Nilratan Halder | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
Loneliness and being alone are not synonymous. One can feel lonely in a crowd while someone else can seek solitude and enjoy being alone away from the known social circle. Loneliness is marked by emotional and social detachment or withdrawal....
The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2017, called upon at least 75 per cent of its member states to prioritise dementia as a public health issue by 2025 and to formulate national policies and action plans on dementia prevention and...
The ongoing move by the Bangladesh Bank to purchase US dollars from commercial banks at higher exchange rates has sparked considerable debate. To many observers, paying more than necessary for foreign currency appears counterintuitive. Yet this policy is not a...
Tanim Asjad | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
A news report, carried in a vernacular daily, revealed that approximately 60 per cent of the seats in the country's state-owned technical schools and colleges remain vacant each year. This situation, while disappointing, also presents an opportunity for improvement in...
Syed Muhammed Showaib | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
Audit reports are powerful documents in the world of finance. They are meant to be pillars of trust that help investors, banks, donors and regulators make sense of the often-complex world of corporate activity. As independent watchdogs, auditors provide a...
Admittedly, in the post-autocracy dispensation, the volume of inward remittance has been demonstrating a steady rise as the expatriate workers are turning in greater numbers to official money transfer channels including banks and authorised digital platforms. The highest ever remittance...
Abdullah A Dewan | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
Every country pays for its debt — but not every country pays with its dignity, institutions, and future. In the United States (US), the headlines scream of fiscal disaster as the national debt crosses US$36 trillion, with nearly $950 billion...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions with heavy falls at places until 6:00 pm today (Friday). The highest temperature on Thursday was 33.5 degrees...
A prisoner died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Thursday, hours after being admitted there. The deceased was identified as Md Amir Hossain, 38, reports UNB.Amir fell sick at Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday night, leading to his admission...
Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui delivering speech to the Durga Puja organisers and Hindu devotees, as he visited the Dhakeshwari Mandir and the Ramna Kali Mandir (temples) in the capital on Wednesday.
Director General of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (Ansar-VDP) Major General Abdul Motaleb Sazzad Mahmud along with other high officials visited two major temples in Gazipur and Tangail on Wednesday to observe the security measures on the occasion of...
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 2 (UNB): Some low-lying areas in the port city of Chattogram were submerged due to heavy overnight rainfall on Thursday, causing immense suffering of residents and commuters, particularly the office-bound people. Many commuters were forced to wade through...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-03 00:00:00
Locals formed on Thursday a human chain blocking the Purbachal's 300 Feet Road demanding the construction of footbridges, zebra crossings and proper traffic management.The demonstration was held at Mastul near the Balu Bridge in Purbachal in the morning.Local residents in...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-03 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 02: A fire broke out in a container loaded with computer and mobile accessories at the Chittagong sea port's New-mooring Container Terminal (NCT) on Wednesday.The blaze, suspected to have been caused by mobile batteries, started at around 8...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-10-03 00:00:00
Bangladesh has set a fresh target of green house gas (GHG) emission reduction, 26.74 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2eq), by 2035 in its latest Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0), a national plan to show global commitment to the...
Amid crowd, two persons holding a banner displaying messages of peace - 'Greetings of Bijoya Dashami' and 'Free Palestine' - during the emersion of the idols on Cox's Bazar beach on Thursday, the last day of the Durga Puja. —...
Chief Adviser (CA) Professor Muhammad Yunus returned home on Thursday wrapping up his nine-day New York tour to attend the 80th UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, reports BSS.A commercial flight of Emirates airlines carrying the Chief Adviser and his entourages...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-03 00:00:00
Vegetable prices rose again last week, with green chilli selling at up to Tk 350 a kg and brinjal reaching Tk 200 a kg, as heavy rains damage crops and push up prices of other vegetables.Meanwhile, prices of rice, beef,...
CUMILLA, Oct 2 (BSS): Jasim Uddin, former senior vice president of Cumilla Metropolitan BNP, and ex-general secretary of the City BNP, passed away at a hospital in capital on Thursday. He was 56.BNP leader Advocate Sabera Alauddin confirmed the news...
Health and Family Welfare Adviser Nurjahan Begum said no one can disrupt the communal harmony in Bangladesh, reports UNB."No one can destroy communal harmony in Bangladesh. Humanity and service are respected like religion. It is important for us to remember...
Poet and political thinker Farhad Mazhar has demanded that nurses be granted equal professional status to doctors, alongside the immediate formation of a 'National Nurse Commission' to ensure health services for the people, reports bdnews24.com.Speaking at the Zahur Hossain Chowdhury...
RU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-03 00:00:00
"Oikkoboddho Notun Projonmo" panel candidates, nominated by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) for RUCSU polls, have stepped forward to feed the cats and dogs residing at campus as its closure has curtailed the availability of food they consume.Residential hall dining facilities,...
The Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sansad (BAGCHAS) held a rally at Dhaka University on Thursday afternoon to express solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was mostly intercepted by Israel, reports UNB.Titled 'Sumud: Steadfast,' the programme emphasised Palestinians' right to self-determination.A...
KHAGRACHHARI, Oct 2 (UNB): Police on Wednesday filed three separate cases against 1,000 unidentified people over the recent violence in Khagrachhari Sadar and Guimara upazilas for attacks on law enforcers and murders.Violence flared in the hill district over the alleged...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-03 00:00:00
Leaders and activists of the National Citizen Party (NCP) allegedly misbehaved with journalists at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka on Thursday morning.The incident took place around 9:45am at the VIP gate of the airport. At the time, NCP...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has strongly condemned and protested what it described the 'heinous role' of the occupying Israeli authorities in seizing Gaza-bound aid ships and urged the international community to ensure their safe passage, reports BSS.In a statement issued on Thursday,...
The Election Commission (EC) has sent a letter to the National Citizen Party (NCP) attaching a list of 50 electoral symbols, asking the party to pick one from the list instead of its desired 'Water Lily' symbol, reports UNB."The National...
In order to fend off any untoward incident, Army, Police, Ansar, Fire Service and River Police personnel and dog squad were deployed in the city's Sadarghat area on Thursday centring the immersion of idols in the Buriganga River on the...
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will lead the party in the upcoming 13th national election, likely to be held in February, said his foreign affairs adviser Humayun Kabir, reports UNB.Talking to reporters at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday morning...
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (AFP) : The Trump administration has announced plans to terminate dozens of clean energy projects and freeze billions of dollars for major projects in New York, intensifying a stand-off with Democrats over a US government shutdown.US media...
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