CASTAIC, Sept 01 (AP): California wildfires erupted Wednesday in rural areas, racing through bone-dry brush and prompting evacuations as the state sweltered under a heat wave that could last through Labor Day.The Route Fire in Castaic in northwestern Los Angeles...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 01 (Reuters): A Malaysian court on Thursday sentenced Rosmah Mansor, the wife of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, to a decade in prison for seeking and receiving bribes in exchange for government contracts, just days after her...
PARIS, Sept 01 (AFP/BBC/AP): French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday defended his policy of keeping up a dialogue with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, saying that Turkey should not be the only power talking to Moscow and preparations should...
GOPALGANJ, Sept 01 (BSS): Five shops were gutted in a fire at Mansabari Bazar in Kotalipara upazila of the district in the early hours of Thursday.The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a shop of the bazar around...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 01(BSS): Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) celebrated 'University Day amid joy, enthusiasm and fanfare on its campus on Thursday, marking 19th founding anniversary of the institution.The day's programme began in the morning with hoisting of the...
Providing safe water to the homesteads will ensure healthy life and decent living for marginalised women of the Sundarbans and their families, says a press release.Speakers came up with the remarks while speaking at a programme to distribute water tanks...
KHULNA, Sept 01 (UNB): The authorities have reopened the Sundarbans to tourists, fishermen and wood collectors after a three-month closure.The closure was enforced to ensure safe breeding of many wild animals.On the first day of reopening, 75 tourists were allowed...
KHULNA, Sept 01 (UNB): Rupsha rail bridge, part of the Khulna-Mongla port rail line project, will have 100-year longevity and it is a challenging engineering feat as it required specialised base grouting technology for piling work, says its project manager."The...
For a university student, convocation is a much-awaited ceremony. At this programme, a graduating student receives academic degrees in front of the university's chancellor, vice-chancellor, provost, faculty members and family and friends in the audience. The culture of organising convocation...
Loneliness is an abstract concept. It cannot be seen or touched, but its consequences could be deadly. It can make people mentally broken. Those who feel loneliness face a number of psychological issues. There are many people around them, yet...
In this busy world, we have completely forgotten the connection between us and Nature. Although we know that we cannot eat money, we are running after it and destroying our natural environment. Thousands of trees are cut down each day...
Zahid Huq | 2022-09-02 00:00:00
The revenue board is happy as it has been mopping up an increased volume of value-added tax (VAT) from the pharmaceutical sector in recent years. The VAT collection from the sector, according to a report published in this paper on...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-09-02 00:00:00
At a time when the government of Bangladesh launched a drive against unlicensed healthcare facilities for four days from Monday to Thursday, a collaborative report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Unicef (United Nations Children's Fund) claims...
Things do not seem to get right for workers' migration to Malaysia. Ever since Malaysia emerged as a destination for employment of Bangladeshi expatriate workers decades ago, there have been hiccups, one after another, seriously affecting the migration process. Flouting...
Khan M R Taufique | 2022-09-02 00:00:00
Integrating environmental sustainability in corporate strategies is now common in many organisations to promote and sustain green behaviour in the workplace. Some key functional areas of integrating environmental sustainability include green accounting, green banking, green marketing, and green supply chain...
Imtiaz A Hussain | 2022-09-02 00:00:00
'Graduation' makes us look better. Countries prefer being dubbed 'developed' over 'undeveloped' or 'developing'. Many dictators legitimise their authoritarian rule by wanting to make the country look 'better'. Yet, without looking great, would Least Developed Country or LDC 'graduation' be...
Vehicles are stuck in a traffic chaos on both sides of the airport road at Kakoli in Dhaka's Banani area on Wednesday noon. With the mild heat wave sweeping the capital and elsewhere, commuting like this is simply a nightmarish...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay the High Court verdict that scrapped a provision of the 'Sarkari Chakori Ain, 2018' making it mandatory for law enforcers to take prior permission from higher authorities in...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) divided its Customs Bond Commissionerate (CBC) in the capital into two zones -- Dhaka North and Dhaka South -- to provide better services to export-oriented industries.The NBR issued a notification in this regard on...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
The Head of Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) has apologised to the High Court (HC) for submitting minced information on money deposited by Bangladeshi individuals and organisations with Swiss banks. Appearing before a two-member HC bench on Wednesday, BFIU chief...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war may have a negative impact on country's balance of payments, reports UNB.She was replying to a tabled question from Jatiya Party MP Mashiur Rahman Ranga during...
Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, hospital officials in Moscow said, reports Reuters.Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Pressure on Bangladesh's foreign-exchange reserves has intensified gradually, with an outlook of dropping to US$37 billion in the first week of September from $39.05 billion as of Wednesday.Official sources make such a forecast, while the central bank continues selling the...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) believes that a section of people living in the country now have a huge amount of cash dollars in their hands, accrued while they stayed abroad as non-resident Bangladeshis (NRB) or visited other countries for various...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Bangladesh's pharmaceutical sector has grown faster in last five years with product diversification, innovation of new-generation drugs and rising trend in medicine consumption, yielding higher revenues for the government.Health economists, however, highlight the flip side of fast-growing medicine market as...
Stocks rally as turnover tops Tk 20b againStocks extended their winning streak on Wednesday, with turnover crossing Tk 20 billion mark once again, as smart investors continued to put fresh bets on major sector shares. Turnover, a crucial indicator of...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Bus fares of long-route and city services have been reduced by Tk 0.05 per kilometre for each passenger - two days after the government cut fuel price by Tk 5.0 per litre.The bus fare-fixing committee in a meeting on Wednesday...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Korea has decided to increase the size of Korea's soft loan to US$ 3 billion from $700 million, Korean Ambassador in Dhaka Lee Jung Keun said on Wednesday."This amount will be implemented during the next five years, between 2022 and...
FE REPORT | 2022-09-01 00:00:00
Amid discussions over buying cheap fuel oil from Russia, the government now decided to buy 0.5 million tonnes of wheat from the country.The Cabinet Committee on Government Purchase at a virtual meeting on Wednesday approved a proposal in this regard...
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