Mercantile Bank Limited celebrated 23rd anniversary at its head office recently. Morshed Alam, MP, Chairman of the bank, inaugurated the programme by cutting a cake. Md. Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, Managing Director & CEO of the bank, delivered the welcome speech....
BOSTON, June 4 (Reuters): Shareholder advisory firm Glass Lewis on Friday recommended Spirit Airlines investors approve Frontier Group Holdings Inc's $2.9 billion takeover bid, saying it was the "best available" at this time.The report, which helps guide investors on how...
Ispahani Tea Limited received an honorary commemorative in recognition of its significant contribution to the tea industry of Bangladesh at a function organized on the occasion of the '2nd National Tea Day 2022' on Saturday.Mirza Salman Ispahani, Chairman, Ispahani Tea...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-05 00:00:00
Stakeholders will sign an agreement on June 12 to commence the trading of treasury bonds in a bid to diversify the capital market with the participation of general investors.Bangladesh Bank, Bangladesh Securities and Exchange, Dhaka and Chattogram bourses, Central Depository...
Woman 'commits suicide' in KurigramKURIGRAM, June 04: A woman in Kurigram allegedly committed suicide over a family feud on Saturday morning. The deceased, Shahera Begum, 35, was the wife of Mohubor Ali of Hatiar Babur Char in the district's Ulipur...
CHATTOGRAM, June 04 (UNB): A paralysed man was charred to death in a fire that broke out in his parents-in-law's house in Chattogram's Hathazari upazila early on Saturday morning.The deceased was identified as Forkan, 48, a resident of Nangalmora union...
Erosion by the Jamuna River takes a serious turn. The photo was taken from a village in Kakua union of Tangail district — Focus Bangla
KUSHTIA, June 04 (UNB): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have arrested seven people over attempting to kill a college teacher by severing his right wrist at Shalghar Modhua village in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia on Friday.The arrestees were Mosharof Hossain...
KURIGRAM, June 04 (UNB): One person was killed and another injured when a speeding truck knocked them down in the Zia Bazar area of Kurigram's Sadar upazila early on Saturday, police said.The deceased was identified as Alam Mia, who worked...
NATORE, June 04 (BSS): Speakers at a discussion here said on Saturday Jahanara Imam lit the torch, formed on the spirit of Liberation War, which is still burning.The discussion, organised by Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee, titled "Jahanara Imam against...
NARSINGDI, June 04 (bdnews24.com): Three people on an autorickshaw have been killed and two others injured after a train rammed the vehicle at a level crossing in Raipura of Narsingdi district on Saturday."The accident occurred at a train crossing near...
The long-cherished dream of the residents of Sylhet city will be fulfilled this month (June) as the authorities concerned are set to inaugurate a modern bus terminal in Kadamtoli of the city, reports UNB.The central bus terminal in South Surma...
WASHINGTON, June 04 (AP): The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone-more than 50% higher than pre-industrial times-and is at levels not seen since millions of years ago when Earth was a hothouse...
UNITED NATIONS, June 04 (AP):Two U.N. peacekeepers were killed Friday when their armored personnel carrier hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali in the sixth incident in less than two weeks targeting the U.N. mission in the West African...
MARIUPOL, June 04 (Reuters/BBC): A ship sent to load metal and ship it to Russia has entered the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, TASS news agency reported on Saturday, the second vessel to arrive in the southeastern city since Russia completed...
A K Abdul Momen | 2022-06-05 00:00:00
Let me tell you a story from my childhood. I come from Sylhet and it has a big 'Mazar Sharif' known as Hazrat Shahjalal's Darga Sharif. It has big pots to cook food for thousands. These pots are huge. When...
Modern-day life comes at the cost of destroying nature, our one and only earth. We all know that the only place in the universe we call home is at risk due to our reckless exploitation. We researched, gained knowledge, discussed...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2022-06-05 00:00:00
The evolution of globalisation is increasingly becoming more uncertain notwithstanding Donald Trump and his "America First" rhetoric and the economic impact of the pandemic. But increasingly unsettled geopolitical climate arising out of the US-China rivalry and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have...
While growing up most of us were involved in different kinds of extra-curricular activities, such as painting, dancing or singing. This would not only provide us a way to engage with our peers beyond schoolwork but also broaden our knowledge...
Piranha has been banned in Bangladesh since 2008 as it is considered as a threat to indigenous aquatic life. With its sharp teeth and voracious appetite for meat, the small freshwater fish of South American origin is a dangerous predator...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-06-05 00:00:00
Any honest intention upon implementing it flawlessly can be called an achievement. The FE photograph (01.06. 2022) of the radically renovated banks of the Turag River near Dhaka's Amin Bazar Bridge speaks of such a feat eloquently. In its new...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-06-05 00:00:00
After two years' hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabia has reopened the Hajj pilgrimage for the rest of the world with some conditions in the current year. Muslims across the world eagerly wait for the annual pilgrimage, to...
Bangladesh has been waiting eagerly for the reopening of the Malaysian labour market to its workers for over four years. Hopefully, the agreement reached between the two countries during the visit of Malaysian Human Resource Minister M Saravanan to restart...
FE REPORT | 2022-06-04 12:00:00
The United States briefed Bangladesh on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and Dhaka welcomed additional information on supply-chain resilience and decarbonisation pillars of the bloc in the making. "Both countries share a common vision of a free, open, inclusive, peaceful...
DU Correspondent | 2022-06-04 12:00:00
The admission test of 'Ga' unit under the Faculty of Business Studies for the 2021-22 academic session of Dhaka University (DU) was held in eight divisional cities Friday.The test was held from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm on 120 marks,...
Though the production cost of renewable energy, especially the solar power, had substantially dropped in recent years, its share in the country's power generation saw no jump, reports UNB.The dismal picture was painted in the documents of the state-owned Bangladesh...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-06-04 12:00:00
The country's central bank, the Bangladesh Bank (BB), is learnt to have found that certain state-owned as well as privately-run commercial banks have been providing false information about the reserve of US dollar and purchasing remittance dollars at a higher...
UNITED NATIONS (United States) June 3, (AFP) : Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called "Turkiye" in all languages, the UN announced Thursday."The change is immediate,"...
World food prices dipped in May for a second consecutive month after hitting a record high in March, although the cost of cereals and meat both rose, the United Nations' food agency said on Friday, reports Reuters.The Food and Agriculture...
Bangladesh registered 29 cases of COVID-19 in a day on Friday, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,953,592, report agencies.But no new fatalities were registered in the 24-hour count, keeping the death toll from the disease unchanged at 29,131,...
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