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Savar Refractories starts voluntary delisting

2022-08-14 00:00:00

FE REPORTSavar Refractories Ltd, a Z-category company, has started the process of voluntary delisting, being unable to carry on operation amid continued losses on account of shrinking demand for its products.Talking to the FE, the company's officials said Savar Refractories'...

News in Brief-(2022-08-14)

2022-08-14 00:00:00

Toddler drowns in Kurigram pondKURIGRAM, Aug 13: A one-and-a-half-year-old drowned in a pond near his house while playing there in Kurigram's Rowmari upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abu Horayra, son of Samaun Islam of Uttarpara village of...

Naogaon road crash kills couple

2022-08-14 00:00:00

NAOGAON, Aug 13 (BSS): A man and his wife were killed as their car plunged into a ditch in Mohadevpur upazila of the district on Saturday noon.The deceased were identified as Shimul, 30, hailed from Manda upazila and his wife...

Protecting climate, water in Barind region stressed

2022-08-14 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Aug 13 (BSS): Surface water conservation, managed aquifer recharge and afforestation can be the best way of protecting climate and water in the Barind area from further degradation.Adverse impact of climate change and abnormal declining of groundwater are posing...

Human chain for potable water in coastal Satkhira

2022-08-14 00:00:00

SATKHIRA, Aug 13 (UNB): Residents of the coastal areas of Satkhira formed a human chain in front of the press club on Saturday, demanding supply of pure drinking water in the district.Despite repeated requests, the protesters claimed, the authorities turned...

River erosion renders 100 families homeless

OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-08-14 00:00:00

CHANDPUR, Aug 13: At least one hundred poor and distressed families who were given shelter in new houses under the Ashrayan project have been rendered homeless again due to erosion by the mighty rivers Meghna and Padma.The Ashrayan project was...

Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Taliban fighters swap arms for books

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

N Korea lifts mask mandate after Covid 'victory'

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Storm hammers Japan with heavy rainfall

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

FBI seizes top secret docs from Trump's house

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Russia warns US of consequences of its assets seizure

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Global debt crisis and South Asia

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...

Risks of using drugs in bodybuilding

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Raising tea workers' wage

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Tapping potential of the youth

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

Facing crises and blows of decay

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...

Hikes in fuel, fertiliser prices double whammy for economy

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 burden of capacity payments

2022-08-14 00:00:00

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...

FIFA officially advances Qatar World Cup by a day

2022-08-13 12:00:00

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...

2022 sets record fire activity in southwest Europe: EU

2022-08-13 00:00:00

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...

ACC sues BFIDC director for possessing Tk 76 lakh wealth 'illegally'

2022-08-13 00:00:00

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...

BD reports 2 more Covid deaths, 218 cases

2022-08-13 00:00:00

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...

Migrant workers get Tk 64m against insurance claims in last 3 years

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...

Novelist Salman Rushdie stabbed in New York

2022-08-13 00:00:00

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...

They suffer to make hilsa available on your plates

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...

Ensure non-stop power supply, cut import duty

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...

PM pays homage to Bangabandhu in Tungipara

2022-08-13 00:00:00

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...

Briefing 13-08-2022

2022-08-13 00:00:00

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...

Prayer Timings (2022-08-13)

2022-08-13 00:00:00