The list of pricier essentials is quite a long one. The media, these days, have stopped describing the price rise as new records, for readers would not like the repetition of the same headlines day after day. Now they prefer...
Zero Covid death was reported and 273 positive cases were detected in the 24 hours to Friday morning in the country, reports UNB.While the country's total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,315, the new number took its caseload to 2,009,697, according...
Chief patroniser of Simanto Paribar Kalyan Samiti (SHIPKS) Dr Shahnaz Shakil handing over financial assistance to children with physical disabilities of Bangladesh Border Guard members and distributing prizes among the winners in the art competition at Simanto Kolokakoli Children Club...
COLOMBO, Aug 19 (AFP): Sri Lanka's deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is seeking to return home from his exile in Thailand and has asked his successor to guarantee his safety, his party announced Friday.Rajapaksa fled the island last month after...
MOULVIBAZAR, Aug 19 (UNB): Four female tea- garden workers were killed in a landslide at a tea garden in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district on Friday morning amid their ongoing strike demanding an increase in their daily wages.The deceased were...
Bangladesh is set for a respite from the sweltering heat as a depression over the Bay of Bengal is likely to bring rain across the country, report agencies.On Friday, a low-pressure system intensified into a deep depression and the resulting...
Petrobangla has begun drilling a development well of Shahbazpur Gas Field in the southern district of Bhola, reports UNB.Russian state-controlled gas giant Gazprom was appointed as the contractor for drilling the Tagbi-1 well.The Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (Bapex),...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-20 00:00:00
BIMSTEC countries are expected to finalise the much-needed pending issues, including the determination of rules of origin of goods, product-specific rules (PSR) and operational certification procedure in October.To this end, the multilateral regional organisation's secretariat has recently requested Bangladesh to...
This elderly artist is busy painting a sari at a boutique shop at the New Market in Dhaka. Such hand-painted saris are popular among a particular group of customers. The photo was taken recently — FE photo by Shafiqul Alam
Ismail Hossain The once-hyped-up mobile number portability (MNP) service has lost its demand, and the number of its users has decreased drastically due to lack of regulatory support and awareness. The number of MNP service users has decreased to almost...
Stocks rebound amid optimismThe market rebounded this week to Wednesday, paring some losses from the previous week, as investors put fresh funds on stocks amid optimism following the central bank's move to stabilise the foreign exchange rates. All three trading...
REZAUL KARIM and YASIR WARDAD | 2022-08-20 00:00:00
Prices of lentil and sugar increased 40 per cent and 25.35 per cent respectively in the local market in the last one year even though global prices of such goods have decreased. The data have been obtained from a Bangladesh...
Our Correspondent | 2022-08-20 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 19: Chittagong port, the prime seaport of the country, has advanced three steps in a year to become the world's 64th-busiest port. The latest 2022 edition of Lloyd's List's One Hundred Ports was published on Friday. The list...
FHM Humayan Kabir | 2022-08-20 00:00:00
Galloping prices of goods erode real wages in Bangladesh amid surging inflation over the last few months, analysts say while low-paid workers press for pay rise.Stymied growth in the wage rate index (WRI) compared to higher inflation rate affects the...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-08-20 00:00:00
With an international agency playing the go-between, Bangladesh starts negotiation with a Saudi Arabian firm to run the newly-built Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) off the Chattogram seaport, officials say. If the negotiation with the Red Sea Gateway Terminal (RSGT) company...
Freedom Fighter Lt Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir (Retd) Bir Protik, Aziz AI Kaiser and Ms Yasmin Kamal, members of Board of Trustees of NSU and Prof Atiqul Islam, NSU Vice-Chancellor, among others, attend a discussion and doa mahfil organised...
Light to moderate rain/showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at most places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions and at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh & Sylhet divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy...
DU CorrespondentDhaka University (DU) affiliated 7 colleges' admission test of Arts and Social Science unit was held on Friday.The test was held from 11am to 12am with total marks 120, said a press release.A total of 38,644 students applied against...
Two fishermen died and two others went missing after a trawler carrying 16 fishers capsized amid a heavy storm in the Bay of Bengal on Friday, police said, report agencies.The capsize occurred adjacent to Nijhum Dwip in Hatiya upazila of...
Silvia Mim paid Tk 1.57 million to enrol at CARe Medical College in Dhaka's Mohammadpur. During the next five years, she paid Tk 8,000 every month as tuition fees. Now, she has joined her disgruntled peers in protesting against a...
Fifty-four more people were hospitalised with dengue - a viral infection - in the 24 hours to Friday morning, reports UNB.Forty-six new patients were admitted to the hospitals of Dhaka and eight outside it, according to the Directorate General of...
A Dhaka court has placed 10 people on different terms of remand in a case lodged over the death of five people after a girder of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project crashed on a private car in the city's...
After completion of the work of the first-ever elevated metro rail, now technicians erecting metal bar fenches on both sides of the road divider under the rail infrastructure. The photo was taken from the city's Mirpur-10 on Friday — Focus...
FE REPORT Egg prices eventually showed a downslide in the capital's kitchen markets on Friday, to a substantial relief of the general consumers, one week after reaching its culmination.The FE correspondent found a dozen of eggs selling at Tk 145-Tk150...
Jatiya Ganotantrik Party (JAGPA) organises a human chain programme in front of the National Press Club in the city on Friday protesting against the hike in prices of fuel oil and essential commodities and load-shedding — Focus Bangla
GOPALGANJ, August 19 (BSS): Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Friday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his grave at Tungipara in Gopalganj.After laying the wreath, the foreign...
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Fazilatun Nessa Indira on Friday said Bangladesh is a shining example of secularism, reports BSS."Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman established a non-communal Bangladesh by liberating the country through a long...
GOPALGANJ, Aug 19 (UNB): Leaders of Bangabandhu Foundation on Friday paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at his grave at Tungipara in Gopalganj.Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, president of Bangabandhu Foundation, along with other leaders...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 19 (BSS): Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud urged the people from all walks of life to remain vigilant about communal instigators so that none can destroy the country's communal harmony."Bangladesh was born as a non-communal state...
PIROJPUR, Aug 19 (BSS): Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim on Friday said Sheikh Hasina is the safe haven for all religious people as the Prime Minister ensured their rights through an amendment to the constitution."Once upon a time,...
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