ATHENS, June 14 (AP): At least 59 people have died off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized and sank, authorities said Wednesday.A large search and rescue operation was launched in the area....
BEIJING, June 14 (Reuters): China's foreign minister Qin Gang urged the United States to stop meddling in its affairs and harming its security in a phone call with his US counterpart on Wednesday, a tense preview to Antony Blinken's visit...
KANO, June 14 (AFP): The death toll from a Nigeria riverboat disaster has risen to 106 people as rescue teams continued to search for more survivors, police said on Wednesday.The boat, carrying capsized in the early hours of Monday in...
Bangladesh national football team will play a FIFA International Friendly match with Cambodian national team in Phnom Penh today (Thursday) as a part of their preparation for the eight-nation SAFF championship' 2023 in India, reports UNB.The lone FIFA Tier-1 International...
Chairman of the Minister-Myone Group MA Razzak Khan Raj has been elected Vice-President of the Bangladesh Hockey Federation, says a press release.He has been elected Vice-President of the BHF without opposition recently.He said, "I am delighted to be the federation's...
FE REPORT | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
The High Court on Wednesday asked Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) President Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin, Barrister Syed Sayedul Haque Suman, a Supreme Court lawyer, and others concerned not to give any opinion about the corruption and money laundering allegations against BFF...
Bangladesh Navy chief and Bangladesh Swimming Federation (BSF) president Admiral M Shaheen Iqbal NBP, NUP, NDC, AFWC, PSC, awarding the winner of 'Sheikh Russel 19th National Long-distance Swimming Competition-2023' Sonia Akhtar (woman section) at Gumti River in Debidwar upazila in...
Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) forward Kylian Mbappe has finally spoken about the treatment metted out to Lionel Messi during his two years tenure with the French club and said that he did not get the respect he deserved while in France,...
SEOUL, South Korea, June 14 (AP): Lionel Messi and his World Cup-winning Argentina teammates are expected to draw almost 70,000 fans to Beijing Worker's Stadium for an exhibition against Australia.With tickets starting at around $80 for Thursday's game, local supporters...
BEIJING, June 14 (Reuters): Argentina skipper Lionel Messi has said that "in principle" last year's World Cup would be his fifth and final appearance at global soccer's showpiece event.The 35-year-old forward led his country to a third World Cup triumph...
Najmul Hossain Shanto struck his third Test century as Bangladesh dominated a hapless Afghanistan to score 362-5 on the first day of the one-off Test in Dhaka on Wednesday, reports AFP.Najmul made 146 off 175 balls and set up an...
RAJSHAHI, June 14 (BSS): Massive awareness campaign among the people in general can play a important role in building a tobacco free society.Simultaneously, stringent enforcement of the Smoking and Tobacco Products Usage (Control) Act and related policies is important for...
NOAKHALI, June 14 (UNB): A 45-year-old woman and her daughter were stabbed to death allegedly by some miscreants in the municipality area of Noakhali Sadar upazila on Wednesday. The dead are Nur Nahar Begum, wife of Fazle Azim Kochi and...
KUSHTIA, June 14 (UNB): The body of a Dhaka University (DU) student, who went missing on Monday while taking a bath in Kushtia's Gorai river, was recovered after nearly 43 hours.He was retrieved from Gorai Railway Bridge area on the...
KHULNA, June 14 (UNB): A student of class 7 died and five other students fell sick from heat stroke on Tuesday in different schools under Dumuria and Rupsa upazilas of Khulna district.The dead is Surjit Basak, son of Anupati Basak,...
RANGPUR, June 14 (BSS): Rangpur will be turned into a well-planned smart and modern industrial city where all civic amenities, clean environment and employment and income opportunities will be ensured to improve the quality of life of people. Additional Secretary...
Policemen and fire service personnel remove a century-old tree which fell down on Wednesday as its root got rotten. The picture was taken from the city's Curzon Hall area — Focus Bangla
RANGPUR, June 14 (BSS): The government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is working to save the rural cultural heritage which has almost disappeared due to the intervention of the fundamentalists. "In the light of instructions of the Prime Minister,...
LONDON, June 14 (Reuters): Oil prices rose on Wednesday after bullish oil demand growth forecasts from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and OPEC and as investors awaited the outcome of the US Federal Reserve's June meeting.Brent crude futures were up...
Dhaka Bank Limited (DBL) has signed an MoU with the 'Sarathi- Improving Financial Health' project of Swisscontact, which is funded by the MetLife Foundation, the Happel Foundation, and Swisscontact. The initiative aims to increase access to formal savings and loan...
Thomas Van Der Wielen | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
We often teach our children to focus on their grades and reward them when they answer correctly. Unfortunately, many schools worldwide, including Bangladesh, rely heavily on textbooks and other traditional materials. Hence, the fixed curriculum has been criticised for stifling...
FE EDUCATION DESK | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
North South University MBA Club organised a seminar on ‘Follow Your Passion 5.0’ at the university campus recently. This is the fifth instalment of the Follow your Passion series. The seminar aimed to deepen the understanding of what it entails...
Blood donation is a community responsibility. About one in seven people entering a hospital needs blood. Regular blood transfusion is required for treating thalassemia patients. Hence, many lives can be saved every year by donating blood voluntarily. However, only a...
Children have basic rights to education, balanced diet, health and nutrition and recreation. But unfortunately, many of our children are deprived of these basic human rights. Thousands of children in Dhaka city live in the railway stations, bus terminals, outside...
Imam Hossain | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
Findings in the latest BBS report on child mortality rate in Bangladesh are cause for concern. According to the Bangladesh Sample Vital Statistics launched recently by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, in 2021, the mortality rate of children under five...
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh's (TCB's) latest market intervention in the form of sale of three essentials---soybean oil, sugar and lentil ---purportedly to ease the inflationary pressure off from the low-income segment of people on the eve of Eid-ul-Adha could...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2023-06-15 00:00:00
A host of factors determines our health. For making health policy, and developing and delivering health programmes, it is very important to know what these determinants are, how these influence health, and then develop a useful framework to understand it....
M. Rokonuzzaman | 2023-06-14 12:00:00
Currently, science and technology are no longer a forte of the Muslim world. With a population of 1.8 billion, it has achieved only 12 Nobel prizes. But between 1901 and 2022, as many as 211 people from the 16-million strong...
Amid rising cases of dengue, attendants of patients at Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital are sleeping on a corridor of the health facility at night by setting mosquito nets in a bid to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes. The photo was...
PARIS, June 13 (AFP) : French-Austrian drugmaker Valneva's vaccine candidate against chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus that causes occasional outbreaks across the world, showed promising results in a large new trial, a study said on Tuesday.While the results were hailed as...
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