FIRUZ NAWER | 2023-11-08 00:00:00
Bangladesh is a country renowned for its rich cultural diversity and home to a wide range of culinary traditions. Pitha is one of the many beloved dishes that grace the culinary landscape of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, pitha is more than...
Md. Imran | 2023-11-08 00:00:00
Ancestral house of minister of industries Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun MP. — Photo: Md. Imran Starting from the Narinda Police Fari, if you walk straight, you will find a pink-coloured house dated back to the British colonial period. A few...
Israt Hossain | 2023-11-08 00:00:00
A significant opportunity to capitalise solar power through both thermal and photovoltaic methods prevails in Bangladesh as per the Draft National Solar Energy Roadmap, with an average daily solar radiation of about 4.5 kWh/m2. Despite the immense potential, solar photovoltaic...
Every year, a number of fire incidents take place in Bangladesh. The main reason behind this alarming rise of fire accidents is our lack of awareness, which costs lives of innocent people. We have recently witnessed several deadly fire incidents...
Antibiotics play an effective role in curing diseases. It is a well-established fact that over half of hospitalised patients receive antibiotics. However, the unnecessary use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains, leading to a rapidly growing...
Syed Mansur Hashim | 2023-11-08 00:00:00
It is understandable that private investors at home are jittery about making fresh plans for expanding their business in the country at a time when politics of violence in the run up to the next general election seems to be...
Wasi Ahmed | 2023-11-08 00:00:00
The presence of arsenic in almost all regions of the country is no recent find. It was more than 20 years ago when the dreaded arsenic was found to have emerged as a health crisis in many parts of the...
It is the sheer economic reasons that drive working age people from the rural or semi-urban backgrounds to the urban centres both within a country and across the border. Though cross-border migrant workers contribute to the economic growth of their...
GAZA, Nov 6 (Reuters): UN agency leaders saying "enough is enough" demanded a humanitarian ceasefire on Monday nearly a month into Gaza's war, as health authorities in the enclave said the death toll from Israeli strikes now exceeded 10,000.Israel has...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
Nine more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Monday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 1,417 this year.With these additional fatalities, the total casualties have reached 1,417 including 841 in Dhaka, according...
Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in the ICC World Cup clash at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on Monday.Skipper Shakib Al Hasan (82) and Najmul Shanto (90) helped Bangladesh to win the match. Earlier UNB adds, Charith...
FE REPORTPervasive social inequalities follow the process of de-democratisation in Bangladesh, according to eminent economist Prof Rehman Sobhan."Inequalities in income have transformed into inequalities in politics, which lead to de-democratisation process in Bangladesh," he told a book-unveiling event on Monday.The...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and like-minded political parties called another two-day nationwide blockade from Wednesday, following the one that ended on Tuesday amid arsons, sporadic clashes and police clampdown.The BNP and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) made the announcements...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
Exporters are to enjoy an enhanced ease of doing business as the government is set to extend bond-licence tenure to three years to save their time and cost. The Customs Bond wing of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) made...
Mathews first int'l cricketer to be timed outSri Lanka's Angelo Mathews was on Monday controversially given "timed out" in a World Cup clash against Bangladesh, becoming the first man to suffer the dismissal in the 146-year history of international cricket....
REZAUL KARIM AND YASIR WARDAD | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
A recent study by the commerce ministry has found a syndicate of cold-storage owners responsible for the record hike in potato prices this year.However, a top cold-storage businessman denied any involvement in price manipulation. He claimed the government data on...
FE REPORT | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
Central-bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder expressed hope on Monday that the country's ailing economy would make a recovery by next June."There is nothing to worry about. We have passed the tough times and are now at the bottom line. There...
Traffic flow on Dhaka roads increased on Monday, the second day of BNP's nationwide blockade, as the day went on. The photo was taken from Kakrail-Malibagh road on Monday afternoon. — FE photo by KAZ Sumon
JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
Struggling non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) see a fortune change with spread between rates zooming under the latest reporting format incorporating interest on non-performing assets, officials said.According to the central bank-modified methodology, the difference between weighted average rates on deposits and...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
Fuelled by soaring prices of food, the rate of headline inflation went up again in October this year after a slight fall in September from the previous month's level.The overall inflation stood at 9.93 per cent, the highest in the...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2023-11-07 00:00:00
Petroleum-fuel imports face risk for payment default to international suppliers to Bangladesh who appear averse over unpaid bills of around US$475 million, evidently amid dollar dearth.State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) is currently delaying the payment of dues amid persistent dollar...
Brigadier General (retd) Khandaker Farhad Hossain joined GPH International School as the principal of the institution, says a press release.He officially took charge on Sunday in the presence of all teachers, officials, and employees. GPH International School, founded by the...
BFUJ-Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists has strongly condemned the attacks on journalists and camera-persons allegedly by BNP cadres on October 28 and denounced a statement issued by UN's human rights body on November 1 over the incident, reports BSS."We condemn...
Lieutenant General Waker-uz-Zaman, principal staff officer of Armed Forces Division, speaking at the 42nd Annual Commanders' Conference at the Army Service Corps Centre and School at Jahanabad Cantonment in Khulna on Sunday — ISPR
FE REPORTSkilled manpower shortage is among the biggest challenges to the development of the country's health sector as the government has augmented the healthcare service, according to health minister Zahid Maleque.The health sector would need more skilled manpower, but it...
RANGPUR, Nov 06 (UNB): A union parishad (UP) chairman was hacked to death by miscreants in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur on Sunday night.Mahbubar Rahman was the chairman of Pairabanda UP of the upazila and general secretary of the upazila unit...
Ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan Shahabuddin Ahmed on Monday said it is the time to focus on the human resources along with diversified economic sectors' cooperation as Bangladesh has a huge pool of skilled manpower that can be sent for...
MAKKAH, Saudi Arabia, Nov 06 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina performed the holy Umrah in Makkah on Monday.She is now on a three-day official visit to Saudi Arabia,The PP along with her younger sister Sheikh Rehana performed the Umrah and...
HONG KONG, Nov 6 (Reuters): Global fund managers sold China equities sharply in October despite further steps from authorities aimed at boosting the world's second-largest economy, according to a report from Morgan Stanley that cited data from fund flow tracker...
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