TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters): Boeing Co said on Monday it plans to establish a research and development (R&D) facility in Japan to further development in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and to advance electric and hydrogen aircraft technology.The facility will also...
Gold prices rose on Monday as the dollar softened, while investors awaited economic readings that could determine the pace of the US Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes, reports Reuters.Spot gold was up 0.2 per cent to $1,768.69 per ounce by...
LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters): Oil prices dropped on Monday as weak manufacturing data from China and Japan weighed on the demand outlook while investors braced for this week's meeting of officials from OPEC and other top crude producers on supply...
Paris St Germain's Neymar scored twice with Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos contributing the other two goals as they romped to a 4-0 victory over Nantes in the French Super Cup at the Bloomfield Stadium on Sunday.It was the ninth...
BARCELONA, Aug 01 (AFP): Barcelona have sold 25 percent of Barca Studios, which manages the club's digital business and audiovisual productions, to Socios.com for 100 million euros (102.5m dollars), club president Joan Laporta said on Monday.Club members had voted to...
Australia's Ariarne Titmus (R) reacts with Australia's Kiah Melverton after the women's 800m freestyle heats swimming event at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre, on day four of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, central England, on Monday — AFP
An extra time strike from forward Chloe Kelly gave England a 2-1 win over Germany in the Women's European Championship final on Sunday to claim their first ever major title in front of a record crowd on home soil.Substitute Kelly...
Nigerian forward Ebimobowei Thankgod scored a brace as Chittagong Abahani Limited finished the TVS Bangladesh Premier League campaign as they defeated Bangladesh Police Football Club by 3-2 goals held on Monday at Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta Stadium in Cumilla, reports BSS....
Bangladesh U-20 national football team face Nepal in the ultimate league match of the SAFF U-20 Championship scheduled to be held today (Tuesday) at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India, reports BSS.The match kicks off at 4.30 pm (BST).Bangladesh team placed...
Bangladesh have named all-rounder Mosaddek Hossain to lead the side in the series-deciding third Twenty20 against Zimbabwe in Harare today (Tuesday).Mosaddek replaces Nurul Hasan as captain after the wicketkeeper-batsman was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a...
Microbus set on fire after schoolboy hurt in N'ganj road accidentLocal people set a microbus on fire after it hit an auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district on Monday, leaving a schoolboy injured. Quoting local people,...
RANGAMATI, Aug 01 (UNB): Four shops and a house were gutted in a fire in Rangamati district town in the early hours of Sunday.No casualties were reported.Witnesses said the fire broke out around 3:30 am on Sunday in the stadium...
CHATTOGRAM, Aug 01 (BSS): Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) in a drive evicted over 100 unauthorised shops built on both the sides of the city's Nasirabad industrial area on Monday.Marufa Begum Neli, executive magistrate of CCC, conducted a three hour-long drive...
LALMONIRHAT, Aug 01 (UNB): The residents along the Teesta River are passing their days in fear of possible flood as the Teesta River was flowing above its danger level on Monday. The Teesta River was flowing 25 cm above its...
KHULNA, August 01 (UNB): Nagar Paribahan in Khulna city service resumed on Monday morning after remaining suspended for over two and a half years.The Nagar Paribahan service will ply between Khulna city's Fultola and Rupsha Ghat.Passengers travelling on this route...
CHANDPUR, Aug 01 (UNB): Two children drowned at Subidpur and Toragor villages in Hajiganj upazila of the district on Sunday.In Subidpur, a 7-year-old girl drowned in a pond while plucking water Lily at Sibidpur Uttar Para in the upazila.The dead...
KHULNA, Aug 01 (UNB): The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against a food inspector of Terokhada upazila of Khulna and his wife on charge of concealing their wealth information.Assistant Director of ACC's Jashore District Office Md Mosharraf Hossain...
LALMONIRHAT, Aug 01 (UNB): Ibrahim Ali (45), headmaster of Shalmara Ghonapara Government Primary School, has set a unique example by constructing a 50-foot floating bridge on the Sati River with drums and bamboos at Chandrapur union in Kaliganj upazila of...
Shishu Park in Dhaka city's Shahbagh area used to be a prominent centre of recreation for families in the past. In my childhood, Eid festival seemed to be quite incomplete if we could not visit this place. The park has...
Railway's level crossings are like death traps in Bangladesh. At least 35 people have reportedly been killed in accidents at level crossings so far this year with the latest accident leaving 11 people dead at Mirsharai of Chattogram just a...
Polls-time violence is nothing new in Bangladesh. However, the recent incident in which a nine-month old child was allegedly killed in police firing after announcement of the election results of Bachor union parishad in Ranisankail upazila of Thakurgaon is unprecedented....
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Thanks to the remarkable cut in road accidents prompted by the lengthy corona lockdowns, the absence of bustling roads in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country emerged as a blessing in disguise. The roads in the capital remained off-limits to...
The alarm bell sounded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) about the rapid degradation of topsoil worldwide is in effect a grim warning of food insecurity for the planet's population. In fact, concerned here is the most productive part...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-08-02 00:00:00
Bangladesh, like other developing countries keen to be on a higher growth path, has resorted to borrowing from foreign bi-lateral and multilateral institutions for hard currency and domestic sources for the taka component of foreign-financed projects since long. With the...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-01 12:00:00
Upskilling employable youths begins soon for raising productivity at home and remittance from abroad from high-end jobs, as the government prepares a recipe to that end. Sources say the government has formulated apprenticeship guidelines aiming to rear skilled labour force...
ged civilians on Saturday to evacuate the frontline Donetsk region, the scene of fierce clashes with the Russian military, as Kyiv called on the Red Cross and UN to gain access to its soldiers being held by Moscow's forces.The eastern...
In contrast to the government directive, lamp posts in certain parts of the Airport Road remain illuminated throughout the night. The photo was taken around 8:00pm on Sunday — FE photo by KAZ Sumon
FE Report | 2022-08-01 00:00:00
The government is set to launch a sales drive of key essential items today (Monday), meant for around 10 million families.The state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) will sell essential commodities in different parts of the country through its dealers...
Bangladesh has received 1.5 million doses of pediatric Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines donated by the United States, report agencies.This is the first shipment of specially formulated Covid-19 vaccines to protect children between the ages of 5-11 from the coronavirus.More vacancies are...
FE REPORT | 2022-08-01 00:00:00
The much-talked-about Rampal coal-fired power plant, constructed by India's Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), may be inaugurated next month during Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Delhi visit. The Prime Minister is expected to visit Delhi in September. "The inauguration of...
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