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...
KYIV, March 20 (AFP) : Turkey on Sunday said Russia and Ukraine made progress on their negotiations to halt the invasion and the two warring sides were close to an agreement."Of course, it is not an easy thing to come...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
Eminent economists suggest the government should use fiscal space to avert further price adjustments to help continue economic recovery from pandemic shocks, or else there could be risks of "stagflation". Fresh price adjustments will push the country's economy into "the...
NARAYANGANJ, Mar 20 (UNB): At least six bodies, including of a three-year-old child, were recovered after a launch carrying around 50-60 passengers went down in the Shitalakkhya River after being hit by a cargo vessel near Al Aminnagar in Narayanganj...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
The crucial issue of US sanctions related to RAB was discussed, but left aside to deal with later, as Washington in Sunday's Dhaka meet underscored security affairs amid current geopolitical developments.Officials said both sides at the 8th US-Bangladesh partnership dialogue...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
Curbing inflation should be the centre of government's policy attention now as people are grappling with their limited budget to cope with skyrocketing prices of essentials, suggests a think-tank.The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), in a report under its Independent...
Dry weather is likely to continue over the country until 6:00pm today (Monday), according to Met office.Mild Heat Wave is sweeping over Rajshahi, Dhaka & Khulna divisions and the districts of Rangamati,Chandpur, Feni, Sylhet, Dinajpur, Panchagarh, Nilphamari & Patuakhali and...
Members of fire service has rescued a woman trapped in an elevator at Borak Center in the city's Motijheel area, reports UNB.Elora Pal, a Sonali Bank officer and a resident of Tikatuli area, was trapped in the elevator around 10...
FE REPORT | 2022-03-21 00:00:00
The government will provide rice to poor people under its vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme in the holy month of Ramadan, said Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Sunday."We (the government) will provide rice at Tk 10 per kilogramme...
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