Hundreds of dead fish foundfloating in MathabhangaHundreds of dead fish were found floating in the Mathabhanga River of Chaudanga on Monday night. Experts suspect the deaths could be due to toxic effluents leading to the depletion of dissolved oxygen level...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 02 (UNB): A HSC student died while crossing the road after being hit by a speeding truck on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mirsharai upazila of Chattogram on Tuesday, police said.The dead is Mishu Rani Debi Poly (18), a...
MUNSHIGANJ, Aug 02 (UNB): The body of a college student who went missing Monday after falling from a launch in the Pangasia canal, was recovered on Tuesday, police said.The dead is Niloy (18), a class 11 student of Gajaria Government...
TANGAIL, Aug 02 (UNB): A sexagenarian was killed allegedly by his 'mentally challenged' son in Pachh Charan Rajbari area of Kalihati upazila of the district in the early hours of Tuesday.The dead is Ali Ajgor.Ajgor's son Rashed Mia (30) attacked...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday sued a councillor of Teknaf municipality in Cox's Bazar for accumulating illegal wealth and laundering of Tk 43.15 million.According to the commission, councillor Md Maniruzzaman, 47, earned the money through corruption and bribe by...
Police detained a man with different species of local and foreign parrots including Hiramon parrot and Munia bird, from Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura on Monday. Later, Bogura Superintendent of Police in the presence of upazila nirbahi officer and forest officials...
KURIGRAM, Aug 02 (UNB): Erosion has taken a serious turn in Chilmari upazila of Kurigram district and Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district, rendering many people living along the banks of Teesta River homeless in the past one week.Hundreds of houses,...
Our Correspondent | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
LALMONIRHAT, Aug 02: Farmers in five upazilas of the district and adjacent areas are facing a huge problem in cultivating T-Aman for want of adequate rainfall in the current season. The farmers are passing days amid much anxiety as one-third...
In today's competitive world, stress has become a part of the student's academic life, due to expectations and the fear of failure. Excessive academic stress can lead to depression, anxiety, nervousness, low self-esteem and other complexities. People in Bangladesh do...
Millions of people have been marooned by this year's floods. According to government estimates, more than 85,000 homes have been damaged in Sylhet and Sunamganj districts only. Only 10,000 families reportedly received Tk 10,000 each in the two districts to...
While still confronting the looming fear of yet another coronavirus wave, Dhaka city has to deal with the return of dengue recently. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, more than 60 dengue patients are being admitted to different...
Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
How many people live in the Bangladesh capital couldn't be known as yet from the latest census! Dhaka's two city corporations, according to a 2020 enrolment report, had 5,465,703 voters. If that figure is doubled (to 10.93 million) for reasonably...
Wasi Ahmed | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Amid the many adversities the country has been facing since the outbreak of the pandemic, the only area that appears to keep hope alive is on the export front. Exports, no doubt, have demonstrated commendable resilience, and the number one...
As multitudes of fresh youths join the country's labour market every year, they remain mostly unemployed or underemployed. Only a small portion of them ---14.9 per cent --- with the requisite skills, reportedly can find jobs in the formal sector....
Khan M R Taufique | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Responsible consumption and production along with climate action are two of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations for promoting individual and collective actions to combat climate change. One of the challenges of reaching these goals is...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-02 12:00:00
Railway accidents in Bangladesh are not purely about collision between trains or derailment of a train and their attendant deaths and injuries. Though it may sound somewhat odd, many of such accidents involve speeding trains ramming buses, trucks, microbuses, you...
Holding a placard in his hand that reads: 'Give proper quantity of oil (at petrol pumps)', a man demonstrates in front of a refuelling station at Kalyanpur in Dhaka on Monday. He complained that many such stations temper with their...
Pakistan's gross financing needs in the current fiscal year would be more than fully met under the ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme while an extra cushion of $4 billion would be arranged, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and...
COLOMBO, Aug 1 (AFP): Sri Lanka issued an urgent appeal on Monday to tackle rapidly spreading malnutrition among children as its economic crisis leaves nine out of 10 people dependent on state handouts.The Ministry for Women and Child Affairs said...
BEIJING, Aug 1 (Reuters): China said on Monday that its military "not sit idly by" if US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan.The latest warning was issued during a Chinese foreign ministry regular briefing. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian also...
India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak, reports Reuters.Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths...
Bangladesh has got an "International Peace Award " as one of the founding member of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, reports UNB.The award was given in memory of the Prime Minister Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan of the Republic of...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The country's inward remittance flow rose by around 11.76 per cent to US$2.09 billion in July of the current fiscal year (FY), 2022-23, than that of the corresponding period of last fiscal, as per the Bangladesh Bank data -- released...
The opening of Rampal power plant is there in the "wish list" as Bangladesh and India are taking preparations for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi first week of September, reports UNB."At an inter-ministerial meeting we will try...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The commerce ministry has requested the Power Division to keep factories producing essential items, including edible oil-producing units, out of the purview of the current phase of regulated power cuts. The ministry made the request following a recent decision at...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh recorded 349 new cases along with one death from the Covid-19 pandemic across the country in the last 24 hours until Monday morning.With the latest figures, the overall number of positive cases and the fatalities rose to 2,005,606 and...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is all set to procure 8.0 million litres of soybean oil to sell the essential item at an affordable price, officials said.It has already floated a tender to buy the cooking oil locally, they...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government is taking measures for saving power and energy to protect Bangladesh from any danger in future, report agencies.She added that even the developed countries like the USA and UK, and India...
BSEC for making fresh investments The securities regulator has urged listed companies to play market supportive roles injecting fresh funds through possible ways including formation of their own portfolios. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) made the call at...
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