WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters): The US Commerce Department on Thursday said it will impose preliminary anti-dumping duties on tin-plated steel imports from Canada, Germany and China, sparing five other countries in a decision that drew some relief from food can...
Air cargo enjoyed record demand when COVID-19 closed borders and snarled supply chains. Now, it is reeling from overcapacity and tumbling freight rates as the freight boom makes a hard landing, reports Reuters.Consumers who had the means to spend the...
Saudi Arabia's crude oil exports fell for a third straight month in June to their lowest since September 2021, data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) showed on Wednesday, with big Asian buyers favouring cheaper Russian oil, reports Reuters.The...
I G Chowdhury | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
It was a casual meeting at the office of Head of Department of English. I was a fresh student at the university, in another department. I was there with my uncle, who was a faculty, on way to the Registrar's...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
Cheating in public examinations was so rampant once that any hope of salvaging the situation looked bleak. Mercifully, the ill practice has more or less been rooted out from the two most important public examinations at the secondary and higher...
Russia charges jailed US citizen with espionageMOSCOW, Aug 18: Russia has charged a jailed US citizen with espionage, state news agencies reported, upping the pressure on the US President Joe Biden's administration which has been trying to find a way...
NEW DELHI, Aug 18 ( Reuters): India's space agency on Friday released images of the moon taken from its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft as it approaches the lunar south pole, a previously unexplored region thought to contain water ice where Russia is...
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters): The United States has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands to defend against Russian invaders as soon as pilot training is completed, a U.S. official said on Thursday.Ukraine has actively...
HAGERSTOWN, Maryland, Aug 18 (Reuters): At a Camp David summit on Friday, the United States, South Korea and Japan were likely to pledge to consult each other in moments of crisis, officials said, a commitment designed to deepen three-way military...
KABUL (Afghanistan), Aug 18, (AP): Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan's Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman...
RIYADH, Aug 18 (Xinhua): Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said here on Thursday the relations between his country and Saudi Arabia are moving in the right direction and both sides will advance cooperation in various fields. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks...
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) : US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday that it was tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19.The lineage is named BA.2.86, and has been detected in the...
OTTAWA, Aug 18, 2023 (Reuters): Canadian firefighters are racing against advancing flames on Friday to evacuate all residents from the remote northern city of Yellowknife, with unfavourable winds threatening to complicate one of the biggest rescue efforts of the fire...
Riad Shams | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has eight member countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri-Lanka). These eight countries have a number of large and small nationalities (such as Bengalis, Punjabis, Tamil), who have been...
Many public university students in Bangladesh are from poor to middle-income families. They support their expenses by tutoring or part-time jobs. High inflation, followed by a price hike of daily essentials, has raised food prices in residential halls at various...
A survey report published recently by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) says that women's domestic labour, which is eight times more than men's, goes unrecognised. Domestic and care work is said to take up 1.6 hours per day for...
Tanim Asjad | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
The month of Shrabon, the second and last month of the rainy season on the Bangla calendar, ended on Tuesday last. Rains are, however, still there and they will continue for another one to two months at regular intervals. Thus...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
By all indications, the country is heading for the point of no return as the energy mix becomes squarely focused on the import of expensive, imported liquefied natural gas (LNG). A report published in this newspaper points, quoting sources in...
Devastating fires from illegally stored flammable chemicals in crowded residential areas, especially in Old Dhaka, have been claiming scores of lives in regular intervals. Another deadly fire claiming the lives of, according to the latest report, all six members of...
Imtiaz A Hussain | 2023-08-19 00:00:00
Meeting in an atomic bombed city, the G7 Summit ominously warned Russia not to resort to nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Ironically, before that bomb was dropped on September 6, 1945, a retreating Japan even discussed peace with the Soviet Union...
Bangladesh's uncapped opener Tanzid Hasan Tamim is used to the lofty comparisons with the side's leading batter Tamim Iqbal. The comparison is not just down to their similar names, but also their approach to batting, reports Cricbuzz. Tanzid's playing style...
Abdul Awal Primary School at Ashtagram Upazila in Kishoreganj arranged a Dua Mahfil in observance of the National Mourning Day on August 15. Upazila Chairman Shahidul Islam, Upazila Nirbahi Officer Harun-Or-Rashid, Upazila Primary Education Officer Ashraful Alam, OC of Ashtagram...
Lebanese protesters lift placards during a demonstration called for by the banks depositors committee against monetary policies, in Beirut's downtown district on Thursday. Lebanon's economic meltdown, described by the World Bank as one of the worst in recent global history,...
Work on underground sewer system is going on at a slow pace at Purana Paltan Lane in the city. Even the manhole lies uncovered, which poses danger to pedestrians. The photo was taken on Thursday. — FE photo
DUBAI, Aug 17 (AFP): After riding a fossil-fuel boom for decades, Gulf Arab states are eyeing "green" hydrogen as they try to transition their economies and ease the climate crisis at a stroke.Oil producers Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates...
Bangladesh is emerging as the world's most captivating market for infrastructure and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), as it embarks on transport mega-projects aimed at efficient management and monitoring through ITS and Weigh-in-Motion (WIM) Systems, reports BSS. The country's inaugural ITS...
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 17 (Reuters): BRICS leaders meet in South Africa next week to discuss how to turn a loose club of nations accounting for a quarter of the global economy into a geopolitical force that can challenge the West's dominance...
FE REPORT | 2023-08-18 00:00:00
The Appellate Division on Thursday fixed August 20 (Sunday) to deliver its order over a petition filed by Nobel Laureate Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus and others against an HC judgment that okayed the charge-framing order of the court concerned against...
A Dhaka court on Thursday convicted and sentenced five people, including journalist Shafik Rehman and daily Amar Desh Editor Mahmudur Rahman, to seven-year imprisonment in a case for plotting to abduct and murder Prime Minister's Information and Commu-nication Technology Affairs...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-08-18 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 17: The Sonar Bangla Express on Dhaka-Chattogram rail route started its journey with new Korean coaches on Wednesday afternoon.At the same time, Bijoy Express on Chattogram-Mymensingh route also ran with the old coaches of its peer train Sonar...
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