MANIKGANJ, May 06 (BSS): The harvesting of onion, the main cash crop of three upazilas of the district, has already been completed with excellent production during the current season, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said.The onion cultivation exceeded the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-05-07 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI, May 06: The Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) is facing a dire situation as its Burn and Plastic Surgery Department experiences a shortfall of manpower and beds, disrupting medical services for patients. With an average of more than 40...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-05-06 12:00:00
Two contrasting developments in the two city corporations! While the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has taken up a programme of planting 200,000 saplings in two years, the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is felling trees on the Satmasjid road...
BERLIN, May 5 (AFP): Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck on Friday presented plans to cap the price of electricity used by energy-intensive industries to insulate the sector against sharp cost increases, but the proposal immediately sparked criticism.The cap, which would...
WASHINGTON, May 5 (AFP) : President Joe Biden's national security advisor said on Thursday he will travel to Saudi Arabia at the weekend for talks with Saudi leaders as well as Indian and Emirati officials."This weekend I will be in...
GUWAHATI, May 5 (Reuters): Authorities in India's northeastern state of Manipur have evacuated some 20,000 people to camps under army protection to prevent escalation of ethnic violence just days after clashes between tribal and non-tribal groups.There have been incidents of...
PARIS, May 5 (AFP): Major financial firms that publicly support efforts to limit global warming have billions invested in the world's largest oil and gas companies -- including in some of their products marketed as green -- a new report...
MOSCOW, May 5 (AFP) : A fire broke out at an oil refinery in southern Russia on Friday, a day after authorities confirmed a drone attack, Russian state-run news agencies reported.Agencies gave conflicting reports about the cause of Friday's blaze...
LONDON, May 5 (Reuters): COVID-19 no longer represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday, a major step towards the end of the pandemic that has killed more than 6.9 million people, disrupted the global economy...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Three more workers succumbed to their burn injuries on Friday in an incident of boiler blast that took place inside a steel factory in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district. With the latest count, the death figure has reached four as...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Over 650 Bangladeshis are reportedly passing hard times in the Port of Sudan, as the authorities concerned have allegedly failed to arrange ships in three days to shift them to Jeddah.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said non-cooperation of a...
COX'S BAZAR, May 5 (UNB): A 27-member delegation including 20 Rohingyas left for Myanmar's Rakhine on Friday morning to monitor the arrangements made by the Myanmar government ahead of a planned repatriation of Rohingya refugees.The delegation left Cox's Bazar's Teknaf...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Global rice prices increased further in April, indicating a meagre chance of a decline in domestic markets amid higher import costs. According to the latest report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) under the UN, the prices of Indica...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Enrolment-certificate tenure for exporters is being extended to five years from existing one year under efforts to enhance the ease of doing business, particularly to facilitate preferential extort trade, sources said.The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) has decided to extend the...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Jakarta has proposed holding the meeting of the 4th Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) of Bangladesh Indonesia-Preferential Trade Agreement (BI-PTA) on May 16-19. The trade ministry of Indonesia has requested the Bangladesh embassy in Jakarta to consider May 16-19 as the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is welcomed to the UK by Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK Saida Muna Tasneem and UK representative Alison Blackburne on Friday. The Bangladesh premier arrived in London to attend the coronation of Charles III as...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
The government is likely to allocate 5.0- -per-cent higher funds in the upcoming national budget for expanding coverage of the social safety-net programmes, taking the total allocation for the poor and vulnerable to Tk 1.19 trillion, officials said.Besides, the current...
Profit-booking pulls stocks downStocks saw a moderate correction in the outgoing week, snapping a four-week winning streak, as cautious investors opted for profit-booking on quick-gaining shares. Market experts said investors preferred to realize some gains as well as rebalance their...
Colourful balloons are being carried to a place by a rickshaw as spotted in Dhaka's Ramna Park area on Friday. Children love to play with these balloons, which sell at Tk 60-80 per piece in front of different parks and...
An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 was felt in the capital and its adjoining areas around 05:57am on Friday.The epicentre of the earthquake was located around 14 km east-southeast of Dhaka’s Dohar upazila, at a depth of 10 km, according to...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Pressures on Bangladesh economy from a twin-shortfall like current-account deficit and fiscal deficit may ease following resilient exports, moderation in commodity prices, and lower imports following import tightening.Such bellwether is predicted by Fitch Ratings Inc—an American credit-rating agency—in its latest...
London, May 05 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the Commonwealth Leaders' Event in London on Friday afternoon.The event started at 2:00 pm local time (7:00 pm Bangladesh time) at Marlborough House of the Commonwealth Secretariat at Pall Mall.At the...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON and JUBAIR HASAN | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank plans to introduce a much-hyped 'interest rate corridor (IRC)' following India's model to ensure coordinated lending and deposit rates under a financial-reform package. This is believed to be part of the central bank's monetary-policy-modernisation framework suiting an IMF...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places across the country in the next 24 hours until 06:00 pm today (Saturday), according to the Met Office.Day temperature may rise by (1-3)°C and...
Youth crushed under train in cityAn unnamed youth has been killed under the wheels of a moving train in Karwan Bazar Rail Crossing in the city.. "The boy (17) was trying to cross the rail line in a hurry as...
RAJSHAHI, May 05 (BSS): Juicy and delicious fruit mango has started appearing in the markets of Rajshahi city and its adjacent areas as its harvesting began since Thursday morning, abiding by the instruction of local administration. Like the previous years,...
FE REPORT | 2023-05-06 00:00:00
Police recovered dead body of an unidentified man, presumably aged around 60, from the mazar area of the High Court premises in the capital on Friday. An official of Shahbagh Police Station told the FE that after getting information they...
SIRAJGANJ, May 05 (UNB): Train communication between Dhaka and the country's Western, Northern and Southern regions has remained halted since Friday afternoon after a freight train got derailed on Dhaka-Iswardi rail tracks in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj. Md Mahbubur Rahman,...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has expressed his gratitude to Georgia State Senate for passing a resolution praising Bangladesh's unprecedented economic development and contribution to regional peace for more than a decade, reports UNB.During his official visit to Washington, DC...
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