Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon has confidence about the Tigers' success in the upcoming Asia Cup despite the team's vulnerability in the shortest format of the cricket, reports BSS. The Tigers won just two matches in the...
GENEVA, Aug 18 (Arab News): The World Health Organization (WHO) called Wednesday for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission. A first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox...
LVIV (Ukraine), Aug 18 (AP): Turkish and Ukrainian presidents along with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have met in Ukraine's Lviv city to address the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.The summit came right after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Ukrainian counterpart...
JERUSALEM, Aug 18 (Reuters): Israeli forces killed a Palestinian in predawn clashes in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Palestinian medics said. The Israeli army said he was armed and shooting at soldiers; the Palestinians denied this.Witnesses...
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (AFP): Republican scion Liz Cheney's primary defeat to a hardline Trumpist rival underlines the dramatic shift the party has undergone under the former president as he pulls it away from mainstream conservatism towards the politics of personality.The...
KABUL, Aug 18 (AFP): A blast which ripped through a mosque packed with worshippers in the Afghan capital killed at least 21 people and wounded more than two dozen others, police said Thursday.The number of bombings across Afghanistan has declined...
BEIJING, Aug 18 (AFP): Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in joint military drills, Beijing's defence ministry said.Beijing and Moscow have close defence links and China has said it wants to push bilateral relations "to a higher...
writes Imtiaz A. Hussain | 2022-08-19 00:00:00
Are we misinterpreting the U.N. General Assembly's November 2021 decision? Entitled U.N. Resolution A/RES/76/8, it placed Bangladesh on the 'graduation' list towards a 'developing' country by the end of 2026. Economic-tainted tinges have since rippled down our spine. Getting on...
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...
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