Nilratan Halder | 2022-07-08 00:00:00
Socrates, the great philosopher-teacher of ancient Greece, was sentenced to death on charge of corrupting youths. This happened in 399 B.C.---only five years after the fall of Attica that began a brutal and humiliating decline of the Golden Age of...
Load shedding is back in an intense form after many years. The residents of Dhaka city are a bit lucky as the power outage is not excruciatingly severe until now. But millions living in other cities, towns and villages are...
Hasnat M Alamgir | 2022-07-08 00:00:00
Nurses in Bangladesh play a vital role in delivering patient-care services and achieving desired patient-outcome measures in healthcare settings. Their roles, importance, and responsibility turned out to be particularly relevant during the current Covid-19 pandemic, where they were leading in...
Mohtasim Bin Habib | 2022-07-07 12:00:00
In the past decade, a lot has changed around us. Bangladesh has experienced tremendous economic growth, the Internet is now accessible almost everywhere in the country, startups are on the rise, and thousands of jobs have been created. However, the...
After banning motorcycles from highways for a week, the authorities have restricted motorbikes from passenger launches for 10 days as part of their efforts to ensure trouble-free travel of holidaymakers during Eid-ul-Azha, reports bdnews24.com.The latest order has been effective from...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Noted banker Muhammad A (Rumee) Ali declined to continue as chairman of the board of directors of the country's first private commercial bank - AB Bank Limited - on Wednesday. Mr. Ali, also a former deputy governor of the Bangladesh...
FE Report | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
A brand-new Rolls-Royce car, worth approximately Tk 270 million, was seized from the city's Baridhara area by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials on the ground of alleged violation of customs rules.The luxury SUV, known as Rolls-Royce Cullinan...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Facebook doesn't spy on user's conversation using mobile microphone to sell data to third-party applications, said a top privacy expert of Meta, the owning company of social media platform Facebook. "We don't eavesdrop on your conversation using your mobile microphone,"...
TALHA BIN HABIB | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Cattle trading in the capital reported poorly on the first on Wednesday as traders sought high prices for sacrificial animals from prospective buyers.The FE visited makeshift markets at Kamalapur, Shajahanpur, Jatrabari and Shanirakhra areas and found traders taking care of...
MECCA, July 6 (Agencies): One million Muslim pilgrims including the first international visitors since 2019 were converging on Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca for Hajj on Wednesday. Hajj will begin on Thursday. It will be the largest Hajj since...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
The country's digital services exports (DSEs) might decline by 29-44 per cent, depending on the severity of cross-border data flow (CBDF) restrictions and retaliatory measures, according to a latest study."As a result, Bangladesh's gross domestic product (GDP) would shrink by...
Munima Sultana | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Government authorities move to revive a dormant project for developing over 200-km expressway in Bangladesh's prime Dhaka-Chattogram corridor, sources say, now that even the upgraded highway is getting clogged.Roads and Highways Department (RHD) suspended the Tk 933.5 billion Dhaka-Chattogram expressway...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the government is finding it increasingly difficult to keep power plants running as operational costs continued to spiral in the face of the war in Ukraine, report agencies.She also underlined the need for downsizing subsidies...
Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
Government's revenue authority expects around Tk 20 billion in taxes by whitening undisclosed money as the budgetary bait of amnesty begins to arouse response, sources say.The first-of-its-kind scheme of whitening black money by paying 7.0- percent tax may lure back...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
The government will hold the second round of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) next week to discuss terms and conditions of a proposed budgetary support, officials said.A mission from the Washington-based lender will start the meetings with the...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the Met Office.It...
Technician dies falling off city bldgA sanitary technician died after falling from a multi-storied building in the capital's Kamrangirchar area on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Md Imon (20). According to concerned police station Imon went to the...
The Baitul Mukarram National Mosque is scheduled to host five congregations on Sunday on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, reports UNB.In a statement, the Islamic Foundation said the first of the five congregations...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) said on Wednesday Managing Director of Henolux Group Md Nurul Amin and his wife Fatema Amin, also director of the company, lured businessman Gazi Anis to invest a huge amount of money in their company....
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-07-07 00:00:00
A parking policy prepared for Dhaka four years back seems shelved while transport disarray in the capital creates traffic impasse, say sources and blame vested interest for the drawback. They say Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) formulated the draft Parking...
Former lawmaker Shahana Rahman, vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, died at a city hospital. She was 60, reports UNB.She breathed her last at Evercare Hospital at 8:00 pm on Tuesday while undergoing treatment for various ailments, said a party press...
The Election Commission (EC) will hold dialogues with the registered political parties from July 17 to 31 ahead of the 12th general election, reports BSS.A total of 39 registered political parties including Awami League and BNP are being invited for...
Prof Dr Md Sharfuddin Ahmed, Vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, presiding over a discussion organised by BSMMU unit of Sirajganj Pesajibi Parishad, at Shaheed Dr Milon Hall at the university in the city on Wednesday, marking the 2nd...
Senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has warned that Bangladesh is likely to face a deepening economic crisis like in Sri Lanka though the government is now trying to hush up the reality, reports UNB.He also blamed the government's alleged...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the government is working to make the country's electoral system more democratic and modernised, reports BSS."The best way to express the people's opinion is election, and the Awami League government is...
WASHINGTON, July 06 (AFP): The massive US services sector saw growth hold mostly steady in June, while price gains pulled back from their blistering pace but remained high, according to an industry survey released Wednesday.Although business activity increased, new orders...
MUMBAI, July 6 (Reuters): India's palm oil imports in July are set to jump to the highest in 10 months because of a hefty correction in prices and as Indonesia allows more exports of the tropical oil, four dealers told...
PARIS, July 6 (Reuters): Shares in French power group EDF spiked by as much as 8% on Wednesday after French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne told parliament the state aimed to fully nationalise the debt-laden utility in which it already holds...
HONG KONG, July 6 (AFP): Equities mostly fell in Asia on Wednesday and the euro wallowed at a 20-year low as recession fears flowed through markets, while political uncertainty hit the pound as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a...
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