BERLIN, May 27 (AFP) : Japan on Friday for the first time joined fellow members of the Group of Seven industrialised nations in pledging to end public financing for fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of the year to...
State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Md Mahbub Ali thinks many Biman Bangladesh Airlines staff members are linked to the last gold smuggling incident at Dhaka airport, reports bdnews24.com. Upon visiting the Biman Flight Catering Centre or BFCC at...
SUVA, Fiji, May 27 (AFP): Australia urged South Pacific nations to spurn China's attempts to extend its security reach across the region Friday, seeking to fend off a high-level charm offensive by Beijing.Foreign Minister Penny Wong was in Fiji on...
RUSSELS, May 27(AFP): The EU is working on centralising purchases of vaccines and treatments for monkeypox, with details to be agreed in the "coming days," the European Commission told AFP on Thursday.The push, through the commission's Health Emergency and Preparedness...
The Bangladesh government is considering proposing a fresh reduction of corporate tax rates levied on businesses for the third time in a row in the draft national budget, reports bdnews24.com.At present, listed companies are levied corporate tax at 22.5 per...
Bangladesh registered 23 new Covid cases in 24 hours till Friday morning taking the country's total caseload to 1,953,379, health authorities said.With no new Covid deaths reported during the period, the total fatalities from the pandemic have so far remained...
FE Report | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
The country's mobile network operators (MNOs) lost 0.69 million internet subscribers in April this year after gaining 1.21 millions in the month before (March), according to fresh data released by Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).The operators registered 0.46 million subscribers...
It is the season of palm fruit, so its supply is abundant. The photo shows traders buying this summer fruit from a wholesale market at Shyambazar on the bank of the Buriganga on Friday — FE photo
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged Japan and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Friday to continue preferential facilities at least till 2029 for Bangladesh's smooth graduation from least developed country to developing nation and achieve Sustainable Development Goals...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
The country expects huge economic benefits from the dream Padma Bridge project, though experts suggest taking timely policy and supportive measures to reap maximum benefits from the country's longest bridge after its inauguration next month.Economists, researchers and business communities believe...
Dhaka to cancel wheat import tenderBangladesh is scrapping an international tender to import 50,000 tonnes of wheat as it received only one offer to supply the grain that was too expensive, two officials from the state grains procurement agency said...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
The government is set to fix the wastage rate for home textile and terry towel products to remove some hurdles and boost exports, officials said. In this connection, the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) recently formed a high-powered committee. The 11-member...
ARAFAT ARA | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
Malaysia is likely to resume recruitment of manpower from Bangladesh soon, as both the countries are going to hold a secretary-level meeting next week to discuss the unresolved issues related to manpower sending process, officials said.Malaysia, a vital market for...
Holding his son on his lap, a man passes the time sitting on the stairs of a footbridge at Tejgaon in the city on Friday, as his wife sits for the BCS preliminary test at the nearby Dhaka Polytechnic Institute...
SYFUL ISLAM and REZAUL KARIM | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
Diversification of export destinations and pursuing a pragmatic export policy are among the dos in a contingency recipe the government has got from the business community for weathering headwinds facing the economy.The other recommendations include extending all types of facilities...
YASIR WARDAD | 2022-05-28 00:00:00
The Russia-Ukraine war looks worrisome for next major rice harvest in Bangladesh as supply chain of MOP fertiliser in the Boro-farming season may be affected, US agronomists say.The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) sounds such prognosis in a report...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Dhaka, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Saturday), according to the Met Office.It may also occur at...
Passenger held for smuggling gold hidden inside a nebuliserCustoms authorities have seized 1.16 kg of gold from a passenger arriving from Dubai at Sylhet MAG Osmani International Airport. The Biman passenger was detained after it landed at 7 am on...
The air quality in Dhaka has deteriorated again. With an air quality index (AQI) score of 166 at 10.45 am on Friday, the metropolis ranked third in the list of world cities with the worst air quality, reports UNB.Russia's Krasnoyarsk...
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The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three persons with 12kg hashish from their possession during a drive in the Uttara area in the capital on Friday.The arrestees were identified as Md Mithun Ali (30), son of Md Khairul Islam, Md...
Eminent Bangladeshi-British writer and columnist Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury will be laid to rest at Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard in Mirpur today (Saturday), reports UNB.Gaffar Chowdhury's final journey will start from London in a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight and the body will...
CHATTOGRAM, May 27 (UNB): Two constables of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) did not return to the country on completion of training in the Dog Squad in the Netherlands, a police officer said on Friday.The two--Shah Alam from Cox's Bazar and...
Bangladesh will observe International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers tomorrow (Sunday), reports UNB.A number of activities will be arranged on the day, the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) said in a release on Friday.A programme commemorating the peacekeepers will be...
Bangladesh has been elected to the governing councils of all four regional institutions of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) for the period of 2022-25 in Bangkok, Thailand, reports UNB.The four regional institutions...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Friday destroyed drugs worth Tk 3.95 billion seized over the past one year in Cox's Bazar, reports UNB. The destroyed drugs include 90,80,477 pieces of Yaba, 23.752 kg crystal meth ice, 6,767 cans of beer,...
Nearly a year after inauguration, the six electronic gates (e-gates) for automated border control at Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport are all set to become operational in June, reports UNB. "All work to unveil the automated immigration system at the...
CUMILLA, May 27 (UNB): With 20 days to go for Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) polls, the returning officer in the district has allotted electoral symbols to the candidates for the mayor's post.Among the five CCC mayoral candidates, Awami League's Arfanul...
Advocate Gautam Chakraborty, a former state minister for Water Resources and two times MP, died of cardiac arrest on Friday. He was 67, reports UNB.Gautam, also the BNP's rural development affairs secretary, breathed his last around 1:30pm in the city's...
Former president of Communist Party of Bangladesh Mujahidul Islam Selim speaking at a rally organised by Bogura unit of the party in the district town on Friday — Focus Bangla
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