Digital transaction of money has been playing a crucial role in our economy. By ensuring safety and promptness, mobile financial service (MFS) providers such as bKash, Rocket, Nagad, and Upay have made common people's life faster, easier and smoother than...
Kawran Bazar, also known as Karwan Bazar, is a business and commercial hub of Dhaka city. It is also one of the biggest commodity marketplaces in the capital city. The above two names describe the same place. But nobody seems...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
The sales of new apartments have taken a serious hit in Bangladesh. This downturn in housing business has happened for a myriad of reasons. Sector specialists state that the housing market has hit a brick wall due to higher costs...
The quality of air of major urban centres of Bangladesh for instance, the capital city of Dhaka, or the port city of Chattogram, has often hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. It has been the poor quality attributable to...
Matiur Rahman | 2023-11-22 00:00:00
Small towns in Bangladesh are facing the growing challenge of waste management. The rapid increase in population, urbanisation, and consumption patterns has led to a surge in waste generation, overwhelming the inadequate infrastructure and resources available for proper management. This...
YASIR WARDAD | 2023-11-21 12:00:00
In an effort to identify industrial problems and develop recommendations in the face of post-pandemic economic headwinds and a global manufacturing downturn, the Ministry of Industries has invited applications to update the list of sick industries.The ministry said in a...
Scotland is keen on hiring construction workers from Bangladesh, a visiting parliamentary delegation from the country told Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, reports UNB.This was conveyed when a six member Cross-Party Parliamentary Group (CPG) led by first- ever Bangladeshi...
The photo showing a large crowd outside the Bangabandhu Avenue Awami League central office in the city on Monday as activists and supporters of the ruling party gathered there centring on the collection of nomination forms for their respective candidates...
NEW DELHI, Nov 20 (Reuters): India's capital Delhi re-opened schools and some building sites on Monday amid signs of receding air pollution, although it remained classified as hazardous, while a toxic foam besmirched stretches of the Yamuna river flowing through...
Germany, along with five other countries, stand united at the International Court of Justice against the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, reports UNB."Our joint intervention emphasizes accountability for states and focuses on ending sexual violence," said the German Embassy in Dhaka.Germany...
RAFAH, Nov 20 (AFP): Palestinian officials said a field hospital accompanied by 170 personnel sent by Jordan entered the Gaza Strip Monday, the first since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on October 7.Weeks of intense bombardment and acute...
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable success in combating money laundering and terror financing, improving its position by five points, according to the global index of a Switzerland-based organisation, reports BSS.The Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index-2023, developed by the Basel Institute on...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
The government has raised depositors' monthly contribution ceiling up to Tk 10,000 from the previous highest Tk 5,000 under the "Pragati" scheme of the Universal Pension Scheme.Employees of private firms and their employers now can deposit the enhanced amount of...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday underlined cooperation among Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives to promote tourism for mutual benefits, reports UNB."Bangladesh, Nepal and the Maldives can promote cooperation on tourism for mutual benefits," she told outgoing Maldives High Commissioner...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
The court hearing on a bail petition filed by BNP secretary-general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been deferred until November 22 following sickness of the chief public prosecutor.A Dhaka court on Monday made the deferment in connection with a case...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
The BNP-led opposition camps have announced their sixth round of countrywide blockade in a bid to realise their demands centring on the upcoming general election.The blockade programme will begin at 6:00 am on Wednesday and continue until 6:00 am on...
Armed Forces Day is set to be observed across the country today (Tuesday) with due solemnity and enthusiasm. On this day in 1971, Bangladesh Armed Forces comprising army, navy and air force came into being and launched an all-out attack...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
Unrelenting outflow of the US dollars through travel ploys put an extra pressure on Bangladesh's depleting foreign-currency reserves, officials and market analysts say, as crisis-time restraint goes unheeded. They say the uptrend in using the American greenback outside the forex-strapped...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
Amid disruptions to foreign trade by delays in issuing waiver certificates to feeder vessels, the country's apparel makers have urged the authorities concerned to resolve the complexities in greater good of businesses.Foreign feeder vessels carry over 90 per cent of...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
Global fashion brands are compounding sufferings of millions of garment workers through their tightfistedness in pricing, as a global report reveals major gaps in supply-chain needs and apparel-retailing companies' commitments.Such hiatus between what the fashion brands gain and what they...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
Recasting the current Annual Development Programme (ADP) with a possible trimming of allocations gests going and stakeholder consultations are slated for early next month. Officials Monday said the Economic Relations Division (ERD) started work to revise the ADP of the...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the Met Office.Night and day temperature may remain nearly over the country.The highest temperature in the...
Five more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,554 this year, reports UNB. During the period, 1,197 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever,...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
The government will start rice procurement for this Aman season on Thursday, with a target to buy 0.7 million tonnes of the food- grain from millers and farmers across the country. The Directorate General of Food has set a target...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-21 00:00:00
Prominent economists Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam and Dr Mashiur Rahman have been felicitated in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the development of economy and democracy.The Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and the Bonik Barta co-hosted the reception...
LALMONIRHAT, Nov 20 (UNB):The commercial operations of a new train service, the 'Burimari Express', on Dhaka-Burimari route will start from December 01, railway authorities said on Monday.Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the train service on that...
Khadijatul Kubra, a student of Jagannath University (JnU) who was released from Kashimpur central jail securing bail in two DSA cases on Monday morning, sat for an examination shortly after her release, reports UNB. Khadija was released from Kashimpur Women's...
Foreign Minister (FM) AK Abdul Momen on Monday said no political issues will be discussed in the foreign secretary-level talks between the two countries, reports UNB."I don't think so. Political discussion has already been done. There will be no discussion...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five people including Adabar thana unit Jubo Dal Joint Convenor Md Rakib Sheikh from Dhaka's Keraniganj and Mohammadpur areas on Sunday, reports UNB.The other arrestees are Md Masum, 32, Md Alamgir, 38, Md...
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