Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
How many people live in the Bangladesh capital couldn't be known as yet from the latest census! Dhaka's two city corporations, according to a 2020 enrolment report, had 5,465,703 voters. If that figure is doubled (to 10.93 million) for reasonably...
Wasi Ahmed | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Amid the many adversities the country has been facing since the outbreak of the pandemic, the only area that appears to keep hope alive is on the export front. Exports, no doubt, have demonstrated commendable resilience, and the number one...
As multitudes of fresh youths join the country's labour market every year, they remain mostly unemployed or underemployed. Only a small portion of them ---14.9 per cent --- with the requisite skills, reportedly can find jobs in the formal sector....
Khan M R Taufique | 2022-08-03 00:00:00
Responsible consumption and production along with climate action are two of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations for promoting individual and collective actions to combat climate change. One of the challenges of reaching these goals is...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-08-02 12:00:00
Railway accidents in Bangladesh are not purely about collision between trains or derailment of a train and their attendant deaths and injuries. Though it may sound somewhat odd, many of such accidents involve speeding trains ramming buses, trucks, microbuses, you...
Holding a placard in his hand that reads: 'Give proper quantity of oil (at petrol pumps)', a man demonstrates in front of a refuelling station at Kalyanpur in Dhaka on Monday. He complained that many such stations temper with their...
Pakistan's gross financing needs in the current fiscal year would be more than fully met under the ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme while an extra cushion of $4 billion would be arranged, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and...
COLOMBO, Aug 1 (AFP): Sri Lanka issued an urgent appeal on Monday to tackle rapidly spreading malnutrition among children as its economic crisis leaves nine out of 10 people dependent on state handouts.The Ministry for Women and Child Affairs said...
BEIJING, Aug 1 (Reuters): China said on Monday that its military "not sit idly by" if US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan.The latest warning was issued during a Chinese foreign ministry regular briefing. Spokesperson Zhao Lijian also...
India confirmed its first monkeypox death on Monday, a young man in the southern state of Kerala, in what is only the fourth known fatality from the disease in the current outbreak, reports Reuters.Last week, Spain reported two monkeypox-related deaths...
Bangladesh has got an "International Peace Award " as one of the founding member of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, reports UNB.The award was given in memory of the Prime Minister Prof. Dr. Necmettin Erbakan of the Republic of...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The country's inward remittance flow rose by around 11.76 per cent to US$2.09 billion in July of the current fiscal year (FY), 2022-23, than that of the corresponding period of last fiscal, as per the Bangladesh Bank data -- released...
The opening of Rampal power plant is there in the "wish list" as Bangladesh and India are taking preparations for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi first week of September, reports UNB."At an inter-ministerial meeting we will try...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The commerce ministry has requested the Power Division to keep factories producing essential items, including edible oil-producing units, out of the purview of the current phase of regulated power cuts. The ministry made the request following a recent decision at...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh recorded 349 new cases along with one death from the Covid-19 pandemic across the country in the last 24 hours until Monday morning.With the latest figures, the overall number of positive cases and the fatalities rose to 2,005,606 and...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is all set to procure 8.0 million litres of soybean oil to sell the essential item at an affordable price, officials said.It has already floated a tender to buy the cooking oil locally, they...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government is taking measures for saving power and energy to protect Bangladesh from any danger in future, report agencies.She added that even the developed countries like the USA and UK, and India...
BSEC for making fresh investments The securities regulator has urged listed companies to play market supportive roles injecting fresh funds through possible ways including formation of their own portfolios. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) made the call at...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has increased and fixed the interest rate of non-resident foreign currency deposit (NFCD) accounts to encourage inward foreign-currency flow, reports BSS.For one year and up to three years of deposit, the account holders, with the regular interest...
These two passers-by are drinking water from a roadside tap in Motijheel area of Dhaka on Monday noon to cool them off amid ongoing heat wave. Intermittent rain in the monsoon has even failed to bring down the unbearable temperatures...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh's current-account deficit hits an 'all-time high' at $18.70 billion as widening trade gap coupled with lower remittance receipts upsets the country's macroeconomic balance, officials say.The trade deficit exceeded $33-billion mark in the just-past fiscal year (FY), 2021-22, for higher...
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The government now raised price of urea fertiliser by 37.5 per cent to Tk 22 a kilogram, amid supply crunch, which is deemed a blow for farmers in this peak period of Aman planting.Meanwhile, supply shortage has forced the country...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
The Ministry of Shipping (MoS) backed the Tk 15.50-billion 'Pashur channel maintenance dredging project' as an 'electoral pledge' of the government and suggested that the Ministry of Finance (MoF) should provide Tk 13.95 billion as grant instead of loan, sources...
M AZIZUR RAHMAN | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh misses out an opportunity to save annually around US$250 million through lower imports and also to export huge refined petroleum as a much-needed refinery has long been "stalled".Had the 3.0-million-tonne-capacity crude-oil refinery been built in time, state expenditure on...
Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at most places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Tuesday), according to the Met Office.It may also...
Srimati Suruchi Bala Paul, mother of Tapash Chandra Paul, Chief Financial Officer of Mercantile Bank Limited, passed away at a city hospital on Wednesday at the age of 88, says a press release. She had been suffering from old-age complications....
Prof Dr Abdul Hannan Chowdhury, dean, School of Business and Economics, Prof Dr Sharif Nurul Ahkam, Lamea Tanjin Tanha, CEO & Founder of TransEnd, faculties, directors, high officials and students of North South University (NSU) attended a seminar on 'Transforming...
Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni, Prof Sazzad Hossain, member, University Grants Commission, Tamara Hasan Abed, chairperson, Board of Trustees, BRAC University, and its vice-chancellor Prof Vincent Chang, among others, attend a ceremony held on the university campus on Saturday marking...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
A journalist of The Financial Express (FE), Sajibur Rahman, has won the prestigious NIMC (National Institute of Mass Communication) Media Award-2022. A total of 20 journalists from different media organisations received the award at a ceremony held at its auditorium...
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