FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 12:00:00
China wants to implement free-trade agreement with Bangladesh by 2026, Chinese Ambassador Yao Wen said Thursday while speaking on major issues of common concern that include election. At a meet with diplomatic journalists in Dhaka, the envoy made China's stand...
Bangladesh Bank Training Academy (BBTA) on 30 November organized its 'Policy Dialogue to Improve Supervisory Tools and Techniques' at its auditorium. BBTA's Executive Director Md. Zulkar Nayn conducted the programme while Bangladesh Bank (BB) Director Md. Sarwar Hossain presented the...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) announced a fourth nationwide blockade for 48 hours from Sunday morning to Tuesday morning.BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the blockade programme in a virtual press conference on Thursday evening.Rizvi said the...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and three others have claimed in a Labour Court in Dhaka that the charges of violating the Labour Act brought against them by the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) are false.The...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 09: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Matarbari deep-sea port channel at Moheshkhali in Cox's Bazar tomorrow (November 11).She will also lay the foundation stone of the first terminal of the new seaport the same day.On Thursday,...
Internally displaced Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, looking for safty are camped in the grounds of the al-Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas....
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday asked the Election Commission (EC) to play responsible role with courage and sincerity to hold next national elections in a free, fair and credible manner following the constitutional rules and regulations, reports BSS."It is not...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Thursday deferred again the submission date of investigation report on a case filed in connection with the Bangladesh Bank reserve heist in February, 2016.It asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police to submit the report...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
In the midst of this challenging journey, as consumers navigate the rollercoaster of essential markets-- spanning rice, fish, meat, eggs, potatoes, and vegetables--concern reached new heights last week, fueled by a fresh surge in sugar and flour prices.Sugar prices reached...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
The health authorities on Thursday reported 17 more deaths due to mosquito-borne dengue fever, taking the total fatalities to 1,449 this year. Of the new fatalities, 13 were from outside Dhaka and four from Dhaka. Of the total deaths, 854...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the authorities concerned to gradually come out of the trend of subsidies initially on utilities like electricity and water to reduce burden on the state coffer, reports BSS.The Premier gave the directive while chairing the...
Investors at risk of losing out of ICB, Sea Pearl bond-share transfer deal Investors of Sea Pearl Beach Resort & Spa may lose their profit partially, as the company is going to convert 20 per cent of its bonds worth...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
Daily passengers have averaged over 100,000 on the entire Uttara-Motijheel metro-rail corridor since the opening of the Agargaon-Motijheel part on Sunday.According to official data of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL), ridership on the MRT 6 was 93,104 on the...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
Banks will sell insurance products shortly as the much-hyped 'bancassurance' is set to get government nod this month, for giving the industry a shot in the arm in a secure way. A refurbished model of the bank-channeled insurance is believed...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
The US State Department has expressed concern about the deaths and ongoing “repression” of apparel workers and trade-union activists demonstrating for a review of the recently announced wage hikes.The State Department also called on the government to ensure that workers...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2023-11-10 00:00:00
The Financial Express (FE), Bangladesh's oldest and largest-circulated business daily, steps into the 31st year of its publication today with a renewed commitment to fair and objective journalism.The FE has been fortunate to receive unwavering support and patronage from its...
Mary Syndonia Hubbard, geologist of department of Earth Sciences of Montana State University of the USA, presenting a keynote paper ' Orogenic Origins: Himalayan Tectonics, Hazards, and Climate at a seminar organised by Open School of Bangladesh Open University on...
FE REPORTDhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh called upon on Thursday the commerce minister to break the market syndicates to contain the price spiral of essential commodities considering the woes of the consumers."I call upon the...
A student receives a medal from Convocation Speaker Selina Hossain, president of Bangla Academy, at the 24th Convocation of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) at the Bangabandhu Bangladesh-China Friendship Exhibition Centre in Rupganj of Narayanganj on Wednesday
President Mohammed Shahabuddin holding talks with Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal at Bangabhaban in the city on Thursday — PID
FE REPORTForty per cent of parents still do not seek medicare when their children display pneumonia symptoms, pushing pneumonia as the leading cause of child mortality in Bangladesh and globally.Globally, the risk of death is five times higher if children...
Three separate courts in the city on Thursday sent BNP vice chairmen Shahjahan Omar and Shamsuzzaman Dudu, standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and convener of its media cell Jahir Uddin Swapan, to jail in three different cases filed...
A joint meeting of Bangladesh Awami League (AL) Dhaka city south and north units of the party as well as its associate bodies' presidents and general secretaries will be held at the party's central Bangabandhu Avenue office at 10am today...
TANGAIL, Nov 09 (UNB): Police arrested a local BNP leader from Tangail's Beparipara area in a case filed under the Explosives Substances Act.Farhad Iqbal, general secretary of BNP's Tangail district unit, was arrested on Thursday afternoon, said Mohammad Abu Salam...
JU CORRESPONDENTLeaders and activists of the Jahangirnagar University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) brought out a procession and held a rally on the campus on Thursday protesting the nationwide blockade enforced by the BNP. Speakers at the rally warned...
Shaheed Nur Hossain Day, a red-letter day to restore democracy in the country, will be observed tin a befitting manner, reports BSS.On this day in 1987, Awami Jubo League leader Nur Hossain, who imprinted his bare chest and back with...
NATORE, Nov 09 (UNB): Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said they are still trying to hold the upcoming national election with participation of all parties as the Prime Minister wants it."We are still trying to hold the election...
WASHINGTON, Nov 09 (Reuters): The interest rate on the most common type of US residential mortgage plunged last week by the most in nearly 16 months on the back of a rally in the Treasury market that drove down the...
LUXEMBOURG, Nov 09 (Reuters): An EU tribunal made legal errors when it ruled in favour of Apple over a 13-billion-euro ($14 billion) tax order and should review the case again, an adviser to Europe's top court said on Thursday, in...
Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) won the prestigious Asian Power Award-2023 for the first time in Malaysia on Wednesday. In the 19th edition of "Asian Power Award-2023", DPDC won awards in two categories - “Power Utility of the Year-Bangladesh” and...
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