US offers no new cash to climate fund for developing worldPARIS, Oct 05: The United States offered no fresh cash to the world's largest climate fund on Thursday, overshadowing pledges of financial support for nations most vulnerable to global warming...
NEW YORK, Oct 05 (BBC): US President Joe Biden's administration is to build a section of border wall in southern Texas in an effort to stop rising levels of immigration.Around 20 miles (32km) will be built in Starr County along...
NEW DELHI, Oct 05 (BBC): Tuesday's police raids on the homes of prominent journalists in India are an attempt by the government to "muzzle" free speech, campaigners have said.The founder of news website NewsClick was arrested under an anti-terror law...
KYIV, Oct 05 (BBC/Reuters/AFP): A Russian strike in north-eastern Ukraine has left 48 people dead. The attack happened in the village of Hroza near Kupiansk in Kharkiv region.Posting to Telegram, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had targeted a grocery...
LONDON, Oct 05 (BBC): The world's September temperatures were the warmest on record, breaking the previous high by a huge margin, according to the EU climate service.Last month was 0.93C warmer than the average September temperature between 1991-2020, and 0.5C...
Heavy rains submerge most parts of Rajshahi city. The picture was taken from in front of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Wednesday — Focus Bangla
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
SYLHET, Oct 05: Pests named 'Majra poka' attacked the standing Aman paddy fields in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district, triggering worries among the farmers. They can't stop the outbreak even by using various pesticides of different companies, alleged a number...
RAJSHAHI, Oct 05 (BSS): Expansion of fish farming commercially has increased its production to a greater extent in the region, including its vast Barind tract, during the last couple of years.The fish farming has caused a silent revolution in the...
KURIGRAM, Oct 5 (UNB): Panic gripped people living on the banks of the Teesta in Kurigram, as the river had been flowing 30 cm above the danger level since on Thursday morning due to onrush of upstream water.Some low-lying areas...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
Filing income-tax return without help of the agents or lawyers is not so easy for the commoners. Taxpayers have to comply with different tax provisions to give inputs on their income and expenditure in the return form. In case of...
Shihab Sarkar | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
Except the committed young film makers, the average movie viewers of the country had yet to develop the taste for better cinema. The period was the early 1970s, the years belonging to the times immediately after the Bangladesh independence. The...
An invoice is a receipt that a business has to provide to its clientele for their purchases. It is a bill or a document that records a company's sales transaction. This bill contains the details such as the selling price,...
The World Teachers' Day is celebrated every year on October 5. On this occasion, students have paid rich tributes to their teachers. Most of them took social media platforms to do that. All of us know that teaching is a...
Zahid Huq | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
The director general of health services (DGHS), while disclosing the results of a survey conducted by his organization, has made an observation that most people would endorse. The ongoing dengue situation is unlikely to improve before winter, as the temperature...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
The two universities from Bangladesh, the University of Dhaka (DU) and the North South University, which for the first time placed themselves in the 601-800 bracket of the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking of 2023 slipped to the next level...
It is heartening to learn that two Saudi firms are well-set for substantial investment in solar power and petroleum refinery in Bangladesh. Saudi energy-giant ACWA Power intends to invest in a 1,000-megawatt solar energy project, while another company Aramco plans...
Pragga Nilanjana Saha | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recently announced that the era of global warming has ended, and the era of global boiling has begun. This affirmation came after July 2023 was globally declared as the ‘hottest month’ in around 120,000...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2023-10-06 00:00:00
Migration income has recently dipped and everyone is panicking as expected. Most policy makers and commoners rarely think about migration as an issue until it pinches their forex in the wallet. It's basically seen as a cash- cow sector. And...
FE REPORTNearly one-third or 34.2 per cent of the country's youth are either unemployed or underemployed, thus making them highly vulnerable, reveals a latest study.The South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (Sanem) and the ActionAid Bangladesh jointly conducted the research.At...
STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 (AFP): A trio of US-based researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing tiny "quantum dots" used to illuminate TVs and lamps, hours after a prematurely sent statement revealed their names.French-born Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-10-05 12:00:00
Bangladesh's current account showed surplus for the first two months of this fiscal economists believe largely for import squeeze amid dollar death, but BoP takes pressures for lower forex inflows.During July, the very first month of the fiscal year 2023-24,...
Haradhan Sarker | 2023-10-05 12:00:00
The Basel Committee emphasises maintaining a minimum level of capital adequacy in banks. Basel framework states that banks can choose between two broad methodologies for calculating their risk-based capital requirements for credit risk. The first is the standardised approach (SA)...
FE REPORTDhaka is expected to face a hotter summer next year as greenery and water bodies disappear amid the growing number of concrete structures being built in the city, according to experts and academics.Underscoring coordinated initiatives, Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience...
FE REPORTEU Ambassador to Bangladesh Charles Whiteley on Wednesday called for an amendment to the country's labour law with transparency and in consultation with tripartite stakeholders, as this is one of the conditions for getting market access under the GSP...
Sixteen more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1046 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 2,564 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according...
FE REPORT | 2023-10-05 00:00:00
The US visa-restriction policy supports the objective of holding of upcoming Bangladesh national elections in a free, fair and peaceful manner, reiterated Matthew Miller, US State Department spokesperson, on Wednesday. The desire of the people of Bangladesh is to freely...
FE REPORT | 2023-10-05 00:00:00
Jewellers reduced the price of gold by Tk 1,167 to Tk 97,044 per bhori on Wednesday, three days after the last price adjustment of pure gold.The price of 22-carat gold will now be Tk 8,320 per gram or Tk 97,044...
FE Report | 2023-10-05 00:00:00
Planning Minister MA Mannan on Wednesday expressed his dissatisfaction with the slight fall in inflation in September, saying that the people are still suffering from the price spiral.Mannan made the remarks after a meeting with World Bank (WB) Country Director...
Fishing boats return to shore in Patenga Kathgarh beach area on Wednesday as the Bay of Bengal becomes turbulent and the met office issues cautionary signal number three for the seaports. — Focus Bangla
FE REPORT | 2023-10-05 00:00:00
Foreign-exchange reserves and tax revenues remain down the bottom line drawn by the IMF in lending to Bangladesh as authorities falter on two of its eight credit conditions. Bangladesh Bank (BB) Wednesday explained to a visiting delegation of the International...
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