LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters): Oil prices edged higher on Monday as tighter supply reflected in fewer exports from Saudi Arabia and Russia and high heating oil prices outweighed concern over global demand growth.Brent crude was up 52 cents to $85.32...
SYLHET, Aug 21 (UNB): A woman and her daughter were killed and four members of the same family injured in a fire that broke out following the blast of a gas cylinder at Jaflong in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet district...
KHULNA, Aug 21 (UNB): Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is still silent about the missing four physicians, including three women doctors, in Khulna even though 72 hours have passed since their disappearance. Family members of the doctors held a press conference...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-08-22 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Aug 21: About 130,000 fishermen of Cox's Bazar in 6,000 trawlers are staying in the sea to catch hilsa. Fishermen and wholesalers are delighted in Cox's Bazar as a huge catch of hilsa has been netted over the...
KURIGRAM, Aug 21 (UNB): Erosion by the Teesta River has taken a serious turn in Kurigram district with the recession of floodwater, displacing many families and devouring vast tracts of cropland.The river has been eroding its banks for the last...
Niger call for three-year transition'unacceptable': West Africa blocLAGOS, Aug 21: A call by Niger's coup leaders for a three-year transition back to democracy is "unacceptable", a representative of the West Africa bloc ECOWAS has said. Niger's General Abdourahamane Tiani-who took...
JERUSALEM, Aug 21 (AP): A suspected Palestinian attacker killed an Israeli woman and seriously wounded a man in the south of the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israeli authorities said, as violence continued to flare in the restive territory shortly...
LONDON, Aug 21 (BBC): Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross...
BANGKOK, Aug 21 (Reuters): Thailand's Pheu Thai Party vowed on Monday to deliver on a raft of election promises and change the constitution, as it unveiled an 11-party alliance that includes some military-linked rivals that will try to form a...
GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 21 (BBC): An anti-corruption candidate has swept to a shock win in Guatemala's presidential election. Bernardo Arevalo's victory is seen as a repudiation of the political elite in the Central American nation, long the target of corruption...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (BBC/AP): Pakistan's President Arif Alvi denied approving two controversial bills which further enhance the military's powers. In a post on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Sunday, he said he returned the bills unsigned but his staff...
Indiscriminate road digging in Old Dhaka has continued to cause public suffering in Wari, Doyaganj, Mirhajirbag and their adjacent areas. The residents of these areas have been experiencing untold sufferings over the last couple of months for road cutting. The...
Bangladesh's energy crisis has been affecting millions of people since July, 2022. The problem has existed for too long and requires immediate government action to offer some relief to the public. Frequent load shedding interferes with people's daily lives. Most...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-08-22 00:00:00
The ever-evolving Covid-19 virus is learnt to have begotten yet another of its variants called BA.2.86. What makes it different from other existing strains is that it has gone through a large number of (some 36) mutations. And the most...
Shihab Sarkar | 2023-08-22 00:00:00
Compared to the earlier years, this year's dengue outbreak in the country and its ferocity are strikingly different. Thanks to its fast spread, it is set to assume the proportions of a disease endemic to Bangladesh. In the year of...
Lawsuits moved for recovery of a staggering size of both public and private banks' default loan amounting to Tk2.07 trillion until March this year are not only a clear indication of a deplorable loan culture this country is heir to...
Imtiaz A Hussain | 2023-08-22 00:00:00
Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the BRIC name in 2001 for four countries he thought would dominate the global economy by 2050: Brazil, Russia, India, and China. They met on the sidelines of both the July 2006 G8 meeting...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) on Sunday cleared the way for trial court concerned to continue the proceedings of a case filed against Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and others on charge of violating the labour...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Dengue-positive cases in the country reached 99,994 this year as 2134 fresh cases were reported in 24 hours till Sunday morning.Of the total cases, 48,456 were from Dhaka.Of the new patients, 785 were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
The government is set to reinstate tax benefit for certain corporate bank depositors, exempted from mandatory submission of tax returns, and also for exporters to allow them to enjoy source tax at reduced rates, officials said.Source tax on cash incentives...
REZAUL KARIM | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Dhaka has submitted a list to New Delhi seeking an annual import quota of around 6.2 million tonnes for seven essential commodities: rice, wheat, onion, sugar, lentils, garlic and ginger, according to sources. The breakdown includes 2.6 million tonnes of...
YASIR WARDAD | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Onion prices in Bangladesh surged by Tk 10-15 per kilogram on Sunday after India imposed a 40-percent export duty on the key cooking ingredient.The Indian government's move on Saturday caused a sudden hike in onion prices in Dhaka and elsewhere...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday said her government wanted Bangladesh to continue journey towards development and prosperity, report agencies."Despite Bangladesh having to face natural and man-made disasters like arson terrorism, we want country's continued journey towards development," she said while...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Government borrowing from internal and external sources climbed to Tk 1.84 trillion in the past fiscal, in a 13-percent year-on-year rise, with the domestic debt dominating the account. Bangladesh Bank statistics show borrowing from domestic sources - banking and non-banking-surged...
The 19th anniversary of the gruesome grenade attack on an anti-terrorism rally of the then opposition party, Awami League, in the capital on August 21 in 2004 will be observed today (Monday) paying tributes to martyrs, reports BSS.On this day...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to start for Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 22 (tomorrow) to attend the upcoming BRICS summit.The heads of government of the BRICS countries, including Brazil, India, China and South Africa, are expected to attend...
FE Report | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Operation of the entire 20.1-kilometre metro rail known as Mass Rapid Transit line 6 will begin after the inauguration of its Agargaon-Motijheel segment by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on October 20.The Prime Minister will also inaugurate work on another 20km...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has received a total of 52 applications from banks and various other entities that are interested in setting up digital banks in the country. The central bank Sunday revealed the number of applications and said it...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
The telecom regulator has once again sought Bangladesh Bank's (BB) intervention to help realise Tk 254 million it deposited with Padma Bank, officials said.Since 2017, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) had invested around Tk 380 million as term deposits in...
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