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Best places to learn swimming in Dhaka

Morium Kulsum | 2022-09-14 00:00:00

Swimming is an excellent full-body exercise that has many physical and mental health benefits. Doctors recommend this exercise because it works your entire body and builds muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness. Besides burning calories, swimming is also becoming popular among...

Spotify: Good for music as a company?

Bashiir Ahammed | 2022-09-14 00:00:00

Standing in lines to buy a music album was a familiar scene in the '80s, '90s, and even in the early 2000s. International artists sell a substantial number of physical albums, vinyl, when they release a record, even today. But...

Avoiding gadgets while driving

2022-09-14 00:00:00

Several studies have shown that using a phone while driving can be dangerous. However, many people prefer using their gadgets while driving. It is certainly wrong as one cannot concentrate on driving while using something else. This act puts the...

Addressing dengue threat

2022-09-14 00:00:00

Every year, Bangladesh experiences dengue outbreak. With four more people having died of the mosquito-borne disease on Monday, the dengue menace seems to take a heavier toll in the coming days if the authorities concerned do not take immediate preventive...

Implementing Road Safety Act

2022-09-14 00:00:00

The Road Safety Foundation in its recent report said that as many as 632 road accidents had occurred in Bangladesh only in last July, killing 739 and leaving 2,042 injured. Students of different educational institutions took to the streets recently...

Third-country transit via India

Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-09-14 00:00:00

The offer comes apparently unexpectedly as India promises Bangladesh free transit facility through her territory for exports to third countries. This is the opportunity land-locked Nepal and Bhutan have been looking for, for years, to use Bangladesh's seaports for their...

Strategising export diversification

Wasi Ahmed | 2022-09-14 00:00:00

For decades 'export diversification' has been a buzzword whenever the issue of the country's exports comes up for deliberations. Clearly, it is the overwhelming reliance on readymade garment (RMG) which accounts for more than 76 per cent of the country's...

Going all out to address plastic menace

2022-09-14 00:00:00

Plastic, a substance made from the waste products found while processing crude oil and natural gas in the early 1930s, is now a global threat to the environment and life. Once admired for its durability, this universal packaging material has...

Industry-academia gap in high-tech

M Rokonuzzaman | 2022-09-14 00:00:00

A problem that has been persisting for more than 50 years and perhaps getting worse is impossible to address. Industry-academia gap is such a problem, primarily in less developed countries. More or less every nation has been increasing its education...

India's rice export curbs paralyse trade in Asia as prices rise

2022-09-13 00:00:00

India's restrictions on rice exports have paralysed trading in Asia, with buyers scouring for alternative supplies from Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar where seller are holding off on deals as prices rise, industry officials said, reports Reuters.India, the world's biggest exporter...

HSC, equivalent exams from November 6

2022-09-13 00:00:00

The schedule for this year's Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent exams has been published, reports UNB.Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board released the schedule for all educational boards Sunday.According to the schedule, written HSC exams will begin on November 6...

Travel ban imposed on five businessmen

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Sept 12: A court in the port city imposed Sunday a ban on travelling abroad for five owners of Regent Textile, a concern of Habib group of Chattogram, on charges of loan default. The judge of Chattogram Financial Debt...

BD, Qatar to ink deal to repatriate convicts

FE REPORT | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

Dhaka has decided to sign a deal with Doha to facilitate transfer of convicted Bangladeshis living in Qatar and vice versa, officials said.There are some 0.4 million Bangladeshi nationals living in Qatar, majority of whom are working there in construction...

Indonesia's energy co mulls $1.2b investment

FE REPORT | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

Indonesia is considering around US$ 1.2 billion investment in Bangladesh's energy sector, officials said. The Southeast Asian country showed interest at a bilateral meeting of foreign ministers of the two countries held in Indonesia on July 17-19 last. The Indonesian...

School students demonstrate over fellow's death in road accident

FE REPORT | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

Students of the Government Science High School demonstrated in the capital's Farmgate area on Monday, demanding justice for a fellow student who was killed in a road accident the day before. Ali Hossain, 17, a class ten student of the...

BRT project work may resume after one more week

MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

The troubled BRT project may take one more week to resume its field work that remained suspended since the tragic accident at Uttara site on August 15, leaving five members of a family dead.Restarting the field works will be delayed...

President, PM join others to mourn Sajeda Chy’s death

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, presidium member of Awami League and deputy leader of Parliament, was laid to eternal rest Monday at the Banani Graveyard in the capital with state honor, report agencies. Faridpur-2 MP Sajeda Chowdhury passed away at Combined Military...

Conflict affects every nation in world: PM

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said any conflict or crisis affects every nation in the world as security dynamics in the current world are ever changing and getting complex day by day, reports UNB."It significantly hampers the security and...

Briefing 13-09-2022

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Pharma shares pull stocks downStocks passed another downbeat session on Monday as the jittery investors close to book profits on large-cap pharmaceuticals issues after the recent price surge. The market opened on a positive note and the key index rose...

Prayer Timings (2022-09-13)

2022-09-13 00:00:00

A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION

2022-09-13 00:00:00

A solar plant on a field at Shakerda in Harinakundu upazila - around 15km off the Jhenaidah district headquarters. The energy generated from the plant is used to run a water pump for irrigating adjoining paddy fields in the area....

BD can earn $20b more from exports to EU, UK

MONIRA MUNNI | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

Bangladesh could earn an additional US$20 billion through export of goods to the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK), as full potentials of the markets still remain untapped, according to the findings of a latest study.The country fetched...

Around 50m trapped into modern slavery

FE Report | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

Around 50 million people are considered to have been trapped into a situation like that of modern slavery in recent years, according to a latest global report.They were either forced to work against their will or get married on any...

Taka dips further

SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

Volatility on the foreign-exchange market rather exacerbated after banks introduced uniform exchange rates as the Bangladesh taka depreciated further against the US dollar Monday under the latest experiment. The local currency lost its value by Tk 1.0 on the interbank...

Dengue claims four more lives

FE REPORT | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

The mosquito-borne dengue fever claimed four more lives in the past 24 hours until Monday morning, taking the total fatalities to 37 this year.Newly 345 dengue patients were also hospitalised across the country during the period, as a result total...

Govt set to sweeten model PSC to attract more IOCs

M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2022-09-13 00:00:00

The government plans to make the next round of offshore-exploration bidding attractive by linking its gas-purchase price with that of LNG in the international market. The move is designed to rope in international oil companies (IOCs).Brent crude price on the...

Weather (2022-09-13)

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Light to moderate rain/thunder shower accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind and lightning flash is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barishal, Dhaka and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the...

BAFWWA and Novoair sign deal

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Representatives from Bangladesh Air Force Women Welfare Association (BAFWWA) and Novoair Limited sign a deal in the presence of BAFWWA President Tahmida Hannan in the city on Monday — ISPR

Death anniversary of Dr Md Ibrahim Khalil today

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Today (Tuesday) is the second death anniversary of chief geologist of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission Dr Md Ibrahim Khalil, says a statement. He left behind his two daughters and a son to mourn his death. His only elder brother Mohammad...

PM for coop among INTERPA members to fight cyber crime

2022-09-13 00:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday stressed the need for enhanced cooperation among the member countries of International Association of Police Academies (INTERPA) to fight tech-based crimes for furthering global peace, stability and development, reports UNB. "Enhanced technology, expertise, intelligence...