FE REPORT | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has intensified its intelligence surveillance and patrolling across the country to ensure security during the Durga Puja. The surveillance will continue until October 3.The elite force teams have been deployed in their respective areas of...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The honesty, integrity and perseverance of late Samson H. Chowdhury have been lauded on his 100th birth anniversary.Speakers at a memorial service at St Mary's Cathedral in the capital on Thursday also described him as a pioneer of Bangladesh's industrial...
DU CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) Election Commission (EC) said an investigation is underway into the allegations that ballot papers for the DUCSU election were printed in an unsecured manner at Nilkhet.In a press release, signed by Chief Returning...
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka has ordered the arrest of Rofiqul Alam Chowdhury (61), an Awami League (AL)-backed lawyer, in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act following allegations that he chanted anti-state slogans in the capital's Gulistan area.Rofiqul...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami brought out a procession in Savar, Dhaka, on Friday, pressing for implementation of its five-point demand. — Collected
CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Sep 26 (UNB): Election Commissioner Md Anwarul Islam Sarker has issued a stern warning that officials who were involved in irregularities in previous elections will not be allowed to perform duties in the upcoming 13th national parliamentary election.He emphasised...
KHULNA, Sept 26 (BSS): Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar has pledged to build a clean, corruption-free and humane Bangladesh if his party comes to power.Speaking as the chief guest at a student and youth rally in Dumuria upazila...
Alongside confirming its own candidates, the BNP is expediting seat-sharing deals with right, left, moderate and liberal democratic parties as part of preparations to contest the upcoming Jatiya Sangsad election, reports UNB.Since BNP has already announced it would form a...
Kushtia, Sep 26 (UNB): A family dispute allegedly over money has led to the tragic deaths of an elderly man and his young son in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district.The victims were identified as Shumbhu Charan Biswas, 80, and Bijoy...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has taken an initiative to order the seizure of two luxury cars, two houses and 12 bank accounts found in the United States in the name of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy,...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
Physical work on the Saidabad Water Treatment Plant is finally set to begin after 10 years with an aim to ensure the supply of clean and safe water for city-dwellers from the Meghna River.The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority...
NEW YORK, Sept 26 (UNB): The interim government on Friday reacted to the statement issued by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), noting that it is "deeply disappointing" that it issued a public statement based on unverified social media posts, rather...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
Bangladesh's currency appears increasingly getting overvalued as subdued import demand and weak private-sector credit flows coincide with robust remittance inflows.The trend is reflected in the central bank's latest reading of the real effective exchange rate (REER) index, which rose to...
REZAUL KARIM | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The interim government is moving with urgency to resolve the long-standing issue of the repayment of Pabna Sugar Mill loans received under Pakistan Supplier Credit, sources say.In this regard, a high-profile inter-ministerial meeting was held between representatives from Bangladesh and...
Feni, Sep 25 (UNB): Former Prime Minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been included as a member of Fulgazi upazila BNP committee in Feni district, her ancestral home.She has repeatedly been elected MP from Feni-1 constituency (Fulgazi upazila).On Thursday...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus reaffirms his interim government's stress on labour reforms and mentions other baits for wooing large-scale foreign direct investment into Bangladesh. He was addressing a high-level dinner hosted at the Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The government will issue certificates of land ownership (CLOs) and land smart cards to land owners to ensure the authenticity of ownership. A land ministry high official involved in the process has told The Financial Express the government has finalised...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
The outstanding loans and advances by scheduled banks in the transport sector saw a consistent decline over the last year, reflecting a slowdown in borrowing and cautious lending by banks.Transport loans included road transport (excluding personal vehicles and lease finance),...
WASHINGTON, Sep 26 (AP): Microsoft said Thursday it had disabled services to a unit within the Israeli military after a company review had determined its artificial intelligence and cloud computing products were being used to help carry out mass surveillance...
NEW YORK, Sept 26 (UNB): Seeking diversified and additional global funding for the Rohingyas, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Friday urged the international community that there must be a political solution to the problems in Rakhine involving ethnic stakeholders...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-27 00:00:00
Revision of the current fiscal budget takes place two months ahead of usual timing--by January -- as the interim regime decides to complete it before a new government takes office.Usually, budget is revised by March, before preparing next fiscal budget,...
HUALIEN, Taiwan, Sept 26 (Reuters): Rescue workers in Taiwan battled through thick mud on Friday, looking for seven people still missing after Super Typhoon Ragasa this week sent a wall of water into a small town on the east coast.The...
SRINAGAR, India, Sept 26 (Reuters): Indian police arrested Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk on Friday, two days after New Delhi blamed him for violent protests demanding statehood for the Himalayan federal territory in which four people died, and suspended mobile internet...
BANGKOK, Sept 26 (AFP): A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than previously thought and in Asia not Africa, a new study said Friday.The findings are based on...
TEHRAN, Sept 26 (Reuters): Iran and Russia signed a $25-billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic republic, Iranian state media reported Friday, just hours ahead of the likely return of sweeping UN sanctions on Iran.“A deal for...
ANTANANARIVO, Sept 26 (Arab News): The streets were largely deserted in Madagascar's capital Friday as residents took stock of the damage from a day of violent protests over frequent power cuts and water shortages.The protest in Antananarivo, led by hundreds...
KATHMANDU, Sept 26 (AFP): After Nepal's deadliest unrest in decades, caretaker Prime Minister Sushila Karki is working to forge her cabinet, restore order and prepare for elections within six months.Karki, a 73-year-old former chief justice, faces the challenge of balancing...
PARIS, Sept 26 (AFP): A court on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison over a scheme for late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential run.In a verdict that will make the...
CAPRIANA (Moldova), Sept 26 (Reuters): Election officials in Moldova barred a pro-Russian party on Friday from standing in Sunday's parliamentary election, a move that threatens to raise tensions ahead of the high-stakes vote.The decision by the Central Election Committee to...
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