Dangers do not come following a warning. One may experience a situation, where there will be no one around to help one out. To help those who are in emergencies, the authorities of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil...
The government has recently approved in principle the draft of the Drugs Act, 2022 with harsher punishment for drug-related anomalies and offences. Under the draft law, the punishment for such crimes will reportedly be maximum 10-year jail with a fine...
Zahid Huq | 2022-08-19 00:00:00
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday last asked the authorities concerned to explore the possibility of importing fuel oils from Russia, a global superpower facing sanctions from another---the USA---following the former's invasion of Ukraine. While presiding over the regular weekly...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-08-19 00:00:00
One cannot say accidents are accidents unless one is a hypocrite. To make such a statement, one has to be dead sure of the inevitability or unavoidability of the dreadful occurrences. Although people in general have become somewhat immune to...
Incidence of malware toxicity is quite high in the telephone companies, quite a few of them being household names. There are 184.45m mobile phone subscribers in the country. Whatever might be the size of ownership or usage a decade later,...
The Guardian Life Insurance Ltd. will soon launch its Guardian Takaful, a life insurance category that is based on Islamic Shariah, says the company in a statement.The statement came following the first Guardian Life Shariah Council meeting held recently at...
FE Youth DeskNotre Dame Nature Study Club is back with the Third Divisional Festival or the Mymensingh Divisional Festival of the 13th National Nature Summit 2022, in partnership with the Department of Environment under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and...
Tahsin Tasnia SimiUniversity is a time for finding oneself, meeting like-minded people, and enriching one's skills and knowledge. As a matter of fact, it can be considered a crucial stepping stone for one's career. Hence, having a successful university admissions...
Fabiha Maimuna | 2022-08-18 12:00:00
What exactly makes a business's success noteworthy? In an era where everyone hops on the bandwagon, is it really possible to take a different route? The industry of digital marketing agencies will make you believe that it is the gap...
In the next cycle of the ICC Men's Future Tour Programme (FTP), Bangladesh will take on all full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the new FTP published by the ICC revealed, report agencies. The next FTP will start...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2022-08-18 12:00:00
The tax authorities in various countries utilise Exchange of Information (EOI) agreements for cross-border sharing of taxpayer information. This exchange can be of two types: on request; and voluntary or spontaneous. The latter or Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) is...
Anisur Rahman | 2022-08-18 12:00:00
When Imran Khan was in power, the economy of Pakistan faced the biggest shock. The rampaging Covid-19 pandemic across the world sent its economic growth into the negative territory. As soon as the pandemic subsided, the economy started to recover....
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Wednesday slammed traders for irrationally increasing the prices of essential items in the local market on excuse of the increased prices of fuel oils and sharp depreciation of local currency against the US dollar.He said...
FE REPORTTea workers of the country Wednesday vowed to continue their ongoing agitation as no decision about fulfilling their various demands, including a wage hike, came from a tripartite meeting which continued till filing this report at around 10pm on...
The central bank's key focus is to control both the imports and inflation and promote local production for generating employment and for this it has announced new Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) on Refinancing against Term Loan of Tk 250 billion...
Bangladesh reported zero Covid death and 212 new cases in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, reports UNB.With the latest numbers, Bangladesh's total fatalities remained static at 29,314 while the caseload rose to 2,009,434, according to the Directorate General of Health...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
The government may get tough with the two non-compliant Chinese companies working in the BRT (bus rapid transit) infrastructure project.The development comes hot on the heels of Monday's fatal accident that left five members of a family dead on the...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) on Wednesday issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain as to why they should not be directed to compensate Tk 50 million to the family of five people who were crushed...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
The High Court (HC) questions the legality of holding the position of managing director and CEO of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) by Engineer Taqsem A Khan.It also raised a question of paying him Tk 0.625 million in...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader said on Wednesday gone are the days to assume the state power through arson terrorism and bombing as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would be resisted on the street, reports BSS."There will be...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
The government approves procurement of 12.25 million litres of soybean oil at Tk 2.05 billion for rationing by the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) to cool the overheated market.Huge fertiliser import and local procurement are also approved to keep the...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday reiterated her call to Myanmar to take back home the country's more than one million Rohingya nationals from their temporary shelter in Bangladesh, reports UNB."The Rohingyas are the nationals of Myanmar and they have...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dreamt of an exploitation-free and economically-developed Bangladesh, participants told a discussion in the capital on Wednesday. They observed that the August 15, 1975 carnage was part of a conspiracy by the local...
Stocks extend gains for third straight dayStocks extended the winning streak for a third straight session on Wednesday amid increased participation of investors. The day's session opened on an upward trend and the benchmark equities index rose about 37 points...
Siddique Islam | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
Moneychangers can now profit more as the central bank widened the spread between selling and buying rates of cash dollar to Tk 1.50, in a shifting stance for managing the frantic forex market.The little higher margin was announced Wednesday at...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
The calorie intake of Bangladeshi people might decline by 17 per cent within 2030 due to climate change-induced extreme weather events, which have gradually been rising in the region, a latest study revealed.It also said the number of people at...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) will jointly work to boost health and workplace safety in ten priority sectors across the country. The sectors are electronic and electrical, chemical, plastic,...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday stressed the need for a national dialogue ahead of elections "to prevent grievances from building and erupting in social unrest." "There needs to be space for more dialogue among political...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2022-08-18 00:00:00
Non-tax revenue (NTR), the second-biggest source of government revenues, contracted more than 33 per cent in ten months to last April, with its impact on total resource mobilisation in the last fiscal. Sources say lesser-than-targeted collection of fees and receipts...
The officers who took part in the National Defence Course 2022 exchanging views with senior defence secretary Golam Md Hasibul Alam at the Ministry of Defence at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the city on Wednesday — ISPR
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