Train accidents in Bangladesh are quite frequent. The latest incident occurred on April 16 when five carriages of a Dhaka-bound Sonar Bangla Express hit a freight train in Cumilla's Nangalkot, resulting in 35 injuries. An analysis highlights the most significant...
Tanim Asjad | 2023-08-26 00:00:00
Bullying and ragging in the country's educational institutions at times cross all limits. In the universities, especially dormitories, ragging turns into intimidation, shaming and physical torture. The authorities' role in preventing the suffering is minimal as the student wing of...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-08-26 00:00:00
The onion market is in a state of volatility again. This is to be expected as neighbouring India has slapped a 40 per cent duty on export of onions to stabilise prices in its domestic market. According to a reprt...
The country's apex tax administration authority, the National Board of Revenue (NBR)'s effort to automate its Value-Added Tax (VAT) collection system, has encountered many challenges since the move was made nearly a decade and a half back. First, it introduced...
ARAFAT ARA | 2023-08-25 12:00:00
In the early morning hours, Belal Hossain, a resident of Mohammadpur in his middle years, steps onto the freshly laid walkways lining River Turag. As he starts his morning jog, the gentle light of dawn adds a soft touch to...
AUSTRALIAN ENVOY MEETS WITH ICCB PRESIDENT Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Jeremy Bruer had a meeting with ICC Bangladesh President Mahbubur Rahman and the Members of the Executive Board at the ICCB Secretariat at Gulshan in the city on Wednesday....
SAO PAULO, Aug 25 (Reuters): Brazil is set to overtake the US this year as the world's top corn exporter, reflecting both a bumper harvest and logistical breakthroughs such as the consolidation of northern export routes, which are boosting the...
LONDON, Aug 25 (Reuters) : Oil prices jumped more than 1 per cent on Friday as the dollar firmed ahead of an eagerly awaited speech by the head of the US Federal Reserve for hints on the outlook for interest...
NEW DELHI, Aug 25 (Reuters): Torrential rains that have battered India's Himalayas in recent years, killing hundreds of people and causing billions of dollars worth of damage, are becoming more intense due to a clash of weather systems triggered by...
SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES (Philippines), Aug 25 (Arab News): Australian and Filipino troops held exercises on Friday near flashpoint South China Sea waters claimed by China, with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos hailing them as an "extremely important" example of close cooperation.China...
MOSCOW, Aug 25 (Reuters): The Kremlin said that Western suggestions Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on its orders were an "absolute lie" while declining to definitively confirm his death, citing the need to wait for test results....
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...
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