Prime Bank recently organised a day-long training programme on how to prevent money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism (CFT), in collaboration with the South Regional Office and Jashore branch. The programme was presided over by Md. Ziaur Rahman,...
ICB Asset Management and Ibn-Sina Trust recently signed a corporate health agreement. Under this agreement, officers and employees of ICB Asset Management and their family members will receive special healthcare facilities from The Ibn-Sina Trust. The signing ceremony was attended...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) and Mercantile Bank kicked off a month-long entrepreneur development training programme in Narayanganj on Monday. The initiative is financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and implemented by the Finance Division of Ministry of Finance under the...
LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters): Global financial messaging network SWIFT and more than 30 global banks announced on Monday they were now working "at pace" on making cross-border payments instantaneous and on a system capable of handling the various new forms...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Dulamia Cotton Spinning Mills has declared a 3 per cent cash dividend for general shareholders for FY25, its first payout in 16 years, despite the company remaining out of operation since 2018.It managed to declare profits after many years due...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Unitholders of Asian Tiger Sandhani Life Growth Fund have yet to receive their dues, even six months after the fund's closure, with uncertainty deepening as the delay drags on.The trustee of the mutual fund said the payment could not be...
The National Academy for Autism and Neuro-Developmental Disabilities (NAAND) in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, is the only government secondary school in the country dedicated to children with autism and neuro-developmental disabilities. Currently, 44 students study here, not only learning academic subjects but...
Bangladesh has recently fallen behind some African countries in the Global Innovation Index (GII), which is a matter of deep disappointment. A strong and permanent foundation for research has yet to be established in our country. While students in the...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Is hilsa really leaving the shores of Bangladesh? Reports of constantly falling hilsa catch during the peak monsoon breeding season (July to October) is indeed concerning. Though hilsa's share of the nation's total fish production is only 12 per cent,...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
Managing inflation remains the thorn in the interim government's side. Just when there were signs of respite a couple of months ago, consumer prices have surged again-this time driven by the twin shocks of rising rice and vegetable prices. To...
Bangladesh has failed to keep pace with the burgeoning service sector worldwide in line with digital economy. But the country's demography with the highest ever percentage of working population of 39.39 per cent should have taken advantage of the service...
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 29 (BSS): A man was crushed under the wheels of a train on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar railway line near Ward No-4 of Kanchanabad union under Chandanaish upazila of the district on Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Nayan,...
MAGURA, Sept 29 (UNB): The body of a 15-year-old schoolboy was recovered from the Kumar on Monday morning, 10 hours after he drowned in the river while taking a selfie.The deceased was Dipto, a class VIII student of Magura Model...
PABNA, Sept 29 (bdnews24.com): Rail communication between Dhaka and the northern districts has been restored nearly seven hours after a Panchagarh Express train derailed at Bhangura upazila in Pabna district.Authorities have formed a four-strong committee to investigate the incident, which...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-30 00:00:00
SYLHET, Sept 29: Lighting, water, sanitation and security arrangements have been ensured at the Laldighirpar field (market) in Sylhet city, so that street vendors can continue their trade operations there, clearing all the busy footpaths and streets of the city...
BEIJING, Sept 29 (BBC): A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media.Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal...
KABUL, Sept 29 (AFP): Afghanistan's Taliban government released an American citizen from detention on Sunday, a week after freeing an elderly British couple.In a statement the ministry identified the detainee as Amir Amiri and said he had been handed over...
HANOI, Sept 29 (AFP): A typhoon that ripped roofs off homes has killed dozens of people across Vietnam and the Philippines, officials from both countries said on Monday, as a weakened storm Bualoi crossed into neighbouring Laos.The typhoon battered small...
LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters): Britain will consider tightening the rules over how migrants can settle permanently in the country by making applicants prove their value to society, interior minister Shabana Mahmood will say on Monday.The plan is the latest government...
MOSCOW, Sept 29 (Reuters): Talks on reducing strategic nuclear weapons must first be conducted between Russia and the US, but the arsenals of Britain and France will ultimately have to be included in negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted...
GRAND BLANC, Sept 29 (AFP): A man opened fire in a Mormon church in Michigan and set the building ablaze on Sunday, killing at least four people in the latest deadly tragedy that US President Donald Trump called part of...
Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Mymensingh, Sylhet and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday). The highest temperature on Sunday was recorded at 36.4 degrees Celsius in...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-29 00:00:00
Police arrested 1,296 individuals through conducting special drives across the country during the 24-hour period from 6:00 am Saturday to 6:00 am Sunday.Of the total arrestees, 843 were arrested on charges of different cases, while 453 for other reasons. A...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-29 00:00:00
Yields on treasury bills (T-bills) fell below the central bank's policy rate on Sunday, as banks opted to park excess liquidity in the government securities amid sluggish private credit demand before the national election.The cut off yield, generally known as...
Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, began across the country on Sunday amid due religious fervour and festivity.The five-day celebration began with invocation of Goddess Durga on the day of Maha Shasthi, reports UNB.This year Durga...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-29 00:00:00
Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Sunday said around 0.4 million (four lakh) security personnel have been deployed across the country for safe and peaceful celebration of the Durga Puja.Of the deployed security personnel, 0.1 million...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-29 00:00:00
The Dhaka University (DU) administration on Sunday clarified that a portion of the ballot papers for the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) and hall union elections 2025 were initially printed at Nilkhet. However, the papers were later processed and...
Several hundred people who had completed all formalities but failed to travel to Malaysia within the stipulated time have staged a demonstration on a major road in city's Karwan Bazar for over an hour, reports bdnews24.com.The protesters took to the...
YASIR WARDAD | 2025-09-29 00:00:00
Bangladeshi consumers are hardly getting any benefits from the global plunge in wheat prices, as big local importers-cum-millers are making huge profits.Prices of flour and flour-made items even have increased in the country during the last three months, showing a...
There's no room for confusion over Jatiya Party's registration and symbol, said Jatiya Party (JaPa) presidium member Rezaul Islam Bhuiyan on Sunday, reports UNB.He said this emerging from a meeting between a team of GM Quader-led Jatiya Party (JaPa) and...
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