BENAPOLE, May 15 (bdnews24.com): A Jashore teenager addicted to online video games has been chained up by his parents in a bid to stop him from playing.The 17-year-old boy hails from Sharsha Upazila. His father is a farmer.The boy was...
GAZA, May 15 (Xinhua): The leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar told the press on Saturday that he did not "take recent Israeli assassination threats into account."While offering condolences for Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen...
BEIRUT, May 15 (AFP): Lebanon headed to the polls Sunday for its first election since multiple crises dragged it to the brink of failed statehood, with the ruling elite expected to comfortably weather public anger.The parliamentary election is a first...
HELSINKI, May 15 (AFP): Finland will apply for NATO membership, the Nordic country's president and prime minister announced Sunday, as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine."Today, the President of the Republic and the Government's Foreign Policy Committee have jointly...
NEW YORK, May 15 (AFP): Thousands of activists chanting, banging drums and wielding placards flooded streets across the United States on Saturday in a national day of action calling for safe and legal access to abortion.The mass demonstrations were a...
SEOUL, May 15 (AP): North Korea has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers as it mobilizes more than a million health and other workers to try to suppress the country's first COVID-19 outbreak,...
PESHAWAR, May 15 (AP): A suicide bombing near a security forces vehicle killed three soldiers and three children in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, while gunmen shot dead two minority Sikhs in Peshawar, officials said Sunday.A military statement...
ABU DHABI, May 15 (AFP): The UAE's new president Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan held talks Sunday with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron as world leaders streamed in to Abu Dhabi to pay tribute to his predecessor.Macron, who was re-elected...
KYIV, May 15 (BBC/AP): A military facility in Ukraine's Lviv region has been "fully destroyed" by a Russian missile strike, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy says on Telegram.In recent weeks Russia has been focusing its offensive on the east of Ukraine...
A K Abdul Momen | 2022-05-16 00:00:00
We have celebrated the 50thanniversary of the recognition of the independence of Bangladesh by the Republic of Korea, on May 12, 2022. We recall with gratitude Republic of Korea's recognition of Bangladesh as an independent state, at a very early...
As we grow older, our body undergoes steady deterioration. To cope with this, we must make drastic changes in our lifestyle. First and foremost, the elderly people must cut junk food out of their life. Both sugar and salt in...
Unemployment in Bangladesh, especially among the educated, is increasing day by day. Even after getting the highest degree from the university, millions of youths have to pay a hefty fee for applying for jobs in public and private institutions. This...
In recent weeks, the price of onions has increased again. This week, a kilogram of onion was priced at Tk 60. It is said that Bangladesh has produced 2,955,000 metric tons of onions this season. However, our demand is estimated...
Neil Ray | 2022-05-16 00:00:00
This is crunch time. It has been made even more volatile by an outrageous profiteering motive of businesspeople the world over. The latest to join the agents of worsening situation is the Russia-Ukraine war. Now what are the agents triggering...
Shakhawat Hossain | 2022-05-16 00:00:00
A business firm needs recurring money for which it can arrange loans from banks or other sources. Owners can also inject money as capital to meet the requirements. In the same way, an economy needs recurring funds which come either...
It's nice to learn that the government has begun moving at full throttle to tame its foreign exchange spending. Any further delay would have spawned a plethora of woes for the nation amid the ongoing global economic volatilities. As had...
Muhammad Zamir | 2022-05-16 00:00:00
The world has observed Mother's Day the other day celebrating love and honour for all mothers all over the world, irrespective of ethnicity or religion. At the same time, groups from all over the world have underlined their opposition to...
Hasnat Abdul Hye | 2022-05-16 00:00:00
Shireen Abu Akleh, the late Al Jazeera reporter, being mortal, was destined to die one day. But she did not deserve to die the way she did -- by the lethal bullet of an Israeli sniper that fell her unaware...
FHM HUMAYAN KABIR | 2022-05-15 12:00:00
Despite its poor-performer image, the state rail service is going to get Tk 149.28 billion, which is up by Tk 23.53 billion, in the upcoming uplift budget, officials said on Saturday.The Bangladesh Railway (BR) shows its weak capacity, especially in...
IDCOL celebrates silver jubilee | 2022-05-15 12:00:00
Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), a state-owned financial institution, celebrated its silver jubilee with a programme at a city hotel on Friday, says a press release.Speaking on the occasion, Alamgir Morshed, Executive Director and CEO of IDCOL, said the journey...
Traders are watching the market cautiously with "instability" persistent in parts of the supply chain after a price hike amid a shortage, reports bdnews24.com.Consumers are also guarded, leading to a fall in demand. Many still have oil in their stocks...
RAJSHAHI, May 14 (BSS): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 6,600 litres of soyabean oil from some warehouses and grocery shops in Natore district on Friday evening.On a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted the drive against...
HELSINKI, May 14 ( AFP): Finnish President Sauli Niinisto spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday regarding the Nordic country's application for NATO membership, which is expected to be announced this weekend, his office said."The conversation was direct...
COLOMBO, May 14 (Xinhua) : Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday appointed four ministers to the new cabinet after United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the South Asian country's prime minister on Thursday.The new appointments...
Prices of onion have again started spiralling up although there is no dearth of supply at the wholesale market. The photo taken on Saturday shows piles of sacks of onion at Shyambazar wholesale market in the city — FE photo
- The overall number of Covid cases is fast approaching 521 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world, reports agencies.According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count mounted to 520,528,011 while the death...
FE Report | 2022-05-15 00:00:00
Bangladesh has reported zero death from coronavirus along with 22 new cases of the viral disease in the last 24 hours until Saturday morning.With no new Covid-19 death reported for the 24th straight day, the total fatalities from the pandemic...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-15 00:00:00
Speakers at a programme in the city on Saturday stressed the need for proper coordination among stakeholders through forming a separate ministry or department to untap full potential of blue economy in the country.They also called for carrying out research...
MUNIMA SULTANA | 2022-05-15 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Railway (BR) will find local companies to work on the signalling system of the Khulna-Mongla rail link project being implemented under the Indian line of credit (LoC).It now turns to local firms for not getting much higher quotations...
Undistributed dividends in CMSFAudit and Accounts Management Committee of Capital Market Stabilisation Fund (CMSF) will accelerate its monitoring if issuer companies fail to transfer investors' undistributed dividends into the account of the CMSF within the stipulated deadline. The Audit and...
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