BARISHAL, May 28 (UNB): Vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Kuakata highway remained suspended for an hour on Saturday as the students of Barishal University staged demonstrations blocking the highway protesting assault on one of their fellows by a transport worker, police...
Police have recovered bodies of three persons from Naogaon district as a woman has allegedly committed suicide in the Uttar Kattli area in Chattogram, reports UNB.UNB says from Naogaon, police have recovered bodies of three persons from Manda upazila of...
RANGPUR, May 28 (BSS): Vice-chancellor (VC) of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) Professor Dr Md Hasibur Rashid has said the university is getting rid of session jam in the coming days."Although there was a four-year session jam due to various...
GAZIPUR, May 28 (Agencies): Railway services between Dhaka and north-western parts of Bangladesh resumed on Saturday morning, after remaining suspended for nearly 11 hours due to the derailment of a train in Gazipur on Friday night, officials said.The derailment of...
A woman drying paddy harvested from the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project Relocation site. The photo was taken from Mawa in the Jashaldia area of Munshiganj district on Saturday — bdnews24.com
SYLHET, May 28 (UNB): A total of 550 people have been diagnosed with water-borne diseases, including diarrhoea, in the past one week in Sylhet, compounding the woes of the district's flood-hit people.According to the Sylhet Civil Surgeon's office, 400 people...
FE ReportRights share subscription of Sonali Paper & Board Mills will begin on June 7 and continue till June 28.The company will raise Tk 109.82 million issuing 10.98 million rights shares of Tk 10 each at a ratio of 1R:2.As...
Participants of an international seminar on "Global Food Supply Chain, COVID-19 and the Way Forward" seen with the Moderator, Founder & CEO of EXPOPRO Md. Mamunur Rahman, Keynote Speaker Dr. Mohd Desa Bin Haji Hassim, Senior Training Consultant, National Institute...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Bangladesh in partnership with Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka recently organised the finale and award giving ceremony of the "Business Case Competition 2022".Three teams from Bangladesh were selected as the...
Engr. Md. Anwarul Haque has been elected as Chairman of Executive Committee of Mercantile Bank Limited in its 402nd board meeting held recently. He is also a Sponsor Director of the bank. Md. Anwarul Haque is an eminent businessman and...
National Life Insurance Company Ltd (NLI) donated Tk 0.5 million to SWID Bangladesh, a national organisation for the persons with intellectual disability. Alhaj Morshed Alam, MP, Chairman of National Life Insurance, handed over a cheque to Jowaherul Islam Mamun, former...
FE Report | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
The central bank Governor Fazle Kabir at a programme on Saturday identified inflation, forex market volatility and negative trade balance as some of the key economic challenges.Keeping this in view, he urged the banking communities to act on the government...
FE Report | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has disbursed Tk 2.05 billion to the capital market refinancing scheme to enhance liquidity support in the capital market through market operators, officials said.The central bank on Thursday disbursed the fund on receipt of a letter from...
UNITED NATIONS, May 28 (AP): China and Russia blocked the U.N. Security Council from issuing a statement Friday expressing concern at the violence and serious humanitarian situation in Myanmar and the "limited progress" on implementing a regional plan to restore...
KYIV, May 28 (Reuters): Ukrainian forces may have to retreat from their last pocket in the Luhansk region to avoid being captured, a Ukrainian official said, as Russian troops press an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum...
MOSCOW, May 28 (AFP): Russian forces Saturday announced a latest successful test of their Zircon hypersonic cruise missile as Moscow steps up its Ukraine offensive.The missile was fired from the Admiral Gorshkov frigate stationed in the Barents Sea and "successfully...
Muhammad Mahmood | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
The balance of payments (BOP) is the record of a country's monetary transactions with the rest of the world. Balance of payments difficulties usually develop slowly over time. They may result from developments such as a high and rising import...
For different indigenous hill peoples, Jhum cultivation (slash and burn method) is like part of their life and livelihood. Both Mro and Tripura communities actually live on Jhum yields in Lama upazila of Bandarban. However recently, a rubber company has...
The gun culture in the USA has cost lives of another 19 children and two teachers. This tragic incident shocked not only America but the whole world. A crazy teenage boy reportedly wreaked the carnage on his 18th birthday. But...
Menstruation is an essential process for each and every woman. And it deserves enough attention. One can suffer from a variety of health problems if one fails to follow good menstrual hygiene. Dealing with the menstrual cycle is never easy,...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
The world created yet another history on two days in 1977 in its space explorations. Humanity made a small leap towards a series of seemingly endless expeditions, when it landed on moon. It occurred July 20, 1969. The 1977 space...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-05-29 00:00:00
Around six and half years back, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) met in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, to negotiate a series of unfinished multilateral trade agendas. Three proposed mega-regional trade deals had cast a shadow on...
Bangladesh has achieved a sort of miracle in the production of some major food items, including cereals, fish, milk and poultry. And all that happened during the last three decades, to be precise. Though there is immense potential of the...
It is irrational to compare Bangladesh's situation with the internal crisis of Sri Lanka, said LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam on Friday, reports UNB.He made the remarks while speaking at the concluding ceremony of a two-day 'Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100...
BRAHMANBARIA, May 27 (BSS): Law Minister Anisul Huq said BNP has not been able to digest the fact that Bangladesh can construct Padma Bridge with its own fund and that is why they are spreading propaganda against it."They (BNP) do...
BNP has announced an eight-member partial committee of its youth wing, Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, as part of its move to overhaul the party and its associate bodies before the next general election, reports UNB.Sultan Salahuddin Tuku and Monayem Munna were...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-28 12:00:00
A slow but sure change in the pattern of seasonal cycle is taking place in this part of the world. Climatologists have sounded alarm bell ringing about the rising temperature, only more so for countries in the South Asian region....
Living in Dhaka city is becoming costlier day by day. House rent, food prices, and travel expenses are alarmingly high. And they are only soaring by the day. However, of all factors that contribute to our living costs, it is...
Myanmar's central bank has ordered ministries and local governments not to use foreign currencies for domestic transactions, to help relieve pressure on the kyat currency, reports Reuters.The Southeast Asian country's economy has been in crisis since the military seized power...
BNP Secretary General expressed disappointment as the chief justice (CJ) did not issue any statement condemning the Wednesday's violence on the High Court premises by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), reports UNB.Speaking at a discussion programme, he also said the BCL's...
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