TEHRAN, Sept 14 (Arab News): Iran intends to pursue membership of a Chinese and Russian-led bloc that is meeting in Uzbekistan this week, President Ebrahim Raisi said Wednesday as he prepared to head to the summit.The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)...
LONDON, Sept 14 (BBC): Prince William and Prince Harry walked together behind their father King Charles III in a show of unity on Wednesday as they followed the Queen's coffin from Buckingham Palace ahead of her lying in state.The presence...
BEIRUT, Sept 14 (Arab News): An armed female depositor stormed a BLOM Bank branch on Wednesday morning, and held employees as hostages as she demanded that her trapped savings be released so she can use them for her sister's cancer...
NUR-SULTAN (Kazakhstan), Sept 14 (AP/Reuters): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first foreign trip since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a...
TANGAIL, Sept 14 (bdnews24.com): A court has handed down the death penalty to two people for the murder of Jamal Hossain Thandu, a college principal, in Tangail's Shakhipur Upazila in 2011.Tangail's Special Court Judge Begum Shahana Haque Siddika delivered the...
GAIBANDHA, Sept 14 (BSS): Speakers at a function here underscored on Wednesday the need for taking concerted efforts of all stakeholders of the society and creating mass awareness among the people from all sections to build pollution-free society. "Level of...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 14 (BSS): Fruit-vegetable combined farming method is infusing dynamism into the local economy as it opened up a new horizon in the field of agriculture in the region, including its vast Barind tract.Many farmers adopted the modern method...
NOAKHALI, Sept 14 (UNB): A newly- expanded in-patient care facility, a renovated operation theatre and an emergency unit at Noakhali Sadar District Hospital have been set up to serve the locals and also Rohingyas referred from Bhasan Char.Dr. Masum Iftekhar,...
SATKHIRA, Sept 14 (UNB): A dam along the coastal areas of the district is on the verge of collapse due to incessant rain.With water levels of all the major rivers in Ashashuni and Shyamnagar upazilas of the district rising, many...
MELBOURNE, Sept 14 (AFP): Pace spearhead Mitchell Starc and all-rounders Marcus Stoinis and Mitchell Marsh were on Wednesday ruled out of Australia's Twenty20 tour to India with low-level injuries.Team bosses opted not to risk aggravating niggles in the three-game series...
MUNICH, Germany, Sept 14 (AFP): Bayern Munich right-back Lucas Hernandez will be absent for "several weeks" with a groin injury, the club said on Wednesday, adding to French concerns with the World Cup two months away.Hernandez suffered the injury in...
LONDON, Sept 14 (AP): It doesn't seem to matter which shirt Robert Lewandowski is wearing - Bayern Munich just keeps getting the better of Barcelona either way.Bayern extended its recent dominance over the Spanish giant with a 2-0 win in...
Pakistan cricket team captain Babar Azam didn't perform well in the recently-concluded Asia Cup tournament. But he is known to produce some shots from his bat that are simply exquisite. Among them is the cover drive. The batter looks at...
Wanindu Hasaranga, Virat Kohli and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the big movers in the latest ICC T20 rankings for men, following strong performances at the recent Asia Cup in the UAE, reports ESPNcricinfo.On the bowlers' table, Hasaranga has moved up three...
Bangladesh axed on Wednesday former captain Mahmudullah Riyad and recalled batsman Najmul Hossain in a shake-up to its struggling Twenty20 squad ahead of next month's World Cup in Australia, report agencies.This month's disappointing Asia Cup campaign highlighted the team's 20-over...
Shahadat Khan | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
It is estimated that there are 12 million micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Bangladesh. This estimate is based on the 2013 BBS National Economic Census, having 7.8 million MSMEs and an annual growth rate of 6.0 per cent....
Comic books can shape the mindset of people through beautifully illustrated pages and interesting images. This is why people, often children, who read them are highly influenced by them. However, it is unfortunate that we in Bangladesh do not see...
Once student unions of the universities in Bangladesh used to be a window to express students' problems. But now student organisations, backed by political parties, are doing more harm than good. Extortion, tender manipulation, sexual harassment, crime and abuse of...
Private hospitals and diagnostic facilities in Bangladesh charge exorbitantly for medical tests. They generally charge multiple times the fees public hospitals do. For the ordinary people, these charges are unaffordable while the number of government-run hospitals is quite inadequate. One...
Anisur Rahman | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
According to a report of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in 2020, the literacy rate in the country was 75.6 per cent among people aged 15 years and above. This is a big jump in the rate from mere 16.8...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
The move by the University Grants Commission on ensuring that teachers of public universities, once they have completed their higher studies abroad, return to their institutions is welcome. The expectation is that the UGC and through it the public universities...
So, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's observation, "Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains", has not lost its relevance at all 300 years later but, it appears, has even, to the bewilderment of many, gained fresh grounds. The International Labour...
Kamal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-09-15 00:00:00
Prior to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent four-day visit to India, one of India's leading daily the Indian Express published an editorial (September 5) with the heading "PM Sheikh Hasina in India, India must be a friend in deed". Regrettably,...
DA court here in Daaka on Tuesday placed Ziaul Huq, 50, driver of the microbus that hit a schoolboy, leaving him dead on September 11 in Tejgaon Industrial area, on a three-day police remand, reports BSS.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Tamanna Farah...
SAVAR, Sept 13 (BSS) : Prof Md Nurul Alam has been appointed as the vice chancellor of Jahangirnagar University (JU) for the next four years.A notification, signed by deputy secretary of Ministry of Education Md. Mahmudul Alam, confirmed the appointment...
UN Special Rapporteur on promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, Ian Fry, is currently on an official visit to Bangladesh, reports UNB.The special rapporteur's news conference to share his preliminary findings from the visit...
Vehicles move through an inundated portion of Kalshi road in the capital's Mirpur area on Tuesday. Many roads in the city went under water due to heavy downpours since the morning — FE photo
FE REPORT | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
The government has formed eight high-powered monitoring teams for eight divisions, aiming to oversee the sales drive of essential items for the 10 million card holder families under arrangement of the Trading Corporation Bangladesh (TCB).The drive is now going on...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Sept 13: The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has submitted a 2,084-page charge sheet in the Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case against seven people including former Superintendent of Police Babul Akhter.Investigation Officer of the case and Inspector of PBI's...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-14 00:00:00
Local ship builder Ananda Shipyard formally delivered on Tuesday an ocean-going multipurpose container vessel worth more than Tk 1.0 billion to UK-based Enzian Shipping Company Ltd.The Ananda Shipyard and Slipways Ltd organised a ceremony to complete necessary formalities to hand...
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