FE REPORT | 2023-10-24 00:00:00
e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh (e-CAB) looks to organise a "Smart Logistics Expo" on November 17-18 to showcase various products and services needed for improving the standard of logistic service in the country. The association has requested the commerce ministry to...
Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) recognized the academic excellence of outstanding students and awarded an integrity award to its employees at its head office on Sunday, says a press release.As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, IDCOL awarded...
FE REPORT | 2023-10-24 00:00:00
As small businesses struggle to stay afloat due to uneven market competition, Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun said there should be a perimeter, outlining what the large conglomerates can manufacture and what not."Like the catfish, large industries are swallowing...
SYDNEY, Oct 23 (AFP): Novak Djokovic and Iga Swiatek will both open their 2024 campaigns in Perth, Australia, after Serbia and Poland were drawn in the city for the mixed teams United Cup on Monday.Serbia will face the Czech Republic...
BERLIN, Oct 23 (AFP): Union Berlin manager Urs Fischer was confident on Monday his struggling side would get "back on track" against Napoli in Tuesday's Champions League clash.Champions League debutants Union host the Serie A winners in the German capital...
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (AFP): Indian cricketing hero and spin great Bishan Singh Bedi has died aged 77, sports minister Anurag Thakur said Monday, calling it a "huge loss" to the sport."Former captain of the Indian cricket team, a bowler...
The ceremonial draw of the season's curtain-raiser soccer meet, the Independence Cup Football Tournament 2023, was held at the BFF conference room in the city on Monday, reports UNB.The vice president of the Bangladesh Football Federation and chairman of the...
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (AFP): India's Mohammed Shami was on Monday described as being "like a Ferrari" following his performance in the World Cup victory over New Zealand as a career which has witnessed a series of professional and private...
Putting behind their dismal performance, Bangladesh seek a redemption as they will take on mighty South Africa in their fifth game of the ICC Cricket World Cup at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai tomorrow (Tuesday). The match will start at 2.30...
Bangladesh received a huge blow ahead of their crucial game against South Africa in the ongoing ICC World Cup as their premier fast bowler Taskin Ahmed looks doubtful for the game due to a shoulder injury, reports Cricbuzz.Taskin did not...
CUMILLA, Oct 23 (UNB): A doctor who was injured in an attack by his rivals in his chamber in Cumilla city's Race Course area on Saturday succumbed to his injuries at United Hospital in Dhaka early Monday.Zahirul Haque succumbed to...
Two persons were killed in separate road accidents in Chapainawabganj and Jashore districts on Sunday, report agencies.In Jashore, a 32-year-old biker was killed and a pillion rider was injured as the motorcycle carrying them lost control and rammed the railing...
RANGPUR, Oct 23 (BSS): Farmers of the region will get all-out assistance and technologies to expand cultivation of short-duration and highly profitable BARI Sarisa-14 for increasing oilseed production to meet the edible demand locally. Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Agricultural...
Local people built a bamboo bridge on the broken part of a road as authorities do not take any step to repair it. The photo was taken from Bhelakopa area of Kurigram district on Monday — Focus Bangla
LAUNCESTON, Oct 23 (Reuters): Chinese refiners dipped into crude stockpiles for the second time in three months in September as they processed record volumes of oil even as imports dipped.Refiners drew about 240,000 barrel per day (bpd) from inventories in...
SINGAPORE, Oct 23 (Reuters): Gold prices eased on Monday as US 10-year Treasury yields advanced higher, while investors kept a tab on growing unrest in the Middle East and awaited US economic data.Spot gold was down 0.2 per cent at...
RIYADH, Oct 23 (Arab News): QatarEnergy has signed a sale and purchase agreement with Eni to supply up to 1 million tons of liquefied natural gas annually to Italy. In a press statement, the state-run petroleum company revealed that it...
US says it will defend treaty ally Philippinesafter Chinese ships ram Manila vesselsMANILA, Oct 23: The United States renewed a warning Monday that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack under a 1951 treaty, after Chinese...
LAHORE, Oct 23 (Reuters): A Pakistani court indicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his deputy in an official secrets acts case on Monday, his party said, in another blow for the jailed former cricket star ahead of a general...
MALE, Oct 23 (BBC): "We don't want any foreign military boots on Maldivian soil… I promised this to the people of the Maldives and I will live up to my promise from day one." Dr Mohamed Muizzu, who won the...
RAMALLAH, Oct 23 (AFP/Reuters): Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on Monday accused Western nations of giving Israel a "licence to kill" in its war against the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas.Israel has been bombing Gaza since Hamas gunmen poured across...
Living costs are rising alarmingly day by day. House rent, food prices, and travel expenses are exorbitantly high. However, of all the factors that add to our living costs, it is the house rent that eats up a lion's share...
Dhaka city still has some parks that keep us connected to nature. These are the places for children to play and elderly people to spend some time in leisure. When so many people visit a particular spot, it becomes necessary...
Dhaka is not at all a walkable city. There are footpaths along the city streets but most of them are occupied illegally by shops, makeshift kitchen markets, street hawkers, parked cars and motorcycles, waste dumps and even construction materials. Especially,...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2023-10-24 00:00:00
Rice being the staple diet of the Bengali people, farmers here use 75 per cent of their cultivable land for growing this crop. Since rice cultivation is water-intensive, even in the past when modern irrigation technology was not introduced, farmers...
Shihab Sakar | 2023-10-24 00:00:00
Of late there have been a few expert dialogues, seminars, view-exchanges etc on the state of rivers in Bangladesh. Those were organised apparently with a view to reaching consensus on the remedies to the adversities facing these rivers --- both...
A revision of the minimum wages for readymade garment (RMG) workers is overdue, particularly in the context of the soaring inflation. All parties involved with the industry ---apart from workers and garment owners, the two main stakeholders, labour leaders, rights...
M Rokonuzzaman | 2023-10-24 00:00:00
Lessons from Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are vivid for natural resource-poor countries like Bangladesh to sustain economic growth to reach high-income status. An alternative is needed as economic value creation from natural resources and labour suffers from saturation before...
Abdul Monem Limited (AML), a leading construction company of the country, entered an agreement with Roads and Highways Department (RHD) for the 'WeCARE Phase-1: Jhenidah-Jashore Highway (N-7) Improvement' Project at a ceremony at the RHD office in Tejgaon of the...
European aviation giant Airbus visibly expects a greater stake with longer presence in Bangladesh as the aircraft builder, virtually a consortium of an intra-European enterprises, is nearly set to add 10 wide- body planes to national airlines Bangladesh Biman fleet,...
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