The average voter turnout for the first phase of the sixth Upazila Parishad elections was 36.1 per cent, reports bdnews24.com.The turnout was an average of 31.31 per cent for the 22 Upazilas using electronic voting machines, while the turnout averaged...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The further appreciation of dollar against BDT (Bangladesh taka) has fuelled the prices of many essential commodities overnight in Dhaka, according to market insiders.The prices of imported garlic, ginger and green chilli have increased further.On the other hand, onion and...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The High Court on Thursday granted anticipatory bail to Bashudeb Banerjee, an associate of the much talked about PK Haldar and his wife Papia Banerjee, for six weeks in 15 cases filed under the money laundering prevention act. Both of...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Experts have suggested that the government set up an independent body for health promotion initiatives and the spending of health development surcharges.The government has introduced a 1.0-per cent surcharge on tobacco prices in 2014 with an eye to spending the...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The Bangladesh Editors' Forum has condemned the Bangladesh Bank's decision to impose restrictions on journalists' entry into the BB headquarters.The forum has also demanded free access of journalists to the central bank.A statement issued on Thursday by the forum leaders...
Prime Minister and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina Thursday told the parliament that none can isolate her from the people as they have confidence and trust that she has been working for their welfare, reports BSS."You can't isolate me...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
The European Union's due diligence directive is very important for Bangladesh's ready-made garment sector and exporters need to carefully consider and address human rights and environmental standards, EU Ambassador Charles Whiteley has said.He made the remarks while speaking at the...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Leaders of the country's textile and apparel sectors expressed concern over the central bank's recent directive not to provide gas and electricity connections to new factories outside the government-designated economic zones (EZs) and industrial areas.The banks have also been asked...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Economists and experts have recommended discontinuing cash incentives for exports as they argued the latest big Taka devaluation effectively functions as a subsidy.At a book launch event in Dhaka on Thursday, they said the devaluation was necessary due to the...
India has expressed interest to finance Bangladesh's Teesta project, Foreign Minister Hasan Mahmud said on Thursday, reports UNB."You know, we have taken a big project on Teesta. India wants to finance this project. It will have to be implemented in...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Food inflation in Bangladesh has spiked to 15 per cent, as per latest BIDS findings, which far overshoots government's official statistics. Director-General of the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Dr Binayak Sen Thursday made the disclosure, attributing the steep...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
CHATTOGRAM, May 09: A training fighter jet of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed and fell into the Karnaphuli river, killing one of its two pilots on Thursday.A YAK130 training fighter suddenly caught fire at the rear and disintegrated as...
The national budget for fiscal year 2024-25 (FY25) is likely to be placed in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) on June 6, reports BSS."The national budget for FY25 will be placed in Jatiya Sangsad on June 6, 2024. Finance Minister Abul...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh securities market's longing for blue chips may now be over as the prime minister orders the listing of state-owned enterprises (SoEs) on the country's bourses.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the directive Thursday to the authorities concerned in this regard,...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Bangladesh's business activity shrank this past April from its previous month's measure, according to a maiden multi-stakeholder parameter prepared with foreign partnerships.The private PMI or purchasing managers' index was unveiled Thursday at a function in Dhaka, where State Minister for...
FE REPORT | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
A day after the Bangladesh Bank (BB) introduced crawling peg-driven exchange rate flexibility, the price of a US dollar in the kerb market surged by Tk 7.0 to Tk 125 on Thursday.Currency traders in the open market were selling each...
Syed Badrul Ahsan | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
One more Pnochishe Baishakh has gone by. Once more we have had cause to celebrate the Bard whose poetry has lifted us all in the councils of the world, whose assertions of individual freedom have underscored his relevance in the...
The first recorded evidence of the death penalty is found in the Babylonian King Hammurabi's Code of 1800 BC. Hammurabi's law was based on 'an eye for an eye,' meaning if one kills, the killer must be killed as punishment....
Currently, Bangladesh has 31 GI products, with applications for an additional 21 products in progress. To promote GI products in the international market, it would be appropriate for the government to engage its foreign embassies in the task. I suggest...
Shiabur Rahman | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Deputy commissioners (DCs), as the administrative representatives of the government at the district level, enjoy literally monarchic authority and privilege. They come from the middle echelon of the bureaucracy, but their authority, jurisdiction and privilege often exceed those of their...
Nilratan Halder | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
Notwithstanding amazing success in agricultural production, both food security and safety in Bangladesh are now suspect. The myth of self-sufficiency in food — actually meaning staples or more precisely rice — has got busted. Earlier there was a litany of...
One of the much talked-about mechanisms for raising NBR revenue as well as bringing a sense of rationalisation in the country's Tax-GDP ratio is the expansion of tax-net. No doubt, the low Tax-GDP ratio is an indication of the narrow...
Matiur Rahman | 2024-05-10 00:00:00
As the effects of climate change intensify, the health and safety of workers have become an important issue. Climate-related events such as high temperatures, floods, droughts, and storms adversely affect workers' health and increase risks in the workplace.The International Labor...
OUR CORRESPONDENTS | 2024-05-09 12:00:00
Boro paddy harvesting is being hampered halfway through in Magura, Rangpur, Khulna and Gaibandha districts on account of unavailability of farm labourers amid the prevailing hot weather. Our Magura Correspondent reports: An acute shortage of farm labourers and high wages...
The World Thalassemia Day was observed across the country on Wednesday, says a press release.Bangladesh Thalassaemia Samity in cooperation with the volunteers of Youth Club of Bangladesh observed the day.The organisation held programmes in different places of the country, including...
WASHINGTON, May 8 (Xinhua) : TikTok, an online video entertainment platform, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance on Tuesday filed a legal challenge against the U.S. government over a law forcing ByteDance to sell off the ultra-popular app or face...
KINGWOOD, United States, May 8 (AFP): Before a T. rex can tower over museum visitors or a Triceratops can show off its huge horns, dinosaur fossils must first be painstakingly reconstructed -- cleaned, fit together and even painted.For US restorationist...
MARSEILLE, May 08 (AFP): The Olympic flame arrives in France on Wednesday where a highly choreographed ceremony and a crowd of 150,000 people will be a first major test for organisers and security forces ahead of the 2024 Paris Games.The...
ROME, May 08 (AFP): Spanish tennis legend Rafael Nadal said on Wednesday he was "excited to be playing in Rome" despite entering the Italian Open unseeded and ranked 305."All the matches are tough for me today, difficult and more unpredictable...
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