CHANDPUR, Feb 13 (UNB): Train movement between Chattogram and Chandpur via Laxham was restored after six hours of suspension early Saturday due to an accident at Laxham Junction on Friday night.Station Master of Chandpur Railway Station, Shoebur Rahman, said five...
OUR CORRESPONDENT COX'S BAZAR, FEB 14: Tourism in Cox's Bazar, the country's premier seaside destination, has slowed significantly since the national election preparations and due to the upcoming Ramadan, with hotel bookings falling to as low as 15 per cent.Stakeholders...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
MANIKGANJ, Feb 14: Flower farmers in Singair, Manikganj have been getting a good price for their produce as the demand rose sharply in February. Growers believe that flowers worth at least Tk 35 million will be sold in February alone.Red,...
KOLKATA, Feb 14 (Agencies): Tom Banton's unbeaten 63 led England to a five-wicket T20 World Cup victory over Scotland in Kolkata on Saturday that kept Harry Brook's side on course for the Super Eights.Victory in their final Group C match...
COLOMBO, Feb 14 (Agencies): The blockbuster clash between India and Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2026 is set to go ahead as scheduled after a lot of drama here on Sunday at the R Premadasa Stadium. Almost 30 years...
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, Feb 14 (Reuters): Global drugmakers are stepping up their search for China-developed experimental medicines as they cut costs ahead of patent expirations, with industry analysts predicting licensing deals will surge to a fresh record this year.The value of...
Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, has been gaining ground in the US over the past months, data showed, even as it draws global censure and regulatory scrutiny after being used to generate a wave of non-consensual sexualized images of women...
Mohammad Mufazzal | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
The Dhaka bourse witnessed a 3.77 per cent leap in its broad index to 5,426 points on August 3, 2024, as investor enthusiasm ran high over anticipated market reforms following the ouster of the previous regime.That marked the biggest single-day...
After the recent India-EU FTA, Bangladesh has realised that there was a probable vulnerability of its exports in the EU market in the coming years. However, the executed Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) between the USA and Bangladesh appears to...
Bangladesh's agricultural land is rapidly declining, threatening national food security. Fertile fields are being sold to housing developers, filled for roads, or diverted for industrial projects. Government data show that around 70,000 hectares of arable land are lost to non-agricultural...
Atiqul Kabir Tuhin | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
The dust has finally settled on the 13th parliamentary elections, with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) securing a landslide two-thirds majority in a 300-seat parliament. The election not only restored democracy but also paved the way for the formation of...
Asjadul Kibria | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
Though the services sector has become a leading source of growth and employment in the least developed countries (LDCs), it has yet to provide adequate, productive, and formal jobs. Instead, service-centric jobs in these countries are clustered in low-productivity and...
Ranjan Solomon | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
The long awaited national election, held 17 years after the last genuinely contested vote, has brought with it a wave of public expectation. For many residents of Dhaka, some of those expectations are surprisingly simple, though no less reasonable for...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2026-02-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh is facing its most severe cost-of-living crisis in recent history, characterised by the highest inflation in South Asia, projected at roughly 8.9 per cent in 2025 and expected to remain high in 2026. According to the Bangladesh Bureau of...
Nearly 150,000 ballots across Gazipur's five constituencies have been declared invalid.These include both parliamentary and referendum ballots, though the cancellation rate for the referendum has been significantly higher, reports bdnews24.com.Official records show that the highest number of referendum ballots cancelled...
MONTREAL, Feb 13 (Reuters): Air Canada sees a near 30 per cent surge in corporate traffic flowing overseas as the country seeks to diversify trade away from the United States, fueling demand for international travel, a company executive said on...
MOSCOW, Feb 13 (AFP): Russia's central bank on Friday cut its benchmark interest rate to 15.5 per cent from 16 percent as economic growth slows under the impact of the war in Ukraine and Western sanctions.Russia's economy expanded by just...
JEDDAH, Feb 13 (Arab News): Saudi Arabia recorded a 220 per cent year-on-year increase in new mining exploitation licenses in 2025, issuing 61 permits, according to a statement from the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources. This reflects the attractiveness...
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters): The United States has issued a general licence to India's Reliance Industries Ltd that will allow the refiner to buy Venezuelan oil directly without violating sanctions, two sources familiar with the matter said.Following the U.S....
Gold started trading at discounts in India this week for the first time in nearly a month as volatile prices deterred buying, while demand was robust in China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, reports Reuters.Indian bullion dealers this...
JAKARTA, Feb 13 (Reuters): Malaysian palm oil futures posted its second weekly loss on Friday, even as it closed higher on the day, on the back of selling pressure from slow demand. The benchmark palm oil contract for April delivery...
LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters): Oil prices steadied on Friday after US inflation data, recovering from an earlier dip on news that OPEC+ is leaning towards a resumption in production increases.Brent crude futures gained 9 cents, or 0.13 per cent, to...
ANTANANARIVO, Feb 13 (AP): Cyclone Gezani killed at least 36 people, injured more than 370 and destroyed almost 18,000 homes across Madagascar, authorities said Thursday.Madagascar's president has declared a national disaster and made a plea for international leaders to help...
BHUBANESWAR, Feb 13 (Reuters): An Indian health worker who contracted the deadly Nipah virus in December has died, a senior health official from the eastern state of West Bengal said on Thursday.The woman - a nurse - was one of...
BANGKOK, Feb 13 (AFP): Thai caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's conservative party, which won a stunning election victory at the weekend, agreed to form a coalition with jailed ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's party, both announced on Friday.Anutin's pro-military and pro-monarchy party...
GENEVA, Feb 13 (Reuters): A UN human rights spokesperson said on Friday she was very worried about attacks on independent UN experts after European governments criticised the organisation's special rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese.This follows condemnation from Germany and other...
OTTOWA, Feb 13 (Arab News): Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and opposition leaders will attend a vigil in the remote town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, on Friday to pay respects to the victims of one of the country's worst...
KATHMANDU, Feb 13 (AP): Thousands of supporters of Nepal's former king gathered outside Kathmandu airport Friday to greet him and demand the restoration of abolished monarchy in the Himalayan nation.Gyanendra Shah waved to the cheering crowd from the sunroof of...
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (Reuters): Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has lost 85 per cent of the sight in his right eye, his lawyer told the Supreme Court, an ordeal that adds to legal and political challenges the leader...
MUNICH, Feb 13 (Agencies): European leaders strove to shore up relations with the United States and insisted they were strengthening their defences as they gathered for a security conference on Friday under heavy pressure from President Donald Trump.Political and business...
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