It's a welcome piece of news that the export of apparel to Japan from Bangladesh fetched $1.22 billion during the first nine months of the current financial year. The earnings during the corresponding period of the last financial year were...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Apr 26 (AP): Sri Lanka's president urged lawmakers Wednesday to approve a four-year International Monetary Fund program to restructure the country's $17 billion in foreign debt.Parliament began a three-day debate Wednesday on President Ranil Wickremesinghe's proposal to...
WASHINGTON, April 26 (AFP): US President Joe Biden will attend the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima, Japan, from May 19-21, the White House announced Tuesday.On the agenda will be the war in Ukraine, global food and climate crises, and "securing...
BRUSSELS, Apr 26 (AP): New rules requiring airlines to use more sustainable fuels across the European Union have been agreed by negotiators from member countries and the EU Parliament in a bid to help decarbonize the sector.The European Commission, the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) collected Tk 6.60 billion as toll from the Padma Bridge since opening of the bridge for traffic. According to the BBA website, it got Tk 1.11 billion toll from the vehicles during the Eid-ul-Fitr holiday...
These benches at Bangabazar market in Dhaka lie empty on Wednesday. After a devastating fire that destroyed the entire market earlier this month, the authorities arranged the benches so the traders could continue business ahead of the Eid. Now after...
FE REPORT | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Commercial banks have been asked to organise hybrid meetings - involving both in-person and remote attendees. The Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a circular in this regard on Wednesday as part of austerity measures as well as for reducing electricity consumption....
ARAFAT ARA | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Probashi Kallyan Bank (PKB), the state-owned financial institution devoted to serving non-resident Bangladeshis, has fallen short of its promise to boost remittances from abroad since its inception over a decade ago. Despite being established in 2011 with the aim of...
Tokyo, Apr 26 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met Emperor of Japan Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon.The premier attended an audience with the emperor at the Imperial Palace at 3:00pm local time.The Bangladesh premier also...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh has large-scale underinsurance both for life and non-life assets and the deficiency poses potential threats to sustainable economic development, according to a latest study.The study was conducted under the Bangladesh Insurance Sector Develop-ment Project (BISDP) of Bangladesh, funded by...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Concerns are growing over the fate of the Bangladeshi expatriates in Sudan, as the Bangladesh mission is unlikely to start evacuation process during the 72-hour ceasefire brokered by the US that started on Wednesday.Foreign ministry officials on Wednesday said that...
FE REPORT | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh has failed to meet its hajj quota this year for the first time due mainly to higher costs of hajj packages.Out of the country’s quota of 127,198 people this year, a total of 3,500 are yet to register. State...
FE REPORT | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Financial institutions (FIs) will not be allowed to have more than one representative director on the board of directors from their sponsoring companies, according to the central bank directive issued on Wednesday. Usually, such sponsoring companies appoint more than one...
TOKYO, Apr 26: Dhaka and Tokyo signed eight instruments on the second day of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's four-day state visit to Japan at the invitation of her Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, reports BSS.Those were signed on agriculture, metro...
TOKYO, Apr 26 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday Bangladesh and Japan successfully elevated the bilateral relations to a 'Strategic Partnership' from the existing 'Comprehensive Partnership'."Prime Minister Kishida and I have discussed today the entire gamut of our...
FE REPORT | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
Non-performing loans triggers serious risks to the banking system, the International Monetary Fund cautioned and suggested that Bangladesh should further tighten measures against the buildup of bad loans. Making such observations, a visiting team of IMF representatives Wednesday wanted to...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the revenue authority not to cut the existing corporate-tax rates further in the budget in order to keep revenue mobilization uninterrupted, sources said.In a meeting with the National Board of Revenue (NBR) on...
Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the Met Office.Mild heat wave may sweep over the districts of Chattogram, Rangamati, Feni, Cox's...
Awami League leader Advocate Qamrul Islam MP at a programme organised by Dhaka Foundation in the city recently to distribute food and clothes among the destitute on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr
Eight more people were hospitalised with dengue in the 24 hours until Wednesday morning, reports UNB.Of the new patients, five were admitted to hospitals in Dhaka and the rest outside it, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).Thirty-three...
The trial proceedings against four accused including former superintendent of police (SP) Babul Aktar and US based-Youtuber Elias Hossain in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) started through submission of the chargesheets, reports UNB.Though there was a...
Chief of Bangladesh Army General SM Shafiudin Ahmed left Dhaka on Wednesday on a three-day official visit to India, according to an Inter Services Public Relation Directorate (ISPR) press release.During the visit Gen Shafiuddin will take the parade salute after...
President Mohammed Shahabuddin paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara of Gopalganj on Wednesday, reports UNB.He placed a wreath at the mausoleum of the late leader in Tungipara and stood in solemn silence for...
SM Najmus Sakib | 2023-04-27 00:00:00
There is presence of toxic microplastics in 90 per cent of frog samples collected from Bengal delta, reveals a study that terms the friendly creature a worrying threat to the native ecosystem.The shocking presence of microplastics in frogs poses a...
Genocide scholars, activists, politicians and offspring of martyred intellectuals opined that International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS's) recognition for crimes committed by Pakistan in Bangladesh during the 1971 Liberation War as genocide is one step ahead for the country to...
LAXMIPUR, Apr 25 (UNB): Two former leaders of Juba League (JL) and Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), associate bodies of Awami League, have been shot dead in an attack allegedly by their rivals over establishing supremacy in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur...
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the statement made by BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi after his release from jail is a clear manifestation of freedom of speech in the country, reports BSS.After his release from the...
The Election Commission (EC) has issued a directive asking the aspirant candidates of the upcoming Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) polls to follow the electoral code of conduct during submission of the nomination papers, reports BSS.As tomorrow (Thursday) is the last...
The 61st death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq will be observed across the country today (Thursday), reports BSS.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued a message paying rich tribute to the memory of Sher-e-Bangla. The ruling Awami League will pay...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has directed the authorities concerned to take preparation from now for making the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha journey as smooth as the holy Eid-ul-Fitr one, reports BSS."There will be cattle markets, trucks carrying animal and...
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