Pet animals play a crucial role in ensuring human well-being, primarily by providing companionship. Pets offer unconditional love and can significantly reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, especially for the elderly and those living alone. However, the qualities that set humans...
The cosmetics industry is growing rapidly, offering hundreds of local and foreign brands. However, this expansion has also opened the door for counterfeit and harmful products, particularly in areas like Chawk Bazar, Islampur and Keraniganj. Research shows that while more...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-11-08 00:00:00
Digital addiction has become a serious problem in the country, especially for children and adolescents, as a large number of them are already trapped in depression and frustration, leading to self-destructive attitudes. The frequent appearance of new smartphone models, coupled...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-11-08 00:00:00
It is hard to keep up with the dizzying pace at which the country is changing. Cityscapes are evolving every day. In almost every neighbourhood, new buildings have gone up in the last decade and, wherever space allows, more are...
Though recovery of money and other assets laundered out of the country by those in power during the tenure of the ousted autocracy and their crony oligarchs was declared a priority by the interim government, yet, it has proved to...
Rain likely today | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Rain/ thunder showers is likely to occur at one or two places over Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Friday), according to the Met Office. The highest temperature in the country on Thursday...
BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology (BUFT) organised a day-long event titled "Voices for Palestine: A Solidarity Event" at its campus in Nishatnagar, Turag, according to a statement.The programme aimed to express solidarity with the people of Palestine and raise...
The Council of Advisers on Thursday approved the proposed list of 28 holidays for the 2026 calendar year, reports BSS.However, 11 holidays coincided with weekends (Fridays and Saturdays).The approval came at the 47th meeting of the Council of Advisers held...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Thursday strongly condemned and protested a social media rumour claiming that India has occupied 62 kilometres of territory in Lalmonirhat, reports UNB.In an official statement, BGB said a vested quarter is deliberately spreading the baseless...
A rickshaw van-puller was pictured carrying a consignment of bamboo-made baskets to Babu Bazar business hub in Old Dhaka on Thursday. With the minimum demand still in place, use of the homemade baskets continue to survive racing against the factory-produced...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Police have arrested an individual linked with a fraud gang for allegedly swindling a businessman out of Tk 1.5million. The name of the arrestee is Md Saddam Hossain (35).He was arrested by the Cyber Police Centre (CPC) unit of Criminal...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Teachers and students of Dhaka University's (DU) Department of Music have staged a demonstration demanding the reinstatement of music and physical education teacher positions in primary education. The demonstration began at 11:30 am on Thursday (November 6) in front of...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to file six cases against 11 individuals of six recruiting agencies on charges of embezzling and laundering Tk 5.25 billion.ACC Director General (Prevention) Md Akhter Hossain said on Thursday the accused had taken five...
A Dhaka court has ordered the freezing of 81 bank accounts belonging to former minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya and his family in a graft case, report agencies.Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Sabbir Foyez passed the order on Thursday...
The Supreme Court (SC) has adjourned until November 11 the hearings on an appeal challenging its previous judgment that annulled the non-party caretaker government system , reports BSS. "Heard in part and adjourned to 11.11.2025," said the Appellate Division full...
GAZIPUR, Nov 6 (UNB): Seven people, including a former Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader, hav been arrested with arms and ammunition in a joint operation in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district.The arrestees are Enamul Haque Molla, former leader of the...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman has said there is no legal barrier to his participation in the upcoming national elections while holding his current post, arguing that the country's top law officer is not a government employee under the Constitution. Speaking...
The High Court (HC) has granted bail to former minister Abdul Latif Siddique and journalist Manjur Alam Panna in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act, report agencies.The HC bench of Justice ASM Abdul Mobin and Justice Md Sagir Hossain...
National Citizen Party (NCP) has started distributing party's nomination forms for the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election, report agencies.The price of each application form has been fixed at Tk 10,000, while for July heroes and low-income individuals, it has...
BNP senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury has said the increasing desperation of some political parties to hold a referendum before the national election, bypassing the constitution, has raised public suspicion about their motives, reports UNB.He made the remarks while,...
Installation work on a WASA pipeline along the route from Rampura Bridge to Notun Bazar in Dhaka begins on Thursday. The infrastructural project is directly contributing to severe traffic congestion and causing immense suffering for commuters. The photo was taken...
FE REPOR | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday arrested Md Firoz Hossain, former managing director (MD) of EXIM Bank, in a case filed over embezzling and laundering more than Tk8.57 billion.After the arrest, Md Firoz Hossain was produced before a court with...
The dengue crisis in Bangladesh continues to deteriorate as five more patients died and 1,034 were admitted to hospitals across the country in the 24 hours till Thursday morning, reports UNB.With the latest fatalities, the total number of deaths from...
FE REPORT | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh could avert an economic loss equivalent to 11 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) by ensuring that no child drops out of school, according to a report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)....
FE REPORT | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md. Touhid Hossain has dismissed the recent letter sent by the banned Awami League to the United Nations, saying it will have "no effect."Speaking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, the adviser was...
BNP will observe what it calls 'National Revolution and Solidarity Day' today (Friday), marking the 'civil-military uprising' of November 7, 1975, with due respect.On this day in 1975, amid political unrest, soldiers and civilians together freed then Chief of Army...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) would work together to finance Bangladesh's big projects as the country signed a mutual framework for streamlining their loans and ensuring the best utilisation of the money, officials said on...
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-11-07 00:00:00
Most money for a World Bank-funded development project for Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has been allocated for operational expenses on ancillaries that range from toiletries to foreign trainings, raising questions about justification. On the wish-list are toilet tissues, toilet...
Bhalo Kajer Hotel (Hotel for Good Deeds), a commendable initiative by a group of youths, provides food for homeless and impoverished people in exchange for good deeds in several areas of the city. However, the queue of people eating meals...
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