PYONGYANG, Aug 31 (BBC): North Korea says it has fired two short-range ballistic missiles to simulate nuclear strikes on military targets in South Korea. State media said the tests were held as a warning against the US deployment of strategic...
Mohammad Saifullah | 2023-09-01 00:00:00
When I started reading the book it appeared to me like reading a story. The author was narrating an incident of the past that occurred in the eighth century. It was about the reign of Mongols, particularly about the reign...
Shihab Sarkar | 2023-09-01 00:00:00
It was the unwaveringly vocal stance of Kazi Nazrul Islam (May 24, 1899 - Aug 29, 1976) on many sensitive issues of his time in the 1920s to early1940s, which made him a major poet of Bengal. The year was...
Dhaka city and traffic jam are synonymous. Traffic congestion has now become part of our everyday life. Commuters from several parts of the capital city face major difficulties in travelling due to heavy traffic. They often take to social media...
Many now cannot spend a single day without internet. But, the speed of internet is extremely poor in Bangladesh. According to Ookla's latest Speedtest Global Index, the country has ranked as one of the worst nations in the world in...
Zahid Huq | 2023-09-01 00:00:00
Public sector development projects often hit newspaper headlines because of irregularities involving them. For a section of people, these projects are simply milch cows. Taxpayers' money is pilfered and wasted through procurement and execution processes right and left. The issue...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-09-01 00:00:00
It is only natural that opposing camps would lock in a heated debate over the ramification of non-induction of Bangladesh into the BRICS club. When Ethiopia and Argentina have received the green card as part of expansion of this bloc...
So long, air pollution known to be responsible for various health hazards, has now been found far more sinister in slashing life expectancy of a whole population. Dreadful as it is, the brunt has fallen most heavily on people living...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2023-09-01 00:00:00
'Green Development, Climate Finance & Life' is the priority agenda for the upcoming G20 Summit of the World leaders. The 18th gathering of the G20 leaders is scheduled to take place on September 9 and 10, 2023 in New Delhi,...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2023-09-01 00:00:00
Demonizing free markets by politicians and ideologues of the South has mostly been populist and not much else. It was not a thought through idea and they offered no better options in lieu that would suit the South more. Political...
NEW YORK, Aug 31 (AP): Casper Ruud, the 2022 US Open runner-up, was eliminated Wednesday night when Zhang Zhizhen became the first Chinese man to beat a player in the top five of the ATP rankings.Zhang upset the No. 5...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug 31 (AP): Inter Miami failed to score for the first time since Lionel Messi joined the team, playing a scoreless draw with Nashville on Wednesday night.Messi failed to convert two free kick attempts in his first...
The continental cricketing event Asia Cup 2023 began on Wednesday with an impressive start for Pakistan as they claimed a thumping victory against Nepal in the first match, played at Multan Cricket Stadium, according to Pakistan Tv channel Geo Tv.However,...
The Asia Cup 2023 match between Pakistan and India, scheduled to be held tomorrow (Saturday) at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Sri Lanka, is likely to be interrupted by rain, according to Pakistan Tv channel Geo Tv.Rain is expected all...
Bangladesh Men's Hockey team tasted its first victory in the 11-nation Men's Asian Hockey five-a-side (5s) World Cup Qualifier after conceding three successive defeats, beating Japan by 10-3 goals in Salalah, Oman, on Thursday, reports UNB.The winners dominated the first...
ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, Aug 31 (UNB): A total of 209 seats of Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia have remained vacant at the undergraduate level after enrolling candidates who entered the first merit list into unified admission test under 2022-23 academic session...
The director of a multipurpose association was killed in Lakshmipur after he went to claim microcredit installment payments he was owed. Police recovered his body seven days after he went missing following information from a detained suspect, reports bdnew24.com.The body...
KURIGRAM, Aug 31 (UNB): Waterlogging has become a never-ending problem for the residents of Horijon Polli in Chilmari upazila of Kurigram district, thanks to the lack of adequate measures of the local administration.Some 150 people of 30 families are going...
RANGAMATI, Aug 31, (UNB): Fishing in Rangamati's Kaptai Lake resumed at 12:00 am on Friday. The local administration imposed the 4-month ban to boost fish production.Though such a ban is enforced usually for three months, this year's ban lasted for...
LALMONIRHAT, Aug 31 (UNB): Residents of areas along the Teesta river in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district are living in fear of losing their homes and crops as erosion has taken a serious turn. Several thousand families living on the...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 12:00:00
Some 70.8 per cent of the Japanese companies in a survey have expressed their dissatisfaction over the business environment in Bangladesh, whereas 70.6 per cent of them are still willing to expand their operations here.Besides, 61.8 per cent of the...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-08-31 12:00:00
Foreign direct investment in Bangladesh has been on a prolonged slowdown with worrisome macroeconomic implications notwithstanding consistent high economic growth in past decades, an economic study shows. The economic growth-FDI paradox is presented in a report on the study, titled...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 12:00:00
The Dhaka bourse closed flat on Wednesday after day-long volatility as a section of investors took fresh positions in sector specific stocks while others adopted cautious moves. The major sectors' performance was mixed as they were on both sides of...
India says it has lodged a "strong protest" with China over a new map that lays claim to its territory, reports BBC.Indian media have reported that the map shows the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and the disputed Aksai Chin...
A new 233-metre bridge is under construction on Turag River at Amin Bazar point on Dhaka-Aricha highway, aimed at alleviating traffic congestion to and from the capital. The eight-lane bridge includes link roads on both sides and is a project...
MULTAN, Pakistan, Aug 30 (Agencies): Pakistan thrashed Nepal by massive 238 runs in the Asia Cup opener at Multan Cricket Stadium on Wednesday Centuries from Babar Azam and Iftikhar Ahmed powered Pakistan to 342 for six before the bowlers of...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has reduced the tax on the gross receipts of carbonated beverage manufacturers by two percentage points following investors' concerns about a sharp hike in their payable taxes.The rate of turnover tax (as the minimum...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
Rohingya issue will get priority in talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister Dr A K Abdul Momen said on Wednesday. The Russian foreign minister will arrive in the city for a short visit on September 7 on...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi has retracted his previous statement about market syndicates. "I did not say that a syndicate is present in the market, and I will break it," the commerce minister told the media on Wednesday after a meeting...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-31 00:00:00
The setting up of a 300-megawatt solar power plant, the largest in Bangladesh, got regulatory approval on Wednesday.A meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase, chaired by Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal, approved the proposal for the plant, which...
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