HAMBURG, June 24 (Reuters): Chicago wheat rose on Monday in bargain-buying after hitting its lowest since April on prospects for good world supplies and as US wheat harvesting gathers speed.Corn fell and soybeans rose with the impact on US crops...
Gold prices rose on Monday, helped by a pullback in the dollar, while investors looked forward to US inflation data due later this week that could offer more clarity on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, reports Reuters.Spot gold was up...
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters): Oil prices were steady on Monday as traders weighed support from expected summer demand and geopolitical tensions against a stronger dollar.Brent crude futures rose 5 cents to $85.29 a barrel by 1335 GMT. US West Texas...
TEL AVIV, June 24 (AP/Reuters): The viability of a U.S.-backed proposal to wind down the 8-month-long war in Gaza was cast into doubt on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only be willing to agree to...
SEOUL, June 24 (BBC/AFP): A massive factory fire that began after several lithium batteries exploded has killed at least 22 people, including 18 Chinese nationals, in South Korea. The blaze broke out on Monday morning at the Aricell plant in...
TEHRAN, June 24 (Reuters): Atousa joined angry protests against Iran's rulers in 2022 that loyalists like Reza helped crush. Two years on, the two young Iranians' political views remain at odds, reflecting a rift that will shape the outcome of...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2024-06-25 00:00:00
Bangladesh has been working to increase the use of renewable energy in its energy mix. State Minister for the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, MP considers that Bangladesh needs coordinated initiatives and major investment to make...
Banskhali's main road is plagued by heavy traffic and rampant fare anarchy. On one side, severe traffic jams persist, while on the other, passengers face exploitation by bus operators who charge arbitrary fares. This chaotic situation is the daily reality...
In recent times, the new generation has become heavily engaged with digital cryptocurrency and various online betting platforms like 1XBet and Exness. Primarily, they use Binance to transfer funds into their betting accounts. To deposit funds into Binance accounts, users...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2024-06-25 00:00:00
In a country where around 400,000 incidents of snakebite take place with reports of some 7,000 fatalities annually, the hype and resulting panic created over a particular type of snake, locally called Chandrabora, or Russell's viper (Daboia russelli) is indeed...
Samiul Huq | 2024-06-25 00:00:00
A free-for-all situation is now prevailing in the country's highways, barring the most watched and most regulated ones, such as the Jatrabari-Mawa or the Mawa-Bhanga expressways. Battery-run rickshaws, autorickshaws, and motorbikes dominate those, making the journey of all other regular...
Mass panic over Russell's viper has almost turned into a mass hysteria, courtesy of social media. It is not for the first time that misinformation spreads like wildfire because the social media craze cashes in on exaggerated virtual picture of...
Islami Bank holds orientation programme Islami Bank Training and Research Academy (IBTRA) organised a daylong orientation programme for newly-recruited probationary officers on Sunday at Islami Bank Tower. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Managing Director of the bank, inaugurated the programme as the...
OUR CORRESPONDENTCHATTOGRAM, June 23: Local people have threatened to launch a tougher movement if their demand for permanent and regular operation of Cox's Bazar special train is not met.The call came from a press conference held in the Chattogram Press...
Faridpur, June 23 (UNB): Following the announcement of a Tk 50,000 bounty for catching a Russell's viper alive, residents along the Padma riverbank in Faridpur have become desperate to capture the snakes.Last Thursday, Shah Md Ishtiak Arif, general secretary of...
In a major reshuffle in the police administration, an Additional IGP, nine DIGs, 15 Additional DIGs and 15 SP-ranking officials have been transferred to different positions.The Home Ministry issued three separate orders signed by Sirajam Munira, deputy secretary of the...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
A Dhaka Court on Sunday issued a travel ban on four officials of Premier Bank Limited amid an allegation of money laundering. The officials are: Md Shahid Hasan Mallik, Additional Managing Director (AMD) and Manager of Narayanganj branch; Moshfiqul Alam,...
FE Report | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Police Service Association's recent statement calling for "greater caution" in publishing reports about the police has been condemned by the Editors' Council as "a threat to free press". The council, which represents newspaper editors in Bangladesh, argues that...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that the law under which BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was freed from jail suspending her sentence did not permit her to go abroad for receiving advanced medical treatment."As far...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has had a pacemaker implanted in Evercare Hospital in the capital to address abnormality of her heart rate.A group of specialist doctors successfully installed a pacemaker in Khaleda Zia's chest on Sunday, her...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
About a fifth of Bangladesh's young population is still deprived of education and employment both as per official count, which analysts term alarming for a growing economy.A total of 18.87 per cent of the young population, aged between 15 and...
Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked her partymen to work for a well-organised party and achieve people's trust so that no attack or conspiracy can destroy the party as it is like a phoenix...
Amid widespread criticism and social media uproar over his son's purchase of a goat worth Tk 1.5 million (15 lakh) before Eid-ul-Azha, Md Matiur Rahman, President of the National Board of Revenue's (NBR) Customs, Excise, and VAT Appellate Tribunal, has...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed didn't appear before the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday as the anti-graft body summoned him to quiz over graft allegations and amassing huge wealth beyond known sources of income.He instead sent a...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
Revive regulator's tariff-adjustment authority to ensure fair pricing of power and petroleum products for Bangladesh's sustainable growth, an all-stakeholder meet recommends as an industrialist narrates business woes for high energy and fund costs. In this context, the speakers also demanded...
FE REPORT | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
A US$400-million budget-support credit is forthcoming from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for Bangladesh to help implement critical structural reforms meant for building climate resilience in development activity. Mainstreaming climate-change adaptation and-mitigation actions for a sustainable, resilient and inclusive...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2024-06-24 00:00:00
Emergent entrepreneurs get into a quandary as countryside banking squeezes amid fallouts from uncapped high interest rates and obdurate inflation, thus affecting the overall national economy, sources say. Of late, commercial banks' focus on rural Bangladesh keeps shifting with the...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the...
Two prisoners receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) died on separate days. Inspector Md Bachchu Mia, in charge of the DMCH police outpost, made the confirmation, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Shah Alam Hawlader, 60, from...
Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Liu Jianchao is now visiting Bangladesh to discuss issues of mutual interest between Bangladesh and China, reports UNB.He arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a four-day...
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