CHAUTAUQUA, Aug 13(AP): Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to...
KABUL, Aug 13 (AFP): Gul Agha Jalali used to spend his nights planting bombs-hoping to target an Afghan government soldier or, better still, a foreign serviceman.These days, the 23-year-old Taliban member is studying English and has enrolled in a computer...
SEOUL, Aug 13(AFP): North Korea has lifted a mask mandate and eased other virus restrictions, state media said Saturday, days after leader Kim Jong Un declared "victory" over Covid-19.The announcement comes after Pyongyang earlier this week blamed Seoul for causing...
TOKYO, Aug 13(AP): Tropical Storm Meari unleashed heavy rains on Japan's main Honshu island as it headed northward Saturday toward the capital, Tokyo, according to Japanese weather officials.The Japan Meteorological Agency warned Meari was on course to make landfall by...
WASHINGTON, Aug 13(AP): The FBI recovered "top secret" and even more sensitive documents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to court papers released Friday after a federal judge unsealed the warrant that authorized the sudden, unprecedented...
MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters): Any possible seizure of Russian assets by the United States will completely destroy Moscow's bilateral relations with Washington, TASS quoted the head of the North American Department at the Russian foreign ministry as saying on Saturday.Russia's...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2022-08-14 00:00:00
In early July this year the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva said "there is a growing risk of a debt crisis" due to borrowing amid Covid-19 pandemic, tightening monetary policy and the rising cost of...
City dwellers nowadays set aside some time to spend at the fitness centres every day. And this is why gym culture is taking shape in big cities of Bangladesh. Young boys and girls regularly visit these gyms as they want...
Bangladesh is the 10th largest tea producing country in the world. Its tea industry dates back to the British rule, when the East India Company initiated tea gardens in 1850s in the hilly areas of the Sylhet region. The industry...
The youth are a significant part of the population. Currently, there are 59 million young people (15-29 years) in Bangladesh. They comprise around 35 per cent of the country's total population. Our development largely depends on them. However, these youngsters...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-08-14 00:00:00
In spite of the unsparing media and civil society's lambasting of the jaywalkers, the compulsive lot in particular, the sickening practice goes on. In the earlier times, the crossing of the vital city roads by the passersby would be undertaken...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-08-14 00:00:00
A sharp rise in fuel-oil prices, unveiled in a nighttime decree last week, leaves almost all in the countrydumbfounded, excepting a few who did not find anything wrong in such a coercive step. The government increased the prices of all...
The power and energy sector, it seems, is caught up in a cobweb of mismanagement and, to a certain degree, underhand dealing. Otherwise, the current situation in the sector would not have come to such a pass. Questions have been...
DOHA, Aug 12 (AFP): FIFA on Thursday officially brought forward the opening match of this year's World Cup by one day to November 20 in a rare change so that hosts Qatar feature in the gala game.Football's top officials universally...
PARIS, Aug 12 (AFP) : Blazes that have torched tens of thousands of hectares of forest in France, Spain and Portugal have made 2022 a record year for wildfire activity in southwestern Europe, the EU's satellite monitoring service said Friday.Amid...
The Anti- Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday filed a case against the director (planning and development) of the Bangladesh Forest Industries Development Corporation (BFIDC) for possessing money from "unknown sources of income and giving false information in wealth his statement.", reports...
Two more people died of Covid, and 218 tested positive for the virus in Bangladesh in the 24 hours to Friday morning, reports UNB.While the country's total fatalities reached 29,312, the new number took its caseload to 2,008,500, according to...
ARAFAT ARA | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
Migrant workers received around Tk 64 million against their insurance claims in the last three years, according official data. The state-owned Jiban Bima Corporation (JBC) settled insurance claims made by 210 outbound Bangladeshi workers during the period of December 2019...
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who was ordered killed by Iran in 1989 because of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in New York on Friday and suffered an apparent stab wound to the neck, according to...
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
The real income of the coastal fishermen have gradually been declining, forcing them to live in hunger and debt only to make Hilsa available on the plate of the Bangladeshi households. The marginal coastal fishermen have gradually been a poorer...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
Local sugar refiners requested the government to ensure uninterrupted power supply to their units for continuing production of the item smoothly, officials said.The Bangladesh Sugar Refiners Association (BSRA) recently wrote a letter to the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to take...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes and offered prayers at the mausoleum of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Tungipara on Friday, reports BSS.She paid tributes to Bangabandhu by placing a wreath at his grave in...
Dhaka stocks retreat this weekStocks retreated this week to Thursday from the previous week's big gain as investors went defensive following the fuel oil price surge amid growing economic pressures. This week saw four trading days instead of five days...
Several teenagers are inhaling 'dundee', a solution used in pasting shoe leather, sitting right on the rooftop of a footbridge under the metro-rail viaduct at Purana Paltan in the city. The photo was taken recently — FE photo by KAZ...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh's key chemical export item--hydrogen peroxide--may see a trade boost as the Port of Singapore has lifted shipment restrictions prompted by a tragedy.PSA Corporation Ltd, the port authority of the island state, on August 10 lifted the embargo with immediate...
SEOUL, Aug 12: The heir and de facto leader of Samsung group received a presidential pardon Friday, the latest example of South Korea's long tradition of freeing business leaders convicted of corruption on economic grounds, reports AFP.Billionaire Lee Jae-yong, who...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
Agricultural-product export shines bright in Bangladesh's export basket with its proceeds crossing billion-dollar mark, insiders say, raising hopes for the country's overall external trade to see a boost.In the last fiscal year (FY) 2021-22, the agricultural goods and relevant processed...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-08-13 00:00:00
India is likely to remove anti-dumping duty on Bangladeshi jute-goods export next month over five years after the bigger trade partner had slapped the levy to plug the fibre shipments. The announcement may come during the New Delhi visit of...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Dhaka and Mymensingh divisions with moderately...
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