FE REPROT | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
Speakers at an event on Thursday laid an emphasis on joint efforts to increase regional trade and investment among the member countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). They also stressed the need for better connectivity among the...
LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters): Oil prices inched higher on Thursday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates as traders weighed the start of looser monetary policy against concerns about the US economy.Brent crude futures were up 10 cents, or 0.15...
bKash and Bigganchinta organised the regional phase of the 'Science Festival' in Rangpur and Rajshahi divisions to encourage school students to develop Interest and passion for science. Following Dhaka phase, over 1,500 students from around 100 schools participated in the...
Gold prices fell on Thursday due to profit-taking, after scaling a record peak in the previous session, as markets assessed the Federal Reserve's stance on further interest rate cuts, reports Reuters.Spot gold was down 0.6 per cent at $3,638.33 per...
Singapore's Non-Resident High Commissioner Derek Loh Eu Tse has met President of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Mahmud Hasan Khan, reports BSS.Loh was accompanied by Charg‚ d'Affaires of the Singapore High Commission, Mitchel Lee among others.The meeting...
A significant volume of rice, totaling 104,859 metric tons, has been imported through the Hili Land Port over the past 35 days, leading to a notable decrease in rice prices across the country, reports BSS.Md. Shakhawat Hossain Shilpi, president of...
The 2nd joint platform meeting between Bangladesh and Denmark was held at the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Authority office in Dhaka on Thursday. A key outcome of the meeting was the mutual approval of a local partner of APM Terminals...
KHULNA, Sept 18 (UNB): Shrimp, once known as the 'white gold' of Bangladesh's southwest and a major export from Khulna, has declined due to fierce global competition and the growth of vannamei shrimp farming in neighbouring countries.Now, after years of...
Mohammed Abdul Basith | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
Scientific journals have long been central to the advancement of discovery, defining how knowledge is disseminated, scrutinised, and preserved. From 17th-century pamphlets to contemporary digital platforms, journals have transmitted insights across generations. They serve as channels for new findings, forums...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
A legendary voice of the masses for over six decades – Badruddin Umar is no more. The 93-year-old veteran political activist, revered writer, patriotic researcher, and celebrated public intellectual who never compromised on the question of his ideals during his...
Bangladesh's pharmaceutical industry is a quiet but remarkable success story. It meets 98 per cent of domestic demand and exports generic medicines to over 150 countries. However, as Bangladesh prepares to graduate from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status in...
In various cities of India, some wonderful cafés called "Garbage Cafés" have been established. This idea is truly inspiring and remarkable. Those struggling with food insecurity usually come to these cafés, but here no money is needed for food. Instead,...
Shiabur Rahman | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
Juvenile crime was not alien to Bangladesh society. But it has become a major social problem in recent years with the emergence of organised Kishore (teen) gangs that often intimidate residents, extort shopkeepers, trigger violence, and sometimes take lives.Law enforcement...
Nilratan Halder | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
That Dhaka City has long become an overturned cauldron in months marked by high temperature is known to its inhabitants. It is because they experience the scorching heat at its merciless sizzling worst. Now the World Bank in its report...
In what is being hailed as a landmark intervention in the country's banking sector, the interim government has launched formal procedures to merge five financially distressed Islamic banks into the country's largest state-owned Shariah-based banking institution. As part of the...
Serajul I. Bhuiyan | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
Across South Asia, few forces have profoundly shaped the course of national politics. Student activism is one such forces. From the Language Movement martyrs of Dhaka to the uprisings in Kathmandu and Colombo, students have played the role of political...
NARAIL, Sep 18 (UNB): A team of Bangladesh Army arrested two men and seized a huge quantity of local firearms, foreign knives, alcohol and stolen mobile phone sets from a grocery at a market in Narail Sadar upazila on Wednesday.The...
SATKHIRA, Sept 18 (BSS): Aiming to raise awareness against corruption, a week-long debate, essay and drawing competition has begun in Satkhira.The theme of the competition is "Unity of Youth against Corruption, Building the Purity of the Future."The event was inaugurated...
CHANDPUR, Sept 17 (UNB): A private hospital in Chandpur was shut down on Wednesday following a shocking incident in which a newborn, initially declared dead, was found alive during burial.Faruk Hossain Gazi, 45, a ward boy at The United Hospital...
Hundreds of families have lost their homes and farmland due to the severe erosion of the Padma River in Manikganj's Harirampur Upazila, leaving them destitute, reports bdnews24.com.Since June this year, in addition to scores of acres of cropland, more than...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
COX'S BAZAR, Sept 18: A 300-year-old pagoda built on a hilltop in Kawarkop Union of Cox's Bazar's Ramu Upazila fell into disrepair and landslides for several years took away the boundary walls of the site of achaeological importance in the...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-19 00:00:00
PABNA, Sept 18: Ishwardi Upazila of Pabna, widely known as the "bean kingdom" of the country, has been commercially cultivating various varieties of beans for over 30 years. However, this year, farmers are facing severe losses due to virus outbreaks...
NEW DELHI, Sept 18 (AFP): India has issued a health alert after infections and deaths caused by a rare water-borne "brain-eating" amoeba doubled compared to last year in the southern state of Kerala.Numbers are still tiny but Altaf Ali, a...
DAMASCUS, Sept 18 (AFP): Syria will strike several security and military agreements with Israel by the end of the year, a foreign ministry official told AFP on Thursday, in what would be a major milestone after the toppling of longtime...
NEW YORK, Sept 18 (AP): A growing number of Americans now say Israel's military campaign in Gaza has "gone too far," according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.The survey found that about half...
CHEQUERS, Sept 18 (AFP/Reuters): Donald Trump held talks on Thursday with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer about pressing issues including Ukraine, Gaza and trade, as the US president's second state visit moved from royal pomp to potential political pitfalls.After taking...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-18 12:00:00
Mohammad Hasan Arif, Additional Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh, has been appointed as the new Vice-Chairman of the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). He officially assumed office on September 15.Before this appointment, Mr. Arif held several key positions at the...
RAJSHAHI, Sept 16 (UNB): Muggers snatched Tk 1.25 million (Tk 12.5 lakh) in cash and a motorcycle after attacking a businessman in broad daylight in Rajshahi city on Tuesday.The incident took place around 2pm at Baharampur Nimtola Piajir Mor under...
Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) General Secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince speaking at a press conference in the capital on Wednesday. — Focus Bangla
SYLHET, Sept 17 (BSS): Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser Dr. Asif Nazrul on Wednesday stressed the need for continuation of the legal and institutional reforms taken by the government for ensuring justice. "One of the five main problems in...
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