The city experienced traffic jam even on Saturday, a weekend day, as BNP and other opposition parties called a 48-hour blockade beginning this (Sunday) morning. The photo was taken in Zero Point area of the city. — FE photo by...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
The New Development Bank (NDB) is likely to confirm Bangladesh two loans worth US$765 million early next year to improve gas and water supply networks of Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday. This is for the first time the country is...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
Another spell of countrywide two-day blockade called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will begin at 6:00 am today (Sunday) to realise their demands including immediate resignation of the government for holding national elections under a non-partisan caretaker government.Earlier Senior...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
Some leading chamber bodies have condemned the ongoing blockade programmes at a time when the country is facing an inflation pressure and a foreign currency liquidity crunch. Heads of the chambers said such political programmes were hurting the country's image...
YASIR WARDAD | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
Amid the ongoing tussle between the government and garment workers over minimum wage, a minimum wage board (MWB) has been formed for the employees of the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and Economic Zones (EZs).Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) Executive...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
A regressive direct-tax measure discourages many who missed deadlines in previous years from submitting returns for fear of bloated tax liability as a punishment for noncompliance, be it intentional or unintentional.Many taxpayers, both corporate and individual, have said they would...
COX'S BAZAR, Nov 11 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday her government would take proper measures to establish rail connectivity between Cox's Bazar and other parts of the country."We will take measures to smoothen journey to Cox's Bazar...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
Over 100 ready-made garment factories in different industrial zones, especially in Ashulia and Gazipur hubs, have been shut down amid protracted labour unrest on demand for wage hike, deepening crisis in Bangladesh's main export industry. In another backlash, apparel makers...
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.Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The highest temperature in...
Dhaka's air quality was ranked second worst in the world for the second consecutive day on Saturday, reports UNB.With an air quality index (AQI) score of 208 at 8:58 am, Dhaka's air was categorised as 'very unhealthy'.An AQI between 101...
LAXMIPUR, Nov 11 (UNB): Police recovered the body of an auto-rickshaw driver from Adharrmanik area of Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Saturday, who went missing from the area on November 07.
GAZIPUR, Nov 11 (UNB): Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Industrial Police Md Zakir Hossain Khan on Saturday said they smell a rat behind the unrest in the readymade garment (RMG) industry in Gazipur."The government has already announced wages and our...
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) seized a consignment of contraband Indian sarees and cosmetics from a place nearby Kanchpur Bridge under Siddhirganj Police Station in Narayanganj district on Saturday, says a statement.BCG Headquarters media officer Lieutenant Commander Khandaker Munif...
Jagannath University (JnU) Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Md Imdadul Haque died at a city hospital on Saturday, reports UNB.Prof Imdadul had been suffering from cancer and he breathed his last at around 05:00 am at a hospital, said JnU Proctor...
British High Commissioner in Bangladesh Sarah Cooke, US Ambassador Peter Haas, Canadian High Commissioner Lily Nichols, Japanese Ambassador Iwama Kiminori, Deputy High Commissioner of Australia Nardia Simpson, Pakistan High Commissioner Syed Ahmed Maroof, Indian High Commission representative Brigadier MS Sabarwal,...
In the latest reshuffle in the public administration, the government has promoted 240 government officials to the rank of deputy secretary, reports UNB.The Public Administra-tion Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Saturday.Among the government officials, there are...
A major stride in sustainable urban development was taken on Saturday as the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) under Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry has successfully introduced 'Climate Resilient Inclusive Urban Masterplan (CRIUMP)', reports UNB.This master planning approach...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-12 00:00:00
There is no scope to further increase the minimum wage of garment workers, said Convener of Garment Workers Coordination Council Shahjahan Khan on Friday. The garment workers who are still on their movement for further wage hike simply express political...
The 14-party alliance led by ruling Awami League will hold a peace rally at Kamrangirchar in the capital on November 14 (Tuesday) to protest the terrorism, sabotage and anarchy of BNP-Jamaat evil forces, reports BSS.The rally will begin at 3...
SIRAJGANJ, Nov 11 (UNB): Police arrested a local BNP leader from Sirajganj's Diardhangora area on Friday night in a case filed over sabotage.Shamim Hossain Hitler, co-organizing secretary of Sirajganj district unit BNP, was arrested around 10:30pm, Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC)...
Awami Jubo League, an associate body of the ruling Awami League (AL), on Saturday brought out joy rally and development procession marking its 51st founding anniversary, reports BSS.The joy rally was brought from historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the city and...
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday said that the digital centre will emerge as a role model for the 'Smart Bangladesh' that is envisaged to be materialised by 2041, reports BSS."The initiative (digital centre) has gained international...
COX'S BAZAR, Nov 11 (BSS): Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud today said BNP went into hiding and they call movement and blockade from hidden place."BNP's blockade means arson terrorism and torching people...
Jatiya Party Chairman Golam Mohammad Quader speaking at a function marking a number of lawyers' joining the party held in the city on Saturday — Focus Bangla
BNP on Saturday said the Chinese Ambassador Yao Wen's recent comment on Bangladesh's next elections does not reflect the hopes and aspirations of people, reports, reports UNB.In a statement, BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi called upon China...
MAHESHKHALI, Nov 11 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday once again urged the people to vote for Awami League in the upcoming national elections to help finish the incomplete development programmes."Election is coming, and I want you to vote...
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