SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Realtors reckon the fallout as lending to finance construction by banks had been on a decline over the last two quarters in signs of a slowdown in fresh investment and stagnation in both public-and private-sector projects.The amount of outstanding construction...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Mymensingh, Sylhet and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday). Day and night temperature may remain...
The Department of Pharmacy at American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) recently organised a day-long event on its campus to celebrate World Pharmacists Day 2025. The event began with an inaugural rally, joined by eminent personalities including Ishtiaque Abedin, Founder Member, Board...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Senior reporter of The Financial Express (FE) Mohammad Jubair Hasan has clinched the 2nd Silk Road Global News Award 2025, initiated by China under its flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project.At a recent event in Kunming of southwest China's...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
With technical assistance from the ICT Division's Aspire to Innovate (a2i) programme and UNICEF, the National University (NU) has, for the first time, introduced a mandatory four-credit Information and Communication Technology (ICT) course at the undergraduate (UG) level.The initiative aims...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud, Adviser to the Ministry of Planning, said women would soon have the legal rights to take their children to workplaces, as the interim government is working to establish a provision in this regard.He said women are not...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
The Economic Reporters Forum (ERF) Institute started the journey of its academic programme on Monday.Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed inaugurated the programme by unveiling a plaque on the ERF premises in the capital. A MoU was also signed between the...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Bangladesh loses about 34 per cent of its farm produce before it reaches consumers, which is equal to 4.0 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), said experts on Monday. Addressing a national conference titled "Towards Zero Food...
Former Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik has been shown arrested in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) under the Money Laundering and Acquisition Act, reports BSS.He is an accused in the case for his alleged involvement in acquiring wealth...
A Dhaka court has placed Kazi Md Mamunur Rashid, secretary general of the Raushon Ershad-led faction of the Jatiya Party (JaPa), on a six-day remand in an anti-terrorism case, reports bdnews24.com.Metropolitan Magistrate Sarah Farzana Haque passed the order on Monday...
Locals have allegedly beaten a union parishad (UP) member to death after tying up his hands and feet in Narayanganj's Araihazar, reports bdnews24.com.The incident occurred in Brahmandi union's Baliapara area on Monday morning, according to Khondoker Nasir Uddin, chief of...
A Dhaka court has sent former MP Faizur Rahman Badal to jail in a case filed over an attempted murder in the New Market area during the July Uprising, report agencies.Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ehasnul Islam passed the order on Monday...
Former Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun passed away at a hospital in the capital on Monday, reports UNB. He was 78.He breathed his last while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH)...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Detective Branch (DB) police arrested two former members of parliament (MPs) and 11 other leaders and activists of banned Awami League (AL) and affiliated bodies from different areas in the capital.The arrestees are Faizur Rahman Badal, former MP of Brahmanbaria-5...
Election Commission (EC) Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed has said a 150-member European Union (EU) observer team will come to Bangladesh to monitor the upcoming 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) election, reports BSS."This observer team of around 150 members will arrive in...
BNP Standing Committee Member Hafizuddin Ahmed has said Jamaat-e-Islami is pushing for a proportional representation (PR) system to block elections as it has always feared the people's verdict, reports UNB"A political party that opposed the Liberation War in 1971 and...
BNP and its affiliates of Dahka-10 constituency formed a human chain on Satmasjid Road in the capital's Dhanmondi on Tuesday, demanding end to movement of unauthorised and unfit vehicles and calling for introduction of modern traffic system. — Focus Bangla
WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (AFP): US President Donald Trump was set to push Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to an elusive Gaza peace plan on Monday in high-stakes talks at the White House.Trump has presented a 21-point plan to...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
The government has decided to include five more items in the TCB's (trading Corporation of Bangladesh) sales drive of essential items from November next.The new items are: Tea, salt, detergent, and two types of soaps.Commerce Adviser Sk. Bashir Uddin said...
The government has set a 22-day ban from Oct 4 to 25 to protect female hilsa during their breeding season, report agencies.Fisheries and Livestock Advisor Farida Akhter announced that during this period, the catching, transportation, sale, and storage of hilsa...
Bangladesh has reported three more dengue-related deaths in the past 24 hours, alongside 735 new hospitalisations due to the Aedes mosquito-borne disease, reports bdnews24.com.The tally of hospital admissions has reached 46,786 this year, alongside 195 deaths.A health directorate bulletin on...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Two more Chinese companies are set to receive work orders for two additional components of the Saidabad Water Treatment Plant (WTP) Phase III, paving the way for full-scale physical work on the long-delayed project, more than a decade after its...
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (UNB): Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has invited Imran Khan, a prominent American investor of Bangladeshi origin, to invest in Bangladesh's burgeoning fintech, healthcare and social -business sectors.Khan met the Chief Adviser on Saturday (US time).Prof...
KHAGRACHHARI, Sept 29: Tension remains high in Khagrachhari hill district following Sunday's violence and protests over the alleged rape of a schoolgirl, which left three people dead and several others injured in Guimara upazila.Meanwhile, an indefinite road blockade organised under...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Two out of every three female garment workers were married before reaching 18 years of age, and nearly 65 per cent of them had their first pregnancy before turning 18, revealed the findings of an icddr,b study on Monday. Furthermore,...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
In two separate cases, a Dhaka court has ordered the freezing of Tk1.33 billion worth of investments belonging to the Sikder family in Thai companies, as well as 114 accounts in local banks that belong to the former personal secretary...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Finance Adviser Dr Salehuddin Ahmed has said money launderers in Bangladesh are far smarter than the government, often outwitting bankers and even central bank officials."Companies often shift money from one place to another repeatedly before it leaves the country. That...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has allowed partial export-oriented industrial enterprises to import raw materials duty-free against bank guarantee under a move to help expand the country's export trade.To this effect, the revenue authorities issued a notification on Monday.Enterprises...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Government's domestic borrowing from nonbanking sources bloats as institutional and individual depositors pour their money into secure government securities (G-Sec) failing to find better alternative investment choices as yet, sources say.Normally, major portion of government's domestic debts to meet budgetary...
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