. — PID
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
Japan is willing to hire more workers from Bangladesh for its different sectors like caregiving and agriculture.State Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury said it to the journalists. Earlier, he had a meeting with the Japanese...
A Dhaka court has adjourned until July 31 the hearing in a graft case against BNP leader Mosaddeq Ali Falu, reports BSS. As no witnesses appeared to testify, Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam at Dhaka Special Judge Court-10, adjourned the hearing...
Workers Party of Bangladesh has strongly protested the slogan chanted by anti-quota protesters terming themselves as Razakar during their movement, reports BSS."Such slogan is not only shocking but also unfortunate in the independent Bangladesh," said the party's politburo in a...
Awami League Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim has said BNP-Jamaat clique wants to take political advantage by instigating quota protestors, reports BSS."BNP-Jamaat clique is derailing our young generation. They want to take political advantage instigating the quota protestors," he...
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), the student wing of BNP, has announced to stand by the general students, who are staging demonstrations across the country against the quota system in government jobs, to realise their demands, reports UNB.Speaking at a press...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
Two factions of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) have taken a dissenting stance on the quota reform movement. Two factions, led by its President and Secretary, presented their positions on Tuesday in the SCBA auditorium.During a briefing, a faction...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has called upon the country's people and all political parties to stand beside the general students who are demonstrating against the reinstatement of the quota system in government jobs across the country, reports...
Fire-fighters trying to extinguish fire after miscreants set ablaze two buses in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Tuesday night. — FE Photo
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has condemned and protested attacks on general students and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) during the quota reform movement, reports UNB."A section of these protesters are speaking in favour of the razakars. It is...
Startup Bangladesh Limited has cancelled its Tk 50 million investment in 10 Minute School after the online educational platform's founder posted in support of the quota reform movement on Facebook, reports bdnews24.com.On Monday, Startup Bangladesh took to Facebook to announce...
The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in a study on 'Bangladesh's External Public Borrowings and Debt Servicing Capacity' has expressed concern about the sharp rise in the share of costly foreign loans in the country's overall debt portfolio in recent...
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattog-ram, Bogura, Rangpur and Rajshahi to maintain law and order situation amid the ongoing quota reform movement across the country."In the wake of the ongoing quota reform movement,...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
The Editors' Council has expressed deep concern over the attacks on journalists on duties during the ongoing student movement for quota reforms in government jobs.At least 25 journalists were attacked at different places of Dhaka city, Chattogram, Dinajpur and Bogura...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
Global human rights watchdogs have slammed a string of attacks on quota reformists by law enforcement and pro-ruling party workers in Bangladesh.Amnesty International has strongly condemned the attacks against anti-quota activists at Dhaka University and elsewhere, urging the government to...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
The United States has condemned the use of violence against students protesting for quota reforms in Bangladesh, calling for respect for democratic principles and protection of peaceful assembly rights.Matthew Miller, spokesperson for US State Department, during a regular press briefing...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said valiant freedom fighters should always be accorded the highest respect irrespective of party affiliation, reports UNB.The prime minister said this while speaking at the programme marking the distribution of Prime Minister Fellowship 2024-25...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will review its nearly $13 billion projects in Bangladesh next week as many are struggling for implementation delays, officials said on Tuesday.The Manila-based lender would sit with all the project implementers in the Bangladesh government...
The government has ordered a shutdown of all high schools and colleges across the country until further notice amid deadly violence during protests against government job quotas, reports bdnews24.com. Besides the educational institutions at secondary and higher secondary levels, polytechnic...
The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain Ibn Ali (RA), the grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), will be observed across the country today (Wednesday) with due religious solemnity.It is the 10th day of...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
The government claims the export-data mismatch won't change the size of Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) and per-capita income, though economists think different about knock-on effect of the miscalculation. In a release Tuesday, the ministry of finance said the central...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
Banks and financial institutions get a binding regulatory order not to continue audit of their operations with the listed audit firms if delisted by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued Tuesday a circular that says the BB published...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
The government on Tuesday filed a leave-to-appeal petition against a High Court verdict that declared illegal a 2018 circular abolishing all job quotas, including that for freedom fighters.Attorney General AM Amin Uddin updated the media on the filing of the...
FE REPORT | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
At least six people were killed and several hundred injured in widespread clashes between ruling-party activists and police and students Tuesday as blockades crippled the country amid students' quota protests.The government deployed paramilitary BGB troops in flashpoints and declared schools...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-07-17 00:00:00
A half-yearly monetary policy statement may be announced tomorrow (Thursday) with contractionary stance on money supply as curbing the persisting high inflation continues to influence Bangladesh's financial front.For the first time ever, the central bank is going to unveil the...
BENGALURU, July 16 (Reuters): India's benchmark indexes notched record closing highs on Tuesday, buoyed by gains in heavyweight information technology stocks amid prospects of a US interest rate cut in September and a strong earnings outlook.The NSE Nifty 50 rose...
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