BNP senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Tuesday said the country's people have no interest in casting their votes in the 'meaningless' election billed for January 7, reports UNB.He also raised a question if there is public support in the...
Amid a festive atmosphere, supporters in decorated horse carts campaigning for a candidate for the January 7 parliamentary election in Old Dhaka's Bangshal neighbourhood on Tuesday — FE Photo
FE REPORT The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday fixed today (Wednesday) to pass an order on whether the candidates of two factions of Gonotantri Party can contest the January 7 national election. Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chamber...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Tuesday said his party didn't want the opposition parties to stay out of the national election and it would have been more competitive if those, including BNP, took part, reports UNB."We never wanted...
NATORE, Dec 26 (UNB): Bangladesh Railway has strengthened security at 20 risky points in Natore district to prevent acts of sabotage. Shah Sufi Nur Mohammad, Pakshi Divisional Railway Manager, (DRM), said security has been beefed up to prevent acts of...
Rajbari, Dec 26 (UNB): Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route resumed on the morning of Monday after six-hours. Ferry services were suspended due to low visibility caused by dense fog, reports UNB.Authorities suspended the services to avoid accidents when the...
SYLHET, Dec 25 (UNB): A doctor and his son died, and a CNG-run autorickshaw driver was injured after a three-way collision between the autorickshaw, a truck, and a covered van at South Surma of Sylhet city on Monday.The incident happened...
The ecosystem and biodiversity in the Surdarbans have witnessed a marked progress in recent years due to various programmes taken by the government to protect the world's largest mangrove forest, reports BSS.A 2023 survey of the Forest Department shows there...
Bashundhara Kings made a good start in the 35th edition of the Federation Cup Football, the country's top-tier club football tournament, beating Fortis FC by a 1-0 goal in one of the two opening day's matches at the Sheikh Fazlul...
Bangladesh head coach Chandika Hathurusingha made it clear that Soumya Sarkar will be in his side's T20 World Cup plan after overcoming the mental barrier with a rollicking century in the second ODI against New Zealand, reports BSS.In third ODI,...
LONDON, Dec 26 (AP): For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading Just Stop Oil off a bridge, an...
GAZA, Dec 26 (BBC): There is no let-up in Israeli air strikes in Gaza, a UN official has told the BBC, after visiting a hospital struggling to treat the injured. Gemma Connell of the UN humanitarian agency Ocha told the...
MOSCOW, Dec 26 (BBC): Russia has confirmed one of its warships has been damaged in a Ukrainian attack on a Black Sea port. The airstrike took place at Feodosiya in Russian-occupied Crimea early on Tuesday morning.Russia's Ministry of Defence said...
Gold prices climbed for a third straight session on Tuesday, helped by a weaker US dollar and lower Treasury yields on expectations that the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates next year, reports Reuters.Spot gold gained 0.5 per cent to...
LONDON, Dec 26 (Reuters): Oil edged higher on Tuesday, finding support from geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and investor optimism that the US Federal Reserve would soon start cutting interest rates, boosting global economic growth and fuel demand.While hopes...
Iftekharul Islam | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
Who doesn't want their house to look beautiful? In urban areas like Dhaka, there is a tendency to make the interior of the house as tidy, beautiful, and colourful as possible. But decorating a house doesn't come cheap. Usually, it...
Asma-ul-husna'Rickshaws and rickshaw paintings in Dhaka have recently made it to the list of humanity's intangible cultural heritage by Unesco. The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed it as Bangladesh's fifth addition to that list. But...
Anindeta Chowdhury | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
You are sitting there with some scattered books, and your laptop screen is open. You look outside your table, and there are people having chitchats, doing work, or just having an evening coffee with their loved ones. You are not...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
The country's leading economists have all along raised questions about the authenticity of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures provisionally announced by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), even claiming that growth rate figures have now assumed the shape of political numbers....
Many people in Bangladesh have different forms of disabilities. Yet, our society is largely oblivious of the needs of the disabled people, even though a number of them could become well-integrated and productive members of society. People with disabilities have...
The Essential Drug Company Limited (EDCL) manufactures quality drugs at an affordable price and supply them to the government hospitals and other health institutions. The state-owned pharmaceutical company is supposed to set up at least one factory in each administrative...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
According to a recent report prepared by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) titled `World Food and Agriculture Annual Statistical Booklet 2023', Bangladesh produced about 93.3 million tonnes of agricultural produce in FY2021. At the same time, the country...
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-12-27 00:00:00
The directive of the prime minister to prepare a master plan to protect cultivable land in all the upazilas of the country is not a new one. It may be recalled that months after assuming office of the current term,...
If one of the objectives of the government's yearly food grains procurement drive, as often told by officials concerned, is to ensure a fair price for farmers, then so far, the ongoing one for Aman crop cannot be said to...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2023-12-26 12:00:00
Bangladesh's cooking-oil refiners are moving towards becoming value-added producers by establishing soybean-crushing plants locally, producers and insiders said on Monday. This will reduce their import dependency on crude and allow them to supply raw materials to their own refining plants....
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2023-12-26 12:00:00
This year’s conference of parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) lost much of the headline- grabbing attention of media to the blood-curdling and mind numbing war unleashed by Israel on Gaza. Even then COP28 had...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Selim R. F. Hussain, Managing Director & CEO of BRAC Bank PLC, has been unanimously re-elected Chairman of The Association of Bankers Bangladesh Limited (ABB).The platform of the bank's top executives has announced the election of its new Board of...
FE REPORT | 2023-12-26 00:00:00
Potato prices surged to Tk 80-100 per kilo on Monday, in a 25-40-percent spike during the peak harvest season, kitchen-market sources have revealed.Grocer Riad Hossain from West Dhanmondi said both stored and freshly harvested tubers were being sold at the...
MYMENSINGH, Dec 25 (UNB): Four people died and two others injured when a train crashed into a sand-laden truck on Shambhuganj level crossing in Mymensingh's Sadar upazila on Monday.The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.The accident occurred...
Fazlur Rahman, chairman of City Group and one of the country's leading commodity importers and processors, passed away at a hospital in the city in the early hours of Monday, reports BSS.He was 77."Fazlur Rahman, also chairman of Somoy TV,...
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