SEOUL, May 17 (Reuters): North Korea fired a number of short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after the US and South Korea conducted joint drills with stealth fighter...
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters): Britain has added three new designations to its North Korea sanctions list, relating to Pyongyang's military programmes, and one to its Russia sanctions regime, an update to the government's website showed on Friday.The government imposed asset...
TAIPEI, May 17 (Reuters): Taiwanese lawmakers shoved, tackled and hit each other in parliament on Friday in a bitter dispute about reforms to the chamber, just days before President-elect Lai Ching-te takes office without a legislative majority.Even before votes started...
TOKYO, May 17 (AP): Japan and the United States on Wednesday signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons, which are possessed...
BEIJING, May 17 (AFP): Russian leader Vladimir Putin was in the northeastern city of Harbin on Friday, the final day of a visit aiming to promote crucial trade with China and win greater support for his war effort in Ukraine.Putin...
Mahdiya Amira | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
Moving to another continent to pursue college education was already a huge risk. I didn't know what I envisioned my first year of college to be like but it didn't definitely include witnessing a period of radical social justice and...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
Like the 'Unreal City' in TS Elitot's The Wasteland, Dhaka soaks the searing heat of a fiercely burning sun and stands abstract and impervious as if it is a piece cut out of the netherworld. In Eliot's masterpiece, London was...
It is indeed a regular practice within the framework of Bangladesh's National Budget to include provisions for legalising black money as white money. Recently, the World Bank has criticised the tax provision for legalising black money. It is necessary to...
Eid-ul-Adha, the festival of sacrifice, is imminent. Thousands of garment industry workers in this country, most of whom are employed in export-oriented factories, are apprehensive whether their due salaries and festival bonus would be paid before Eid. These workers contribute...
Tanim Asjad | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
The mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation last week announced that a number of roads and streets would be renamed after eminent literary exponents, journalists and artistes besides the name of freedom fighters. He argued that the personalities would be...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
With a full-blown civil war going on in neighbouring Myanmar, the Rohingya refugee repatriation issue is now uncertain. The humanitarian disaster involving nearly a million refugees uprooted from that country and forced to flee to Bangladesh had grabbed international headlines...
Recognising mishaps workers meet with on way to and from their workplaces as occupational accidents has long been an unmet demand. Finally, the issue has been resolved recently by the government under its employment injury scheme so much so that...
Fatema Aktar | 2024-05-18 00:00:00
As dusk ignited the sky with bright orange hues that slowly delved into black, a small marketplace named Sonali Bazaar at Mirpur Eastern Housing Beribadh, right across the river Turag, used to be seen from afar radiating yellowish-white lights. A...
FE Report | 2024-05-17 12:00:00
The state-run Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) has formally launched a mobile app namely 'MyICB-Investment within reach' to provide investors with its financial services and its subsidiaries' remotely.The Corporation on Thursday unveiled the app at its head office in Dhaka....
ABIDJAN, May 16 (AFP): A US delegation is discussing the withdrawal of its troops from military-led Niger as Washington prepares to abandon its strategic position in the Sahel where Russia and Iran are gaining ground.The demand for US troops to...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
A private car caught fire suddenly on Thursday on elevated express way near Hajrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital. However there were no reports of casualties. The incident happened at around 12:10 pm. Two fire fighters unit rushed to...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
The High Court has started its hearing on two writ petitions filed by Grameen Kalyan, an organisation headed by Noble Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus, challenging the imposition of income tax worth Tk 5.76 billion on the organisation for five...
Currently about 70 per cent of total public procurement are being conducted through electronic Government Procurement (e-GP), reports UNB.Mirza Ashfaqur Rahman, Director (Additional Secretary) of Bangladesh Public Procurement Authority (BPPA), informed this while addressing an awareness workshop on BPPA's functions...
Congratulating Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her reelection, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he looks forward to working with PM Hasina to strengthen their bilateral relationship and together contribute to regional peace, prosperity and security, reports UNB."As Indian...
Amidst a backdrop of fluctuating foreign-exchange reserves, Bangladesh Bank has been employing varied methodologies to calculate the nation's reserves, unveiling differing figures.Traders and consumers alike have responded to these variations with increased apprehension, leading to price surges across various commodities,...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
The prices of eggs, onions, pulses, potato and vegetables witnessed a further hike in the last week, intensifying sufferings of common people.According to market sources, other essentials' prices remained static at their previous highs.Local onion was sold at Tk 80-85...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) has cleared the way for the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to collect income tax from the private universities. The apex court on Thursday rejected three separate appeal petitions filed by the...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
The country's mobile-network operators have voiced their disapproval of a potential 5-percent increase in supplementary duty (SD) on basic mobile-phone services like talk time and internet data usage. This comes after news reports suggested the National Board of Revenue (NBR)...
NEW YORK, May 16 (Al Jazeera): Another staffer in United States President Joe Biden's administration has publicly resigned in protest of the US's continued support for Israel amid its war on Gaza, The Associated Press news agency reported.Lily Greenberg Call,...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-17 00:00:00
Some 12.98 million cattle are available this year, exceeding the maximum projected demand of 10.7 million, for Eid-ul-Azha -- the feast of sacrifice to be celebrated in the third week of June. The livestock includes 5.27 million cows, 0.161 million...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday), according to the Met Office. The highest temperature in the country on Thursday was recorded at 39.0...
No death from dengue fever was reported in Bangladesh in 24 hours until Thursday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).However, 24 patients were hospitalised with this viral fever during this period, it said, reports UNB.Of them,...
The Ministry of Education has published college admission guidelines for students who passed the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent exams under the 11 education boards, reports bdnews24.com.The students will have to apply online based on their results. The applications will...
The sixth season of the nation's premier TV reality show, the 'Ispahani Mirzapore Banglabid', kicked off with the aim of inspiring the young generation to embrace bangla language and culture, says a press release. Branded with the motto "BanglaiJagiBhorpur," this...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina showing off a jewellery set of pearl produced in sweet water oyster after receiving it from Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdur Rahman at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting in the city on Thursday — Focus...
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