THAKURGAON, Apr 09 (UNB): Born to a family of a poor van driver in Thakurgaon, Alpana faced difficult times growing up. Braving all odds though, she managed to crack this year's MBBS admission test.But the teenager's struggles are unlikely to...
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 09 (UNB): Following long-running domestic disputes, a 32-year-old man was allegedly hacked to death by his 23-year-old wife in their house at a Rohingya camp in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar on Friday.The deceased is Md Saidur Rahman. Police...
KUSHTIA, Apr 09 (UNB): Continuous falling prices of onion in the market is making it difficult for Kushtia farmers to recover the production cost in spite of a good harvest this year.Wholesale prices of onion were at Tk 15 to...
A total of six persons were killed in separate road accidents in Cumilla, Chattogram and Bogura districts on Saturday, reports UNB.In Cumilla, three people were killed when a speeding tractor veered off the road, overturned and fell into a ditch...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-04-10 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Apr 09: Cox's Bazar residents have been facing untold sufferings every day for road digging in different areas of the beach town. This leads to huge traffic congestions, accidents as well as business losses. The construction work of...
NEW YORK, Apr 09 (Reuters): Former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng was convicted by a US jury on Friday of corruption charges related to his role in helping loot hundreds of millions of dollars from Malaysia's 1MDB development fund.The charges...
TEHRAN, Apr 09 (AFP): Tehran on Saturday said it sanctioned a retired US general and 23 other American nationals involved in what the Islamic republic described as terrorism and human rights violations.The announcement came days after Washington imposed new sanctions...
MOSCOW, Apr 09 (AFP): Russia said Friday it was shutting down the local offices of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) that have been working in the country for the past 30 years.The announcement came on the 44th...
Syeda Ishrat Jahan | 2022-04-10 00:00:00
A sustained and strong economic growth since the beginning of last decade helped Bangladesh qualify for lower-middle income status in 2015 and to remain on the course to graduate from the UN's Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group in 2026. The...
Internet finance is a new type of financial business model. It allows traditional financial institutions and internet companies to conduct financing, payment, investment, and other services. The main business models of internet finance include internet payment, online lending, internet fund...
Dhaka city's traffic system collapses every year during the holy month of Ramadan. And this year is not an exception. People now have to go through unbearable sufferings while going to work and other destinations. The commuting often takes the...
Diarrhoea is a common disease in summer. However, it has recently taken an alarming turn in the capital with a large number of patients getting admitted to hospitals every day. The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-04-10 00:00:00
Against the backdrop of acute crisis of pure drinking water in the capital leading to an outbreak of diarrhoea and many public sufferings, the city's water supply chief blurted out a long known truth. It is related to drinking safe...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-04-10 00:00:00
Zakat is one of the five fundamentals of Islam. It is an obligatory charity for all the Muslims who have the ability to pay and so is an important component of Islamic finance. The ability to pay Zakat is determined...
The Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) does very often hit the news headlines. The reasons that attract the attention of the media towards this state-owned utility provider, in most cases, are not that palatable. Water supply shortage and supply...
A short rain break slowed down South Africa's scoring rate during the second session of the second Test, but still, the home side were largely on top of proceedings on the first day in Gqeberha. They went to tea on...
Rabiul Hossain | 2022-04-09 12:00:00
The portion of a country's debt which is collected from the foreign/external parties is termed as external debt of that country. Generally, debt receiving country takes debt from multilateral lending institutions i.e., World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Islamic Development...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
Bangladesh has reported 48 more Covid-19 cases with no death in the last 24 hours till Friday morning, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). With the latest infections, the entire caseload rose to 1,951,995 while death toll...
COLOMBO, April 8 (AFP): Cash-strapped Sri Lanka's central bank hiked interest rates by a record 700 basis points Friday as police fired tear gas at hundreds of students protesting about the economic crisis.Severe shortages of food, fuel and electricity have...
Traders busy selling iftar items at Chawkbazar, known for traditional iftar delicacies, in old Dhaka on Friday, a weekly holiday — FE photo by KAZ Sumon
FE REPORT | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
Supplying subsidised essentials to 10 million families as Ramadan ex-gratia under a government recipe would cost the exchequer over Tk 6.53 billion, officials say, apart from the ongoing market- intervention spending.The cut-price selling of soybean oil -- which showed unusual...
SM NAJMUS SAKIB | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
Despite being the second-largest Muslim country, Bangladesh performs poorly in zakat (Islamic almsgiving) collection and distribution, and it is still unsystematic.But this obligatory charity, that a well-off religionist has to make annually, can potentially lead to poverty alleviation and promote...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) is not in favour of granting the authority of issuing certificate of origin (CoO) of products to many associations.The EPB's opinion came after the Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA) sought the authority...
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, April 8 (AFP): A rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk killed dozens on Friday as civilians raced to leave the Donbas region in the crosshairs of the Russian army.Thirty-nine people were...
Taijul Islam celebrates after the dismissal of South Africa's Ryan Rickelton during the first day of the second Test at St George's Park in Gqeberha on Friday. South Africa were on 278/5 at stumps. Taijul claimed three wickets for 77....
Saif Uddin | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Investment Development Authority (BIDA) looks to deliver high-value services as it has recently assumed the regional directorship of WAIPA, a UN-affiliated global platform to promote investment.The new role of the country's apex investment-promotion agency or IPA is also...
Stocks plummet amid sluggish turnoverStocks plummeted in the outgoing week to Thursday, with jittery investors selling off their shares to skirt further losses amid persistent volatility on the market. Out of the five trading days this week, four sessions suffered...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
Foreign organisations in Bangladesh, including UN agencies, are expected to get VAT refund expeditiously as the revenue board's relevant office moves to go digital to end their long wait.Foreign agencies are exempt from value-added tax on local buys, so are...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-09 00:00:00
Edible oil prices remained 6.0-13 per cent higher than the government-fixed rates on Friday as refiners and distributors were yet to supply oils with new price tags, said city grocers.Meanwhile, prices of brinjal, a vegetable used widely in Iftar during...
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