KYIV, May 13 (Reuters): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has reiterated an offer to hold direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and said Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine should be the starting point for any discussions."As president, I am ready to...
LONDON: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (left), her daughter Gabriella (right) and her husband Richard Ratcliffe pose for a photograph as they arrive for a meeting at 10 Downing Street in central London on Friday. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager for the Thomson Reuters...
NEW DELHI, May 13 (Xinhua): India's Covid-19 tally rose to 43,116,254 on Friday, as 2,841 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data.Over 36 per cent of the cases...
COLOMBO, May 13 (BBC/AFP): Sri Lanka is at a crossroads as an economic crisis upends the lives of its 22 million people. The Rajapaksa brothers, hailed by many as heroes for winning the civil war, are now reviled as leaders....
JERUSALEM, May 13 (AFP/Al Jazeera): Thousands of people packed Jerusalem's tense Old City on Friday for the burial of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, after Israeli police stormed the start of the funeral procession.Israel and the Palestinians have...
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters): US President Joe Biden opened a gathering of Southeast Asian leaders with a promise to spend $150 million on their infrastructure, security, pandemic preparedness and other efforts aimed at countering the influence of rival China.On Thursday,...
Gold fell on Friday and was headed for a fourth consecutive weekly decline pressured by overall strength in the dollar on prospects of aggressive interest rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve, reports Reuters.Spot gold fell 0.2 per cent to...
Prices of rice exported from India fell this week on the rupee's plunge to a record low, while strong interest from Middle Eastern markets boosted rates of the staple from Thailand, reports Reuters.Top exporter India's 5 per cent broken parboiled...
DUBAI, May 13 (Reuters): Dubai's Emirates airline on Friday posted an annual loss of $1.1 billion, a sharp improvement on the $5.5 billion loss in the previous year, as demand for international travel was boosted by governments easing pandemic-related curbs.The...
LONDON, May 13 (Reuters): Russian fuel oil arrivals in the UAE oil hub of Fujairah are set to jump sharply to about 2.5 million barrels this month, data shows, in a sign that flows of Russian oil and refined products...
ROME, May 13 (AFP): AC Milan welcome Atalanta to the San Siro on Sunday knowing this could be the weekend that they snatch the Scudetto from local rivals Inter Milan.Needing four points from their final two games of the season,...
The fate of the Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka, is likely to be decided by the end of the month, even as serious doubts are being expressed over the feasibility of the Australia-Sri Lanka series happening...
Bangladesh national hockey team face hosts Thailand in the second semifinal of the Asian Games qualifier scheduled to be held today (Saturday) in Thailand, Bangkok. The match kicks off at 3 pm (BST), reports BSS.Earlier, Bangladesh got off to a...
A seven-member of Bangladesh archery team leave for France today (Saturday) to take part in the 19th Summer School Games 2022 scheduled to be held from May 16-21 in Normandy, reports BSS.The Bangladesh Archery team which included one instructor, three...
CHITTAGONG, May 13 (AFP): Sri Lanka's cricketers are hoping to distract their fans from political turmoil back home when they take on Bangladesh in a two-Test series starting this weekend.The first Test of the series, which is part of the...
Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo said on Friday that it will be hard to consider fifty-sixty per cent fit Shakib al Hasan in the two-match series opener against Sri Lanka, according to Cricbuzz.Shakib, who was ruled out of the opening...
Soma Dhar | 2022-05-14 00:00:00
Our National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote: "The good done by the civilization, half created by men and half by the women." There are infinitive resources and powers within us if we search them out.Truly there is more in us...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-14 00:00:00
The number of people in the wide world, who do not love flowers, birds and butterflies is perhaps next to nothing. But unfortunately, the young generations, particularly in towns and cities, are growing up without ever coming in close proximity...
Peptic ulcer has now become a common disease in Bangladesh. It is an open sore or sores that develop in the lining of the stomach, lower oesophagus, or small intestines. The disease is caused by bacterial infections, smoking, long-term painkiller...
It is a matter of pride that Bangladesh has seen significant economic development in the recent past. It is, however, disappointing that, in the midst of this rush for development, many historical and heritage sites have not been given due...
Road accident is a common affair in Bangladesh. But it intensifies manifold every year during Eid days. As many as 416 travellers have died in 372 road accidents across the country recently during the Eid-ul-Fitr holidays, according to a report...
Tanim Asjad | 2022-05-14 00:00:00
Bangladesh has witnessed another jump in per capita income. In the current fiscal year, per-capita income stood at US$2,824 from $2,591 in the previous fiscal year. In other words, the annual average income of the country's people increased by around...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-05-14 00:00:00
The situation in Sri Lanka has in recent days turned for the worse as the members of the public have now started violent street demonstrations to see an end to the incumbent political regime. To contain the situation, the government...
Following a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), the planning minister made public a provisional figure on the economy's growth rate for the FY2021-22. Based on the data provided by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics...
Fahmida Khatun, Mustafizur Rahman, Khondaker Golam Moazzem and Towfiqul Islam Khan | 2022-05-14 00:00:00
The total allocation for the education sector in the current fiscal year (FY22) was Tk 719.53 billion, which was only 8.68 per cent higher than the revised budget for FY21. However, education budget as a share of total budget decreased...
Tibet Airlines plane catches fire BEIJING, May 12: A Tibet Airlines plane caught fire on Thursday at a Chinese airport after veering off the runway, but all passengers and crew were "safely evacuated", the airline said. The flight, carrying 113...
Asjadul Kibria | 2022-05-13 12:00:00
Bangladesh celebrated its 50 years of independence last year, the Golden Jubilee of the emergence of the country as an independent and sovereign nation. From the so-called basket case to a fastest growing economy, the 50 years journey of Bangladesh...
Nilratan Halder | 2022-05-13 12:00:00
Microsoft's Bill Gates and Bangladesh ace cricketer Shakib Al Hasan are reported to have got Covid-19 almost at the same time. The co-founder of Microsoft and the richest man on the planet until Jeff Bezos (now lost the pole position...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-13 00:00:00
Bangladesh is still lagging far behind the top-performing countries in the Tobacconomics Cigarette Tax Scorecard, said a study.In 2021, Bangladesh scored of 2.63 on a scale of 5.The study report shows an ample opportunity for Bangladesh to improve its performance...
FE REPORT | 2022-05-13 00:00:00
Both Covid-19 caseloads and its test positivity rate increased on Thursday with no fatality from the virus was reported in Bangladesh.Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) reported 51 new virus cases and 0.89 per cent infection rate on the day.The...
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