SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
Entomologists have warned that Bangladesh may see an extended outbreak of dengue fever this year, with cases doubling this month compared to September due to heavy rains.The health authorities recorded 15,866 hospitalisations in September and 1,149 cases in just the...
TEL AVIV, Oct 3 (Reuters): The Israeli military intercepted the last boat in an aid flotilla attempting to reach blockaded Gaza on Friday, a day after stopping most of the vessels and detaining some 450 activists including Swedish campaigner Greta...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
A new Asian Development Bank (ADB) recipe holds out over US$2.5 billion as project-financing assistance and $4.5 billion as standby funds for Bangladesh in the next calendar year, official sources said. The multilateral development financier has "almost finalised" the financing...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank has picked and may appoint administrators to the five crisis-hit Islamic banks this week under the modus operandi for their merger into a state-owned sharia-based lender, officials said.The central bank is executing the mergers under provisions of the...
KYIV (Ukraine), Oct 03 (AFP): A Russian drone attack sparked a fire on a farm in Ukraine's northeast overnight, killing some 13,000 pigs, emergency services said on Friday.Animals have suffered along with people throughout the three-and-a-half-year war. Previous Russian strikes...
RABAT, Oct 03 (AFP): Fresh demonstrations demanding reforms to the health and education sectors took place Thursday in Morocco for a sixth consecutive day, following the death of three people in clashes the night before.In Rabat, demonstrators carrying Moroccan flags...
East Java, Oct 03 (Al Jazeera): Dewi Ajeng was at home in Probolinggo – a city in Indonesia’s East Java – when she received a chilling message in the group chat of her son’s school in Sidoarjo, located some two...
BORDEAUX, Oct 03 (AFP): Camille Senon, a feminist and union activist who narrowly escaped the Nazi massacre in her French village of Oradour-sur-Glane died on Thursday aged 100, the mayor's office said.Senon was a young woman when the Third Reich's...
NEW DELHI, Oct 03 (AFP): India and China will resume direct flights between their two countries this month after a five-year suspension, officials said, with bookings opening on Friday.Direct flights between the world's two most populous countries were suspended during...
CANTERBURY, Oct 03 (Reuters): The Church of England named Sarah Mullally on Friday as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first woman to hold the 1,400-year-old office, prompting criticism from conservative Anglicans mainly based in Africa who oppose women bishops.Mullally,...
TOKYO, Oct 03 (Arab News): An artificial intelligence tool that can detect tiny, hard-to-spot brain malformations in children with epilepsy could help patients access life-changing surgery quicker, Australian researchers said on Wednesday.It is the latest example of how AI, which...
NEW DELHI, Oct 03 (Reuters): Hundreds of AI-generated Bollywood videos with 16 million views have been deleted from Google's YouTube after Reuters reported they were similar to those at the centre of a legal challenge filed by a celebrity couple...
MANCHESTER, Oct 03 (AFP): Britain was on heightened alert Friday to ensure the Jewish community's safety following an attack outside a Manchester synagogue on a Jewish holiday that killed two people and seriously injured three.Police shot dead the attacker in...
PARIS, Oct 03 (Agencies): Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, health officials said Thursday, as Hamas was still considering its response to US President Donald Trump's proposal for ending the nearly two-year war.The...
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (AFP): US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled Thursday that "substantial support" for farmers would be announced next week, particularly for those growing soybeans, as they struggle with fallout from President Donald Trump's trade conflicts.Worries have been growing...
TOKYO, Oct 3 (AP): A major Japanese beverage producer says it has been hit by a cyberattack that left its operations disrupted for the fifth day on Friday, and Japanese media are reporting that stocks of the company's popular beer...
Gold edged higher on Friday and was set for a seventh straight weekly gain, buoyed by expectations of further U.S. interest rate cuts this year and worries over the impact of a U.S. government shutdown, reports Reuters.Spot gold was up...
MILAN, Italy, Oct 3 (AFP):The Italian government said Thursday it was trimming its growth estimates for this year and the next, but said its deficit-to-GDP ratio was currently at the EU-mandated threshold of three percent.For this year, gross domestic product...
LONDON (Reuters): Oil prices were stable on Friday but remained on course for a weekly loss of about 7-8% after news of potential increases to OPEC+ supply. Brent crude futures were up 21 cents, or 0.33%, at $64.32 a barrel...
ISTANBUL, Oct 3 (AFP): Turkish inflation accelerated for the first time in more than year in September, reaching 33.29 percent, official data showed on Friday.The annual inflation rate rose from 32.95 percent in August.On a monthly basis, consumer prices rose...
BUENOS AIRES, (Argentina), Oct 3, (AFP) : Argentina's struggling President Javier Milei suffered a new setback Thursday as Congress overturned his vetoes of laws increasing funding for public universities and pediatric care.Senators invalidated both vetoes, which had already been rejected...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Oct 03: The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has taken an initiative to issue licences to recruit new operators. Despite the protest by the existing berth and ship handling operators, the CPA has decided to recruit the new operators. Sources...
Agrani Bank PLC Managing Director Md. Anwarul Islam attended as the chief guest the conference of regional heads and branch heads of the bank under the Khulna circle in Jashore on Friday. At the conference 97 borrowers of the bank...
Only two goldsmiths work at a jewellery factory at Tantibazar in the city on Thursday as the orders for making gold ornaments have fallen sharply following excessive hikes in gold prices.— FE photo by Shafiqul Alam
JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
The government plans to launch a new digital transformation initiative to integrate siloed, fragmented, and duplicative data from public agencies across multiple ministries and divisions, say Planning Commission sources.The initiative aims to link the National Board of Revenue (NBR) with...
Stockholm has unexpectedly become Europe's busiest hub for initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025, raising $6.8 billion so far this year.The Swedish capital has surpassed traditional centres like London, with small and mid-sized companies finding fertile ground to list in...
Shares in the Asia-Pacific markets traded mixed on Friday, reports CNBC.Japan's Nikkei 225 climbed 1.85 per cent to close at 45,769.50, while the Topix ended 1.35 per cent at 3,129.17.Shares of Japanese conglomerate Hitachi closed over 10 per cent higher...
Global equity funds witnessed robust demand in the week through October 1 as an inline US inflation report and weaker-than-expected private payrolls data renewed hopes of Federal Reserve rate cuts, reports Reuters.Investors bought a net $49.19 billion worth of global...
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters): Giorgio Armani representatives have approached potential buyers over a minority stake in the renowned Italian fashion group, three sources told Reuters, starting a de facto auction, opens new tab for a slice of one of the...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-04 00:00:00
The benchmark equity index ended the holiday-shortened week flat, halting the three straight weeks of decline as bargain hunters came out of the sidelines to snap up beaten-down stocks while most investors stayed cautious ahead of the upcoming earnings season....
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