RABAT, Apr 07 (AFP): Morocco, locked in a decades-long struggle with the Polisario independence movement for control of the Western Sahara, has offered limited self-government there-but insists Rabat must keep sovereignty.Its 15-year-old autonomy plan last month won the backing of...
PARIS, Apr 07 (AFP): French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen vowed Thursday to issue fines to Muslims who wear headscarves in public, as candidates made a final push for votes three days ahead of an election seen as increasingly...
KYIV, Apr 07 (AP/BBC): Ukraine told residents of its industrial heartland to leave while they still can and urged Western nations to send "weapons, weapons, weapons" Thursday after Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup for...
SANAA, Apr 07 (AP): Yemen's exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council on Thursday, as international and regional efforts to end the country's long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.Saudi Arabia and the...
Touchstone statue recovered in NaogaonNAOGAON, Apr 07: A 70-kg touchstone statue, worth over Tk 350 million (35 crore), has been recovered in Naogaon, police said on Thursday. Three members of a smuggling syndicate were also held from a house at...
A total of four persons were killed and 24 more injured in separate road accidents in Sylhet and Bogura districts on Wednesday, reports UNB.In Sylhet, three people were killed and 20 more were injured as a motorcycle, a bus and...
SYLHET, Apr 07 (UNB): Meat Traders Co-operative Association in Sylhet has suspended sale of beef and mutton since Thursday morning demanding hike in prices fixed by the local administration.Abdul Khalik, general secretary of the association, said the Sylhet City Corporation...
MUNSHIGANJ, Apr 07 (bdnews24.com): A man has filed a case against three friends of his teenage son, who was killed alongside another teenager in Munshiganj Sadar Upazila.Police have arrested two of the suspects after the teens' bodies were found floating...
NARAYANGANJ, Apr 07 (UNB): A 30-year-old cooking gas cylinder supplier was chopped to death by assailants in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on Wednesday, police said.The deceased was identified as Shamim, son of Alamgir Hossain of Paragaon village under Sripur upazila in...
RANGPUR, Apr 07 (BSS): Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and farmers as well are expecting a bumper mango production as formation of tender fruits continues smoothly now in Rangpur agriculture region. The DAE officials said the process...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-04-08 00:00:00
CHANDPUR, Apr 07: Around 450 diarrhoea patients are admitted every day to the icddr,b Hospital at Matlab Dakhshin Upazila Sadar in Chandpur district. According to the hospital's record book, a total of 2,567 patients with diarrhoea have been admitted to...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-04-08 00:00:00
The metamorphoses of idyllically sylvan places into ugly patches bereft of their earlier healthy character are common views in Bangladesh. The character of the change is more or less similar. No matter if they are in the big city suburbs,...
The number of startups in Bangladesh has been growing steadily amid an increase in global funding. If nurtured well, they can bring about revolutionary changes for a country's economy. The USA can be a perfect example for that. Start-ups like...
The World Health Day has been observed around the world including Bangladesh recently on April 7 with an array of programmes. Every year it is celebrated with different theme and this year the theme is 'Our Planet, Our Health'. This...
Rise in the prices of essential commodities is an annual affair in Bangladesh during the holy month of Ramadan. This year the trend was triggered well before the start of the fasting month. The prices of essentials and items whose...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-04-08 00:00:00
Permanent closure of 14,111 private primary schools in 2020, the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, is a dire statement but hardly surprising. Prepared by the Directorate of Primary Education (DPE), the Annual Primary School Census (APSC) 2021 further discloses...
Flash floods are wreaking havoc with standing Boro crop in the haor areas of Mymensingh and Sylhet division at the moment. Known as granaries of the north-eastern region of the country, the haor belt comprising vast swathes of low-lying crop...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2022-04-08 00:00:00
Like goods, services are also importable items. There are different services like royalty, technical knowledge, technical know-how, engineering services, consultancy services and numerous more. Import of services does not require customs assessments as in the case of goods import. Remittance...
FE YOUTH DESK | 2022-04-07 12:00:00
After a month-long preparation and composition, Holy Cross College English Language Club pulled off the Fourth Inter College Language Fest with absolute gusto. The event took place on March 31 and April 01 at the college premises.The opening ceremony was...
Russian artillery pounded the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Kharkiv on Wednesday as the West prepared more sanctions against Moscow in response to civilian killings that Kyiv and its allies have called war crimes, reports Reuters. The besieged southern port...
Bangladesh has recorded 36 new cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 1,951,903, reports bdnews24.com.The government did not register any fatality in the 24-hour count and the death toll from the disease remained unchanged...
The murder of actor Sohel Chowdhury in 1998 had been orchestrated by Ashish Rai Choudhury, the Rapid Action Battalion has said a day after his arrest in connection with the case, reports bdnews24.com.Ashish was apprehended on Tuesday in Dhaka's Gulshan,...
ISLAMABAD, Apr 06 (AFP/ Reuters): Pakistan President Arif Alvi told the country's election commission (EC) Wednesday to fix a date for a new national ballot, as the supreme court adjourned a hearing into the legality of political manoeuvres that led...
Farmers in the haor areas of Sylhet, Netrakona and Sunamganj are living in fear that they may be deprived of their boro paddy's harvest, as flash floods following incessant rainfall in India's bordering hilly areas have largely inundated their fields,...
FE REPORT | 2022-04-07 00:00:00
The environmental concerns should be given priority while doing a social cost-benefit analysis, said Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud. "However, it is extremely difficult and there are so many interrelated aspects of it," he said, while speaking at a virtual discussion on...
FE Report | 2022-04-07 00:00:00
The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) urged the government on Wednesday to extend validity of several licences related to trade and environment by three to five years in order to improve the ease- of-doing-business context in the...
Bangladesh's economy is "robust" and the government has been exercising "extreme caution" so that the country does not face a crisis like that of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said, reports bdnews24.com.She made the remarks after Jatiya Party...
DSE turnover dips below Tk 5.0b markThe market extended losses on Wednesday, with turnover dipping below Tk 5.0 billion-mark, as investors were reluctant to make fresh investments in stocks amid persistent volatility. Market insiders said the looming uncertainty over the...
COLOMBO, Apr 06 (BBC): Sri Lanka's beleaguered president will not be resigning, his government's whip has told parliament.The declaration defies calls from the public and political opponents for Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down amid the country's economic crisis.Crowds have protested...
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