LONDON, Feb 02 (Arab News): People in more than 150 countries celebrated World Hijab Day on Thursday with events designed to counter hijabophobia through raised awareness and improved education about the traditional Muslim head covering.The headline event hosted by the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 02 (Reuters): Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, who was convicted of graft over the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal, could be released by 2028 after his jail sentence was halved by a pardons board on Friday, prompting an uproar...
KARACHI, Feb 02 (Reuters): Pakistan's military has killed 24 militants in three days in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan, the military said in a statement on Friday, less than a week before national elections.Four law enforcement personnel and two...
WASHINGTON, Feb 02 (Agencies): Israel has given its consent to general provisions of a deal with Palestine's Hamas movement, drafted during the recent negotiations in Paris, Qatari Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said."The meeting in Paris succeeded in consolidating their...
MELBOURNE, Feb 02 (AFP): Skipper Steve Smith and Cameron Green eased Australia to a crushing eight-wicket victory over the West Indies with a dominant 149-run stand in the first one-day international in Melbourne on Friday.Smith finished unbeaten on 79 off...
Former champions Dhaka Abahani Limited returned to winning ways in the 10-team ABG Bashundhara Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football beating Bangladesh Police FC by 2-1 goals in the 6th round match at the Rafiq Uddin Bhuiyan Stadium in Mymensingh on...
Sylhet Strikers finally snapped a painful five-match losing streak on Friday after beating Durdanto Dhaka by 15 runs in their last match of the Sylhet phase of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet, reports BSS.Mohammad...
Farzana Zaman Toshi and Abdullah A Dewan | 2024-02-03 00:00:00
In his recent article entitled, “The riddle of the missing figures” (FE, 27, 2023), Dr Helal Ahmed gave several examples of discrepancies in data published by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). The concluding paragraph of the article is reproduced as...
Traditional fire-burnt clay bricks have been used in different countries around the world since ancient times. Their popularity and usage are highest due to their availability and low cost. In Bangladesh, hundreds of hectares of agricultural land are being wasted,...
Dhaka City has been grappling with air pollution for the past few years, with media consistently reporting that it often tops the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality. Many researchers think that the capital is now becoming...
Tanim Asjad | 2024-02-03 00:00:00
Learning more than one language in addition to the mother tongue is not a luxury at all. It is always a necessary skill that helps expand the horizon of knowledge. English is the second but essential language to learn besides...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2024-02-03 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country's central bank, has issued new directives to private banks on a host of issues. The instruction essentially calls on banks to stop 'overrated' lending, i.e. "commercial banks to heed the prompt corrective action (PCA)...
When plagued by indiscipline, mismanagement, unethical practices including outright plundering of deposit money from banks the banking sector has suffered erosion of public trust in it, its regulator, the Bangladesh Bank (BB), seems to have put its foot down to...
India's Border Security Force (BSF) has officially regretted the recent border killing and expressed willingness to address the border issues through joint efforts, reports UNB.The BSF and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will also work together to prevent any such incident...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
Amid rising passenger pressure, the Dhaka metro-rail company is actively considering increasing the number of trains and frequency of headways to reduce the time of arrival.The operations and technical team of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) was working...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
A total of 78,757 Bangladeshi pilgrims have completed registration to perform the holy hajj this year as the deadline ended on Thursday.Of them, 4,165 have so far been enlisted under government arrangement while 74,592 under private arrangement till the filing...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a master circular on Thursday mandating commercial banks to submit accurate deposit-insurance premium information semi-annually without delay.The directive stressed timely and correct data submission, threatening penalties for violations under the Bank Company Act, 1991."Banks must...
BNP Secretary-General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and BNP leader Mirza Abbas have been denied bail, reports bdnews24.com. BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been denied bail in a case over an attack on the residence of the chief...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
Prices of various types of vegetable have risen further in different city markets in the last one week, keeping the winter items beyond the reach of commoners.Spicy kitchen items like onion, garlic and ginger have also witnessed a hike during...
The first phase of three-day 'Biswa Ijtema', a large congregation of Muslims in the world, is set to begin this (Friday) morning on the bank of the Turag River in Gazipur's Tongi, reports UNB.The authorities concerned have completed the necessary...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday stressed the need for digital publication of books and their translations to promote Bengali language, literature and culture throughout the world, reports UNB."If we want to spread our language, literature and culture massively, we...
FE REPORT | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has increased the all-in-cost ceiling for short-term trade finance in foreign exchange (forex) to 4.0 per cent.The central bank in a circular issued on Thursday said the move came considering the global market trend and interest rate...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
Net sales of state-sponsored savings instruments witnessed negative growth of over Tk 60.63 billion year on year, in the first six months of this fiscal as higher-paying encashment outbids investment.The substantial negative growth in net sales of national savings deposits,...
GPH Ispat on path of recovery from Q2 as raw materials get cheaper GPH Ispat returned to profit in the second quarter through December 2023 from losses in the same quarter a year before, supported by higher sales coupled with...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
Despite having two dozen ongoing projects including the Padma Bridge rail link and the Bangabandhu Bridge over the Jamuna River, the Ministry of Railways has proposed a big cut to its development allocation for the current FY2023-24 thanks to its...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
A much-cherished rise in Bangladesh's tax-GDP ratio gets a mild push as the annual submission of income-tax returns by individual taxpayers increased 17 per cent to 3.5 million till an extended timeline. Official statistics show the government's tax collection from...
The Bangladesh Bank has raised the benchmark interest rate for bank loans by 54 basis points, the biggest increase in seven months, reports bdnews24.com. The rate, derived from the Six-month Moving Average of the Rate of Treasury bill or SMART...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-02-02 00:00:00
Remittance marks a significant rebound as Bangladesh received US$2.1 billion in January and total $12.9 billion in seven months of the current fiscal, but to no respite for the country's forex reserves. The country's foreign-exchange reserves had fallen further by...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Dhaka, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rajshahi and Mymensingh divisions until 06:00 pm today (Friday), according to the Met...
Rohingya camp trader stabbed to death in CumillaA trader at a Rohingya refugee camp has been stabbed to death by a group of assailants in Cumilla, reports bdnews24.com.The incident occurred near the Bagur bus stop on the Dhaka-Chattagram highway in...
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