JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
Government authorities are going great guns to operationalise the newborn Sammilito Islami Bank in state sector as its account is opened with the central bank well before licensing, sources say. The new shariah-based bank is born out of the merger...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met office.Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The highest temperature of the country was recorded on...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
Thirty-nine more Bangladeshis were deported from the United States on Friday as they had illegally entered the country.They arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a US military flight. BRAC provided them with transportation and emergency support through the...
Southeast University (SEU) and Amanat Shah Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at its campus in the city on Wednesday, according to a press release.The signing ceremony took place during a talk titled "Invention and Innovation in the...
BRAC University (BRAC U) has recently been selected as the exclusive host university in Bangladesh for the Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships (QECS) for the 2026-27 award cycle, according to a statement.Administered by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the QECS...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
To curb the spread of dengue, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) launched anti-mosquitoes drive on Friday as part of its special cleanliness and mosquito-control campaign.Over 900 cleaners and mosquito-control workers from DSCC's waste management and health departments, along with local...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter said on Friday that to ensure safer food for the people, the government should provide subsidies to the fisheries and livestock sectors-just as it does for crop agriculture.She made the remarks on the second-day...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
A group of the city dwellers, hailing from Bhola district, blocked the capital's Shahbag intersection on Friday, demanding the construction of a bridge linking Barishal and Bhola.Hundreds of people with banners and festoons positioned themselves at Shahbag at around 3:45pm...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
The Local Government Division (LGD) is moving to introduce a smart metering system in the water supply network, following similar modernisation efforts undertaken in the gas and power sectors.The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) is supposed to implement...
LALMONIRHAT, Nov 28 (UNB): A mortar shell was found in an agricultural field in Hati Bandha upazila, Lalmonirhat, on Friday morning.Workers uncovered the object while excavating soil in the middle of Goddimari Adarsha village in Goddimari Union.Local resident Md. Abul...
BRAHMANBARIA, Nov 27 (UNB): Three people have sustained gunshot injuries in a dispute over a local dominance in Brahmanbaria.The incident occurred near Kandipara Mor area of Brahmanbaria sadar.The injured are Nazmul Ahmed Tutul( 36), Shihab (30), and Saju Mia.Tutul and...
KHULNA, Nov 28 (UNB): Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) authorities have suspended a student for stabbing a fellow student in a dispute over street painting and stall locations for the first-year admission test.The accused, Kazi Sadiq Mahmud, is...
A man has been killed during a 'late-night mugging' in Chattogram, reports bdnews24.com.The incident occurred opposite the Chattogram District Council building in the port city's Kotwali thana on Thursday night.The victim is Md Ismail (30). He hailed from Lakshmipur, but...
Police arrested 14 suspected criminals during a day-long special operation in the Mohammadpur area of the capital on Thursday, reports BSS.Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Muhammad Talebur Rahman said the operation was carried out...
A detainee has been beaten to death inside Jamalpur District Jail, reports bdnews24.com.Jail Superintendent Golam Dastagir said the detainee, Pagla Hazrat (25), was bludgeoned on the head while asleep early Thursday. He died on Friday morning at Dhaka Medical College...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has strongly condemned a planned attack by armed Jamaat-e-Islami activists on its leaders, activists and civilians during an election campaign in Pabna's Ishwardi on Thursday afternoon, repors UNB.In a statement signed by BNP Senior Joint Secretary...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
Over 75,000 non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) voters registered for postal voting, through a hybrid platform developed by the Election Commission (EC), ahead of the upcoming national election.According to the latest data on the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) portal, a total of 75,377...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has urged journalists to strengthen their own unions and avoid alignment with any political party, saying this is the only way to protect their professional rights and ensure true media freedom, report agencies.Speaking...
NEW DELHI, Nov 28 (AFP): India's economy grew faster than expected in the last quarter, official data showed Friday, but the impact from US tariffs is expected to bite in the rest of the financial year.Gross domestic product rose 8.2...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
The government is in the final stages of formulating a 25-year master plan to transform Bangladesh's agriculture into a modern, sustainable, and export-driven sector, aiming to boost productivity, reduce import dependency, and meet growing global market demand."The integrated plan, which...
OTTAWA, Nov 28 (Reuters): Canada's economy grew at a much faster pace than expected in the third quarter as crude oil exports and government spending boosted economic activity, data showed on Friday, even as business investments and household consumption disappointed...
SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (Reuters): Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is expected to lower its January crude price for Asian buyers for a second month to its lowest level for five years, tracking the decline in spot benchmark prices,...
LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters): Asian spot liquefied natural gas prices hit their lowest level in eight weeks on continued muted demand and high inventories, tracking a drop in European gas prices on hopes of a Ukraine peace deal.The average LNG...
SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (Reuters): Spot gold rose 1 per cent to a two-week high on Friday, as expectations that the Federal Reserve will trim interest rates next month lifted demand for the non-yielding asset, while silver hit a fresh record...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-29 00:00:00
A number of proposals of the Tripartite Consultative Committee (TCC) and workers' representatives, especially in the areas of freedom of association and collective bargaining, have not incorporated in the latest amendments to the labour law, which might provide uneven advantages...
NRBC Bank, in collaboration with Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU), has awarded scholarships to the children of journalists who died while in service, says a press release. Under the bank's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Fund, the children of 33 deceased DRU...
The draft "Master Plan of Saint Martin's Island" has proposed limiting tourism to about 500 to 900 visitors per day within designated areas in the country's lone coral island aiming to prevent ecological degradation there, reports BSS.It also suggested restricting...
Pubali Bank PLC has signed an agreement with BPC, global payments solutions provider, to migrate from its legacy stack to the next-generation SmartVista Card Management System as part of a strategic programme to enhance its digital footprint and modernise banking...
LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters): Workers went on strike at Amazon warehouses in Germany on Black Friday aiming to disrupt operations on a key sales day as they push for a collective bargaining agreement, with separate protests also planned outside Zara...
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed a money laundering case against former Padma Bank chairman Chowdhury Nafis Sharafat and three others for allegedly misappropriating over Tk 16.13 billion (1,613.68 crore).The case was filed with Gulshan Police Station on November...
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