FE Today Logo

Search results for:


Pele returns to hospital for cancer treatment

2022-04-21 00:00:00

SAO PAULO, Apr 20 (Xinhua): Brazilian football great Pele has been readmitted to hospital for ongoing cancer treatment, doctors said on Tuesday.The 81-year-old has undergone several sessions of chemotherapy in Sao Paulo since having a tumor removed from his colon...

BPL Football 2nd phase begins Sunday

2022-04-21 00:00:00

The 2nd phase of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Football, the country's most prestigious soccer league, begins on Sunday in Rajshahi and Gopalganj, reports UNB. In the 2nd phase opener, newcomers Swadhinata KS will play defending champions Bashundhara Kings at...

Liverpool thrash Man Utd to go top of Premier League

2022-04-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, Apr 20 (AFP): Liverpool embarrassed Manchester United for the second time this season to move top of the Premier League as Mohamed Salah struck twice in a 4-0 thrashing on Tuesday.Jurgen Klopp's men won 5-0 at Old Trafford in...

Shakib to play Test series against Lanka

2022-04-21 00:00:00

Ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan quelled the uncertainty over his participation in the Bangladesh's upcoming Test series against Sri Lanka by stating that he is available for the series, starting from the next month, reports BSS."I don't think there was...

African startups drew record $5.2b in venture capital last yr

2022-04-21 00:00:00

JOHANNESBURG, Apr 20 (Reuters): African startups attracted a record $5.2 billion in venture capital last year, bouncing back from a pandemic-induced dip in 2020 with a nearly five-fold increase in investments, according to data released by an industry group on...

BSCCL to invest Tk 1.73b more

FE Report | 2022-04-21 00:00:00

The Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company Limited (BSCCL) board has decided to expand the country's third submarine cable, and invest Tk 1.73 billion more for it. With the increase, its total cost for the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-6 (SEA-ME-WE-6) Consortium...

Serbia restricts export of grains, cooking oil

2022-04-21 00:00:00

SARAJEVO, Apr 20 (Reuters): Serbian government said on Wednesday it has restricted the quantities of wheat, corn, flour and cooking oil slated for export to confront risks of market disturbances caused by the rise of demand on the international and...

China's March alumina exports to Russia soar

2022-04-21 00:00:00

BEIJING, Apr 20 (Reuters): China's alumina exports to Russia surged over 90 times in March from the same period a year earlier, customs data showed on Wednesday, as sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine cut off some of...

De Beers signs contracts with Angola for diamond licences

2022-04-21 00:00:00

JOHANNESBURG, Apr 20 (Reuters): Diamond miner De Beers has signed two mineral investment contracts with the Angolan government for licence areas in the northeast of the country, the Anglo American subsidiary said on Wednesday.The contracts are for 35 years and...

Gold steadies as dollar, bond yields ease

2022-04-21 00:00:00

LONDON, Apr 20 (Reuters): Gold steadied on Wednesday, recouping some losses after hitting a near two-week trough, as the dollar and US Treasury yields eased off recent peaks.But further gains in bullion were capped by prospects of aggressive tightening of...

World needs extra $1.3t energy investment by 2030: JP Morgan

2022-04-21 00:00:00

LONDON, Apr 20 (Reuters): The world needs to find $1.3 trillion of incremental investment by 2030 to boost all types of energy output and infrastructure from renewables to oil and gas to avoid an energy crunch, US bank JP Morgan...

Career with a diploma degree

Minhazur Rahman Shafin | 2022-04-21 00:00:00

Md Shadman Shakib Alvy is currently working as an animator at 10 Minute School. He has also worked as a freelancer at Upwork and Fiverr and has earned the ‘Rising Talent’ badge and Level One Seller respectively in both workplaces....

Learning session for youth upliftment

FE Youth Desk | 2022-04-21 00:00:00

The Youth School for Social Entrepreneurs (YSSE), a youth-led non-profit organisation arranged a virtual learning event titled ‘Powering the youth 1.0’ as part of YSSE's youth empowerment initiatives on April 17 and 18. The event covered two very essential skills...

Is it just about the money?

Tasmiah Tabassum Ali | 2022-04-21 00:00:00

Gone are the days when working in finance meant sitting in front of a computer from 9 am to 5 pm and inputting values into an Excel sheet, not seeing any real impact of your work. Finance jobs today require...

News in Brief (2022-04-21)

2022-04-21 00:00:00

Blast kills three at Nigeria marketTARABA, Apr 20: Three people were killed and 19 injured after an explosion at a crowded market in Nigeria's Taraba state in the east of the country, local police said on Wednesday. Nigeria is plagued...

YouTube removes channel promoting future HK leader

2022-04-21 00:00:00

HONG KONG, Apr 20 (AFP): YouTube on Wednesday suspended a channel promoting John Lee's uncontested bid to be Hong Kong's next leader, saying the move was required by US sanctions against the ex-security chief.Lee is expected to be appointed the...

Shanghai sees 7 more Covid deaths

2022-04-21 00:00:00

BEIJING, Apr 20 (AFP): China reported seven Covid-19 deaths in Shanghai on Wednesday, raising the toll in the city to 17 fatalities as authorities struggled to rein in infections despite a gruelling, weeks-long lockdown.The fast-spreading Omicron coronavirus variant has driven...

Six Rohingya refugees dead, hundreds flee

2022-04-21 00:00:00

KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20 (Reuters): Six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, including two children, have died after being hit by vehicles on a Malaysian highway as hundreds fled an immigration detention centre where a riot broke out early on Wednesday, officials...

Mariupol fighters 'successful in tying down Russian forces'

2022-04-21 00:00:00

KYIV, Apr 20 (BBC/AFP): Ukrainian forces in Mariupol have successfully tied down thousands of Russian soldiers who otherwise would've been redeployed northwards for the main battle in Donbas, according to Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy Director General of the Royal United...

Woman found dead in Magura

2022-04-21 00:00:00

MAGURA, Apr 20 (UNB): A 45-year-old woman was found dead with her throat slit in Vaina village of Magura district town on Tuesday afternoon.The deceased was identified as Fatema Begum, the second wife of Wahiduzzaman Anu Munshi of the village.Nasir...

Man killed over land dispute in Ctg

2022-04-21 00:00:00

CHATTOGRAM, Apr 20 (UNB): A 42-year-old man was hacked to death allegedly by his rivals over a land dispute in Chattogram district on Tuesday night.The deceased was identified as Muhammad Musa, son of Sona Miah of Mirzapur union in Hathazari...

Two siblings killed in Sherpur road accident

2022-04-21 00:00:00

SHERPUR, Apr 20 (BSS): Two brothers were killed and another was injured in a road accident in Garergaon area under Nakla upazila of the district on Tuesday night.The deceased were identified as Harej Ali and Shamsul Haque, sons of late...

Saidpur rail workers racing against time to finish 50 new bogies

2022-04-21 00:00:00

NILPHAMARI, Apr 20 (UNB): The workers at Saidpur Railway Workshop in Nilphamari district are unusually busy this year ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, to finish 50 new bogies that will be pressed into operation during the holidays to ensure smooth travels for...

200 hectares of cropland flooded in B'baria, farmers harvest half-ripe paddy

2022-04-21 00:00:00

BRAHMANBARIA, Apr 20 (bdnews24.com): Floodwater from upstream has inundated at least 200 hectares of farming land in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar, compelling farmers to harvest half-ripened paddy.Most of the farming lands in six unions - Sadar, Bhaulakut, Burishwar, Goalnagar, Purbabhag - went...

Five decades of BD-Canada relations

Humayun A Kamal | 2022-04-21 00:00:00

The Canadian government, people, and media expressed whole - hearted support and sympathy for the people of Bangladesh and their liberation struggle in 1971. Canada also provided much -needed humanitarian assistance, life-saving medicine, as well as financial donations to the...

Saving farm animals from antibiotics abuse

2022-04-21 00:00:00

Antibiotics and other chemicals are widely used in Bangladesh to fatten cattle. This practice gets more popular among cattle farmers three to four months ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. They remain busy making their cattle healthy and fat by injecting antibiotics. But...

Repairing roads before Eid

2022-04-21 00:00:00

Damaged roads and highways have become part of our life. Repair work is ongoing for a number of roads, slowing down vehicular movement further. The number of people leaving Dhaka city during the upcoming Eid would be double the number...

Journey home during Eid holiday

2022-04-21 00:00:00

Both knowledgeable people and laypersons are apprehensive of a hazardous and highly taxing home-bound mass movement that this Eid is going to witness. Understandably, more people than ever before will undertake journeys to return to their roots---mostly in villages. There...

Zakat and food security: Implications for small farmers in poor rural areas in Bangladesh

Ishrat Hossain | 2022-04-21 00:00:00

In societies with strong presence of Islam, Islamic instruments can be innovatively harnessed to play an increasing role in the socio-economic development of Muslims to conform to the cultural realities of indigenous people. Initiatives such as the World Bank's World...

A farmer harvests half-ripe paddy

2022-04-20 12:00:00

A farmer harvests half-ripe paddy from a submerged field as the river water level rises in Bangladesh after heavy rainfall upstream in India. The photo was taken from Kaundia area of Savar — Focus Bangla