Commuters cross a bridge sans railing over the Bhulua River at Charbasu village in Kamalnagar upazila of Laxmipur district —Focus Bangla
GAZIPUR, May 24 (BSS): Three persons were killed in separate road accidents in the district.Joydevpur railway police said an unknown female was killed when a train hit her in the Satkhamair area under Sreepur upazila this morning. In another accident,...
KUSHTIA, May 24 (UNB): The wife of an Islamic University teacher has been found dead at her residence in the Kamalapur area of Kushtia town, police said on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Nurjahan Parvin Minu, 40, wife of...
RAJSHAHI, May 24 (BSS): Trading and marketing of litchi has reached peak everywhere in the region involving hundreds of labourers both male and female in harvesting, segregating and transportation of the delicious seasonal fruit. Market sources said the harvest has...
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh on Tuesday said an anti-mosquito drive will be conducted in the DSCC area from June 15 to control the spread of Aedes mosquitoes, reports UNB. The drive will be conducted...
Billboards are everywhere in Dhaka city. And nowadays, it appears that the capital of Bangladesh has become a 'city of billboards'. The placement of advertising billboards, banners and placards is so intense around the city that most people residing in...
As more cases of monkeypox are reportedly detected in Europe and North America, some scientists who have monitored numerous such outbreaks in Africa say that they are baffled by the unusual spread of the disease in developed countries. It is...
In today's globalised world, there are many reasons why students should learn English. Currently, there are around 1.5 billion English speakers around the globe, which represent a fifth of the world's total population. Over the centuries, English has become the...
Khawaza Main Uddin | 2022-05-25 00:00:00
People can cut the costs of living only by reducing their consumption in an effort to adjust to a volatile market. Even then such austerity measures may not be enough. Also inability to buy is also a painful experience in...
In the face of runaway price hike of agricultural inputs in the world market, the government is going for a controlled use of fertilisers in the next fiscal, informs a report in the last Monday's issue of this paper. To...
Zaid Bakht | 2022-05-25 00:00:00
Economic management often involves working out appropriate responses to exogenous events. The risk and uncertainty associated with such exogeneity create deviations from the ideal scenario that an economy may strive to achieve. Troubleshooting and contingency responses are, therefore, essential elements...
A fire broke out Monday at a Square Pharmaceuticals factory in Gazipur's Kaliakoir Upazila, reports bdnews24.com.The Fire Brigade personnel brought the fire under control after hours of frantic efforts.The fire erupted inside the factory's newly-introduced large-volume parenteral unit around 12:30...
State minister for civil aviation and tourism Md Mahbub Ali Monday said Biman Bangladesh Airlines has completed preparation to operate Hajj flights with its own Boeing-777 aircraft, reports BSS."We are ready to start hajj flight on May 31, if Hajj...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
The government has selected seven individuals and 16 organisations for the Prime Minister's National Award for Tree Plantation.The selection was made at a meeting of the National Committee for Prime Minister's National Award for Tree Plantation-2020 on Sunday.Environment, forest and...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
The launch terminal from Lalkhuti to Ruplal House portion on the banks of the river Buriganga needs to be removed, said Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Paposh."I call upon the BIWTA (Bangladesh Inland Water Transport...
Bangladesh registered two deaths from Covid-19 with 31 fresh cases in 24 hours till Monday morning, health authorities said, report agencies.The fresh numbers took the total fatalities from the pandemic so far to 29,130 while the caseload mounted to 19,53,264.On...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
Grameen Telecom Union of Workers and Employees has withdrawn all the cases it filed against Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and his organisation Grameen Telecom with different courts as the parties reached an out-of-the-court settlement over the claims of the...
STOCKHOLM, May 23 (AFP): The EU health agency ECDC said Monday the risk that the rare disease monkeypox would spread widely among the general population was "very low", though high for certain groups."Most of the current cases have presented with...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
A Dhaka court on Monday sent four members of the North South University's (NSU) board of trustees (BoT) to jail in a corruption case. The court also allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate them at the jail gate for...
COLOMBO, May 23 (AFP): Sri Lanka's inflation hit a seventh consecutive record high in April as a petrol shortage worsened and food prices rose sharply, official data showed Monday.The National Consumer Price Index rose 33.8 percent year-on-year in April, more...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday called for enhancing financial cooperation to improve regional crisis management, reports BSS.She also placed five proposals to strengthen the regional cooperation against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict."I would like to propose...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
With wheat prices going sky-high following the Indian export ban, Dhaka has pushed New Delhi to let the private sector import the grain alongside the government-to-government (G2G) arrangement.Last week, commerce ministry wrote to foreign ministry for necessary measures to get...
Stocks rebound stronglyThe market rebounded strongly Monday, snapping an eight-day slump, as bargain hunters put fresh bets on stocks, riding on the government's moves to revamp the ailing market. Market insiders said the stock market regulator and the finance ministry...
MOHAMMAD MUFAZZAL | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
Trade operators are set to receive around Tk 3.0 billion in immediate injection from the capital-market refinancing scheme worth 10.09 billion, amid government intervention to stimulate the bourses.The supervision committee on the stock-market refinancing scheme sits today (Tuesday) to discuss...
SIDDIQUE ISLAM | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Taka (BDT) has further depreciated significantly against the US dollar mainly due to higher demand for the greenback for settling import-payment obligations.The local currency lost its value by 40 paisa in the inter-bank foreign-exchange (forex) market on Monday,...
MIR MOSTAFIZUR RAHAMAN | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
The government has taken an initiative to construct metro rail in the Chittagong metropolitan area to improve the traffic system in the port city.Negotiations are on to start the feasibility study for the project, concerned officials told the FE.Recently, the...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
Russia offers to export crude oil to Bangladesh, at a time of global energy shortages following western sanctions and Russian blockade over Ukraine issue. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) Nasrul Hamid unveiled the development Monday, saying...
Bangladesh's Liton Das (L) after slamming a ton hugs his teammate Mushfiqur Rahim, who also scored a century later, on the first day of their second Test cricket match against Sri Lanka at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka...
DOULOT AKTER MALA | 2022-05-24 00:00:00
Bangladesh ramps up belt-tightening measures to save its foreign-exchange reserves with two more fiscal interventions like increase in regulatory duty on over 200 import items and relaxing remittance rules.Officials say the government's revenue board has decided to slap additional regulatory...
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