COPENHAGEN, July 04 (BBC): A gunman has killed three people and injured another four at a shopping mall in Denmark's capital Copenhagen.The victims are two Danish 17-year-olds and a 47-year old Russian. Two Danes and two Swedes were wounded -...
CANAZEI, July 04 (AFP): Rescuers warned Monday that hope of finding survivors was diminishing after an avalanche set off by the collapse of an Italian glacier during a heat wave killed at least six people.Authorities said they did not know...
SYDNEY, July 04 (AP): More than 30,000 residents of Sydney and its surrounds have been told to evacuate or prepare to abandon their homes on Monday as Australia's largest city braces for what could be its worst flooding in 18...
Bottle feeding is an alternative to breastfeeding. Many new mothers, who are unable to breastfeed or want to feed formula milk along with breastfeeding, choose to bottle-feed their children. Some mothers even feed breast milk through bottles. Health experts nowadays...
Dhaka city residents live with numerous problems. The situation, however, turns into a nightmare for them during the rainy season. Almost all roads of the city get flooded even with a little shower, contributing to untold sufferings of the people....
Among the vehicles that crossed the Padma Bridge on the first day, 60 per cent were motorbikes, report media outlets citing the authorities. Motorcycles' mad races on the bridge soon turned tragic when two bikers were killed in an accident...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
Two recent incidents at the country's two educational institutions have jolted public conscience. In one case, a teacher at a school in Savar, not far from Dhaka, was killed by his student on the schoolyard. In another, a teacher was...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
Irregularities in relief distribution have been a regular feature in the country's post-disaster scenarios. Lack of coordination adds to this bottleneck. It has been over a fortnight since a wide-scale flash flood struck the northern and north-eastern Bangladesh. The flood...
Even the threats posed by imaginary invasions by aliens from exo-planetary origins as depicted in science fictions and Sci-Fi movies pale before the havoc plastic is set to wreak on the human race. But the modern civilisation seems to prefer...
Mohiuddin Babar | 2022-07-05 00:00:00
With the Eid ul Azha celebrations coming up next week, the circular economy in the country is already on set for a robust momentum. After a two year lull due to the Covid 19 impacts and life returning to its...
Mahmudur Rahman | 2022-07-04 12:00:00
Political satire does more than take the Mickey out of politicians. It exposes the hollowness behind grandiloquence and reveals the bareness in the cupboard of resolve. What the actors on the world stage often forget is that in the crowd...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
The government has decided to stop movement of motorcycles from one district to another through highways for seven days during Eid-ul-Azha rush. The Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges, in a press release on Sunday, said, "No cycles can ply...
Pakistan's trade deficit ballooned to an all-time high of $48.66 billion in the outgoing fiscal year from $30.96bn a year ago, indicating an increase of 57 per cent on the back of higher-than-expected imports, provisional official data showed on Saturday,...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s 14 member countries have urged the Bangladesh Election Commission to create an environment to ensure a participatory and violence-free general election. Envoys of the 14 countries including the USA, the UK, the...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
A new case was filed on Sunday against controversial e-commerce platform Evaly's former chairman Shamima Nasrin and her husband ex-chief executive officer Mohammad Russel on charge of swindling Tk2.6 million out of a customer.Jannatul Ferdous, a resident of Savar's Hemayetpur,...
The death toll from the disease climbed by two in 24 hours to 29,162, according to the latest government data released on Sunday, report agencies.As many as 12,246 samples were tested across the country, for a positivity rate of 15.53...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
The government instructed factory owners of all sectors including readymade garment (RMG) to pay wages and festival allowances to workers by July 07 before Eid-ul-Azha holiday. State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Mannujan Sufian in a statement issued on...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
A total of six bank accounts of lawyer Yousuf Ali, a counsel for the Grameen Telecom (GT) Workers and Employees' Union, and his chamber have been frozen on charge of receiving a stunningly high fee of more than Tk120 million...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
Fazle Kabir, the outgoing governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), sees containing rising inflation as well as keeping foreign currency reserve and exchange rate at a tolerable level as the key challenges for his successor."I am leaving three challenges -...
With the main road linking Tahirpur to Bishambharpur in Sunamganj still inundated, vehicles make their way to their destinations on Sunday, risking the lives of passengers — bdnews24.com
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
The Kamalapur Railway Station (KRS) in the capital witnessed a huge crowd on Sunday to avail advance train tickets for the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha. During a visit at the railway station on the day, the FE correspondent found a large number...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
Mismanagement causes sufferings to the passengers when they wait for getting back luggage after their arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) in Dhaka, observed Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen.The minister, who returned from a Europe tour on Sunday...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked the government officials to ensure optimum utilisation of domestic resources to help achieve Bangladesh's goal to become a developed country, reports UNB."Whatever resources the country has, we have to utilise those to advance...
Rezaul Karim | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
Sri Lanka has sought assistance from Bangladesh to facilitate emergency shipment of liquid chlorine from the Chittagong port as reserves of the water-purification chemical are almost exhausted in the crisis-hit neighbouring country.The High Commission of Sri Lanka in Dhaka sent...
Dhaka stocks edge lower Stocks ended lower on Sunday, the first trading day of the new fiscal year (FY) 2022-23, as investors were selling shares amid persistent volatility. The market ended over 17 points lower after four-day gain. DSEX, the...
A worker of Shyambazar wholesale market carrying sacks of garlic to a mechanized boat waiting at a boat terminal on the Buriganga river on Sunday for supply to nearby markets outside the capital city. Spices are now in high demand...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
The branches of commercial banks in different readymade garment (RMG) belts of Dhaka and Chattogram will remain open on July 8-9.Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a notification on Sunday, asking the banks to facilitate payment of wages and Eid bonuses for...
FE REPORT | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
Belt-tightening heralds Bangladesh's new fiscal as the government orders postponing fund release for less-priority projects under the annual development programme (ADP) as a cost-cutting measure amid global economic downturn.The Ministry of Finance (MoF) issued Sunday a circular suspending the funding...
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-07-04 00:00:00
The ongoing flood has already affected some 6,662 cattle and poultry farms in 15 districts, which might cause further surge in animal prices during this Eid-ul-Azha festival, although the prices are much higher than those of last year, according to...
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