MOULVIBAZAR, Mar 27 (UNB): Three children were killed on Saturday in a landslide in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar district.The deceased were Sumon Mia,13, son of Taslim Mia, Kabir Ahmed, 10, son of Abdul Karim, and Nahid Ahmed,12, son of Abus...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 27 (BSS): The mango formation is going on smoothly amid favourable climatic conditions, predicting record production of the most popular juicy fruit in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj districts.The fruit setting stage is progressing well and the mango trees have...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-03-28 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Mar 27: Tobacco farming is increasing day by day in the villages of Cox's Bazar. This new trend of cultivation is not only making the soil lose its fertility but also posing threats to the environment and biodiversity...
Gone are the days when attending PT (physical training) classes was mandatory for students in schools. For most of our schools, those PT classes no longer serve their purposes. What is more worrying is that many of these educational institutions...
Pregnancy is one of the most wonderful events in a couple's life. To raise a healthy baby from a healthy mother, it is imperative that a pregnant woman gets adequate care and attention from her family as well as from...
To many of us who commute every day in Dhaka, the city has the worst traffic congestion in the world. Moreover, it is steadily deteriorating. Not only does this affect mobility and mental health, it also has a big impact...
Neil Ray | 2022-03-28 00:00:00
The big story is that the queues behind the TCB (trading corporation of Bangladesh) trucks are getting longer with every passing day. Stories like this over a period of time no longer draw readers' attention. But stories within a story,...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2022-03-28 00:00:00
Cross-border payment settlement does not take place in currency notes. The settlement is made through clearing arrangements by counterpart banks abroad where resident banks maintain accounts in which inward receipts are credited. Outward payments are settled by debiting from the...
As is the practice every year, the country's business leaders at a recently held pre-budget meeting with the government came up with their suggestions on a more business-friendly tax regime. With the global commodities market already volatile as a fall-out...
Muhammad Zamir | 2022-03-28 00:00:00
Many physicians and health analysts have been following very carefully the progression of the pandemic for the last two years. In this context one is reminded of a report that appeared in the electronic and print media in the fourth...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2022-03-26 12:00:00
March 25, 1971 dawned in unease, both among the Bengali political leadership and the population as a whole. From the early part of the day, rumours began to make the rounds of an imminent army operation against the Bengali nationalist...
Today is the 52nd Independence Day and the National Day of Bangladesh. The day is a great historic day for the people of the country. Every year, the day, March 26, brings the most tragic reminiscence of one of the...
The government of Bangladesh is now working for ensuring safe drinking water and sanitation for all. This is one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by 2030. However, one of the old problems of our country -- arsenic contamination --...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-03-26 12:00:00
Extensive use of groundwater for irrigation, domestic use as well as industrial purposes has been an issue of huge concern since long in Bangladesh. But no serious effort has so far been made to reduce the country's dependence on groundwater....
Amartya Sen's autobiography 'Home in the world' is mostly an account of his achievements in life recollecting the subjects he was reasonably comfortable with. At the same breath, in the biography, he also said a few words about those in...
In 2020, Ujwal Chaudhary, a biomedical engineer then at the University of Tübingen and the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, watched his computer with amazement as an experiment that he had spent years on revealed itself. A...
MUNSHIGANJ, Mar 25 (UNB): Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni urged administrators to focus on technical education, to reduce the unemployment rate of Bangladesh.Countries that have paid more attention to technical and science education have become more developed and prosperous, she...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 25 (Agencies): The speaker of Pakistan's parliament has adjourned a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Imran Khan, provoking opposition accusations he is buying time for the ex-cricketer to muster support after a spate of defections from his...
MOSCOW, March 25 (AFP): Russia said Friday it had destroyed the largest remaining military fuel storage site in Ukraine, attacking it with Kalibr cruise missiles."On the evening of March 24, Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles attacked a fuel base in...
COLOMBO, March 25 (AFP): Two major Sri Lanka newspapers are suspending their print editions because of a lack of paper, their owner said Friday, the latest casualties in the island's economic crisis.The South Asian nation of 22 million people is...
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday defended its voting in favour of the latest resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine saying Bangladesh remains very vocal on humanitarian issues, reports UNB."We voted on...
There is a "high chance" that a new Covid variant which is worse than Omicron will emerge in the next two years, England's chief medical officer, Chris Whitty has warned, report agencies.He said that there was still a "long way...
FE Report | 2022-03-26 00:00:00
Bangladesh witnessed another deathless day with recording some 102 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours till Friday morning.Of the latest infections, Dhaka district, including the metropolitan city, alone accounted for 73, according to a Directorate General of Health...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-03-26 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 25: Price hike of construction materials, especially MS rods and cement, which the manufacturers of those materials attributed to the Russia-Ukraine war, is hampering construction work in Chattogram.Sources said prices of mild steel or MS rod witnessed at...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-26 00:00:00
Much of the trouble in Bangladesh's financial sector lies in the fact that corporate entities having business dealings with banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) also own these. Such an anatomy of the problems perennially troubling the country's financial-sector institutions...
Bangladesh is all set to celebrate the 52nd Independence and National Day today (Saturday) with programmes that feature paying homage to the Liberation War martyrs and a fresh vow to materialise their dreams.On March 26, 1971, Father of the Nation...
SYFUL ISLAM | 2022-03-26 00:00:00
Additional container-handling orders are pouring in off-docks around Chittagong seaport in clear signs of significant export growth ahead for Bangladesh, sources say, amid global trade resurgence.In the recent weeks a good number of freight forwarders have inquired in the off-docks...
Rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at a few places over Mymensingh, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours from today (Saturday), according to the Met Office. Weather may remain mainly dry with...
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