Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Changes in weather pattern are affecting food production globally. In South Asia, India is experiencing the driest August in a century. This is bad news not only for the Indian people, but also for the rest of the world. For...
The potential of exporting skilled manpower from Bangladesh remains depressingly untapped. Two basic reasons --- low skill level and lack of proficiency in languages of the manpower importing countries on the part of workers --- are responsible for that. The...
Muhammad Zamir | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Latin American Amazon nations sharing the Amazon paradigm recently met in the Brazilian city of Belem to review existing environmental policies and also identify common factors that need to be addressed carefully pertaining to deforestation. The participants sought to agree...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2023-08-21 00:00:00
Several big names have applied for setting up digital banks in Bangladesh, the first of its kind in the country. These names include four state owned banks -Sonali, Agrani, Janata, and Rupali . Apart from them, e-commerce outfits such as...
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills in British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, as seen from Kelowna. Evacuation orders were put in place for areas near Kelowna, as the fire threatened the city of around 150,000. Story on page...
KARACHI (Pakistan), Aug 19 (Reuters): Pakistani opposition leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi was detained on Saturday, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party said, just hours after he said it would challenge any delay to the country's election in the courts.Party spokesman Zulfi Bukhari...
MUMBAI, Aug 19 (Reuters): India will impose with immediate effect a 40 per cent export duty on onions up to Dec. 31 in an attempt to improve domestic availability of the vegetable, the ministry of finance said in a notification...
At least 150 people, including several cops, were injured as the activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and police locked into a clash in Shaestanagar area of Habiganj town on Saturday afternoon, reports UNB. Ajay Dev, officer-in-charge (OC) of...
The trial run of a rail truck was conducted on newly installed Dhaka-Mawa rail tracks, which is part of the Padma Bridge rail link project, on Saturday. The rail truck runs from Ganderiya to Mawa. Later, it crosses the Padma...
The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has moved to blacklist Marshal Agrovet Company Ltd due to alleged fraudulence in the import of BTI, an organic pesticide used to eliminate the larvae of dengue-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, reports bdnews24.com.In an order...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 19: Country's first-ever tunnel under the Karnaphuli River named 'Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel' will be opened for traffic on October 28 this year. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the tunnel which is her gift for the...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
The Russian contractor has installed a trestle crane at unit-1 for loading and unloading of fuel and heavy equipment at Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP) in north-western Bangladesh.The trestle crane was manufactured in Russia and delivered to the Rooppur NPP...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
Framers in the ongoing Aus season have been able to harvest paddy in just 100 days by cultivating a new rice variety named 'BRRI Dhan 98'.The paddy variety took 40-60 days less than that of earlier varieties, heralding the way...
Brokers not incentivised enough to help retail investors buy debt securitiesIt is not retail investors' lack of appetite, rather brokerage firms' lack of interest that has kept bond trading limited to institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Brokers do not...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
America's oil-and-gas major Chevron is all set to begin next week fresh gas drilling in Bangladesh after an eight-year pause, apparently baited by the country's mounting demand amid depleting domestic reserves.Chevron Bangladesh intends to drill Bibiyana-27 well in the country's...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
Dengue claimed 13 more lives in the 24-hour period until Saturday morning, taking the death toll from the Aedes-borne fever to 466 as of now.Also, another 1,983 dengue positive cases were also hospitalised during the period, resulting in a total...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
Amid the ongoing import tightening, purchases of food grains from international markets increased slightly in the fiscal year (FY) 2022-23 mainly due to higher prices. All other categories of imports, however, experienced negative growth in the FY, according to Bangladesh...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2023-08-20 00:00:00
Loads of default loans of private and public banks get caught in legal cobweb and go ballooning over Tk 2.07 trillion by the end of March this year, sources say, compounding problems in Bangladesh's banking industry. In the first quarter...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Dhaka divisions with moderately...
Speakers at a virtual discussion have stressed the need for ensuring the safety and security of aid workers in Bangladesh, particularly those engaged in providing humanitarian aid to the Rohingyas, reports UNB.They joined a virtual dialogue organised by COAST Foundation,...
Beehanga Rafat Kareem, BBA student at North South University (NSU), died in a motorcycle accident at Uttara in the city on Wednesday night, says a press release.Vice-chancellor of the university Prof Atiqul Islam extended deep condolences to the bereaved family...
Dhaka's air quality was in the 'moderate' zone on Saturday morning.With an air quality index (AQI) score of 90 at 9:04 am, Dhaka ranked 16th on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, reports UNB. Indonesia's Jakarta,...
A team of teachers, officials and students of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), led by it vice-chancellor Tanweer Hasan, posing for photograph before placing a wreath at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi-32 in...
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has said India stands beside Bangladesh as a 'steadfast partner' and committed to supporting its aspirations for a 'peaceful, prosperous, and inclusive' future, reports UNB."Today, Bangladesh is on a path of progress and...
Primary and Mass Education Secretary Farid Ahmed has said the school feeding programme will be launched in 150 upazilas of the country in a new way within a short time, reports UNB.He came up with the announcement while addressing the...
Diabetes patients in their thousands queue up at the outdoor of BIRDEM General Hospital to receive treatment on Saturday. The number has increased significantly over the past several years due to unhealthy lifestyle and intake of adulterated food , etc...
A group of entomologists have pinned the blame on local government authorities in Bangladesh for their shortsightedness and failure to contain the outbreak of dengue virus, the worst since record-keeping began in the 1960s, reports bdnews24.com. During a seminar in...
NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (Reuters): India plans to hold bilateral free trade talks with the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada and discuss bilateral trade issues with the Russian delegation on the sidelines of a G20 meeting next week,...
Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove a protective feature that lets users block other accounts, owner Elon Musk said on Friday in another controversial move for the company he bought last year, reports Reuters.The block function...
LONDON, Aug 19 (Reuters): British retailers reported a bigger-than-expected drop in sales in July as heavy rain put off shoppers who are also feeling the hit from high inflation and 14 back-to-back increases in interest rates.Official data showed sales volumes...
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