ATLANTA, Aug 25 (Reuters): Donald Trump's mug shot was released on Thursday evening after he was booked at an Atlanta jail on more than a dozen felony charges as part of a wide-ranging criminal case stemming from the former US...
TOKYO, Aug 25 (AFP): Seawater samples taken following the release of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactor showed radioactivity levels well within safe limits, operator TEPCO said on Friday.The start on Thursday of the discharge of some of the...
BEIJING, Aug 25 (AFP): Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held "candid and in-depth" talks to ease tensions along their disputed frontier, Beijing said Friday, after a rare face-to-face encounter between the two leaders.Relations between the...
Pakistan tailender Naseem Shah cut down Afghanistan's Fazalhaq Farooqi in the final over of a cliff-hanger once again on Thursday, with his latest heroics securing a thrilling victory in the second one-day international in Hambantota, reports Reuters.Nearly 11 months after...
Saudi media reported that Ballon d'Or winner Benzema, who did not score in their first two league matches, was annoyed with the way the Portuguese coach had treated him, reports Reuters.There were also reports that the former Tottenham Hotspur and...
Sheikh Kamal U-18 Club Cup (sevens) Rugby competition began on Friday at Paltan ground adjoining Bangabandhu National Stadium in the city.Youth and Sports Ministry's additional secretary Md Nazrul Islam formally inaugurated the two-day meet as the chief guest, organised by...
I G Chowdhury | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
It was the seventies. I was a student at the Imperial College. I needed an endorsement in my passport. The High Commission was across the road from the college. I walked in and was directed to the top floor of...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
On Wednesday, August 23 last, India made history by soft-landing its lander Vikram on the moon, its south pole to be precise. When only three countries --- former Soviet Union, the USA and China --- have to their credit the...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh, Khulna, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Dhaka and Barishal divisions with moderately heavy to very...
JASHORE, Aug 24 (UNB): A man was killed and four others were injured in a mob beating in Sadar upazila of Jashore in the early hours Thursday.The dead, Masud Rana (38) was son of Sohrab Molla of Kefayatnagar village under...
Students of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Rahat Hasan Shihab and Ramisa Nawar win multiple titles at Branch Fest 2023, an inter-university event, organised by IEEE Student Branch of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) in...
A delegation of Bangladesh Open University led by Vice chancellor Prof Dr Syed Humayun Akhter paying tributes of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his grave at Tungipara of Gopalganj on Thursday
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent a message to her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi congratulating him and the people of India on the successful lunar landing of Chandrayaan-3, reports UNB.In her message to Prime Minister Modi on August 23, she conveyed...
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (UNB): China will always stay beside Bangladesh in its needs that included supporting it in joining the BRICS and ensuring permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday evening gave the assurance in...
The number of passengers travelling by launch from Dhaka has dropped by 34 per cent in a year, reports UNB.Around 50,000 people used to travel to various coastal districts, including Barisal, by launch from Dhaka every day before the Padma...
Marshal Agrovet, the firm sued over fraud allegations of supplying organic larvicide to Dhaka, faces new charges of forgery to get the imported product released from Chattogram port by producing fake documents.Chattogram Customs House filed a case against Marshal officials...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has announced cash assistance for 43 products for the current fiscal year (FY 2023-24) to boost their exports. The exporters will get this cash assistance at the rates range between 1.0 per cent and 20 per cent,...
MOSCOW, Aug 24 (AP): Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and top officers of his private military were presumed dead in a plane crash that was widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged a mutiny that dented Russian...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
Eight more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Thursday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in the country to 514 this year since January.Of the new deaths, 6 were from Dhaka while the total deaths...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
People of the country's northern districts are fearing flood, as the major rivers in the areas continue swelling amid incessant rainfall and onrush of water from upstream, raising concern for Aman farmers.The water levels of the rivers in the region...
Saif Uddin | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
The flow of foreign funds to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the country experienced a substantial contraction during the previous fiscal year, coinciding with Bangladesh's graduation into a developing country.The latest available data by the NGO Affairs Bureau reveals a nearly...
10 brokers to give clients direct access to trading platform Ten brokerage firms formed a consortium to install their own order management system (OMS) in January to expedite transactions. They will receive technical support from a Dubai-based IT firm SK...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
To provide taxpayers with a transition period for adjustment, majority of the tax-compliance provisions in the new Income Tax Act-2023 will not be enforced during this tax year, according to officials.Effective from the current fiscal year, the new act retains...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
Apprehensions over rise in terrorist activities and tension between the host community and Rohingya refugees are looming large, as the host country observes the sixth anniversary of the Rohingya influx today (Friday).The mass exodus of Rohingyas into Bangladesh started on...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
New importers got the all-clear to import onions from nine alternative sources as prices of the spice item stay at previous highs of Tk 80-100 a kilogram after a quantum leap. Onion prices have shown a brusque increase by Tk...
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday underscored the need for making BRICS as a lighthouse in a multi-polar world to take responsibility for global peace, justice and stability."We need BRICS as a lighthouse in a multi-polar...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2023-08-25 00:00:00
Umpteen industrial units across Bangladesh that manufacture goods for both local and international markets have closed down for a slew of problems that include currency devaluation and global demand dive, insiders said.Besides the two generic problems, financial crisis fueled by...
RIYADH, Aug 24 (Arab News): Oman's inflation rate dropped to a 28-month low of 0.41 per cent in July, propelled by declining transportation costs and the stable prices of essential goods such as food items, utilities, fuel, and housing rent,...
RIYADH, Aug 24 (Arab News): Saudi Arabia's non-oil trade prospects are getting better with the Saudi Export Import Bank signing an export credit insurance policy with Evonik Industries Marketing Co. The agreement aims to protect the risk of non-payment associated...
DETROIT, Aug 24 (Reuters): Hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles may not be dying as fast as some predicted in the auto sector's rush to develop all-electric models.Ford Motor is the latest of several top automakers, including Toyota and Stellantis, planning to build...
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