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SMEs, sustainable rural development, and local government

Mohammad Tarikul Islam | 2022-05-10 00:00:00

Traditionally, rural development in Bangladesh has been broadly defined as agricultural dependence, and the agricultural sector has remained an important part of rural development in Bangladesh to this day. Moreover, rural development is essentially complementary to poverty alleviation. The Government...

Higher budgetary allocation for education

2022-05-10 00:00:00

The Covid-19 pandemic has already affected our education sector. However, we have not yet seen any specific plans implemented to recover the learning loss created by the pandemic. If we want to change our future and achieve the goals set...

Rehabilitating footpath traders

2022-05-10 00:00:00

Unofficial estimates say that there are more than 200,000 vendors doing business on the footpaths of Dhaka city. They sell several kinds of items from dawn to dusk. And their roadside presence often causes inconvenience to pedestrians as well as...

Respecting nursing

2022-05-10 00:00:00

Nursing is undoubtedly a noble profession. However, nurses in Bangladesh often feel undervalued. The physician to nurse ratio is 2:1, while that for patient to nurse is about 8000:1 in the country. This is deplorable. If nurses get their due...

Growing beach-going crowds

Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-05-10 00:00:00

As the reports go, hundreds of thousands of visitors have flooded the major tourist spots of the country. In Cox's Bazar, accommodation in most of the hotels, motels, guest houses and cottages was booked before the Eid. The tourism operators...

Motorbikes' image brush-up

Shihab Sarkar | 2022-05-10 00:00:00

Even a few years ago, the number of people setting out for Eid-time home trips on motorbikes was just a handful. This unconventional travel was not for everyone, as it required a lot of courage as well as enough physical...

Digital transformation of Bangladesh

2022-05-10 00:00:00

In the early years, making a digital Bangladesh sounded more like a political hype than a reality as it still does to the uninitiated. But the country's transition to the desired goal is taking a shape slowly but surely. The...

Still no soybean oil at groceries

Yasir Wardad | 2022-05-09 12:00:00

Except a few big shops in the essential commodity markets, most of the city groceries were still out of soybean oil on Sunday, although the government raised its price by a record high of Tk 38 a litre to Tk...

JKS demands Railways Minister's resignation

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (JKS) on Sunday demanded resignation of Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan for allowing unethical interference of his wife in his ministry's affairs, reports UNB. Mozammel Haque Chowdhury, general secretary of JKS, placed the demand in a...

Tailback at Daulatdia terminal continues

2022-05-09 00:00:00

GOALANDA, May 8 (UNB): As Eid-ul-Fitr holiday came to an end people from south-western districts started returning to their workstations in the capital but the journey is taking several hours more due to gridlock at Daulatdia ferry terminal.Shariful Islam, a...

Over 3,000 litres of hoarded soybean oil seized in Ctg

2022-05-09 00:00:00

The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection has seized more than 3,000 litres of soybean oil of different brands from the storage of a retail shop and the house of a retailer in Chattogram, reports bdnews24.com.Officials recovered the bottles as...

23 new cases, no deaths in BD

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

Twenty-three new Covid-19 cases and zero death from the virus were reported in Bangladesh on Sunday.The figures were 10 and zero respectively on Saturday, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).With the latest daily counts, the total fatalities...

Court can't pass order on it

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has observed that a court cannot pass an order to absorb the employees or officers of a project who have been appointed on contract basis under the revenue budget unless there is any...

Suspension of TTE withdrawn

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

The suspension order against Bangladesh Railway's travelling ticket examiner (TTE) Md Shafiqul Islam was withdrawn on Sunday following widespread criticism on the social media and protests from different quarters. At the same time, the railway authorities have formed a three-member...

Kailashtila field starts supplying 19 mmcfd gas

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

Onshore Kailashtila gas field started supplying around 19 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) to the country's national gas grid from Saturday night.The new gas source was found following workover on Kailashtila-7 well by state-run oil and gas...

Cyclone unlikely to hit BD, says state minister

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

Until now there is no possibility of cyclone ‘Ashani’ hitting Bangla-desh, State Minister for Relief and Disaster Management Dr Enamur Rahman said on Sunday."The meteorologists and international weather office thought that the cyclone will become a low pressure after touching...

Ctg port procures two gantry cranes, three RTG cranes

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

The country's largest seaport in Chittagong is procuring sophisticated equipment to enhance its capacity. In the latest development, as of Sunday, two key gantry cranes and three rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes have reached the port. Another consignment carrying a similar...

Don't go to foreigners with your complaints

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina has urged factory owners and labour leaders to resolve their issues among themselves instead of going to outsiders, report agencies.Noting that some labour leaders are quick to make complaints to foreigners, the prime minister assured them...

Briefing 09-05-2022

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Stocks snap two-day losing streakThe market rebounded in the gaining streak on Sunday, snapping a two-day losing streak, as bargain hunters showed their buying interest on sector-wise stocks. The market opened higher and went through some volatility until the end...

Prayer Timings (2022-05-09)

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Dhaka city witnessed a sudden shower

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Dhaka city witnessed a sudden shower on Sunday afternoon. The passengers, as spotted in this photo travelling in a rickshaw at Shahbagh during the rain, manage to take shelter under its hood, while one of them holds an umbrella over...

BD extends loan tenure

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

Bangladesh extends the tenure of a bilateral currency-swap agreement with Sri Lanka by a year in consideration of foreign-exchange crunch the cash-strapped island nation suffers.Officials Sunday said the central bank of Bangladesh made decision to extend the swap period with...

Boost leather quality for China marketing

FE REPORT | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

A push comes for quality enhancement of leather and leather goods and pursuing aggressive marketing to raise their exports to China, where a vast market potential lies untapped.Officials say the suggestion comes for Bangladeshi exporters of leather and leather goods...

Current-account deficit balloons to $14 billion

Siddique Islam | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

Bangladesh's current-account deficit hits an 'all-time high' at $14.07 billion as widening trade gap coupled with lower remittance receipts affects the macroeconomic balance, officials say.The country's trade deficit reached nearly a $25-billion mark in the first nine months of the...

Weather (2022-05-09)

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Rain/thunder showers with intense lightning flashes and temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rangpur, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, Dhaka, Mymensingh and Sylhet divisions in the next 24-hour from 06:00 am today (Monday), according...

A bulldozer of Dhaka South City

2022-05-09 00:00:00

A bulldozer of Dhaka South City Corporation pulling down illegally-built structures at Hawkers Malik Samiti Market on Bangabandhu Avenue in the city on Sunday — FE Photo

Professor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Professor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee, Vice-Chancellor (VC), University of Calcutta, and Professor Imran Rahman, VC of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), signing an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the campus of the University of Calcutta recently on behalf of their...

Thai envoy for promoting deeper people-to-people ties with BD

2022-05-09 00:00:00

Thai Ambassador in Bangladesh Makawadee Sumitmor has said Bangladesh and Thailand should promote deeper mutual understanding at the people-to-people level to cultivate closer contact in all dimensions. "People-to-people exchange is the foundation of bilateral relations. After a 50-year journey our...

Newborn rescued from hospital's toilet pipe

2022-05-09 00:00:00

BARISHAL, May 08 (UNB): A newborn has been rescued from the sewerage pipe of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital after her mother gave birth in a toilet of the maternity ward, the hospital's director said on Sunday. The incident occurred...

Boiler Act formulated to ensure safety in industries

MONIRA MUNNI | 2022-05-09 00:00:00

The Boiler Act 2022 has been enacted - scrapping the old law, endorsed in 1923 - to ensure more safety in industrial units. The new act, approved in the parliament, also makes mandatory boiler operation by the authorised ones having...