FARAH, May 18 (Xinhua): One child was killed and two others were wounded in a blast that happened in Balablock district of western Farah province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Aref Adel said Wednesday.The blast, according to the official,...
ISLAMABAD, May 18 (Xinhua): A government official was killed and his two colleagues were injured in a firing on their vehicle in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday, sources said.The incident happened in the provincial capital of Peshawar when...
BRUSSELS, May 18 (AFP): EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday proposed extra aid to Ukraine of up to nine billion euros ($9.5 billion) this year to help Kyiv cope with the ravages of war.The money would be raised...
BRUSSELS, May 18 (Reuters): Finland and Sweden formally applied to join the NATO alliance on Wednesday at allied headquarters, a decision spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and setting in motion an accession process that is expected to take only...
GENEVA, May 18 (AFP): Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards catastrophe.Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and...
RANGPUR, May 18 (BSS): Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Alim Mahmud has said there is no alternative to quality education for building a prosperous country and an educated nation. "It is very important to provide motivation and encouragement...
NARAYANGANJ, May 18 (UNB): A 15-year-old school boy was stabbed to death allegedly by his classmate in front of his school in Narayanganj's Fatullah on Tuesday.Deceased Dhrubo was a class-X student of Rabeya Hossain High School and son of Madab...
MANIKGANJ, May 18 (UNB): A Manikganj court on Tuesday sentenced two people to death and four others to life imprisonment for killing a private car driver in 2011.Manikganj Additional District and Session Judge Utpal Bhattacharya handed down the punishment and...
NATORE, May 18 (UNB): Two persons were killed and another injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus in Baraigram upazila of Natore in the early hours of Wednesday, police said.The deceased were identified as bus driver...
An elderly man was charred to death in a fire that broke out at a house in the Dhumpara area of Middle Halishahar in Chattogram on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a total of 150 shops were gutted in a fire at a...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-05-19 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, May 18: The century-old bungalow of Captain Hiram Cox in Ramu's Fatehkharkul can take a visitor back to the 18th century history of this part of the world. The sensation intensifies further when one learns that Cox's Bazar...
FE EDUCATION DESK | 2022-05-19 00:00:00
IUT Career and Business Society (IUT CBS) is the lone business club of the Islamic University of Technology since 2017. It is a student-run organisation that has captured the intricate arena of business in Bangladesh by storm in recent years....
Noshin Nawar | 2022-05-19 00:00:00
The interaction between stakeholders in the marketing landscape has evolved at the onset of technological advancement. Businesses are no longer limited to relying on print media for advertisement. They have been quick to utilise television -- and later, the Internet...
Research plays a crucial role in the development of any country. However, in Bangladesh, little support or service is available for research students. Research enables a researcher to identify new areas for development and suggest remedial measures for improvement. Many...
Islam highly encourages Zakat. It is a mandatory charity for solvent Muslims. According to Islamic law, you have to give 2.5 per cent of your excess property or wealth.as Zaka. It is necessary for the stability of economy that all...
Hypertension or high blood pressure is one of the major health conditions that contributes to the rising number of premature deaths in Bangladesh. According to the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the incidence of high blood pressure among people aged...
Jehangir Hussain | 2022-05-19 00:00:00
Journalists are and were always unionised workers worldwide.It's totally incorrect to say that this or that political party in Bangladesh made journalists workers.No political party in Bangladesh can be credited or discredited for making journalists workers. Such allegations are made...
The fast-growing tea belt in the country's north has been witnessing growers' protests over drastic reduction in prices of raw leaves by the tea factories there. The Panchagarh District Tea Garden Owners Association and the Panchagarh District Tea Growers' Rights...
Mohammad Abu Yusuf | 2022-05-19 00:00:00
Climate change poses a fundamental threat to places, species and people's livelihoods. The impacts of human-induced climate change have already become a reality and it is occurring on a global scale. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives. Increased...
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters): Gold rose on Tuesday as a retreat in the dollar helped bullion recover slightly from the last session's 3-1/2 month lows, but sentiment remained negative as further US interest rate hikes loom.Spot gold rose 0.5 per...
JAKARTA, May 17 (Reuters): Hundreds of Indonesian smallholder farmers on Tuesday staged a protest in the capital Jakarta and in other parts of the world's fourth most populous country, demanding the government end a palm oil export ban that has...
LONDON, May 17 (Reuters): Oil hit its highest in seven weeks on Tuesday, supported by the European Union's ongoing push for a ban on Russian oil imports that would tighten supply and as investors focused on higher demand from an...
Though there is a no-parking sign being displayed prominently, many cars are parked illegally encroaching upon a significant part of the road in front of Notre Dame College in Dhaka on Tuesday — FE photo
COLOMBO, May 17 (AFP): Sri Lanka's beleaguered president side-stepped a censure motion on Tuesday after his fractured coalition rallied to delay a resolution blaming him for the country's worst economic crisis.Gotabaya Rajapaksa's shaky coalition voted against taking up the unprecedented...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-18 00:00:00
The Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB) comes up with a set of measures to avert the downward trend of the stock market.It seeks to discourage offloading shares by small investors, its subsidiary companies and other stakeholders. The state-run corporation on...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-18 00:00:00
Both the daily Covid-19 cases and the virus test positivity rate declined slightly in Bangladesh on Tuesday. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 32 Covid-19 cases and its infection rate at 0.75 per cent on the day.The figures...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-18 00:00:00
The central bank asks the authorised dealers (ADs) to track import shipments through vessel/container tracking as it smells a rat about trade-based money laundering of billions of dollars.Currently, banks are tracking vessels through software, especially in case of having a...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-18 00:00:00
Transportation and safety expert Dr Mohammad Shamsul Hoque at a national conference on Tuesday demanded proper audit of the development, claimed so far through implementing various projects in line with achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), saying many examples of...
FE Report | 2022-05-18 00:00:00
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) has extended the time for submission of corporate tax returns for the assessment year 2021-22 until June 15 due to poor response so far.Until May 12 last, only around 24,000 returns were submitted out...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-18 00:00:00
Private firms will be allowed to invest in power transmission and distribution lines as the government constitutes a policy to encourage private-sector investment for smooth operation of the power grid.The national power grid can be used by the private sector...
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