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Organisational leadership: a shift in post-Covid-19 perspective

Mohammad Shahidul Islam, Tanzin Khan, and Riya Prava | 2022-05-28 00:00:00

Leadership refers to the unique quality of governing employee behaviour. Leaders guide and motivate employees to achieve organisational goals and objectives in an organisational setting. Leaders are responsible for taking an effective corporate resolution to eliminate any discrepancies. Additionally, they...

Western powers sound alarm on China plan for South Pacific

2022-05-27 00:00:00

HONIARA, May 26 (AFP): Western powers sounded the alarm Thursday over leaked plans to dramatically expand China's security and economic reach in the South Pacific, in what one regional leader called a thinly veiled effort to lock island states into...

ACC arrests DIFE DIG in Dinajpur

FE Report | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested Md Mostafizur Rahman, a deputy inspector general (DIG) of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishment (DIFE), in Dinajpur on Wednesday on charge of bribery.A seven-member ACC team, led by its deputy director Ahsanul...

Dhaka-Cox's Bazar train service to open by June, 2023

2022-05-27 00:00:00

The train service from Dhaka to Cox's Bazar would be opened in June next year, said Railway Minister Nurul Islam Sujan on Sunday, reports UNB."We have come a long way and hope all the work will be completed in this...

Parliament gets Tk 3.41b for FY 22-23

2022-05-27 00:00:00

The Parliament Secretariat Commission on Wednesday approved a Tk 3.41 billion (341.89 crore) budget for Parliament to spend on its development and non-development activities for FY2022-23, reports UNB.The approval was given at the 33rd meeting of the Commission held at...

Kabul mosque blasts leave 14 dead

2022-05-27 00:00:00

ISLAMABAD, May 26 (Arab News): A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the...

Moscow threatens to expel US journalists over YouTube block

2022-05-27 00:00:00

MOSCOW, May 26 (AFP): Russia's foreign ministry on Thursday threatened to expel a US journalist or US media outlet if YouTube again blocks broadcasts of its weekly press briefings."A few of my briefings were blocked. What we did is we...

EU cracks widen over Ukraine as Italy, Hungary urge truce

2022-05-27 00:00:00

BRUSSELS, May 26 (Reuters): Italy and Hungary have urged the EU to call explicitly for a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace talks with Russia, putting themselves at odds with other member states determined to take a hard line with Moscow...

Eleven babies die in Senegal hospital fire

2022-05-27 00:00:00

TIVAOUANE, May 26 (AFP): Eleven newborn babies perished in a hospital blaze in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane late on Wednesday, president Macky Sall said."I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies...

People from the low-income group having their lunch

2022-05-27 00:00:00

People from the low-income group having their lunch at a makeshift food stall in the Shaheed Minar area of Dhaka on Thursday. With the commodity prices rising, these people have to count extra bucks for a plate of meals —...

Zelensky rebukes West as Russia closes in on key Ukraine city

2022-05-27 00:00:00

KYIV, Ukraine, May 26 (AFP): Fierce battles raged in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, with Russian troops on the verge of encircling a key industrial city, as President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a bitter rebuke of the West for not doing enough...

Transfer undistributed dividends into CMSF

FE REPORT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

The securities commission and the Capital Market Stabilisation Fund (CMSF) have urged listed companies to play their due role in transferring undistributed dividends into the CMSF.Their call came at a BSRC-BAPLC-CMSF tripartite dialogue on strengthening capital market through partnership on...

Stop operation of all illegal clinics, diagnostic centres in 72 hrs: DGHS

2022-05-27 00:00:00

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to close all unregistered clinics, private hospitals and diagnostic centres across the country within 72 hours, reports UNB.The instruction was given after a meeting chaired by Additional...

Pakistani ex-PM Khan demands new elections be set in 6 days

2022-05-27 00:00:00

ISLAMABAD, May 26 (AP): Defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan early Thursday warned Pakistan's government to set new elections in the next six days or he will again march on the capital along with 3 million people.Khan spoke at a...

Wheat flour prices soar to new highs

FE REPORT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

Wheat-flour prices hit another record, as coarse flour or ata retailed at maximum Tk 55 a kg in the city on Thursday, intensifying woes of the consumers further, said insiders.The current price of one kg ata is almost the same...

Inflation to fall below 6.0pc in June

FE REPORT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

Country's major macroeconomic indicators are projected to witness an upward trend by the end of last quarter (Q4) of the current fiscal year (FY 2021-22). The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Dhaka in its latest 'Review of Economic...

PM urges dev partners to help with Delta Plan

2022-05-27 00:00:00

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the friendly countries and development partners on Thursday to join hands in executing the Delta Plan-2100, saying her government has been implementing the plan to ensure a better and improved life for the future generations,...

Bancassurance guidelines finalised

JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

The central bank has finalised the bancassurance guidelines, elaborating on how the banks would join the bandwagon.All the stakeholders signed the guidelines at a ceremony at the Bangladesh Bank (BB) headquarters on Tuesday last, people familiar with the development told...

Briefing 27-05-2022

2022-05-27 00:00:00

Dhaka stocks rebound The stock market bounced back on gaining streak Thursday after the securities regulator reduced the lower limit circuit breaker to stop the free fall of the stock index. The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) reduced the...

Prayer Timings (2022-05-27)

2022-05-27 00:00:00

MCCI suggests caution in spending forex

FE REPORT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

The MCCI, Dhaka recommended cautionary measures in spending foreign currencies to contain rising import cost and help save foreign-currency reserves for the sake of ensuring the country's macroeconomic stability.For doing so, there is a need for necessary 'carefulness' in opening...

Amnesty set to salvage laundered money

FE REPORT | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

Now the government is set to offer an amnesty to salvage siphoned-off money to replenish Bangladesh's fast-depleting foreign-currency reserves amid war-linked global economic crisis.Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal unveiled the plan Thursday, in a crescendo of a series of measures...

Forex spent on fish import despite self-sufficiency

Doulot Akter Mala | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

Huge foreign currencies go out for fish import despite Bangladesh being self-sufficient in fisheries production, at a time when the government goes all out to replenish its reserves. The country ranked third in fish production in the world, fifth in...

Bankers push for further taka devaluation

SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-05-27 00:00:00

Bangladesh's top bankers are going to suggest the central bank to let the local currency depreciate further by nearly Tk 2.0 against the US dollar to manage the intractable foreign-exchange market.The decision was made at a joint meeting of the...

Weather (2022-05-27)

2022-05-27 00:00:00

Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Friday), according to the Met Office.It may also occur at a...

Vehicles stuck in a gridlock

2022-05-27 00:00:00

Photographed from Naya Palton area of the city on Thursday, vehicles stuck in a gridlock, which is a perennial problem for the commuters — FE Phpto

Five workers killed in Sirajganj road accident

2022-05-27 00:00:00

SIRAJGANJ, May 26 (UNB): Five workers were killed and six others injured when a truck crashed into a mini passenger vehicle on the busy Hatikumrul-Bonpara highway in Sirajganj in the early hours of Thursday. All the victims were occupants of...

Complaint box to be set up at offices of edn ministry

2022-05-27 00:00:00

The ministry of education has directed to set up complaint box at all the offices of Secondary and Higher Education Division for stopping harassment of the service recipients as well as prevent corruption, reports BSS.It was informed in a meeting...

Govt will do everything to stop bloodshed in CHT: Minister

2022-05-27 00:00:00

RANGAMATI, May 26 (UNB): Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said the government will do everything to stop killings, clashes and extortion in the Chattogram hill tracts.He said Armed Police Battalion (APBn) has been introduced in the hill tracts...

Brigadier General Md Sazzad Hussain presenting a souvenir to the newly-appointed DG Brigadier General Md Main Uddin

2022-05-27 00:00:00

Outgoing Director General of the Fire Service and Civil Defense Directorate Brigadier General Md Sazzad Hussain presenting a souvenir to the newly-appointed DG Brigadier General Md Main Uddin marking handover of the charge at a function at the FSCD headquarters...