A draft policy on vehicle parking in the capital seemed to promise a great respite from illegal occupation of roads and in some cases footpaths a few years ago. Though meant primarily to remove reckless indiscipline in vehicle parking, the...
Imtiaz A Hussain | 2022-08-12 00:00:00
Supply-networks typically remain outside public conversations in normal times. When a crisis descends, we gulp everything we can find about them. Usually missing in this appraisal is how to structure them so they eventually disappear as a worry. Given the...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 12:00:00
The Bangladesh Patent Law 2022 should be amended in line with the changing scenario of the local pharmaceutical industry after the country's LDC graduation, experts said at a seminar in the capital on Wednesday. Simultaneously, they called for close collaboration...
ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday accused the coalition government of hatching a conspiracy to pit his party against the military, reports DAWN."They have prepared a plan to crush the PTI," he said...
WASHINGTON, Aug 10, 2022 (AFP): President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed US ratification of bids by Finland and Sweden to enter NATO, taking expansion of the Western alliance in response to Russia's Ukraine invasion one step closer.Biden said the two...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
The government has taken an initiative to amend the existing anti-tobacco law by meeting a number of high-priority policy commitments, including sustainable development goals (SDGs).A number of vital steps have been taken to prepare the draft of the amendment and...
NEW YORK, Aug 10 (BBC): Furious allies of former President Donald Trump are demanding an explanation for the FBI's raid on his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.The FBI and Department of Justice have yet to comment on the search, which Mr Trump...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday chaired the regular general meeting of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust at her official residence Ganabhaban, reports UNB.In the regular meeting of the management committee of the board of...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
The outflow of female workers to different countries increased significantly in the first seven months of this calendar year thanks to a demand surge in the Middle-Eastern countries.According to official statistics, a total of 67,127 female workers went to different...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
The Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) has urged all the stakeholders concerned to create an enabling environment that will allow the inter-bank foreign-exchange (forex) market to operate effectively."Generally speaking, interventions and restrictions in any market distort transparency and impede the...
Stocks take a tumble as worries mount The benchmark equities index dropped sharply lower on Wednesday, extending the losing streak for a third day in a row, as investors remained on the sidelines amid deepening economic worries. The Dhaka Stock...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
Reports are rife about huge fund outflow and parking of the money in tax havens like Switzerland but Bangladesh has yet to request the Swiss government for specific findings thereon.Swiss envoy in Dhaka Nathalie Chuard said so Wednesday when asked...
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (AFP): US inflation eased slightly in July, according to official data Wednesday, potentially taking pressure off the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates sharply while bringing a much-needed boost to President Joe Biden just months before crucial...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
The latest quantum leap in fuel-oil prices may further fire up the already-stinging inflation, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal fears, as its backlash started in no time. "It is usual that fuel-oil-price rise causes price hike of everything," he told...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has estimated that it would earn a profit worth around Tk 2.05 billion this month (August), the very first month of raising the prices of fuel oils.The profit would come from the sales proceeds of diesel...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
Banks now get a free hand to deal with overseas exchange houses to bring foreign exchange as the government strives to recharge reserves amid dollar crisis at home as also abroad. Price of cash dollar bucked up to Tk 119...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at most places over Khulna, Barishal and Chattogram divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Thursday), according to the Met Office.Day and night temperature...
Another 92 dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours until Wednesday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), reports UNB.Among them, 73 patients were hospitalised in Dhaka while 19 in other places, it said. As many as...
Bangladesh recorded another Covid-linked death with 198 fresh cases in last 24 hours until Wednesday morning, reports UNB.With the latest numbers, the total fatalities reached 29,309 while the caseload 2,008,068, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The daily...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
Japan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a new project to support the national health agencies and other key stakeholders in Bangladesh, Bhutan and the Maldives to establish sustainable solutions for health care waste management. There has...
Tribal artistes performing dance at a function on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city on Tuesday, marking the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 2022 — bdnews24.com
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and Rotary International President Jennifer Jones, among others, attended a reception organised by Bangladesh Rotary at the BICC auditorium in the city on Tuesday
SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2022-08-11 00:00:00
Manpower crisis in government healthcare facilities is blamed for higher maternal and neonatal deaths, experts observe.They also find most C-section done in Bangladesh hospitals and clinics unnecessary.District hospitals and community clinics trail badly with less than 50-per cent manpower-nurses and...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has upheld a High Court order cancelling the bail granted to expelled Jubo League leader Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat in a graft case, reports UNB.A three-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by...
The apex body of the journalists BFUJ- Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists on Wednesday demanded 60 per cent interim allowance against the basic salary of journalists and employees due to the recent price hike of essential commodities.". . . considering...
Interns at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) formed a human chain in front of the central Shahid Minar on Wednesday morning protesting the attack on their fellow Dr Sazzad Hossain, reports UNB. Condemning the attack they demanded immediate arrest and...
A group of students from different universities and colleges staged demonstrations at the office of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) Wednesday afternoon in protest against the recent fuel price hike, reports UNB.At one stage of the demonstrations, they entered the board...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said it is time for Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to quit politics due to its continuous negative attitude to politics and elections, reports BSS."The BNP's failure plunged Bangladesh into extreme uncertainty...
BNP has planned a 'massive showdown' through a public rally in the capital today (Thursday) in protest against the fresh fuel price hike and power crisis, reports UNB.The party's Dhaka south and north units have already taken necessary preparations to...
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