RIYADH, Jan 01 (Arab News): Saudi Arabia's National Industry Strategy continues to make strides, with the signing of contracts worth SR538 million ($133 million).The Saudi Authority for Industrial Cities and Technology Zones, known as MODON, announced the inking of 10...
BEIJING, Jan 01 (Reuters): China's new home prices rose for the fourth straight month in December, a private survey showed on Monday, buoyed by a slew of government support measures.Prices rose 0.1 per cent on average in December from the...
RIYADH, Jan 01 (Arab News): The total catch from marine fisheries in Saudi Arabia reached 64,264 tonnes in 2022, representing a 1.4 per cent increase compared to the previous year, official data showed. According to the latest report released by...
DUBAI, Jan 1 (Reuters): Oman is forecasting a budget deficit of 640 million rials ($1.66 billion) this year, around 1.5 per cent of the country's GDP, state TV reported on Monday, swinging from a surplus in 2023 as lower oil...
As part of different anti-drug drives in the capital, the members of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 37 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Monday, reports BSS.According to...
CHANDPUR, Jan 01 (UNB): Ferry service on Chandpur-Shariatpur route resumed on Monday morning after nearly six hours of suspension due to dense fog in the Meghna River.The authorities concerned were forced to suspend the ferry services from 3 am to...
KHULNA, Jan 01 (UNB): Though commuter train services on Jashore-Khulna-Mongla route was supposed to start from January 01, it has been postponed due to incompletion of construction work of the train tracks.Asim Kumar Talukdar, general manager of Railway Western Zone,...
RAJSHAHI, Jan 01 (BSS): Right to Information (RTI) has a crucial role in improving living and livelihood standard of the grassroots marginalised women. The RTI is also helpful in ensuring climate change adaptation, justice and social accountability. So, all the...
Farmers busy planting onion sapling at a field. The photo was taken from a village in Saltha upazila of Faridpur district — Focus Bangla
CUMILLA, Jan 01 (BSS): Farmers of the district are happy for bumper production of tomato and fair prices of the popular winter crop this season.According to Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the produced tomatoes have made a significant contribution to...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-01-02 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, Jan 01: The date molasses industry in Rajshahi region expects the year 2023 to be a most successful one fetching windfall profit for the businesses. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Rajshahi set the molasses production target at 9,140.34...
Wahiduddin Mahmud | 2024-01-02 00:00:00
We know that the global arrangements are passing through an extraordinary period of political and economic turbulence. The disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic and then by the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the West in the wake of...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a science fiction. It is now in our hands through smartphones and making revolutions in many sectors. And the rapid expansion of AI does not seem to slow down anytime soon in the future....
The foreign exchange (forex) market is a global marketplace for exchanging national currencies. Because of the worldwide reach of trade, commerce and finance, forex markets tend to be the world's largest and most liquid asset markets. Currencies trade against each...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-01-02 00:00:00
With fast-depleting reserves of non-renewable sources of energy, Bangladesh's power sector's dependence on imported fuel is increasing. Of late, imported coal and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) are becoming the driver of the country's power generation regime based on non-renewable fossil...
The economy, now on a roller coaster ride, is like a tumour, which, if ignored or left untreated, might turn cancerous and deadly. Similarly, the vexing issues of money laundering, default bank loan and macro-economic mismanagement which became a culture...
Muhammad Zamir | 2024-01-01 12:00:00
After days of wrangling to avert a threatened United States (US) veto, the United Nations (UN) Security Council on December 22 passed a resolution urging steps to allow "safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access" to Gaza and "conditions for a...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2024-01-01 12:00:00
One of the toughest years is gone and good riddance to it. Nobody wants this kind of a year as political issues – global and national – continued to dominate and economics were affected by the same negatively. There is...
FE Report | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Nurul Islam Hasib of the Dhaka Tribune was elected President, and Ashiqur Rahman Opu of ATN News general secretary of the Diplomatic Correspondents' Association of Bangladesh (DCAB) on Sunday.The other elected office-bearers are: Arifuzzaman Mamun, joint secretary, Morshed Hasib, office...
FE REPORT The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Syed Hamja Alamgir, managing director of asset management company Universal Financial Solution (UFS), and 23 others for allegedly embezzling Tk 3.11 billion from the stock market.Md Hafizul Islam, deputy...
FE REPORT | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
The CID has failed to complete its investigation into the case filed over the heist of $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that took place in February 2016. This took the total...
REZAUL KARIM | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) would soon get released a loan of US$ 125 million from the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) under an annual lending programme to facilitate importing petroleum products.The state-run entity has recently requested the Energy and...
FE Report | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen on Sunday expressed concern about the potential repercussions for the country's lifeblood garment industry if it meets with any US restrictions over labour rights issues. Referring to the recent US presidential memorandum on labour rights,...
FE REPORT | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Election Commissioner (EC) Md Anisur Rahman expressed concern on Sunday that Bangladesh might get isolated from the world if the upcoming 12th parliament elections were not free, fair and acceptable.He made the observation while inaugurating a training course for executive...
FE REPORT | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Police would arrest Senior Joint Secretary- General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Ruhul Kabir Rizvi anytime following cases filed against him, said Additional Police Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and chief of Detective Branch (DB) of Police Mohammad Harun-or-Rashid...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said changes are being made in the curriculum as the government wants to develop international standard education system in Bangladesh, reports UNB."We want our country to move, keeping pace with the world. This is...
YASIR WARDAD | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
About 37.24 million people in Bangladesh, who account for nearly 22 per cent of the total population, face moderate to severe food insecurity, a latest official survey shows.The rate is below 20 per cent only in Dhaka and Chattogram while...
FE REPORT | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
The government has disbursed a second tranche of Tk 10 billion as a cash incentive for scheduled banks in the October-December period of 2023, said sources. This initiative aims to boost remittance inflows through official channels amid a slight dip...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Hopes and challenges intermingle in an ambiance as people at home and across the globe ring in 2024 as the New Year dawns under drawn-out shadows of geopolitical and economic volatility. The advent of 2024 AD is preceded by one...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Numerous banks outsmarted odds like dollar dearth, import fall and liquidity hardship in the adversity-strung bygone year and posted EBIT or operating profits in a significant growth. In economic jargons EBIT (earnings before interest and tax), better known as operating...
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