RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 22 (AP): Many fans came to the Maracana Stadium on Tuesday to watch Lionel Messi in his likely last match in Brazil, a superclasico in World Cup qualifying against the hosts. Instead, they saw Nicolás Otamendi...
SYDNEY, Nov 22 (AFP): Australia's World Cup winners have been denied a full-scale heroes' welcome home by a packed cricket schedule that sees them face India on Thursday at the start of a Twenty20 series, four days after meeting in...
WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (AFP): The White House said Tuesday that Russia's Wagner mercenary group plans to provide an air defense system to Lebanon's Hezbollah militants or to the regime in Tehran, as part of an "unprecedented defense cooperation" between the...
SEOUL, Nov 22 (Reuters): South Korea moved to suspend on Wednesday part of a military agreement it signed with Pyongyang in 2018 after the isolated North defied warnings from the United States and its allies and launched a spy satellite,...
PARIS, Nov 22 (AFP): Nations around the globe welcomed on Wednesday the announcement that Israel and Hamas reached a deal to free hostages and pause ferocious fighting and bombardment in Gaza.Some 240 people-ranging from infants to the elderly-were taken captive...
LAHORE, Nov 22 (Reuters): Pakistan's Supreme Court accepted on Wednesday a bail application from detained former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said, a day after another court declared illegal his trial on charges of leaking state secrets.The former cricket...
Hundreds of women and children have to commute daily in Dhaka city to reach their workplaces and educational institutions. Most of them cannot buy car, nor afford CNG-driven auto-rickshaws or Uber taxi service. Some use rickshaws. And many have to...
Around 5,000 kidney transplants are reportedly needed in Bangladesh every year. Understandably, it is not possible in the country to meet the demand for kidneys only from close relatives. A study shows that not even 500 kidneys are transplanted annually...
Modern-day living hardly gives one the opportunity to take adequate sleep. But sleep is as important for good health as diet and exercise. Good sleep improves one's brain performance, mood and health. Therefore, people should make an effort to get...
Imam Hossain | 2023-11-23 00:00:00
Dhaka is often stigmatised as one of the least desirable cities on earth to live in. The Global Liveability Index for 2023 conducted by the British weekly, The Economist, has already ranked Dhaka the seventh least liveable city in the...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-11-23 00:00:00
In death, Rosalynn Carter reminds us of the devotion with which she assisted her husband not only in his political career but also in his post-presidential life. Theirs was a marriage of love, with the fullness of affection and commitment...
Banks have become quite tight-fisted with dollar ever since the country's foreign-exchange reserve started plummeting following the energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war. During the pandemic, there was hardly any demand for dollar from people looking for tours abroad....
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-11-22 12:00:00
The announcement of establishing a competition commission years ago did inspire hope among sections of conscious citizens that the move, a timely one, would help strengthen market efficiency while protecting consumers from the machinations of business cartels and the like....
Two commercial ships that diverted their course in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden were connected to the same maritime group whose vessel was seized by Yemen's Houthis, according to shipping data and British maritime security company Ambrey, reports...
Bangladesh's Jannatul Ferdous, a burn survivor, has been included in BBC's list of the 100 most powerful and inspirational women from around the world in 2023, reports BSS.BBC today revealed the list which includes attorney and former US First Lady...
The government is going to give the "President's Award for Industrial Development" to 21 industrial units for their contributions to industrialisation, employment generation and overall economic development, reports BSS.The Industries Ministry is going to recognise the industrial units for their...
Eight more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,562 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 1,084 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever, according...
The United Nations has reiterated its desire to see a "peaceful, inclusive and credible" national election in Bangladesh, reports UNB. "We continue to call on all stakeholders, the government, the political parties to do whatever they can, to promote a...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
The domestic RMG or textile sector need not worry over the recent announcement by US secretary of state Antony Blinken, said state minister for foreign affairs M Shahriar Alam on Tuesday.This was not at all Bangladesh-specific, he added.Mr Blinken did...
Amid spiralling food prices, people wait in long queues to buy essential commodities at subsidised rates from a TCB's open truck-sales point in Khilgaon area of the city on Tuesday. — FE photo
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Nov 21: The Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) is now set to lease out the Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) to a foreign operator.The initiative has a twofold benefit - ensuring a healthy competition among terminal operators and making international-standard services...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Speakers at a consultation meeting on Tuesday stressed the need for combined global effort to address the challenges of climate-induced migration.They also suggested that climate change and labour mobility should be brought under the framework of sustainable development to make...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Even amid low-income people grappling with near double-digit inflation, government subsidy allocations to their bank accounts dropped substantially in September compared to August this year. The central bank attributes the drying up of fund flow to the poor to the...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Country's foreign debt repayment in the first four months of the current fiscal year (FY 2023-24) stood at US$1.10 billion, nearly 52 per cent higher than the amount paid against the concessional loans in the same period of the last...
Sixth round of countrywide blockade enforced by The BNP-led opposition camps begins today. Parties announced countrywide blockade in a bid to realise their demands centring on the upcoming general election.The blockade programme will begin from 6:00 am today and will...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Economists see little chance of inflationary pressure easing and economic activities picking up before the upcoming national elections because of government's policy inaction.Pointing at the ongoing political unrest, they feels that the economy won't be able to perform well as...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Tuesday nothing could be achieved through arson violence, expressing her hope that the BNP-Jamaat alliance will come back to their sense and put an end to the anarchy."Nothing can be achieved through burning people...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON AND JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Non-performing loans (NPLs) belonging to banks edged down by a meagre Tk 6.41 billion to Tk 1.55 trillion in September, quarter on quarter, following two major rescheduling events. However, competent sources have said, the real burden would be heavier with...
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