Nazmul Hassan Papon, president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), reiterated his board's stance to keep Tamim Iqbal as captain of the team in the upcoming World Cup, reports BSS.Tamim's retirement issue and then the reversal of the decision following...
JAMALPUR, July 23 (UNB): Miscreants stabbed a former union parishad (UP) member to death in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur on Saturday night.Police detained seven people over the incident.The dead, Jahurul Islam (50), was a resident of Phuljhor village and was...
BARISHAL, July 23 (UNB): Workers of Sonargaon Textile Mill in Barishal blocked the Dhaka-Patuakhali highway in front of their factory for an hour on Sunday protesting the recent layoff and demanding arrears and salaries.Hundreds of vehicles were stranded on both...
NARAYANGANJ, July 23 (UNB): Three people sustained severe burn injuries in a gas cylinderexplosion at a house in Fatullah upazila of Narayanganj in the early hours of Sunday.The injured Alam (35), Ramjan (22) and Rifat (22) are house painters by...
Workers under the banner of AFCCL (Ashuganj Fertiliser and Chemical Company Limited) Sramik and Karmachari Union in Brahmanbaria formed a human chain in front of the main gate of the factory on Sunday, demanding immediate gas supply to the factory...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-07-24 00:00:00
CHANDPUR, July 23: For want of passenger bus service from Haimchar Upazila Sadar to Chandpur district town, Cumilla, Dhaka, Chattogram and Sylhet, several hundred people of the bordering Faridganj and Roypur upazilas have been suffering acutely for the past four...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-24 00:00:00
The High Court on Sunday stayed the proceedings to allot five acres of hill class land of Jhilongja Mouza in Cox's Bazar for a housing project for the journalists. It also asked the bodies concerned to submit a report with...
COX'S BAZAR, July 23 (UNB)-The 20-year-long master plan to transform the tourism city Cox's Bazar into a modern and smart city is likely to be initiated next month.The Cox's Bazar Development Authority (CoxDA) is ready to prepare a master plan...
Investment in primary healthcare is a prerequisite for a country's social development. However, our public hospitals are often overburdened and understaffed. The state of the upazila health complexes is also pathetic. As government hospitals often have poor service and unhygienic...
The research culture in Bangladesh does not give a rosy picture. Most graduate and postgraduate students do not know how to think critically and analyse things. Students mainly concentrate on reading materials and textbooks only. They do not try to...
Following Russia's exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), India has imposed a ban on export of all types of rice except aromatic Basmati. If the two warring nations are responsible for producing and exporting the lion's share of...
Employing children in hazardous work had long been a contentious issue in the country, as elsewhere. After the government initiative taken a couple of years ago to eliminate the worst forms of child labour from eight export-oriented sectors, including the...
Muhammad Zamir | 2023-07-24 00:00:00
The world has been carefully monitoring the recent evolving dimensions in the interactive engagement that has been taking place between the USA and China and also how ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has been providing the platform for greater...
HABIGANJ, July 22 (UNB): The tea workers on Saturday blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Nabiganj in Habiganj demanding payment of arrears of wages, bonus, festival allowance, future fund arrears, medical treatment and ensuring permanent residence. Tea workers of Imam-Bawani Tea...
PANAMA CITY, July 22 (AFP): The number of migrants passing through Panama on the way to the United States keeps climbing, far outpacing the record numbers reached in 2022, a top authority said Friday."Today we add 227,000 migrants who have...
ATHENS, July 22 (AFP): Greece was Saturday facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures forecast to soar above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), while a record-breaking heat wave stretching across the southern United States was expected to expand...
Developed countries, including Japan, the Middle East and Europe will need about 40 million skilled workers by 2030 which is a great opportunity for Bangladesh, manpower exporters say. Now it is the time for Bangladeshi manpower exporters to prepare with...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold a grand rally on July 27 in the capital as part of their ongoing movement for immediate resignation of the government in the interest of holding a free, fair and participatory election under a...
Deputy Leader in Parliament and Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Matia Chowdhury has urged the BNP to test its popularity by participating in the upcoming general election, reports BSS."The parliamentary elections will be held within a few months. It (BNP)...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been encouraging increased stakes of renewable energy in its fuel-mix, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) Nasrul Hamid said Saturday.Around 825.23 megawatt (MW) of electricity is being added to the national grid although overall electricity...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
The government's rice-paddy procurement shows a good trend this Boro season as 63 per cent has so far been achieved with six weeks left to meet the full target.Millers made better profits amid a rise in the asking rate by...
The third ODI of the ICC Women's Championship between Bangladesh Women and India Women ended in a thrilling tie at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in the city on Saturday, reports UNB.Having won the toss and elected to bat first,...
ARAFAT ARA | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
The outflow of workers to Malaysia has picked up in recent months amid allegations of charging much higher migration costs than the officially- fixed rate along with deception by a section of recruitment agencies.Bangladesh sent 228,097 workers to the Southeast...
FE REPORT | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
New cases of dengue fever are on the rise as the country recorded eleven more deaths and 2,242 hospitalisations due to the mosquito-borne disease in the last 24 hours until 8:00 am Saturday.With the latest fatality, the total number of...
At least 17 people, including seven children and five women, were killed and 35 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside pond at Chhatrakanda in Sadar upazila of Jhalakathi district on Saturday, reports UNB.Thirteen of the deceased were...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
A Tk 13.93-billion project is well underway to generate income and employment opportunities in some 1,000 villages in the Chattogram Hill Tracts (CHT) region.Officials concerned said CHT Regional Council under the Ministry of CHT Affairs has undertaken the project for...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked Bangladesh Army Selection Board-2023 to choose qualified and prudent officers for promotion in the force through neutral evaluation, reports UNB. "You should do it considering professional competence, drawing comparative evaluation in logical and...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-07-23 00:00:00
Relocating the inland container depot (ICD) from Kamalapur rail-station to Gazipur's Dhirasram to accommodate a multimodal transport hub has been stalled for seven years, but now the priority project moves on financing assurance. The project on ICD relocation to the...
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