UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 (Agencies): Ukraine's president accused Russia of waging "a criminal and unprovoked aggression" that undermines all norms of war and the UN charter Wednesday at a meeting of the UN Security Council. Volodomyr Zelensky also urged world...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince has said "every day we get closer" to normalising ties with Israel, reports BBC.A deal between the two powers would mark a huge regional shift. But in a rare interview with Fox News, Mohammed bin Salman...
BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters): Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has arrived in China's eastern city of Hangzhou, kicking off his first visit to the Asian nation since 2004 as he makes further strides to end more than a decade of diplomatic...
NEW DELHI, Sept 21 (Agencies): India suspended visa services for Canadian citizens on Thursday, a foreign ministry spokesperson said, citing security threats to its staff in its consulates in Canada.The announcement came hours after Canada's high commission in India said...
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 21 (BSS): A Chattogram court has awarded life term in prison to former police inspector Mizanur Rahman for kidnapping a college girl and 10 years in prison for attempt to rape the girl in 2011. Both judgments will...
LALMONIRHAT, Sept 21 (BSS): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a man with 1145 bottles of phensidyl from Aditmari upazila of the district on Wednesday evening.A press release, signed by Assistant Media Director of RAB-13 Mahmud...
CUMILLA, Sept 21 (BSS): A team of Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) in a drive fined owners of five pharmacies Tk 36,000 for creating artificial crisis of saline and selling it at higher prices in Tomchambridge area under...
MAGURA, Sept 21 (UNB): A 40-year-old man was killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between two motorbikes on Magura-Jhenaidah road at Choto Bridge in Magura district town on Wednesday night.The dead is Sumon Kumar Sen (40) of...
PIROJPUR, Sept 21 (BSS): The construction work of 50 cyclone shelter centres will be completed by December in the coastal region and disaster-prone areas of the district aiming to minimise the losses and casualties of natural disasters, reports BSS.The 50...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
SYLHET, Sept 21: The inhabitants of the Ashrayon Prokolpo, established by the LGED for landless families, have been suffering much due to its location on low land and lack of road link. The families living in the project area located...
Shihab Sarkar | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
The long queues of book lovers in front of the two large libraries on the greater Dhaka University campus have long been common spectacles in the capital. The reading venues are the Central Public Library and the Dhaka University Central...
Bangladesh has a total of 907 rivers. The total waterways in the country measure more than 20,000 kilometres. These rivers carry thousands of tonnes of silt annually. Siltation reduces a large portion of navigable route every year. So the government...
Jagannath University is a reputed public university. However, this university does not have enough places to organise its programmes. So, most of the programmes are held at its central auditorium. But the auditorium has been lying in a shabby state...
Printed or used paper is often used to serve food in Bangladesh, especially in case of street food. Snacks such as samosa, roll, jhalmuri, bhel puri and pickles are being served and sold in such papers across the country. But...
Zahid Huq | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
The execution of the revised budget worth Tk 6.56 trillion for the financial year 2022-23 during the first eleven months was around 64 per cent. It will take time to get the actual amount of budgetary expenditure for the entire...
Nilratan Halder | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
For five consecutive days more than 3,000 dengue patients got admitted to different hospitals of the country with the lowest death toll of seven recorded in 24 years by 8 a.m. on Tuesday and the highest 21 by 8 a.m....
Denim, acclaimed as a highly prospective growth driver of the country's garment industry, has begun to shed its shine in the export market. A piece of bad news no doubt — a sudden decline in the primacy of Bangladeshi denim...
Afsan Chowdhury | 2023-09-22 00:00:00
It is generally assumed that the urban zones are better off and the rural zones less so. That's partly true and partly not. However, there are a host of other sectors where serious differences exist. These run into socio-economics and...
Major stock markets in the Gulf were little changed in early trade on Wednesday ahead of the US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, reports Reuters.Investors are awaiting a raft of central bank interest rate decisions this week to assess the...
BABUL BARMAN & FARHAN FARDAUS | 2023-09-21 12:00:00
Global development institution International Finance Corporation (IFC) has shown interest in extending its support to DBH Finance to help carve out a loan segment exclusively meant for middle-income people. Not only has it come up with a proposal to invest...
FARHAN FARDAUS | 2023-09-21 12:00:00
The Dhaka bourse has found a deficit of Tk 30.6 million in the consolidated customers' account (CCA) of AVIVA Equity Management.An inspection team of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) examined the customers' account and identified misappropriation of investors' money and...
DHAKA, Sept 20 (BSS) : Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has urged the international community to give priority to the climate vulnerable countries in providing financial and technical support on deep-sea scientific research.He made the appeal at the high-level...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Wednesday said BNP does not like to participate in the elections, sensing their defeat."BNP's absence from the polls will mean their realisation of getting no seats in the upcoming...
Twenty one more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 867 this year, reports UNB.During the period, 3,015 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever,...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
A 22-day government ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting hilsha will come into effect from October 12 in a bid to save mother hilsha during peak breeding season.The ban will continue till November 02.Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
A labour court in Dhaka has kept in record a petition filed for taking cognizance of a criminal charge against DIFE officials for "tampering documents" of a case filed against Dr Muhammad Yunus.Third Labour Court Judge Sheikh Merina Sultana on...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
The government has approved the export of 3,950 tonnes of Hilsa fish, a delicacy beloved similarly by Bengalis both in Bangladesh and West Bengal, to India ahead of the Hindu community's biggest religious festival, Durga Puja.On Wednesday, the Ministry of...
Additional Inspector General of Police (IGP) Md Habibur Rahman has been appointed as the new Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), reports BSS.Habibur, now the chief of Tourist Police, will replace outgoing DMP Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq.The Public Security...
FE REPORT | 2023-09-21 00:00:00
The World Bank (WB) has approved $102 million to help Bangladesh improve riverbank protection and navigability in the Jamuna River, saving people from being displaced, protecting their livelihoods, and spurring economic activities.The approval came on Tuesday at a meeting of...
NEW YORK, Sept 20 (Agencies): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the world financial system needs fundamental shift to address the ongoing financial crisis across the globe.She put forward five points in reshaping the financial system while speaking at...
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