ISLAMABAD, Sept 07 (AP): Since he was toppled by parliament five months ago, former Prime Minister Imran Khan has demonstrated his continued popularity with mass rallies across Pakistan, signaling to his rivals that he remains a considerable political force.On Tuesday,...
NEW DELHI, Sept 07 (BBC): On Wednesday, the leader of India's main opposition party will embark on a long march across the country.Accompanying Rahul Gandhi on the journey to "unite India" will be more than 100 members of his Congress...
MOSCOW, Sept 07 (AFP): President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday it was "impossible" to isolate Russia and hailed Asia's growing global influence, as Moscow looks east in the face of unprecedented Western sanctions over Ukraine.Washington and Brussels have pummelled Moscow with...
LONDON, Sept 07 (AFP): British Prime Minister Liz Truss convened a new-look cabinet Wednesday on her first full day in office, to thrash out an economic support package and forestall an energy crisis linked to the war in Ukraine.In her...
HANOI, Sept 07 (AFP): The death toll from a fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam has risen to 23, an official said Wednesday.The blaze engulfed the second floor of the building on Tuesday night, trapping customers...
An increase in hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) has been reported in past few weeks in Dhaka city. A number of schoolgoing children especially in the city are suffering from this. Many parents are very anxious and do not know what to...
The number of motorcycles is increasing every year in Bangladesh. Nowadays, more and more people are choosing motorbikes as these vehicles are easier to maintain in terms of cost and hassle. Though they have provided some relief to the public...
Anisur Rahman | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
A number of write-ups on renewable energy have been published in this newspaper recently. The potential of renewable energy, especially solar power, and the way of harnessing this have been discussed in details by experts in this field. The issue...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
In death, decades after he made his way out of power, Mikhail Gorbachev is the subject of discussion in the West, which has gone into binge celebrations of his role in ending the Cold War and with that the collapse...
The time taken for getting imported goods released at major ports ---sea, air and land ---may not interest the general public but it is highly important for importers and the economy. Delays or longer times than the globally accepted standard...
Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana | 2022-09-08 00:00:00
Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools that governments can use to remedy these deficiencies and...
BENGALURU, Sept 6 (Reuters): Indian shares closed a choppy session slightly lower on Tuesday, weighed down by heavyweight financials, although gains in energy and metal stocks limited some of the losses.The NSE Nifty 50 index ended down 0.06 per cent...
India's captain Rohit Sharma plays a shot during the Asia Cup Twenty20 international cricket Super Four match against Sri Lanka at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Batting first, India scored 173 for the loss of eight wickets —...
Carrying his little daughter on his shoulder, this man wades through a waterlogged portion of Kazi Alauddin Road in Old Dhaka's Nazira Bazar area on Tuesday. A shower of rain on the day inundated many roads in the city like...
BEIJING, Sept 6 (AFP): Chinese drug regulators have approved the world's first inhalable Covid-19 vaccine, made by Tianjin-based manufacturer CanSino Biologics, boosting the company's share price by seven percent on Monday.The National Medical Products Administration gave the go-ahead for the...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Chevron Bangladesh, a subsidiary of the US oil major Chevron, has been given the approval for expansion of the Bibiyana gas-field with an additional 60 Square Kilometers "flank" area.Senior secretary of the Energy Division Mahbub Hossain informed this while addressing...
PARIS, Sept 6 (AFP): Russia has raked in a whopping 158 billion euros ($158 billion) in energy exports in the six months following its invasion of Ukraine, with the EU accounting for more than half, a think tank said Tuesday....
FE REPORT | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
A group of eminent citizens on Tuesday urged the Election Commission (EC) not to use electronic voting machine (EVM) in the 12th parliamentary election.Terming it illogical, they said in a statement, "The EC, without any political consensus, has decided to...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Evening banking, an extended banking service by some branches, will have to keep their operations suspended until further instruction is given by the central bank in this regard, according to a notice issued by the banking watchdog on Tuesday.The special...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Incorporating the provision of taking prior permission in arresting government service holders in the law is nothing but to indemnify a handful of government corrupt officials, observes the High Court in a full verdict. It also observed that the state...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
The government on Tuesday announced the fare of metro rail without keeping any concession for students.Fare of the first mass rapid transit line-6 (MRT-6) is fixed at Tk 5.0 per kilometer and minimum Tk 20, while it will be Tk...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Planning Minister M A Mannan on Tuesday said Indian bureaucratic tangles slowed down (implementation of) the Bangladeshi projects taken under the Delhi-supported Line of Credit (LoC)."The LoC is a bilateral loan. It is bureaucracy-based. Our bureaucracy claims that Indian bureaucracy...
Stocks rise after two-day slumpThe stock market rebounded Tuesday, snapping a two-day losing streak, as the bargain hunters showed their buying appetite for sector-specific stocks. DSEX, the benchmark index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), climbed 39.65 points or 0.62...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Authorized dealer (AD) banks can retain value-added portion of export proceeds for 30 days instead of 15 days under a further relaxation of rules, for propping up Bangladesh's forex reserves. The central bank relaxed its regulations again on the encashment...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Import clearing needs to hop over 25-32 stops at major ports in Bangladesh for lack of coordination among authorities, says a study report, thus slowing delivery of goods.Importers have to complete import-clearing process passing through 32 steps at Chattogram seaport...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
Forhad Hossain goes to Dhaka's Kaptan Bazar kitchen market almost every passing day for shopping. There he has been facing severe shortages of lower-denomination coins and currencies for long.The crunch used to involve Tk 1.0 and Tk 2.0. And now...
LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters): Liz Truss took over as British prime minister on Tuesday, facing one of the most daunting set of challenges for an incoming leader in post-War history led by soaring energy bills, a looming recession and industrial...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-07 00:00:00
The government is preparing to buy more food-grains from the global market to cope with possible fall in rice output in this Aman season, Food Minister Shadhan Chandra Majumder said at a press briefing on Monday.The ministry organised the briefing...
NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (UNB): Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said rising energy prices are presently posing a challenge to all developing countries and fruitful talks between Bangladesh and India are underway on connecting power transmission lines."The unveiling...
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