The use of electrical and electronic equipment is increasing day by day in Bangladesh. But after their expiration, they become poisonous waste materials, called e-waste. It contains serious radiation, which affects our environment in various ways. These devices contain many...
Covid-19 infections are on the rise again in Bangladesh. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the infection rate has seen a 47 per cent increase in the country within a week. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) statistics...
Zahid Huq | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
That only a tiny percentage of the people with taxable income is paying tax is an undisputed reality. Bangladesh has the lowest tax-GDP ratio in the South Asia region. A recent survey conducted by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
It is mind-boggling to think that one person is dying of hunger every four seconds in this world of advanced science and technology. In terms of number, on an average 19,700 human beings succumb to starvation every day. Belying the...
Gas shortage that seemed to have affected industrial production in a few selected areas since the past months has by now become a major threat to almost the entire range of industrial productivity. Notable among the sectors badly affected include...
Imtiaz A. Hussain | 2022-09-23 00:00:00
One new development may soon exert enormous reverberations for a long time to come: India's economic size overtaking Great Britain's, its colonial master's. When Great Britain first arrived in India during the 17th Century (not under a country flag ,...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-09-22 12:00:00
Gales of economic blows are exposing aggravation of income inequality in Bangladesh as unbridled inflation is eroding commoners' ever-shriveling incomes while pampering the super-rich, surveys show.Job loss during the pandemic, large informal sector, wealth- distribution gap, faulty direct taxation, market...
Bangladesh on Wednesday reported zero Covid-19 death while it recorded 641 coronavirus positive cases during the same period, reports BSS."Bangladesh reported 14.73 percent Covid-19 positive cases as 4,351 samples were tested during the last 24 hours," a daily statement of...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Members of the High Court-appointed Board of Directors (BoD) of the controversial ecommerce platform Evaly, headed by Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, resigned en masse to make way for comeback of the deposed management. They submitted an application to this effect...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
The government has released a sum of Tk 2.0 billion for payment as cash incentives to the exporters of local jute and jute goods on their export earnings, officials said. The Office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) issued...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday upheld death sentences of four members of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in a case filed in connection with the murder of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in 2015. The convicts are: Rangpur...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
The government of Japan and the UN Refugee Agency signed a partnership agreement to provide $3.50 million protection and humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on Wednesday.The contribution of $3.50 million [JPY 505 million] will be used to maintain...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
The government wants to bring some changes in the examination process of imported food products served on Biman and other flights, aiming to ensure quality of such items. The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism in a letter has recently...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
The government will procure another 16.5 million litres of soybean oil for the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) to sell at subsidised prices, as prices of the edible oil continue to be high. The approval was given Wednesday at a...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh stood at bottom 18th of a global ranking on digital environment and support systems for entrepreneurs, reflecting poor opportunities and lack of congenial atmosphere for them to thrive in the country, according to a new global report.A global index...
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (BSS) : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday laid emphasis on the integration of women in decision-making process, saying that it is important to have them in leadership team to reflect on the solutions and benefit...
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh Competition Commission (BCC) has filed cases against 11 companies and individual traders allegedly for market manipulation by jacking up prices of many daily essential commodities since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war.The cases were filed under sections 15 and...
Despite the reprieve in global food prices and the resumption of grain exports from the Black Sea, five UN and multilateral development and trade organisations on Wednesday warned that food remained beyond reach for many due to high prices and...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Rousing pageantry resounded all the way as Bangladesh's maiden champions of the SAFF soccer returned to a hero's welcome Wednesday, after veritably scaling the Everest in Nepal.People from all walks of life welcomed the soccer tigresses at Hazrat Shahjalal International...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Bangladesh may see lower GDP growth at 6.6 per cent in the current fiscal year for some global and local shocks to the economy, the Asian Development Bank says in its latest forecast.The ADB projection on gross domestic product (GDP)...
Light to moderate rain/thunder shower accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind and lightning flash is likely to occur at a few places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the...
Another dengue patient died in 24 hours until Wednesday morning, raising this year's death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 46, reports UNB.During this period, 431 more patients were hospitalised with the viral fever as cases have continued...
Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Directorate Director (administration and finance) Joint Secretary Md. Wahidul Islam presided over a meeting with stakeholders at the directorate on Wednesday as part of its National Integrity programme
DU Correspondent | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
A Dhaka University (DU) student, who started hunger strike from Tuesday, broke the fast unto death on Wednesday after getting assurances that the harassment of student service seekers at the Registered Building of the university would be reduced. Vice-Chancellor (VC)...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Speakers at a roundtable on Wednesday called for a halt to land grabbing in hill districts through a proper law in favour of tribal people.Encroachers have adopted multiple techniques to grab acres of land in the name of economic development.Protecting...
Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan poses for photograph with others at the certificate awarding ceremony of the Capstone Course 2022/2 at the National Defence College in the city's Mirpur area on Wednesday — ISPR
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
Public-health experts have suggested easy availability of medications at community clinics to combat hypertension following its higher trend in Bangladesh.A large number of people here suffer from hypertension, a non-communicable disease that poses various health risks.The experts made the call...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-22 00:00:00
The government has brought 101 amendments and additions to the Bangladesh Labour Rules 2015, of which many are still unclear and conflicting with the existing labour law, said labour leaders and rights activists.Attending a seminar on Wednesday, they said there...
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (UNB): Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said that the US government provided no specific information to Bangladesh on the sanctioning of the country's special security force, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), and some of its top...
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