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Evacuated Ukrainians forced to return home

2022-07-26 00:00:00

POKROVSK, Ukraine, July 25 (AP/BBC): The missile's impact flung the young woman against the fence so hard it splintered. Her mother found her dying on the bench beneath the pear tree where she'd enjoyed the afternoon. By the time her...

Myanmar executes 4 democracy activists

2022-07-26 00:00:00

YANGON, July 25 (BBC): Four democracy activists have been executed by Myanmar's military in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades.The four - including activist Ko Jimmy and lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw - were...

German charter airline Condor orders 41 Airbus jets

2022-07-26 00:00:00

PARIS, July 25 (AFP): German charter airline Condor has ordered 41 A320 Airbus jets as it renews its fleet with aircraft using less fuel and emitting less carbon dioxide, the two companies said on Monday.The order is for 13 A320...

Malaysia warns of weaker Q3 palm oil price

2022-07-26 00:00:00

KUALA LUMPUR, July 25 (Reuters): Malaysian crude palm oil prices will remain weak for most of the third quarter of this year, the country's commodities minister said on Monday, after rival producer Indonesia scrapped its export levy."This is inevitable in...

Oil rises in volatile trade, Fed hike weighs

2022-07-26 00:00:00

LONDON, July 25 (Reuters): Oil prices rose on Monday in seesaw trading as the market balanced supply fears with expectations that rise in US interest rates would weaken fuel demand.Brent crude futures for September settlement rose 79 cents, or 0.77...

Importance of storytelling

2022-07-26 00:00:00

Storytelling is an art. Gone are those days when grandparents and parents used to send children to sleep by telling interesting stories.Bedtime tales told by grandparents were matchless. Not only did they tell stories through acting, but they would also...

Protecting female varsity students from sexual harassment on campus

2022-07-26 00:00:00

Unfortunately, incidents of sexual harassment still prevail in our universities. These incidents remind us that there is apparently no safe place for female students, not even in their own campuses. Five young people allegedly assaulted a female student physically and...

Checking fraudulence at filling stations

2022-07-26 00:00:00

The number of people who can afford private vehicles is increasing day by day in Dhaka city. And so are increasing the number of vehicles like car. But when it comes to refuelling stations, city dwellers have allegations against most...

WHO's global monkeypox alert

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-07-26 00:00:00

The World Health Organization (WHO)'s Director General (DG), Dr Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyessus, has declared monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency. Such classification of the viral disease's outbreak by WHO also indicates that the global alert against the monkeypox outbreak is...

Role of middle-class in times of crises

Shihab Sarkar | 2022-07-26 00:00:00

Passing through all socio-economic deadlocks by the urban middle and lower-middle classes has been the norm in this country for long. Presently discovering themselves in the midst of a global whirlwind filled with scores of uncertainties, these two classes have...

Pharmaceutical sector's bright prospect

2022-07-26 00:00:00

That the pharmaceutical sector of the country has immense prospect for export has been recognised for some years now. It was not until the country's fledgling drug companies gave proof of their capacity, on the strength of the National Drug...

Accessing climate finance from GCF & GEF: Hurdles and way forward

Mohammad Abu Yusuf | 2022-07-26 00:00:00

Climate change has created and is creating negative impacts for human beings. Global bodies including United Nations (UN), World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are taking various measures...

Woes of illegal migration

2022-07-25 12:00:00

The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report 2022 released by the US State Department recently has included the Myanmar's displaced Rohingya as victims of the payment of the highest migration cost in the 'region'. The report has presumably referred to the...

Sonali Bank's ex-MD, eight others jailed for loan scams

2022-07-25 00:00:00

A Dhaka court has sentenced former managing director of Sonali Bank, Humayun Kabir, and eight others to jail on different terms for embezzlement of Tk 2.57 million through loan forgery, reports bdnews24.com.Judge Md Iqbal Hossain delivered the verdict on Sunday.The...

700 migrants rescued off the Italian coast, 5 found dead

2022-07-25 00:00:00

Almost 700 migrants, including five dead bodies, were rescued on Saturday off the southern coast of Italy, a coastguard statement said on Sunday, as flows of migrants crossing the Mediterranean increase during favourable sea conditions, reports Reuters.Most of the 674...

Plan mid-term, long-term to cure economic ills: CPD exec director

FE Report | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

The country's top think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) recommended taking up mid-term and long-term measures as it thinks the existing economic crisis will not be short-term. "The ongoing crisis is not short-term in nature, therefore, it may continue for...

Concern aired over huge tomato imports despite bumper harvest

FE REPORT | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

Bangladesh imported 76,000 tonnes of tomato in the last fiscal year (FY '22) despite the fact that the domestic production of the vegetable was a record 1.75 million tonnes, it was disclosed at a programme on Sunday. Agriculture minister Dr...

Police personnel have caught this 'mugger'

2022-07-25 00:00:00

Police personnel have caught this 'mugger' as he was fleeing after snatching a mobile phone set from a passer-by in Purana Paltan area of the city on Sunday afternoon — FE photo

Govt asks BB to provide LC data on rice import

FE REPORT | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

The government has asked the central bank to provide it with the LC (letter of credit) data of rice import, aiming to know the shipment details of the staple so that it can monitor and oversee supply situation in the...

Shakib demands Tk 58m from mobile co, bank

2022-07-25 00:00:00

Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan has sent a legal notice to telecom operator Banglalink and Jamuna Bank demanding fine for illegally using his photos and brand image for business purposes, reports UNB.Shakib's lawyer Ashraful Hadi sent the notice to Banglalink Chief...

PRAN-RFL eyes $1b exports by 2025, $2b by 2030

FE REPORT | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

PRAN-RFL Group, one of the country's leading business conglomerates, plans to double its export earning to US$1.0 billion within the next three years.It is also planning to reach the $2.0-billion export-earning benchmark by 2030 - based on its diversified range...

Ban on fishing ends

2022-07-25 00:00:00

The fishermen in the coastal districts on Sunday started to go to the Bay as the 65-day ban on fishing imposed by the government ended, reports UNB.The ban was imposed on May 20 to ensure smooth breeding of fish which...

PM calls for efforts to earn forex thru' fish farming

2022-07-25 00:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday urged the youths to set up export-oriented fish-processing industries to help boost the country's foreign-exchange earnings, reports UNB."We can process the fish or we can produce various types of products from fish and export...

PTA within D8 envisaged

FE REPORT | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

Countries in the vast bloc D8 plan to implement preferential trade agreement (PTA) by next year, in their effort to weather raging global economic wrangles.The latest thinking on expansion of intra-grouping trade was disclosed by Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr AK...

Briefing 25-07-2022

2022-07-25 00:00:00

Core index sinks below 6100 Stocks witnessed yet another massive fall on Sunday, with the key index of the prime bourse sinking below 6,100-mark, as the jittery investors continued their sell-off to exit from the market. The market saw a...

Prayer Timings (2022-07-25)

2022-07-25 00:00:00

Notice (2022-07-25)

2022-07-25 00:00:00

The price of The Financial Express (FE) will be Tk 15 per copy with effect from today, July 25, in accordance with the decision of the Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (NOAB). The decision to raise the price has come...

Stimulus credit flow drops

SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

Loan disbursement under the economic-recovery stimulus packages, particularly for large industries and services sector, drops mainly as prospective clients look averse.With this second-phase disbursement sluggishness in the backdrop, the third phase of the financial package commences this week only after...

New Nat'l Policy targets 30m jobs by 2030

MONIRA MUNNI | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

The government has formulated National Employment Policy 2022 identifying a number of challenges including absence of public and private measures that hinder the skilled workforce generation. The policy, first of its kind that has recently been finalised, also aims to...

Over-reliance on energy imports leads to this state

FE REPORT | 2022-07-25 00:00:00

The government's over-reliance on import of energy, instead of necessary efforts for local exploration, has resulted in the acute energy crisis these days.The governments over the past one decade did focus neither on oil and gas explorations nor on local...