AMMAN, June 28 (BBC): A leak of toxic chlorine gas at Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba has killed 13 people and injured more than 260 others, state media report.Authorities said a chemical storage container fell while being transported as...
BOGOTA, June 28 (AFP): At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday during an attempted prison escape in southwestern Colombia, an official from the national prisons agency told AFP."So far there are 49 dead," said a...
MENDON, June 28 (AP): An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as rail cars tumbled off the tracks and...
KYIV, June 28 (Reuters): Firefighters and soldiers searched on Tuesday for survivors in the rubble of a shopping mall in central Ukraine after a Russian missile strike killed at least 18 people in an attack condemned by the United Nations...
TEXAS, June 28 (BBC): At least 50 people have been found dead in an abandoned truck on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.A fire official said 16 people, including four children, had also been taken to hospital.The survivors were "hot...
KURIGRAM, June 28 (UNB): A case has been filed against a Union Parishad chairman as he allegedly tried to rape a woman in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram. The accused is Ataur Rahman alias Ata, 50, chairman of Thetrai UP of...
RAJSHAHI, June 28 (BSS): Rajshahi University (RU) has launched insurance service for its regular students.To this end, Zenith Islami Life Insurance will provide the group health and life insurance services from July 1, 2022. The RU authority has signed a...
SUNAMGANJ, June 28 (bdnews24.com): After the most devastating floods in living memory swept through northeast Bangladesh, many of the worst-affected families in Sunamganj are agonising over a return to normal life as they remain stranded far from home in makeshift...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-06-29 00:00:00
With Eid-ul-Azha just around the corner, sacrificial animals are in surplus in Magura district, thanks to local cattle fatteners' organic farming.Meanwhile, cattle farmers in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj district are worried about the sudden outbreak of lumpy skin disease affecting...
A large number of teachers in our educational institutions are not tech-savvy and are unaware of modern tech-oriented methods. On the other hand, our young teachers are tech-savvy but inexperienced in teaching. The communication gap between the senior and junior...
Diarrhoea is a leading cause of mortality in children under 5 years along with its long-term impact on growth and cognitive development. Despite advances in the understanding of diarrhoeal disorders and management strategies, globally nearly 750,000 children die annually as...
The sight of cars,parked chaotically on the streets of Dhaka city, has become an everyday affair. Lack of parking areas has compelled people to park illegally on the roads. This is congesting the roads, intensifying gridlocks and causing nuisance to...
Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-06-29 00:00:00
The recent flooding of entire Sylhet region was shocking to many as if such natural calamities were unlikely to visit Bangladesh any more.Bangladesh's flood forecasting system and due collaboration with the Indian authorities for sharing data on upstream rains obviously...
Wasi Ahmed | 2022-06-29 00:00:00
Attracting foreign investment as a key mechanism of augmenting the economy with the multifarious gains -- from employment generation to technology transfer to developing backward linkage -- has led many countries to not only make the investment climate congenial but...
The gloomy look of the tanners during the days of Eid-ul-Azha in 2020 and 2021 still haunts many. Apart from them, these people include rawhide traders at different stages. In 2022, the enterprising villagers selling their cattle, cattle farm owners...
B M Zahid ul Haque | 2022-06-29 00:00:00
Globally, cyber-attacks are not a new occurrence. But what is worrying is that their frequency and complexity continue to increase, so much so that cyber-threat is now considered one of the most serious economic and global security challenges. Thus, cyber-attacks...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-06-28 12:00:00
LALMONIRHAT, June 27: Bangladesh's first-ever police museum with an exclusive collection of historical articles and exhibits has become a reality on the premises of Hatibandha Police Station in Lalmonirhat. Inspector General of Bangladesh Police IGP Benazir Ahmed recently opened the...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-06-28 12:00:00
Amid the upbeat mood following the opening of the Padma Bridge, grim news-reports also keep pouring in. Apart from the post-flood sufferings being gone through by people in large areas of the country, the sudden rise in the corona and...
The overall revenue collection by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) during the first 11 months (July-May) of the current fiscal year (FY22) witnessed a healthy growth of 14.93 per cent totalling Tk 2.52 trillion (2,52,920.76 crore), reports BSS.During the...
The government has decided to realize toll from vehicles using Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman highways from July 1 at a rate of Tk 10 per km for an interim period, reports BSS.As per the interim rate of Tk 10 per...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-28 00:00:00
Amid a fresh spike in Covid-19 infection, the government has decided to bring children aged between five and 12 under a vaccination campaign.Officials at Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) confirm it, saying that the inoculation of the antidote among...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-28 00:00:00
The first-day toll-collection amount and traffic on the Padma Bridge crossed the average daily toll collection and traffic on the country's second-largest bridge over the Jamuna River.According to the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA), over 55,000 vehicles crossed the country's longest...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-28 00:00:00
The government has formed a central monitoring cell to oversee the purchase and sale, transportation and preservation of rawhide and skins of sacrificial animals during the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.Industries secretary is the chief of the 17-member cell.The industries ministry on Thursday...
A mobile court fines a private car driver Tk 1,000 for illegally parking on the Padma Bridge at its Mawa end in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj on Monday. The driver and five other youths came from Cumilla to visit the...
Monira Munni | 2022-06-28 00:00:00
Female workers, despite their larger representation in local garment factories, are paid lower than their male counterparts, according to a latest report of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).The gender pay gap (difference between male and female hourly earnings as a...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-06-28 00:00:00
Corporates fear escalation of cost of doing business due to umpteen changes in tax measures and compliance strangleholds in the proposed budget, and plead for a rethink.Changes in definition of supply of goods, imposition of heavy penalty for non-compliance, cap...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday said the government is developing communication systems across the country as developed communication expedites industrialisation as well as boosts trade and business, report agencies."We're reviving rail communication, setting up new rail tracks and reactivating rivers...
Stocks higher after single-day breakStocks finished modestly higher Monday as some investors went for late hour bargain hunting while most investors remained shaky amid lack of clear direction. Page 9G-7 to slap new sanctions on RussiaLeading economic powers underscored their...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-28 00:00:00
Local startup ShopUp has raised $65 million in fresh investment from the US-based Valar Ventures to expand its operations further.The business-to-business (B2B) platform made the announcement on Monday, said a statement. "It has raised a follow-on US$65 million round led...
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