A mild heatwave has been sweeping over Bangladesh and may continue reportedly for two-three more days. It is causing great discomfort almost everywhere in the country. Temperatures are soaring to unprecedented levels, making it difficult for people to carry out...
Children never dislike snacks like potato chips. Not only are they cheap, they taste great and children love it. Chips are also an easily available snack, but they can be harmful for children's health. While enjoying an occasional handful of...
Imam Hossain | 2023-05-11 00:00:00
Dhaka city has a total of 342 government-run primary schools. No matter where these public schools are located in the capital, they have seven things in common. 1. The schools have no permanent posts for clerks, cleaners and security personnel....
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2023-05-11 00:00:00
The eighty-year-old Joe Biden has made it known that he is ready to have a new four-year term in the White House. That ought to be looked at as quite a normal happening in American presidential politics. Every four years...
The dire prediction of scorching heat wreaking havoc in South Asia has yet to come true. But the sweltering record temperature sweeping across not only this region but also its neighbouring South East Asia has all the making of putting...
A thirsty rickshaw-puller drinks water to get relief during an unbearable heat wave in Dhaka's Hatkhola area on Tuesday. — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) asked the banks on Tuesday to display the "hotline numbers" of the respective bank and the central bank in visible places of their all branches and sub-branches, so that the customers can lodge complaints easily and...
Bangladesh Army-run Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited (BMTF) will supply 30 million blank smart cards to the Election Commission (EC).The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase (CCGP) in a meeting on Tuesday approved the proposal along with some others from different...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
A Dhaka Court on Tuesday sentenced Rabiul Islam alias Arav Khan, a controversial gold trader, to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in an arms case filed against him in 2015.Judge of the Special Tribunal-14 in Dhaka, Murshid Ahmed, delivered the...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
After the successful completion of the country's longest and most challenging Padma Bridge, the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) is planning to build three more bridges with expected lengths between 8.0 and 10 kilometers each. The BBA, which executed the 6.15...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has instructed banks to deduct a maximum of 20 per cent tax on revenues from digital marketing for social media platforms including Facebook and television radio, reports UNB.The Foreign Exchange Policy Department of the Central Bank issued...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
American firm GE's hydrogen-fuelled gas turbines are capable of leading the energy transition in Bangladesh, said GE Gas Power South Asia Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Deepesh Nanda on Tuesday."As Bangladesh diversify its energy mix, GE's hybrid power solutions can create...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
The members of the wage board for the country's ready-made garment (RMG) industry will sit on May 24 to review minimum wage for the sector's workers amid demands for a hike to Tk 23,000. The RMG workers' wage was last...
YASIR WARDAD | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
In the run-up to the Eid-ul-Azha, prices of locally produced spices, including ginger, garlic, green chilli and onion, have become prohibitive in the last one week, forcing consumers to cut their consumption.Ginger price hit all-time high of Tk300-360 a kg...
Unilever Consumer Care's profit grows 17pc in Q1 Unilever Consumer Care's profit grew nearly 17 per cent year-on-year to Tk 201.35 million in the first three months of this year despite a 10.6 per cent drop in the sales revenue....
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
A low-pressure system in the southern Bay of Bengal and adjoining seas is anticipated to transform into a severe cyclonic storm, with the possibility of hitting the commercial capital, Chattogram, between May 13 and 14, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
Noted economist professor Dr. Nurul Islam, the first deputy chairman of the country’s first planning commission, breathed his last around 12:00pm local time on Tuesday in Washington, DC, of the USA. He was 94.Adnan Morshed, a professor at the Catholic...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
High subsidy requirement remains main concern in the forthcoming fiscal budget set to be placed in parliament at a time when the economy is facing severe internal and external shocks, sources say.The finance division will submit draft budget to the...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh needs to comply with 32 international conventions to avail GSP Plus facilities until 2029, the European Union envoy said here on Tuesday.It emphasised ratification and implementation of the conventions on environmental, labour, and human-rights standards, among others."…the goal in...
ISLAMABAD, May 9 (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested Tuesday during a court appearance in the capital for one of dozens of cases pending since he was ousted last year.His arrest follows months of political crisis and...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
Prices of almost all medicines have increased manifold silently to the misery of commoners some of whom skip lifesaving recipe to manage rising cost of living, latest market surveys show.Prices of some drugs, which are used for communicable and non-communicable...
Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, having chances of rain/thunder showers at one or two places over Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours until 06:00 pm today (Wednesday), according to the...
Police have recovered the hanging body of a Jamuna Television journalist from his flat in a seven-story building on Kalabagan Lake Circus Road in the city, reports UNB. apital on Tuesday noon.The dead is Kudrat-e-Khoda (27), newsroom editor of Jamuna...
The 6th death anniversary of Prof Dr M Alimullah Miyan, pioneer of non-government university in Bangladesh and founder vice chancellor of IUBAT, will be observed today (Wednesday), says a press release.Prof Dr M Alimullah Miyan was born at Kailine village...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, among others, greet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with a bouquet on her arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the city on Tuesday after wrapping up...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
South Asia has the world's highest inequality of opportunity as the region has suffered economic shocks over the past years, the World Bank said in its latest regional economic update.Over the past two decades, sustained economic growth in South Asia...
CHATTOGRAM, May 09 (UNB): A Chattogram court on Tuesday sentenced a former commander of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 20 years imprisonment in two cases filed over the Explosives Substances Act and the Anti-Terrorism Act. The convict was...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-10 00:00:00
The High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by former Superintendent of Police Babul Akhter challenging the legality of framing charges against him in the murder case of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu.The HC bench of Justice SM Kuddus...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday said the government has once again started the 'old game' of arresting and harassing BNP leaders and activists to clear the field before the next general election, reports UNB."The way they...
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