FE REPORT | 2022-09-19 00:00:00
Production in the country's export-oriented textile mills has drastically fallen due to the ongoing gas supply shortage, the millers said, fearing that it might result in failure to achieve the $60 billion export earnings target set for the current fiscal.On...
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and SME Foundation inked a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on Sunday to work on access to finance and skills, reports BSS.Managing Director of SME Foundation Dr Md Mafizur Rahman and DCCI Secretary General...
A group of bank regulators appointed by U.S President Joe Biden is considering new rules which will require big regional banks to add financial cushions that can be used in times of crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday,...
Agriculture Ministry secretary Md. Sayedul Islam was present as the chief guest at the workshop on 'BADC-IRRI cooperation on sustainable crop production' organised by Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the city on...
FRANKFURT, Sept 18 (AFP): Choked by soaring energy and wood pulp costs, German toilet paper maker Hakle is turning to waste from coffee production to stay afloat and help the environment.Just two years ago, at the height of the coronavirus...
BEIJING, Sept 18 (AFP): China has stepped up spending on coal in the face of extreme weather, a domestic energy crunch and rising global fuel prices -- raising concerns Beijing's policies may hinder the fight against climate change.The country is...
Md. Murshedul Kabir, Managing Director and CEO of Agrani Bank Limited, was present as the chief guest at the business development meeting at the bank's training institute in the capital on Sunday. Zonal heads, managers of different branches under Dhaka...
The government is working to revise the "Renewable Energy Policy of Bangladesh 2008" to make it more effective in the changed energy and power sector perspectives, reports UNB.Official sources said, Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (Sreda), the focal organization...
BARCELONA, Spain, Sept 18 (AP): Robert Lewandowski shook off his disappointing return to Bayern Munich by scoring twice to lead Barcelona to a 3-0 victory at home over 10-man Elche in the Spanish league on Saturday.They were Lewandowski's seventh and...
NEW DELHI, Sept 18 (AFP): India pace bowler Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of next week's Twenty20 series against Australia after testing positive for coronavirus, the cricket board said on Sunday.Umesh Yadav has been called up as a replacement...
LONDON, Sept 18 (AFP): Arsenal moved back to the top of the Premier League as goals from William Saliba, Gabriel Jesus and Fabio Vieira put the gloss on a dominant performance to beat Brentford 3-0.Injuries to captain Martin Odegaard and...
Bangladesh's allrounder Shakib Al Hasan has joined Guyana Amazon Warriors for the remainder of CPL 2022. He replaces South African bowler Tabraiz Shamsi, who worked particularly well with his idol Imran Tahir but now has to leave for South Africa...
Md. Rifat Mahmud Sabbir, student of Human Resources Management, and Sharmin Islam Shroddha, student of Computer Science and Engineering of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) posing after winning the mixed doubles table tennis event beating Jagannath University in the Bangabandhu Inter-University...
Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed posing with the winners of 'MGH Monsoon Cup Golf Tournament-2022' at Savar Golf Club in Savar Cantonment recently — ISPR
KATHMANDU, Sept 18 (BSS): Upbeat Bangladesh take on Nepal in the final of the 6th edition of SAFF Women's Championship scheduled to be held at Dasharath Rangasala Stadium tomorrow (Monday).The match will kick off at 5.15pm (BST).The tournament's sixth edition...
Minor girl killed after 'rape' in CtgA seven-year-old girl was allegedly killed after rape in Port Colony area of Chattogram p on Sunday morning. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Mahfuzur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bandar...
RANGPUR, Sept 18 (UNB): The body of a security guard was found inside the branch of a bank he was assigned to in Rangpur on Sunday morning.Shamim Mia (25) is son of Amzad Hossain of Ranipukur village under Mithapukur upazila...
BAGERHAT, Sept 18 (UNB): Kamrul Hasan, a farmer from Bagerhat, has achieved phenomenal success in cultivating foreign fruits in recent years. He has so far earned Tk 2.7 million this year by selling the yield from his 21-bigha orchard. Now...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 18 (BSS): Shafiul Alam Mukta, a fisherman of Pirijpur village under Godagari upazila, along with some of his boyhood friends founded a fish sanctuary near his village on an experimental basis in 2014. Forty other young men in...
MOSCOW, Sept 18 (Reuters/AP): The Russian army, seeking contract soldiers for what it calls the "special military operation" in Ukraine, is using mobile recruiting trucks to attract volunteers, offering nearly $3,000 a month as an incentive.A special unit stationed one...
BEIJING, Sept 18 (AFP): Twenty-seven people were killed in a bus crash in southwest China on Sunday, police said, in the country's deadliest road accident so far this year.The crash took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when...
IZUMI, Sept 18 (AFP): Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall in southwestern Japan on Sunday night, as authorities urged millions of people to take shelter from the powerful storm's high winds and torrential rain.The storm officially made landfall around 7 pm local...
LONDON, Sept 18 (AP): London's transport authority says it is preparing for around 1 million people to visit the British capital Monday for Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral.Transport for London chief Andy Byford said Sunday the capital has seen "huge...
TAIPEI, Sept 18 (Reuters/AP): A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island's weather bureau said, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping hundreds on mountain roads.The weather bureau...
Motorcycles and scooters have become a popular option for many women in Bangladesh. For a working woman, having a bike means a lot. It does not involve getting into a public bus where women get harassed more often than not....
Bangladesh usually experiences 12 to 15 days of rains every month from June to September. Therefore, the incidence of dengue increases during this time. Aedes mosquito, the carrier of two deadly diseases including dengue and yellow fever, gets a perfect...
Many a time do we come across warning boards saying 'accident-prone zone'. Such boards can be spotted at the turn and twist of city and village roads and along highways. According to experts, some of these spots are accident-prone because...
Neil Ray | 2022-09-19 00:00:00
So, the country's rice huskers or millers have managed to bluff their ways into business. For more than one and a half decades they have been marketing rice under the fictitious brand name called 'miniket' which in reality has no...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2022-09-19 00:00:00
Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill was wont to brooding. Weighing heavily on his mind was the political shenanigans that pushed him from a nobody to the coveted position of the then Empire. He had been set up for failure....
Few of the country's medical treatment seekers have much expectation from the existing public hospitals. It stems from the huge rush of patients, and the resultant messy situation and the heavy load of duty on doctors and nurses. Yet finding...
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