Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud has called for immediate cessation of the conflict in Palestine, ensuring humanitarian access and holding Israel accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity, reports UNB."We, the members of the OIC should be part of a...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Interest calculating in SMART formula comes as a boon for banking as banks bag windfalls from a record spread between the rates they provide to depositors and take from borrowers.Officials and bankers have said Bangladesh Bank's monetary-policy shift from monetary...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Market-based interest rating and free float of currencies are likely soon as the central bank's governor dropped a broad hint Sunday about such major changes on Bangladesh's money market. "We are very close to market-based interest rate…We will be very...
Academic activities and classes at all secondary schools resumed on Sunday after a period of frequent changes due to the ongoing heat-wave, report agencies.According to the met office, temperatures across the country dropped to some extent from well over 40...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh's economy faces a triangulation of daunting problems that threatens to upset government-targeted economic growth of 7.0 per cent in next fiscal, a think-tank forewarns as budget making continues.Uncontrolled inflation, surging debts and erosion of financial space in the wake...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at a few places over Mymensingh, Sylhet, Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Barishal and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the Met Office....
FE REPORT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
The Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) is set to undergo essential maintenance work, leading to the closure of its runways for three consecutive nights from May 6 to 8.The runway closure period is scheduled from 12.01 am until 3.00 am...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
In the wake of a record heatwave, the government has first-ever adopted new guidelines on heat-related diseases, including responding to preterm birth and severe heat stress among vulnerable populations.The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) with the UNICEF's support launched...
State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak addressing the 6th "ICEEICT 2024" concluding conference at the Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in Mirpur Cantonment on Saturday — ISPR
FE REPORT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
A writ petition was filed Sunday seeking directives to stop cutting trees across the country including the capital Dhaka to protect the environment. The writ also sought directives to form bodies in Dhaka and other places. The rights organisation 'Human...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five extortionists from Demra and south Keraniganj areas in the city on Saturday night.The arrestees are Md. Chan Mia (40), Md. Liton (50), Md. Sumon (42), Sonjit Chandra Das (38) and Md Al...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, May 05: Many people are being admitted to hospitals in the district every day after falling sick due to the severe heatwave.Hospital sources said the admitted patients were suffering from various diseases, including diarrhoea, fever, heatstroke, dysentery and pneumonia.Hundreds...
A 9-month pregnant woman and her five-year-old son died as their house collapsed on them during a storm at Hazipara Ghonar Bari in Karimganj upazila of Kishoreganj district on Saturday, report agencies.The incident occurred around midnight on Saturday in Niamatpur...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
RANGPUR, May 05: Country Representative of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Bangladesh Dr Humnath Bhandari has stressed the need for promoting farmers' household income and augmenting their nutritional food security by increasing diversified agricultural production.The Sustainable Intensification of Mixed...
The Election Commi-ssion (EC) has ordered the transfer of Noakhali's Subarnachar thana Office-in-charge (OC) ahead of the upazila parishad polls, reports UNB.EC's deputy secretary Md Mizanur Rahman sent a notice to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on Sunday.According to...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, currently in Saudi Arabia, performed the holy Umrah on Saturday night, reports UNB.BNP's Makkah unit president Abul Kalam Azad said the BNP secretary general and his wife Rahat Ara Begum arrived in Makkah...
COX'S BAZAR, May 05 (UNB): Two Bangladeshi nationals suffered serious injuries in a landmine explosion near border pillar No 47-48 on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Saturday evening.The injured were identified as Nurul Absar,18, son of late Mohammad of Jaruliachhari village...
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said laws must be formulated considering people's welfare so that it can implement the ideology and aspiration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports BSS."We cannot formulate...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan said on Sunday the people have no right to speak (freedom of speech) in the country."Where there is no democracy, there may not be freedom of the media. People...
Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said it is a policy decision of the Awami League to prevent relatives of lawmakers and ministers from participating in the local government elections, reports BSS."It...
There are several free YouTube channels dedicated to teaching freelancing in our country. Many individuals can benefit from these channels to enhance their freelancing skills. One notable channel for freelancing tutorials is Graphic IT BD, which offers a comprehensive collection...
Neil Ray | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Waves of protest by university students from the United States have now shaken not only the campuses of highest seats of learning in that country as well as Europe and Australia but also the world conscience that went into hibernation...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Lure of jobs has led many youths to go on a perilous voyage across the Mediterranean Sea to the shores of Europe, especially Italy. Of the hundreds of thousands who embark on such a dangerous journey from different countries, thousands...
The High Court in a welcome rule recently directed the authorities concerned to take necessary measures aimed at stopping the uncontrolled price hike of medicines. The apex court's order could not come at a more opportune time when drug companies...
Muhammad Zamir | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
An interesting analytical scrutiny carried out by Corina Stratulat Levente Kocsis on the next European Parliament elections has drawn attention all over the world. It reflects the anxiety that has slowly surfaced about how the election might end up with...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2024-05-06 00:00:00
Weather forecast for May indicates that heat wave, (the Department of Meteorology reveals that the very hot temperature and prolonged heat waves in the country broke 76 years record in last April 2024), depressions in the Bay of Bengal, thunderstorms...
ROME, May 05 (AFP): Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner said Sunday that he will only compete at the French Open if he is fully fit after being forced to withdraw injured from this week's Italian Open.Italian world number two Sinner...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 05 (AP): Lionel Messi had a record-setting night for Inter Miami.He scored a goal and had five assists as Inter Miami trounced the New York Red Bulls 6-2 on Saturday night - with the Argentine great...
JOHANNESBURG, May 05 (AFP): Former Test captain Dean Elgar described a toxic environment of politics and poor administration in South African cricket and said he felt he had been "stabbed in the back" when he was summarily axed from the...
Players of Danish Daredevils posing with the trophy after winning the Pertex Inter Company Cricket League, a four-day cricket competition, at the Shaheed Zayan Chowdhury Play Ground in the city recently. Whip of the Jatiya Sangsad Nazrul Islam Babu and...
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