MOSCOW, June 06 (AP): Voters in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan cast ballots Sunday on proposed constitutional changes seen as an attempt to repudiate the legacy of former strongman Nursultan Nazarbayev, who led the ex-Soviet republic for three decades.The...
VIENNA, June 06 (AFP): Major European countries and the United States are expected to seek to censure Iran as the UN atomic watchdog started meeting on Monday amid stalled talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.The resolution drafted by the...
ABUJA, June 06 (Reuters): At least 50 people were killed and others injured after gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Nigeria's Ondo state during mass on Sunday, a doctor and local media reported.A doctor at a hospital in Owo, a...
NEW YORK, June 06 (AP): Tropical Storm Alex, which became the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season Sunday, headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and causing flooding in parts of Florida.Alex reached tropical storm force...
KYIV, June 06 (AFP/Reuters): Ukrainian troops have beaten back Russian forces to control half of a flashpoint eastern city, local officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the front lines to support his country's "true heroes".As the see-saw battle raged...
SEOUL, June 06 (BBC): South Korea and the US launched eight missiles on Monday, in response to a volley of ballistic missiles fired by North Korea the previous day.It comes as Pyongyang continues to escalate its missile tests.South Korea's president...
NEW DELHI, June 06 (UNB): At least 26 people have been killed when a bus carrying pilgrims veered off a mountainous road and fell into a deep gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, officials said Monday.The accident occurred...
GENEVA, June 06 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo scored his world record-extending 116th and 117th goals for Portugal on Sunday. Erling Haaland got his 17th and 18th at a faster rate for Norway. Gavi opened his Spain account at age 17.Ronaldo had...
HARARE, June 06 (AFP): Opening batsman Ibrahim Zadran scored an unbeaten 120 as Afghanistan defeated Zimbabwe by eight wickets on Monday to take a winning 2-0 lead in a three-match one-day international series.Atoning for scoring only five runs when the...
CARDIFF, Wales June 06 (Reuters): Wales ended their 64-year wait for a place in the World Cup finals as they beat Ukraine 1-0 on Sunday to end the war-torn nation's hopes of reaching Qatar.An own goal from Ukraine winger Andriy...
TOKYO, June 06 (Agencies): Neymar scored a 77th-minute penalty as Brazil broke down a stubborn Japan 1-0 in Tokyo on Monday to keep their momentum building ahead of the World Cup in Qatar.The South American heavyweights arrived in Tokyo fresh...
PARIS, June 06 (AFP): French Open winner Rafael Nadal and beaten finalist Casper Ruud climbed one and two places to fourth and sixth respectively in the ATP rankings released Monday.Serbia's Novak Djokovic, beaten by Nadal in the Roland Garros quarter-finals,...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 06 (AP): The Australian cricket team's six-week tour in the midst of an economic crisis in Sri Lanka could have a positive spin.Sri Lanka Cricket on Monday said all income from tickets for the three Twenty20s,...
Nigar Sultana | 2022-06-07 00:00:00
Life is tough for pensioners and senior citizens in Bangladesh. The woes of pensioners, especially if they do not belong to the privileged classes, know no limits in this country. Against the backdrop of a very tense global economy, affected...
The standard of English in our rural educational institutions does not seem to be up to the mark. This can be further confirmed if we look at the result sheets of these schools and colleges. Most of the students obtain...
The death of 124 people in a devastating fire in Dhaka's Nimtali in 2010 does not seem to have taught us any lesson, particularly on how to handle flammable chemicals. If we could learn anything from the Nimtali incident, another...
University of Chittagong has been contributing to the country since its inception in 1966 by creating skilled and patriotic individuals. The university has a large library. It has a rich collection of 350,000 books and about 415 periodicals. Almost every...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-06-07 00:00:00
With the Ukraine war raging, the issue of energy security has now topped the agenda, globally. Since, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), Russia is the world's largest oil exporter and Europe keeps warm with its (Russia's) gas, what...
Negligence, official or otherwise, in matters of enforcing industrial safety has yet again led to the loss of 49 lives. And the toll of the country's first shipping container depot fire is likely to rise, as many among the burn...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem and Towfiqul Islam Khan | 2022-06-07 00:00:00
Bangladesh's external sector has never been under so much pressure experiencing such volatility as in the recent past. Trade deficit is anticipated to cross US$ 30.0 billion mark, current account deficit the US$ 18.0 billion mark and the negative overall...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-06 12:00:00
Favouring free trade agreement (FTA) between Bangladesh and Japan, business communities of both the countries suggest the governments should work on it now to create a win-win situation after Bangladesh's graduation from LDC status.However, the governments of Bangladesh and Japan...
ONDO, June 05 (BBC): Gunmen have killed worshippers in a Catholic church in Ondo, south-west Nigeria, the state's governor has said.Rotimi Akeredolu called it a "vile and satanic attack" on innocent people.The armed men entered St Francis church in the...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-06 00:00:00
The collection of value added tax (VAT) from retail outlets has increased ten times in general after the shops have started issuing Electronic Fiscal Device (EFD) generated invoices.Top officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) said this while explaining...
Six people including three officials of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) were killed and 40 others injured as a bus rammed two vehicles at Boliarpur on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar Sunday morning, reports UNB.Four of the deceased were identified as...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-06 00:00:00
The labour unrest in the capital's Mirpur area stepped into third day on Sunday, as thousands of ready-made garment (RMG) workers took to the street demanding wage hike amid high prices of essentials. The garment workers from factories - located...
REZAUL KARIM | 2022-06-06 00:00:00
The government has so far failed to procure soybean oil required for selling at a subsidised rate among 10 million families ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) had floated tenders twice last month - one on May 12...
The current inflationary pressures has eroded the real income and adversely affected food security and essential expenditures of the low-income households in Bangladesh, reports UNB.This has also significantly disrupted their economic recovery from the COVID-19 shock, says a latest survey.In...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday underlined the need for protecting the environment to ensure sustainable development in the country, reports UNB."For sustainable development there should be coordination with environment and development. Otherwise, development cannot be sustainable," she said.The premier...
Anwar Hossain Babu, a survivor of the hellish fire at BM Container Depot in Chattogram's Sitakunda who had both legs swathed in bandages, was still rubbing his eyes as he sat on a bed at Chattogram Medical College Hospital a...
Major sectors contribute to mkt upturn Dhaka bourse closed the week's first session with a moderate rise in broad index following investors' increased participation in transactions. Major sectors of listed securities on Sunday played a market supportive role and helped...
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