FE YOUTH DESK | 2022-07-21 00:00:00
BUP Film Club (BUPFC), one of the emerging clubs of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), will organise 'BUP Film Fest 2022' on August 02 and 03, 2022, on BUP campus. It is an inter-university film festival on a national scale....
Humaira Afreen | 2022-07-21 00:00:00
Anyone attending university for a bachelor's degree looks forward to graduation for four years, not just for the ceremony but also for finishing school, finding dream work and life, and finally feeling like a real grown-up. However, for many people,...
BANGKOK, July 20 (AFP): Myanmar junta troops are committing war crimes by laying landmines on a "massive scale" around villages where they are battling anti-coup fighters, rights campaign group Amnesty International said Wednesday.Fighting has ravaged swathes of the country since...
TAIPEI, July 20 (AP): European Parliament Vice President Nicola Beer met with Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday and called for China to open a "mutual and respectful dialogue" with the self-governing island democracy it claims as its own territory.Beer...
NEW DELHI, July 19 (UNB): India's Supreme Court Wednesday granted bail to a leading Muslim journalist who was arrested last month on charges of hurting religious sentiments through one of his tweets.A two-judge bench of the top court gave the...
KYIV, July 20 (AP/BBC): Ukrainian forces have struck and seriously damaged a bridge that is key for supplying Russian troops in southern Ukraine, a regional official said Wednesday.Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Moscow-backed temporary administration for the Russia-controlled southern...
PARIS, July 20 (Reuters): Giuseppe Paterno, who is 98, has become Italy's oldest graduate - again.Paterno has added a masters in history and philosophy from the University of Palermo to an initial degree in the same subjects he earned there...
GENEVA, July 20 (AFP/AP): Heatwaves like the one stifling western Europe are becoming more frequent and the trend is set to continue until at least the 2060s, the United Nations said Tuesday.The current heatwave should act as a wake-up call...
Getting older not only means getting wiser, it also means getting weaker. Human beings are, at the end of the day, feeble and mortal. In the midst of the busy life, I want to remind everyone that life without leisure...
Bangladesh's food production increased significantly in past few decades. We also have progressed in producing fish, vegetables, fruit, milk, egg, cattle and poultry. Yet people here are still unable to avail healthy food. The miserable condition of the food situation...
It is great to learn that Bangladesh is the most gender-equal among the South Asian countries. According to World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2022, we have ranked 71 out of 146 countries. The constant efforts to empower women...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-07-21 00:00:00
Let's not pretend otherwise. The bare-faced, no-holds-barred truth is that education in Bangladesh is in free fall, if not in terminal decline. And we are not here speaking of our failure to make it to a respectable spot in global...
The government finally had to go for rationing of electricity along with a series of other stringent measures to save fuel and foreign exchange. It is too early to say what impact it will have on people's life and the...
M Rokonuzzaman | 2022-07-21 00:00:00
The increasing volume and role of semiconductor, as silicon chips, have been alluring growing number of firms and nations to enter the semiconductor value chain. Like iron and plastic, silicon chips are essential in making all kinds of industrial products....
TEHRAN, July 19 (BBC): Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Iran for only his second foreign trip since he launched the invasion of Ukraine in February.Mr Putin met with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran. He will meet Iran's supreme...
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal on Tuesday apologised for his rifle against sword comment during his ongoing dialogue with political parties, reports UNB."Sometimes we make mistakes. Sorry for that. I went for humour. I didn't mean it. Please...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) will monitor the edible oil market with a view to ensuring that such oils are sold at the new rate fixed by the government recently. The decision came at the 3rd meeting...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
A Dhaka court awards eight persons, including JKG Health Care chairman Dr Sabrina Arif Chowdhury, 11 years of rigorous imprisonment each in a case filed over issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court Judge Tofazzal Hossain delivered a verdict...
FE Report | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
The daylong nationwide coronavirus vaccination drive that began on Tuesday to cover some 7.5 million people received lukewarm response across the country.Visiting various vaccine centers in Dhaka, lower presence of vaccine-seeking people was observed throughout the day. Even in some...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
Bangladeshi passport has been placed in 104th position among 112 in a latest global Index indicating its poor acceptance in many travel destinations.The green passport holders can enter only 41 international destinations without prior visa, according to the Henley Passport...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Tuesday tightened the Export Development Fund (EDF) facility for the shippers to some extent, as settlement of liabilities from the funded facility is no more allowed. The central bank issued a circular, signed by director...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all concerned, including the stakeholders in public and private sector, to maintain austerity in all fields, including in power consumption, in the wake of global inflationary situation, reports BSS.If all concerned could pursue austerity,...
Diesel being purchased from a gas station to run a private power generator amid the introduction of scheduled power load-shedding. The photo was taken in Motijheel area of the city on Tuesday — FE photo
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
Most of the importers are going to miss the government-set July 21 deadline to open letters of credit (L/Cs) to bring home 0.409=million tonnes of rice from abroad.The L/Cs for 47,000 tonnes of rice have so far been opened in...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday denounced any kind of war saying it always causes sufferings to the mass people, reports UNB.She said this while visiting Indian Army chief General Manoj Pande called on her at her official residence Ganobhaban.PM's...
Stocks keep bleeding Stocks suffered another big fall on Tuesday as edgy investors continued to sell off their positions in a bid to exit the market, fearing that economic uncertainty would deepen in coming months. The benchmark DSEX of Dhaka...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
Area-based scheduled daily load-shedding has been imposed across the country from Tuesday, as the government has shut operations of all diesel-fired power plants under a fresh austerity measure to cut import of expensive diesel.The state-run electricity distribution companies have prepared...
Doulot Akter Mala and Syful Islam | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
Bangladesh has kept the transit fees unchanged for four trial runs of transhipment of Indian goods using Mongla-Tamabil, Tamabil-Chattogram, Chattogram-Shawla and Chattogram-Bibirbazar routes.The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a gazette on Tuesday with the schedules of fees and charges...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-20 00:00:00
The visiting European Union parliamentary delegation on Tuesday made it clear that Bangladesh must implement the Labour Roadmap and amend the EPZ labour rules to get the GSP plus facilities from EU. They also tagged improving human rights and elimination...
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