Soma Dhar | 2022-09-24 12:00:00
Data play an important role in determining policies, laws and budget decisions with a view to acquire gender equality under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Amid the pressing need for tools to support data-driven analysis, the Equal Measures 2030 (EM...
The Bangladesh Bank has allowed the return of the treasury chiefs of six banks, who were removed from their positions for making "excessive profits by trading dollars, ignoring banking norms amid a volatile foreign exchange market," reports UNB.Also, the banks...
NEW YORK, Sept 23 (AFP): US securities officials fined Boeing $200 million over the aviation giant's misleading assurances about the safety of the 737 MAX airplane following two deadly crashes, regulators announced Thursday.Boeing agreed to the penalty to settle charges...
NOAKHALI, Sept 23 (BSS): Three persons including a house tutor have been arrested in connection with the murder of Tasnia Hossain Adita, a class 8 student of Noakhali Government Girls High School in the district. Superintendent of Police (SP) Md...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Dengue fever has so far claimed 50 lives this year, as two more deaths were reported while 125 patients were hospitalised with the disease in the past 24 hours until Friday morning.With the new cases, the total number of dengue...
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Vegetable prices witnessed a notable hike by Tk 10-40 a kg last week, raising sufferings of the commoners - already battered with rocketing price trend of most essentials.Vegetable prices surged amid declining supply of the summer varieties as well as...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
The government is planning to provide Tk 43.40 billion fund to the BCIC as subsidy - to cut its existing trade gap in importing and selling fertilisers and make payment of LTR (loan against trust receipt), sources said.The Ministry of...
Activists stage a street play at a programme organised by a few environmental rights organisations demanding the government's move to ensure energy security by focusing more on renewable energy, in front of the National Press Club in the city on...
New York, Sept 23 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has invited the US investors to come to Bangladesh to tap into its liberal investment policy for mutual benefits."I would like to invite US investors to invest in renewable energy, shipbuilding,...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Over Tk 1.5 billion has been splurged on projects in 20 years for installing automated traffic-control system in Dhaka, but to no avail as vehicle movement is still controlled by outmoded hand-signals in this megacity. Sources said not a single...
Stocks back in black after correctionStocks bounced back in the outgoing week, returning to uptrend after a single-week correction, with investors mostly focused on selective large-cap issues. Of the five trading days this week, three sessions posted gains while two...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Grueling inflation now forces a section of low-income people either to go back to villages or shift their family members as a coping strategy, in a repeat of the corona-driven reverse migration. Some analysts see signs of recession in the...
NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 23: Possibility of refining imported Russian heavy crude at Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL) waned further as the country's lone refiner has said in a report that it does not have the capacity to refine the lower grade oil....
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
A final reckoning starts on the outcome of providing trade subsidy to different sectors and how further they need it to become self-reliant as spoon feeding has to stop after Bangladesh's LDC graduation. Finance officials have said in the current...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Speakers at a webinar have demanded annulling the provision of making capacity payments to idle power plants to keep down overall electricity-generation costs and keep the national economy vibrant.They also have suggested a pragmatic forecast over the country's power and...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Overall output of Bangladesh's large and medium industries surged, propelled by export-propped clothing sector, but a large number of others saw a slump as per latest data.Many believe the country has been reeling from the impact of the Ukraine war...
Light to moderate rain/thunder shower accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Saturday), according to the Met Office.It...
Dhaka University Fine Arts Faculty organised a cultural programme, marking the Sharat Utsab (autumn festival) on the university campus in the city on Friday — FE Photo
KHULNA, Sept 23 (UNB): Rahima Begum, 52, of Khulna, who had been missing since August 27, was found dead in Mymensingh, her daughter has claimed."I have just found my mother's body," this is what Moriom Mannan, daughter of Rahima, wrote...
Bangladesh reported another death from Covid-19 with 620 more cases in 24 hours until Friday morning, reports UNB.With the new numbers, country's total fatalities rose to 29,347 while the total caseload to 2,020,768, according to the Directorate General of Health...
Major General Mohammad Yousuf, Director General of the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA), Abdul Hai Sarker, Chairman of the IUB Board of Trustees, and Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Vice-Chancellor Tanweer Hasan, among others, were present at the International Conference...
The US has announced over US$170 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas inside and outside Myanmar as well as for host communities in Bangladesh, reports UNB."With this new funding, our total assistance in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis...
Faridpur's Padma and Madhumati rivers are swallowing farmlands and houses, leaving hundreds of villagers in panic. The erosion of the river banks has been going on in Alfadanga Upazila over the last 15 days, putting the district's largest housing project,...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
Bangladeshi youth activists have urged the government and investors to put a stop to the country's high dependence on fossil fuel imports, primarily liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports.They demanded an end to these environmentally harmful activities, calling for fostering renewable...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
The apex court rules that seniority of the employees is to be counted from the date of regularisation of their service and absorbed in the revenue set-up from development projects.This regularisation depends on the recommendation of Public Service Commission or...
NEW YORK, Sept 23 (UNB): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday called upon the international community to take five actions to resolve the prolonged Rohingya crisis, including political and financial support to them. She made the call at a high-level...
A Dhaka court has sent Dr Shakir Bin Wali to jail after completion of his two-day fresh remand in a case lodged under Anti-Terrorism Act with city's Rampura thana.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Nurul Huda Chowdhury passed the order on Friday...
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen attended a dinner hosted by Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar in New York Thursday night, reports UNB."Glad to host an evening of like-minded partners on the sidelines of the 77th UNGA," said...
RANGPUR, Sept 23 (BSS): Awami League (AL) Presidium Member and former state minister Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak today said the elections in the country will not be held under the control of the government."The elections will be conducted under control...
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