ASMA-UL-HUSNA | 2023-11-15 00:00:00
Setting out on the path of marriage marks a significant milestone. Sharing your life with someone, creating a home, and nurturing a family is exciting and heartwarming. However, this beautiful phase often comes with its own challenges, especially when managing...
AHNAF MD. SHAFEE RAHMAN | 2023-11-15 00:00:00
Apart from 'Kolkata Kacchi' or 'Shomsher Alir Khichuri' in Old Dhaka, did you hear the name 'Qazi Bari Heritage Estate'? Well, if you haven't yet, this is your opportunity to visit a home carrying 200 years of history with Mughal,...
Insecticides are mostly imported from abroad. Those materials come in big containers and are commercially re-packed in the country. During this process, some of these pesticides are adulterated with sub-standard materials so that a section of businessmen can increase their...
Bangladesh's economy remains heavily dependent on the ready-made garments industry (RMG) for jobs in manufacturing, foreign reserves and empowering women. The industry contributes a major portion to the country's GDP. More than 4,600 RMG factories in our country represent its...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-11-15 00:00:00
The premise on which import taxes were cut on a host of essential items in a bid to lower prices in kitchen markets in Bangladesh has essentially backfired. In the process, the national board of revenue (NBR) has lost earnings...
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-11-15 00:00:00
The agro-food processing in the country is way behind its potential. The sector's below par performance is often attributed to factors that are largely reliant on government's efforts. Declaring it a thrust sector by the government hasn't worked to stimulate...
All the measures taken so far by the government to check unrestrained price inflation of essential commodities have come to a naught, thanks to the manipulative power of a section of market players. For instance, the government tried to fix...
Sanjoy Pal | 2023-11-15 00:00:00
Bank financing to business firms occupies the largest portion of total lending portfolio in Bangladesh. Non-Banking Financial Institutions (NBFIs) come next. The analysis of financing viability by financial institution at times seems to be ambiguous due to lack of industry-specific...
WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (AFP): At a munitions factory in northeast England run by BAE Systems, production is running at full speed thanks to the war in Ukraine and an increasingly dark outlook for geopolitics.Inside the large factory in Washington-filled with...
DEHRADUN, Nov 13 (AFP): Rescuers in northern India battled for a second day Monday to save 40 workers trapped underground after the road tunnel they were building collapsed, bringing down tonnes of debris.Teams using heavy excavators have been working nonstop...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2023-11-14 12:00:00
That global shocks cause poverty is well known and few shocks have been as extensive as Covid. What made this pandemic so vicious was that the impact was all encompassing and affected every aspect of life and in every land....
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 13: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to inaugurate a portion of the Elevated Expressway in the port city tomorrow (Tuesday). The Tiger-pass to Airport section will open on the day, while the Tiger-pass to Lalkhan Bazar section...
In response to this year's unprecedented surge in dengue fever cases, Google worked with the Government of Bangladesh, the US Embassy in Dhaka, UNICEF, and other organisations to connect people to authoritative information on preventing, identifying, and seeking help for...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
The government is set to launch a sale drive of key essential items today (Tuesday) to keep prices within the purchasing power of ordinary people in the overheated commodity market.The state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will sell essential commodities...
GAZA STRIP, Nov 13 (Agencies): The hospitals in northern Gaza were no longer functioning amid fuel shortages and intense combat, with the death toll inside the territory's largest facility rising, the Hamas-run health ministry said Monday.The World Health Organization (WHO)...
Hospitals in Bangladesh have recorded 1,740 new cases of deadly dengue fever in the latest daily count, taking the tally of infections this year to 293,572 amid the worst outbreak of the disease, reports bdnews24.com. The mosquito-borne viral fever caused...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh was praised by over 90 per cent of the 111 countries in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held in the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva on Monday.Law Minister Annisul Huq, who led the Bangladesh delegation in the UPR...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
Case backlog is a long-standing problem in the judiciary of the country. Despite various initiatives taken at different times to solve this problem, the case backlog has gone on bulging.As the trial of the cases is pending for a long...
KHULNA, Nov 13 (UNB): Dismissing opposition BNP as headless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the party seeks to create an unusual situation by foiling the upcoming national election."They know that they don't have any leadership. They are just...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Monday directed foreign-exchange houses not to buy US dollar from the remitters beyond the fixed rate of Tk 116 a dollar.The central bank issued the direction at a meeting with the representatives of the top foreign-exchange...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
Construction of a new crude-oil refinery still remains a dream as the project is yet to get necessary approval from the top economic policy-making body.State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) twice sent the Tk 237.36-billion project proposal to the Planning Commission,...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh's apparel apex body wrote to the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) for readjusting garment prices commensurate with the enhanced worker wages amid industrial action. Meanwhile, sources said, factories in Gazipur began reopening with violent labour protests dissipating while...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
The United States has urged Bangladesh's three major political parties -- Awami League, BNP and Jatiya Party -- to engage in "unconditional dialogue" to break a deadlock over polls.Just days before the announcement of the schedule for the next national...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasian inaugurated 24 development projects, involving Tk 25.93 billion, and laid foundation stones for another five schemes during a day's trip to Khulna where she urged people to support her re-election bid.The projects implemented by Public Works...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday announced a fresh two-day nationwide blockade from Wednesday morning, in an escalation of their agitations for neutral polls.Like-minded parties aligned with the BNP will also observe the blockade to press home their demand...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-11-14 00:00:00
Cash feeding to banks begins over again in a policy shift by the central bank perforce following liquidity crunch, bankers say about the abrupt bailout action. Economists say the Bangladesh Bank's latest retreat from the contractionary monetary-policy stance for inflation...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the Met Office.Night temperature may rise slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the...
Today (Tuesday) is the 48th death anniversary of Major General (retd) M A Rab, Bir Uttam, chief of staff of the Liberation Forces and first honorary managing director of `Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust', says a statement. Relatives and well-wishers are requested...
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