FE REPORTThe daily trade turnover on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) dropped below the Tk 7 billion mark on Tuesday after more than a month, as investors mostly adopted a cautious stance ahead of earnings declarations.Turnover, a crucial indicator of...
Farhan Fardaus | 2025-09-17 00:00:00
Online scammers are aggressively targeting victims on social media with ads promising unusually high and quick returns from stock investments, often appearing to be endorsed by well-known market analysts.The fraudsters typically launch campaigns on Facebook, luring individuals into WhatsApp or...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 (AFP): At least 12 people were killed in landslides in Malaysia's Sabah state after heavy rains battered the Borneo island region for the past week, news reports said Tuesday.More than 2,000 people living in low-lying areas...
GENEVA, Sept 16 (AFP): The Earth's protective ozone layer is healing and the hole should fully disappear in coming decades, the UN said Tuesday, hailing the success of concerted international action.A fresh report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization highlighted...
TEL AVIV, Sept 16 (AFP/Reuters): President Donald Trump will likely meet Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky next week and still hopes to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.Trump has repeatedly threatened sanctions...
Jannatul Faima | 2025-09-17 00:00:00
Do we fear that when we die, we won't see memories in front of our eyes, but thousands of reels instead? Surely, many of us don't. This is the harsh reality of our times. Drowning in endless scrolling, likes, comments,...
Suriya Jesmine Ratna | 2025-09-17 00:00:00
We are constantly exposed to the blue light emitted from our devices, whether we're scrolling lazily or watching something intently. Due to the impact of digital devices and social media, the sleeping schedule and pattern have been significantly disrupted. Sometimes...
LALMONIRHAT, Sept 16 (UNB): The flood situation in the northern district of Lalmonirhat has started improving as water levels in the Teesta and other rivers began to recede after days of heavy rainfall and onrush of hill water from upstream.According...
Bogura, Sept 16 (UNB): A 37-year-old woman and her minor daughter were killed and another injured when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw at Dargahat Bazar in Kahalu upazila of Bogura district on Monday night.The deceased were identified as Ainun Nahar...
Six carriages of the "Padmarag Commuter" train have derailed in Rangpur's Pirgacha Upazila, cutting off inter-city, local, and mail trains in three districts in the Rangpur region, reports bdnews24.com.The accident occurred near the out signal at Pirgacha Railway Station at...
Price Crash | 2025-09-17 00:00:00
RANGPUR, Sept 16 (UNB): Potato farmers, traders and cold storage owners in northern Bangladesh are facing steep price drops, even though the government set a Tk 22 per kilogram wholesale rate.In practice, potatoes are changing hands at Tk 12-14 per...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-17 00:00:00
SYLHET Sept16: Authorities opened the risky Keane bridge in Sylhet to two-wheelers after protests from locals and requests from transport and political leaders.Despite all vehicles were prohibited to use the bridge in 2019, two-wheelers were allowed shortly after as the...
The healthcare system in Thakurgaon's Union Health and Family Welfare Centres is on the verge of collapse due to severe manpower shortages, absence of doctors and nurses and lack of medicines. As a result, the marginalised population, who largely depend...
Accidents on roads and highways are increasing, with the death toll rising almost every day. A large proportion of these accidents involve motorcycles. Additionally, a significant number of accidents involve buses, trucks, covered vans, and small battery-powered vehicles. Some of...
Wasi Ahmed | 2025-09-17 00:00:00
In rural Bangladesh, the challenges facing agriculture are many and varied. Among these, the marketability of perishable products like potatoes presents a persistent problem. This is compounded by a lack of adequate transportation infrastructure that does not allow farmers to...
The claim that the economy had been experiencing an era of remarkable growth during the past decades is gradually proving to be hollow as the so-called growth totally failed to create enough employment opportunities. Economists and experts prefer to call...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-16 12:00:00
A cover-all interoperable instant payment system (IIPS) comes soon as experts Monday suggested its immediate introduction to accelerate Bangladesh's transition towards a cashless society and the central-bank governor agreed.They said digital IIPS infrastructure is crucial to ensuring efficiency, inclusiveness and...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-16 12:00:00
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus reaffirms Bangladesh's strong commitment to deepening relations with the United States, particularly in trade, investment, energy and development cooperation, as a bilateral trade deal is set to be signed."Thank you very much for the support....
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman | 2025-09-16 12:00:00
Thunderstorms that batter South Asia each monsoon season now have a political echo: waves of popular revolt are sweeping away powerful regimes. After Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal -- and to a lesser yet significant extent Indonesia -- mass upsurge...
An additional 8 mcfd gas would be supplied to national grid daily from the newly discovered Rashipur Gas Field under Bahubal upazila of the district, reports BSS.Director (Operation) Petrobangla formally inaugurated the gas supply to the national grid from the...
FE REPORT The government on Monday published the gazette notification on new tariffs schedule for goods and vessels at Chittagong port raising charges on an average 40 per cent.The port charge has been hiked at the moment when the private...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-16 00:00:00
Jamaat-e-Islami and three other Islamic parties have announced protest programmes to voice their five-point demand.Jamaat-e-Islami announced their programme at a press conference to press for implementation of their demand. It will hold rallies on September 18, 19, and 26. Islami...
FE REPORTChittagong Customs House (CCH) has introduced a dual delivery system, allowing businesses with a compliant import-export record to release imported raw materials and other goods from both customs houses and off-dock facilities.The system is available only to businesses recognised...
Lalmonirhat, Sept 15 (UNB): Authorities have opened all 44 sluicegates of the Teesta Barrage to control the swelling river as heavy rainfall and upstream onrush of water pushed its level above the danger mark.At 6am on Monday, the water level...
OUR CORRESPONDENT | 2025-09-16 00:00:00
MANIKGANJ, Sep 15: Community Clinic Health Assistance Trust will supply medicines worth Tk 1.2 billion to all community clinics within the next couple of days, which is expected to resolve the shortages of basic medicines that prevailed in community clinics...
FE REPORT The Bangladesh Bank has extended the deadline for submitting applications seeking to establish digital banks by more than a month.Aspiring individuals and institutions will now be able to submit applications until November 02, 2025 (Sunday upto 6:00 pm),...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-16 00:00:00
In a landmark achievement for Bangladesh's tech industry, local manufacturer Walton Digi-Tech Industries has become the first company from the country to export Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), commonly known as motherboards, to the United States.In a significant move that...
JASIM UDDIN HAROON | 2025-09-16 00:00:00
Bangladesh saw its balance of payments (BoP) deficit narrow in the opening month of the fiscal year 2025-26 as two props helped partly offset a sharp deterioration in the country's financial account.Last official statistics show a current-account surplus and robust...
FE Report | 2025-09-16 00:00:00
China has shown strong interest in Bangladesh's Teesta Masterplan, with a team of Chinese experts set to visit in the coming months for an on-site assessment.Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen conveyed this message to Foreign Secretary Asad Alam Siam...
FE REPORT | 2025-09-16 00:00:00
A government-formed taskforce has recommended renaming the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) as Statistics Bangladesh (StatBD) in a bid to make the national statistical body independent.It has also proposed creating a "chief statistician" post to head the government statistical body,...
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