Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
The jubilation over the Bangladesh women's football team's triumph in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship 2022 is quite natural. When the men's football team is all frustration even in this regional tournament, the girls against all odds...
An online survey of over 5,000 women spread across 24 districts of the country has revealed that nearly 87 per cent of them have faced some form of harassment at least once in their lives. Other than public transport, streets,...
A hot cup of ginger tea is all one can want in a winter morning. But many of us may not know about its medicinal benefits. With its high levels of vitamin C, magnesium and other minerals, ginger root is...
The life of security guards working in different places including at ATM booths, corporate offices and residential buildings is miserable. The offices through which they are recruited exploit and hugely underpay these guards, while forcing them to work under inhuman...
Tanim Asjad | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
From the beginning, it has been argued by many that the proposed Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) would bring little benefit in terms of easing the traffic congestion in Dhaka. Nevertheless, in 2010, the government decided to go ahead with constructing...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
The war in Ukraine has to all appearances taken a dangerous turn. And that is not because Russia has made substantial gains in its war with Ukraine. Quite contrary to this, its losses have been huge on the battle fronts...
The Myanmar authorities' failure to reciprocate Bangladesh's repeated requests to stop hostilities by their security forces at the common border between the two countries has compelled Bangladesh government to raise the issue before the international community. Accordingly, on Tuesday (September...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-09-24 00:00:00
The nursing workforce is expanding in size in Bangladesh and nurses are undertaking diverse tasks within and beyond the healthcare delivery system. However, the responsibilities the nurses carry, the critical patient care services they provide, educational attainment, professional knowledge, experience,...
A mix-up has occurred inadvertently in an infographic published with a report on 'Impact of inflation on economy: Part III' in the front page of the FE in its September 22 issue. The photo printed alongside a quote of Prof...
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 22, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - A US jury on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay $174.5 million for violating live-streaming patents developed by a US Army veteran seeking to fix shortcomings in battlefield communications.A trial in Texas federal court...
PARIS, Sept 22 (AFP): Almost every week now, European governments are announcing emergency measures to protect households and businesses from the energy crisis stemming from Russia's war in Ukraine.Hundreds of billions of euros-and counting-have been shelled out so far since...
A Dhaka court has started to record testimonies against Proshanta Kumar Halder, the former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited, and 13 others in a case over money laundering and accumulation of illegal wealth worth Tk...
Considering the Covid-19 fallout, the government has raised the maximum age limit by three years and three months for entering government service, reports UNB.The Public Adminis-tration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Thursday.This will not be applicable...
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday joined a reception here hosted by the US President Joe Biden.The US president along with his wife hosted the event this evening at American Museum of Natural History in...
Newly-appointed Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh Pranay Kumar Verma has arrived in Dhaka, reports UNB.Verma, who most recently served as Ambassador of India to Vietnam, arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday night, an official told the news agency.He will formally take...
Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun, director general of Rapid Action Battalion, has been appointed inspector general of police.M Khurshid Hossain, an additional IGP, will succeed Al-Mamun as the RAB chief, the government announced on Thursday.Earlier, the government issued a notice confirming Benazir...
NEW YORK, Sept 22 (BSS): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday stressed the need for strong political commitment and global solidarity in finding ways to overcome the crises caused by Ukraine war that has rattled the global economy and added...
JUBAIR HASAN | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
Passenger steamer in Bangladesh now embraces Titanic's fate with the last state-run two docked Thursday as the imposing Padma Bridge conquered the mighty river and made them irrelevant.Sources said the water-transport corporation suspended services of its remaining two passenger-carrying steamers...
Stocks inch up in choppy trading Stocks ended marginally higher on Thursday, after a two-day correction, as bargain hunters showed their buying interest in selective issues. The market swung between positive and negative territories before closing marginally higher although prices...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
The government revised maximum retail price (MRP) of palm oil and sugar on Thursday by reducing prices of the essentials, effective from Sunday.The Ministry of Commerce (MoC), as per recommendations of the Bangladesh Trade and Tariff Commission, has reduced palm-oil...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
Halima has sent her son to a motor workshop in Dhaka's Banglamotor area, at age as early as 11 years. It, evidently, represents a double regression, from progression in poverty alleviation and child-labour elimination. She syas she has been compelled...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Thursday issued a payment system operator (PSO) licence in favour of Service Hub Limited for providing online payment services in the country.The PSO's brand name is PayStation.A PSO facilitates payments of online trading between buyers and...
Bangladeshi businesses won't be able to use Indian Rupee for foreign trade as Bangladesh Bank (BB) is yet to enlist Rupee to settle letters of credit (LC), reports UNB.BB spokesperson and executive director Md Serajul Islam said that the central...
MONIRA MUNNI | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
Scrap-ship imports have drastically dropped for dollar dearth and demand-side problems in Bangladesh, sources say, thus imperiling linkage industries and construction sector under knock-on impacts.Local ship-breakers have informed that the number of imported ships for dismantling has drastically fallen during...
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 (Friday), according to the Met Office.Day...
Construction work of Dhaka South City Corporation causing immense suffering to the commuters as well as passersby. The photo was taken from the old city's Nayabazar area on Thursday — Focus Bangla
Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, Bangla Academy Director General Mohammad Nurul Huda and North South University (NSU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Atiqul Islam were present at an orientation programme of summer semester 2022 of NSU on the university campus in...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Md Nayem Islam, 19. A sand-laden running truck hit him on the highway near Ekuria under Keraniganj upazila in Dhaka, according to...
Bangladesh reported another death from Covid-19 with 678 more cases in 24 hours until Thursday morning, reports UNB.With the new numbers, country's total fatalities rose to 29,346 while the total caseload to 2,020,148, according to the Directorate General of Health...
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