As winter approaches, cold and influenza may not be far away. It is crucial not to overlook the impact of these common respiratory illnesses. With the drop in temperatures, we often witness an uptick in the cases of cold and...
Our constitution recognises equal rights to every citizen irrespective of race, religion, caste, clan or gender. However, it is unfortunate to learn that a recently-conducted study has found that marginalised people in the country are facing discriminatory behaviour in many...
Food waste is a severe problem all across the world, where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly on the rise. But tons of edible foods are wasted every day. According to the United Nations, around 14...
Neil Ray | 2023-11-27 00:00:00
The day Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Shirin Sharmin eulogised the people's movement ahead courtesy of information technology towards building a smart Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Submarine Cable PLC (BSCPLC) shut down bandwidth of 19 of the country's 34 International Internet...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-11-27 00:00:00
Amid the welcome 'humanitarian pause' of Israel's relentless air and ground assaults on the Gaza strip, termed Hamas-Israel war in the media, the exchange of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners has been taking place from Friday, November 24. Notably, such an...
That antibiotics are increasingly becoming ineffective against bacterial infection is now a global problem. Widespread abuse has resulted in the emergence of superbugs that are found immune to all sorts of anti-microbial drugs. The situation in Bangladesh is particularly worrying...
Bishakha Devnath | 2023-11-26 12:00:00
A child upon stepping into a cathedral comes across his name on a plaque pinned to the entrance wall. He wondered who that man was with the same name as his and had been honoured for his contribution to the...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2023-11-26 12:00:00
Global geopolitical tensions often play a very pivotal role in shaping people’s general perception of economic outlook. The current Israeli aggression against Gaza leading to more than 13,000 Palestinians death including over 5,500 children by the 3rd week of November...
Over the past five decades, Bangladesh has made significant progress in a number of important health sector areas. Maternal mortality rate has come down by almost two-thirds, and infant and child mortality rates were reduced by 44 per cent and...
Faria Mridha Nitisha and Syed Imtiaz Nadvee | 2023-11-26 12:00:00
Women entrepreneurs are transforming the global economic, social, and gender landscapes, and Bangladesh is no exception in this case where they are contributing substantially to economic growth, job creation, and groundbreaking innovation. They constitute 24.6 per cent of small and...
Shahrukh Ikhtear | 2023-11-26 12:00:00
Product Management has seen a meteoric rise in Bangladesh as a profession of choice for many, but how many companies are pursuing the right things instead of chasing trends in an unstructured way remains a moot question. A product manager's...
Previously priced at Tk 800 per kg, beef is now being sold at rates below Tk 600 in some areas of the city, leading to a surge in beef purchases in these locations. The photo shows buyers waiting in long...
Nigerians seeking a safe outlet for their anger can now get an unusual form of therapy, a "rage room" where they can break glass, smash wardrobes, and destroy electronic devices without any consequences, reports Renters.Located in the crowded megacity of...
The United States has said it is aware of Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's "deliberate mischaracterization" of US foreign policy and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas' meetings."The United States does not support any political party in Bangladesh. Nor...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) denounced on Saturday the statement made by Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, on the internal affairs of Bangladesh and its upcoming 12th parliament elections.Earlier the Russian spokesperson...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
The government has fixed Tk 12,080 as monthly minimum wage for the workers of the hosiery industries up from Tk 4,650 set in 2017. The Ministry of Labour and Employment on November 16 published a gazette notification announcing the new...
ISMAIL HOSSAIN | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
A move to cut service charge imposed by the country's micro-finance institutions (MFIs) is halted again due to rising cost of funds in bank and other sources.The review of MFI service charge has been dilly-dallied for more than four years,...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
Business of hotels and restaurants in Bangladesh contracted in the second half (H2) of fiscal year (FY) 2022-23, affecting the country's overall economic growth, as reflected in the quarterly GDP estimates by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).The value addition...
The results of the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations will be published today (Sunday), reports BSS.Education ministry sources said copies of the results would be handed over to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the morning to inaugurate...
Awami League President and party's parliamentary nomination board chief Sheikh Hasina will exchange views with AL's nomination aspirants for the 12th Jatiya Sangsad election at Ganabhaban at 10 am today (Sunday), reports BSS.Awami League President and party's parliamentary nomination board...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
The seventh spell of a 48-hour countrywide blockade programme called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and other opponents starts at 6: 00 am today (Sunday) to press home their demand for the immediate resignation of the government. Senior Joint...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
Labour rights bodies continued to put pressure on the authorities concerned to review the recently proposed minimum wage for the garment workers, with the latest request in this regard coming from Industriall Global Union, global right group.Terming the proposed wage...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
Overall natural-gas production in the energy-hungry country plummeted by nearly a third, worsening the persisting crisis in gas-guzzling industries, power plants, fertiliser factories, commercial entities and households.According to state-owned Petrobangla, the overall natural gas output on November 24 was around...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-11-26 00:00:00
A sharp deposit growth and lower investment regime could hardly help heal persistent liquidity stress in Bangladesh's banking sector as several seepage factors keep squeezing the vaults, sources say.Officials and bankers mention the depreciation of the local currency against the...
Eminent economist Dr Ahsan Mansur has said there is no reason to delay the second instalment of the IMF's USD $4.70 billion loan as Bangladesh met most of the conditions set by the global lender.Dr Mansur, executive director of the...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Sunday), according to the Met Office.Night temperature may fall by (1-2)° C and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised a national workshop, focusing on the integration of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) and Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) in the world's largest mangrove forest Sundarbans, in the city on Saturday, reports UNB.The primary objective of...
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