RAJSHAHI, Aug 29 (UNB): Rajshahi Road Transport Owners' Association Monday launched a 'special' service as battery-run auto-rickshaw drivers' walkout has brought misery to the city roads. Commoners - especially students and office-goers - faced travel delays and disruption as hundreds...
RANGPUR, Aug 29 (BSS): Effective social movement against drug abuse has become crucial to protect the young generation from its dire consequences.The observation came on Monday at a seminar on 'Preparing a comprehensive action plan through creating a social revolution...
NATORE, Aug 29 (UNB): A five-member committee will investigate the derailment of the Dhaka-bound Padma Express train at Abdulpur Junction in Natore on Sunday afternoon, said the authorities. Asim Kumar Talukder, General Manager (GM) of Bangladesh Railway (West) ordered the...
A canal filled with plastic wastes in the Baunia Badh area at Mirpur in the city. The photo was taken on Monday — Focus Bangla
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-08-30 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 29: A mobile court has sealed off three private hospitals and four diagnostic centres at Banshkhali Upazila in Chattogram Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Khandaker Mahmudul Hasan conducted a mobile court drive on Monday morning and sealed...
SINGAPORE, Aug 29 (Reuters): Singapore on Monday announced new work visa rules to woo foreign talent as the Asian financial hub looks to bolster its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.The measures include a new five-year visa for people earning at...
SUMATRA, Aug 29 (Reuters): A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the third tremor to rattle the area since early Monday, according to the country's geophysics agency.Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency (BMKG) recorded the shallow quake...
HOUSTON, Aug 29 (AP): A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants - killing three of them - Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the...
BAGHDAD, Aug 29 (BBC): One of Iraq's most powerful figures, who has been at the centre of a long crisis over forming a government, says he is retiring from political life.Moqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shia cleric with millions of followers,...
LONDON, Aug 29 (AFP): The race to become Britain's next prime minister is in its final week, with Liz Truss appeared poised to secure the top job, along with daunting challenges.Foreign Secretary Truss, 47, has consistently outrun 42-year-old former finance...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 29 (AP): International aid was reaching Pakistan on Monday, as the military and volunteers desperately tried to evacuate many thousands stranded by widespread flooding driven by "monster monsoons" that have claimed more than 1,000 lives this summer.Cargo planes...
KABUL, Aug 29 (AFP): Afghan defence minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid accused Pakistan on Sunday of providing airspace for US drones to enter his country, characterising the incursions as a continuation of Washington's "invasion".Mujahid's comments came less than a month after...
Base metals prices in Shanghai fell on Monday on worries of slower economic growth and metals demand after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signalled more interest rate hikes, reports Reuters.Powell on Friday warned that Americans were headed for a...
SINGAPORE, Aug 29 (Reuters): Chicago corn futures rose for a second session on Monday to their highest in two months after a U.S. crop tour forecast lower production following hot and dry weather, raising concerns over global supplies.Wheat gained more...
Oil prices rose 1% on Monday, as expectations that OPEC would cut output if needed to support prices, coupled with conflict in Libya and rising demand amid soaring natural gas prices in Europe, helped offset a dire outlook for U.S....
Energypac Power Generation Limited (EPGL) has arranged its JCB Customer Meet-2022 for construction machinery customers at the Parjatan Motel, Shibganj, Chapainababganj. The customers of the country's northern region attended the programme recently, says a press release.S M Jashim Uddin, Chief...
Asthma is common in Bangladesh. An estimated 7 million people, including 4 million children, currently suffer from asthma-related symptoms in the country. In general, asthma is found to be more prevalent in children aged 5-14, compared to adults. Approximately, 80...
Almost every educational institution in Dhaka city has increased their tuition fees. They have been charging parents of their students an exorbitant amount of money. At a reputed school, for example, the admission fees include costs of gas, water, generator...
The recent news of a 16-year-old boy falling from a moving train to death while taking a selfie near Chuadanga Railway Station adds to the increasing number of fatalities due to the selfie-craze. Teens or, in fact, even adults, are...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-30 00:00:00
Fasting has traditionally been a religious practice. By abstaining from foods, drinks and various other activities that give humans pleasure, the practitioners of fasting believe they can exonerate their soul from the sin of temptation. And to resist temptations is...
News about jute cultivation is a mixed bag of joy and sorrow. While this cash crop, according to reports, is set to have a bumper yield, farmers in many areas are confronted with an unprecedented crisis of water for retting...
M Rokonuzzaman | 2022-08-30 00:00:00
It's widely believed that export earns foreign currency. Hence, all possible measures, including cash incentives, are provided to expand it so that the foreign currency reserve keeps growing along with the export. Reportedly, the government of Bangladesh had allocated Tk...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies are trying to create chaos in the country by forming various fronts spending money. He made the remark while speaking at a discussion...
Another 176 people were hospitalised with dengue - a viral infection - in the 24 hours until Sunday morning, reports UNB.Of them, 144 were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and 32 outside it, according to the Directorate General of...
Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Mustafa Jabbar today said that mobile financial service (MFS) provider Nagad is fulfilling its national duty as a service of the Bangladesh Post Office, reports BSS."It needs to be cleared that Bangladesh Post Office has...
Bangladesh will lodge its strong protest with Myanmar so that nothing such happens inside Bangladesh as the country witnessed two mortal shells from Myanmar inside Bangladesh territory on Sunday afternoon, reports UNB."We usually protest amid such incidents. Few days ago...
Bangladesh reported zero death from Covid-19 and 217 new infections from the virus in the 24 hours until Sunday morning, reports UNB.While the country's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,323, the new number took its caseload to 2,011,317, according to...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-29 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has fixed October 20 this year for hearing the review petition filed challenging its earlier verdict that upheld the cancellation of the 16th Constitutional amendment brought to restore parliament's power to remove judges...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-29 00:00:00
Mismanagement across the country in fertiliser supply has prompted the government to open a control room to monitor the fertiliser condition in the country. The Ministry of Agriculture on Sunday set up the control room or 'Cell' which will remain...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-29 00:00:00
The inquiry committee formed to investigate the fatal accident at the construction site of the BRT corridor on August 15 has sought three more days to complete its work.Road Transport and Highways Division has already extended the time till August...
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