Bangladesh Congress has urged the Election Commission (EC) to allocate the 'Water Lily' symbol to the party if it is included in the official list of electoral symbols, noting that it was denied this symbol during its registration six years...
A Dhaka court has acquitted 167 people, including BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas and the party's senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, of the charges in a case lodged over the torching of two police vehicles in 2018,...
Bangladesh Jamaaat-e-Islam has urged the Election Commission (EC) to make necessary preparations to hold the referendum on the July National Charter 2025 on a separate day in November ahead of the 13th parliamentary election, said its Nayeb-e-Ameer Dr Syed Abdullah...
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the next Jatiya Sangsad (JS) will take decision on the application of the proportional representation (PR) system, report agencies.He said the decision about PR should be left to the next parliament....
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Bata Shoe Company (Bangladesh) Limited has named Faria Yasmin as its new managing director - marking the first time in the company's 63-year history in Bangladesh that a woman will lead its operations.Ms. Faria will officially assume her new role...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has set October 30 as the final date for mobile users to deactivate or transfer ownership of SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) cards that exceed the maximum limit of ten registered under a single National...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus urges the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to establish a social-business fund for supporting teeming young agricultural entrepreneurs, women farmers and food processors in Bangladesh.The head of interim government, now in Italy, mooted the...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Disbursement of agricultural loans rose notably in August of the current fiscal year, reflecting higher demand for seasonal credit amid ongoing efforts to boost rural productivity.According to the latest data from Bangladesh Bank (BB), farm-loan disbursement stood at Tk48.26 billion...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh is advancing towards a fully paperless customs system by 2028 with the move to expand the digital window for the clearance of imports.Recently, the Chief Adviser's Office instructed the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to include 18 more public...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR AND JAHIDUL ISLAM | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
After the end of the project's tenure, the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has decided to cut the procurement of some dredgers, a key component of the scheme, as execution drags on for seven years, insiders said on Saturday.Since...
The United States, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey signed a declaration on Monday as the guarantors of a Gaza deal aimed at ending two years of war."The document is going to spell out rules and regulations and lots of other things,"...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Curing Bangladesh's economic development-limiting fuel crunch gets under focus as exploration in the south coast and releasing locked Bhola gas caches gather speed.Sources say the government has fielded agencies to carry out feasibility study on pipeline setting to carry the...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
A large segment of Bangladesh's voters remains unaware of the widely-discussed proportional representation (PR) electoral system for the upper house, according to a latest survey.The survey revealed that 68.2 per cent of females and 45.9 per cent of males had...
The government has designated a building within Dhaka Cantonment to serve as a temporary jail, reports UNB.The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a gazette notification in this regard on Sunday, a day after announcing that 15 army officers wanted by...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
A growing wave of Chinese and Indian companies is eyeing Bangladesh's textile and garment sector as an emerging alternative for relocation, driven by steep US tariffs and rising production costs.Industry insiders say global buyers, particularly from the United States, have...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh's six-point proposal was mooted at the World Food Forum 2025 in Rome on Monday by Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus with a call for a fundamental overhaul of the global economic system to eliminate hunger and inequality.The head of...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
Conventional banks go jockeying to seize switching clientele through unconventional Islamic-banking operations as a vast market emerges as spinoffs from merger of five financially weakened shariah-based lenders, sources say.The readied merger of the five unconventional banks under reform recipes pursued...
SINGAPORE, Oct 13 (Reuters): A record number of Chinese restaurants and cafes have flooded Singapore over the past year, using the island as a test bed for global expansion as they escape pallid consumer demand, extreme price competition and super-squeezed...
Al Arafah Islami Bank, a leading Sharia-compliant bank, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ACI Godrej Agrovet Private Limited. Under the agreement, ACI Godrej will collect sales prices from its distributors through the bank's branches, sub-branches and other...
World Standards Day will be observed in Bangladesh on Tuesday, in line with the global initiative to raise awareness about the importance of quality in products and services.The theme of this year's World Standards Day is "A Shared Vision for...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
A staggering 56 percent of the small-scale fishermen remain excluded from the government aid during the ban on fishing forcing 70 percent of them to take informal and exploitative loans, said a new study on Monday.The situation often compels members...
Prime Bank PLC has entered into a strategic partnership with Anwar Landmark Limited, a reputed real estate developer, to offer exclusive discounts on flat purchases for its valued customers. A formal signing ceremony marking this collaboration was held at Prime...
FE REPORT | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
The government has officially declared the Cox's Bazar Airport an international airport through a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism (MoCAT).According to the notification issued on Sunday night, the declaration was made under Sub-rule (1)...
YASIR WARDAD | 2025-10-14 00:00:00
The country's edible oil refiners on Monday increased the retail price of bottled soybean oil by Tk 6.0 per litre, setting the new rate at Tk 195. Prices for loose soybean oil and palm oil have also risen by Tk...
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters): Finance chiefs gathering in Washington this week were ready to discuss the global economy's surprising resilience in the face of Donald Trump's tariff assaults - until the US-China trade war erupted again with the US president...
SEOUL, Oct 13 (Reuters): Samsung Electronics is expected to post its highest third-quarter profit since 2022, driven by higher memory chip prices supported by server demand as customers rebuild inventories, analysts' estimates showed.The world's biggest maker of memory chips is...
NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters): Goldman Sachs has lost more than a dozen senior investment bankers this year, a higher number than normal, after internal shakeups and a sluggish start to 2025 drove them to seek new opportunities, according to...
NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters): JPMorgan Chase on Monday unveiled a plan to hire more bankers and invest up to $10 billion in US companies considered critical to US national security and economic resilience.The move is part of a broader...
HONG KONG, Oct 13 (AFP): Asian markets sank Monday after US President Donald Trump reignited his trade war with China by threatening last week to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from the country.However, the losses were tempered slightly by...
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