Thailand confident aid effort willlead to Myanmar crisis talksBANGKOK, Feb 05: A new Thailand-led humanitarian initiative aims to pave the way for talks between warring camps in military-ruled Myanmar, a senior Thai official said, three years after a coup triggered...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 06 (AFP): Thailand's chief negotiator hailed a positive atmosphere as peace talks resumed Tuesday aimed at ending a rumbling two-decade insurgency in the kingdom's deep south.A low-level conflict has dragged on in Thailand's southernmost provinces since 2004,...
KYIV, Feb 06 (AP/Reuters): Security at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains fragile amid worrying recent staff cuts enacted by Russian authorities occupying the facility, which is one of the 10 biggest atomic power plants in the world, the United...
WASHINTONG, Feb 06 (AP/AFP): Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have killed dozens of people, including two children ages 12 and 2, while the Israeli army said Monday its ground forces were fighting Hamas militants who remain in northern and...
LONDON, Feb 06 (Reuters/AP): Britain's King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and the 75-year-old will postpone his public duties while he undergoes treatment, Buckingham Palace said on Monday.Charles, who became king in September 2022 following the...
Cancer cases are growing alarmingly. According to the WHO, Bangladesh had recorded 1,67,256 cases of cancer patients in 2022, of whom 1,16,598 succumbed to the deadly disease. The facts and figures shows that both the cancer cases and deaths are...
Extortion on roads and highways has become an everyday menace, with money forcibly taken from drivers of vehicles by local influential gangs. These perpetrators are often backed by influential political leaders and high-ranking officials. Transport workers bear the brunt of...
The urgent need for a swift and thorough investigation into the gang-rape of a housewife at Jahangirnagar University cannot be overstated. The perpetrators must be swiftly brought to justice to ensure not only accountability but also to send a strong...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2024-02-07 00:00:00
When will Bangladesh be free of the present energy crisis? No timeline can be set because of absence of tangible measures to increase domestic share of energy resources in the national energy mix. As a result of this utter lack...
Wasi Ahmed | 2024-02-07 00:00:00
There is a noticeable surge of interest in Social Safety Nets (SSNs), not only in case of the government's poverty alleviation initiatives but also in public discourse. Despite the absence of studies on the performance of the SSN programmes, there's...
Bedevilled by systemic corruption and irregularities, a chronic culture of defaulting on loans and recurrent cases of outright fraudulence, the banking sector has long been crying out for sweeping reforms. Particularly, unchecked growth of non-performing loans (NPLs), which skyrocketed from...
M Rokonuzzaman | 2024-02-07 00:00:00
What are the development options for natural resource-poor, densely populated countries? Of course, human competence is the answer. Naturally, in less developed countries, the process begins with the commercialisation of labour. With the given local and international market, commercialisation of...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country in the next 24:00 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the Met Office. The highest temperature in the country on Monday was recorded at...
Today (Tuesday) is the fourth death anniversary of Mohammad Badrul Ahsan, the publisher and editor of now-defunct weekly magazine, First News, reads a statement.He had also been a weekly columnist for The Daily Star for many years.To his credit, the...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday warned of taking stern legal action if any trader is found selling meat and other commodities beyond the government ceiling prices.RAB Director (legal and media) Commander Khandakar Al Moin made the warning while...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) on Monday stayed an order of the Labour Appellate Tribunal that on January 28 suspended the conviction and sentence of Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and three other Grameen Telecom officials in a labour law...
Law Minister Anisul Huq on Monday said he does not want to fix any time to complete the Sagar-Runi murder case, reports UNB."As a lawyer I know that it cannot be (fixing the time of investigation)," he said in Parliament.The...
Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui who has been appointed as the new director general of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) joined office on Monday, reports UNB.He took the charge from the outgoing DG Major General AKM Nazmul Hasan in the afternoon.Before...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) successfully conducted its first bone marrow transplant on a patient, costing Tk 322,000, which is significantly lower than the Tk 2 million charged in other countries, according to officials on Monday. The medical procedure...
The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld a High Court (HC) order that granted bail to Mamunul Haque, former joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam, in two cases over vandalism of an Awami League office in Narayanganj's Sonargaon around three years back,...
A Dhaka court has granted bail to BNP leader Mirza Abbas in six of the nine cases filed against him with Paltan and Ramna Model thana, report agencies.The court rejected his bail petitions in the three other cases on Monday.Zahir...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said on Monday that the country's border is now insecure because of the government's subservient foreign policy.BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the remarks while talking to talking to journalists about the...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the letter of commitment that US President Joe Biden has extended to work with Bangladesh is a significant gesture of international diplomacy.The AL leader asked, "What will BNP say about Biden's letter...
Vehicles, predominantly cars, occupy the roadside beneath the Dhaka Elevated Expressway near the Kuril U-loop. The image was captured on Monday. — FE Photo by KAZ Sumon
Senior Secretary of the Industries Ministry Zakia Sultana Monday said traditional Tangail handloom saree will be recognised as Geographical Indication (GI) products soon, reports BSS."So far, Bangladesh has got the ownership of a total of 21 GI products," she told...
BGMEA has requested policy support from the government to sustain the competitiveness of export-oriented industries, particularly the ready-made garment sector, following the country's graduation from the list of least developed countries (LDCs) in 2026, reports BSS. A delegation from The...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court said on Monday that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), if they want, can independently take steps to inquire into the allegations against S Alam Group owner Mohammad...
NOAKHALI, Feb 5 (UNB): A Noakhali court on Monday sentenced ten people to death and six others to life imprisonment in a case over gang rape of a woman on the day of the national election in 2018.Fatema Ferdous, Judge...
YASIR WARDAD | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
Rice prices still remain higher in the local market as millers and traders have not responded to the warnings issued by the food minister.Coarse rice was selling at Tk 52-55 a kg, medium at Tk 65-68 and finer at Tk...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-06 00:00:00
The unease in bilateral ties between the USA and Bangladesh has eased following a letter from US President Joe Biden to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said on Monday."I don't see any reason for concern," the foreign...
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