Bangladesh pacer Taskin Ahmed overlooked a call from the Indian Premier League team Lucknow Super Giants due to tight national team duty, confirmed Jalal Yunus, the cricket operation chairman of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), reports UNB. Taskin is currently...
Shakib Al Hasan is staying back in South Africa to play the third ODI in Centurion on Wednesday, after initially deciding to return home where several of his family members, including his children, are in hospital due to various illnesses....
Aluminium prices rose on Monday after Australia's announcement to ban exports of alumina and aluminium ores to Russia exacerbated fears of supply disruption of the lightweight metal, reports Reuters.The move will limit Russia's capacity to produce aluminium, one of its...
LONDON, Mar 21 (Reuters): Gold prices edged up on Monday as fighting in Ukraine buoyed demand for the safe-haven asset, although strength in US bond yields restricted bullion's gains.Spot gold was up 0.14 per cent to $1,923.83 per ounce by...
The Walton Day, marking the foundation day of the Bangladeshi electronics brand, was celebrated around the world on Sunday in a festive mood, says a press release. Various colourful programmes were arranged at all Walton offices at home and abroad...
LONDON, Mar 21 (Reuters): Oil prices jumped more than $3 on Monday, with Brent crude climbing above $111 a barrel, as European Union nations considered joining the United States in a Russian oil embargo and after a weekend attack on...
GAZIPUR, Mar 21 (UNB): A woman and her son were allegedly hacked to death by her husband over family feud at Board Bazar in Gazipur early Monday.The deceased were identified as Rahima, 38, wife of rickshaw puller Mofiz of Tangail...
RAJSHAHI, Mar 21 (UNB): A record production of mango is likely in Rajshahi district due to favourable weather condition."This year, Rajshahi district might break all its previous records of mango production", said Abdullah Hil Kafi, Additional Deputy Director of the...
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 21 (UNB): Cancer patient Fahmida Kamal, who married her boyfriend to fulfill her last wish at Chattogram Medical Centre just 11 days ago, died on Monday.The 25-year-old woman died at her residence in the Bakaliya area of the...
A total of seven persons were killed in separate road accidents in Manikganj and Chattogram districts on Monday, reports UNB.In Manikganj, a student and a teacher were killed and several others injured when a truck ploughed through a school in...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2022-03-22 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Mar 21: Thousands of dead fishes are floating in seawater along the beach in Cox's Bazar. Visiting the beach on Saturday, it has been seen that these dead fishes were floating in the waters about a few kilometres...
In our country, schools, colleges and universities are putting their best efforts to produce good employees rather than good employers. All of our institutions, teachers and parents work to groom us in a way that one day we might become...
Since time immemorial, women have been made to feel that menstruation is a taboo. This has led many people, including women themselves, to shame other women while on their periods. So, period shaming is basically something which makes women or...
In Bangladesh, we often see violations of consumer rights. Some breaches include sale of goods, medicines or services at a price higher than the fixed rate; sale of adulterated and counterfeit goods; sale of date-expired medicine and food; food processed...
Syed Fattahul Alim | 2022-03-22 00:00:00
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam has recently ventured the suggestion that, if authorised, his office can help manage the ever-worsening traffic mess of the capital city. His idea is to reduce the number of motorised vehicles plying...
Shihab Sarkar | 2022-03-22 00:00:00
The 2-year-long corona-induced stalemate has started petering out. With it the global export-import activities find themselves coming free of the cloud which gathered over them during the pandemic. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is impeding the revival of normalcy. But it's still...
That the government's move to establish a modern dried fish processing plant is an important one can be explained from the high prospect of both domestic and overseas marketing of dried fish as well as the financial benefit likely to...
Mushfiqur Rahman | 2022-03-22 00:00:00
Anxiety prevails in Bangladesh over smooth supply of fuel oil and natural gas at an affordable price at the consumer level. Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), the government owned sole importer and distributor (through its subsidiary companies) of fuel oil has...
PARIS, March 20 (AFP): France has seized around 850 million euros ($920 million) of Russian oligarchs' assets on its soil, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Sunday."We have immobilised ... 150 million euros in individual's accounts, credit lines in France...
BEIJING, March 20 (AFP): China on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders on millions more people in the country's northeast as it battles its biggest Covid-19 outbreak in two years.The country has largely kept the virus at bay since it brought to...
A fire broke out at the capital's Kalyanpur slum on Sunday night. The blaze started around 8:50 pm at the number 9 slum near Notun Bazar, said Md Shahjahan Shikdar, Deputy assistant director (media cell) of Fire Service and Civil...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
The well-marked low over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining south Andaman Sea intensified into a 'depression' over the same area, according to a met office official. AKM Nazmul Haque, a meteorologist of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), told the FE...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
Bangladesh reported three deaths from Covid-19 and 82 new virus cases on Sunday, official data revealed.With the latest daily counts, the total fatalities from Covid reached 29,117 in Bangladesh since the virus was detected in the country in March 2020,...
Siddique Islam | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
The yields on government securities (G-Sec) have continued to rise in the recent days, as the banks are showing unwillingness to invest their excess funds in the risk-free instruments.The yields on two types of treasury bills (T-bills) increased significantly on...
Our Correspondent | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, Mar 20: The local industries will get more facilities in the upcoming budget for fiscal year 2022-23, like in the previous years, as they are contributing a lot to the country's gross domestic product (GDP) and development. National Board...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
The government on Sunday reduced the maximum retail price (MRP) of bottled edible oil by Tk 8 to Tk 160 per litre. The new rate has been fixed after a cut from existing Tk 168, which was approved by the...
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 20 (Agencies): South Africa have levelled the three-match ODI series in the 'Pink Day' as the hosts crushed Bangladesh by seven wickets at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Sunday.The Proteas have easily crossed the simple target of...
PATUAKHALI, Mar 20 (UNB): The 1320MW Payra thermal power station in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali district is set to start commercial supply on Monday, setting a milestone in the country's power sector. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) started its truck sale of some key essential commodities at subsidised rates across the country, including the capital, on Sunday, targeting 10 million low-income families on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan.However,...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
People from all walks of life on Sunday bade farewell to former President and Chief Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed. The former president was laid to rest at Banani graveyard in Dhaka around 12:15 pm, said Md Saifur Rahman, spokesperson for the...
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